Most general-purpose AI does not know your theology, your preaching voice, or which Bible translation you use, so pastors end up fighting it for sermon prep that still comes out generic. AlignedAI is a free, doctrine-aware AI assistant built specifically for pastors and church leaders.^1
During setup you configure your theological tradition, statement of faith, and preferred Bible translations, and AlignedAI grounds its answers in that context. It handles study and exegesis with Strong's word studies, drafts sermons, Bible studies, and devotionals in an editable canvas, and builds a Church Brain trained on your own sermons, website, and documents so drafts come back in your voice. It also generates branded media, records and summarizes meetings, manages tasks, calendar, and email through Google and Outlook integrations, repurposes sermons into devotionals and studies, and can draft entire books from your existing content.^1 The platform has since grown into Aligned Church, a church-management suite you run through chat, covering people, giving, a website builder, a published app for your own church, social media, and automations, with manual takeover whenever you want it.^7
AlignedAI was built by Jonathan Bodnar, a SaaS founder who previously built and exited a church management and giving platform, after watching his best friend, a pastor in McKinney, Texas, struggle to get generic AI to produce doctrinally sound, on-voice messages.^3 The assistant is designed as a tool, not a replacement, pointing users back to Scripture, prayer, and their local church, and its published guardrails commit to pulling Scripture in the user's chosen translation and keeping invented stories and quotes out of drafts.^1 Independent coverage has profiled AlignedAI as a leading doctrine-aware option for pastors.^4
AlignedAI is available on the web at aligned.church and as a free iOS app, AlignedAI For Churches, for iPhone.^5 Pricing is freemium: a free tier for pastors and church leaders with a daily request allowance and no credit card required, and a Pro subscription that adds unlimited requests, staff seats, and two-way SMS with the assistant. The church-management modules are priced separately, with a no-monthly-fee option for churches using its giving product. See the pricing details on its about page.^2
Notable- Privacy-first by design: sermon content, member notes, and church data are not used to train public models.^2
- Doctrine-aware and translation-aware across many English translations, with Greek and Hebrew word studies via Strong's concordance built in.^2
- Editorial standards page commits to Scripture first and treats AI as an assistant to faithful ministry, never a replacement for the pastor or the Holy Spirit.^6
