Church Insights Tools | Data-Driven Growth

Bellwether

Bellwether is an AI chat assistant for church staff that answers plain-English questions over a church's own Planning Center, Rock RMS, and Mailchimp data, so leaders can spot people who are slipping away and follow up. It is a web app built by Shelby and Andy Black, sold by subscription.

Scatter

A web-based survey and insights platform from Made to Flourish that helps church leaders understand their congregation's daily work, skills, and passions — turning survey responses into a real-time dashboard for pastoral care, vocational discipleship, and missional engagement. Founded by Tom Nelson, now led by president Matt Rusten, who authored "Pastoring for Monday" (IVP, 2026) on the same faith-work theology Scatter serves.

Parable

A church reporting and analytics platform for Planning Center churches that syncs data nightly across all modules, answers plain-English questions with names attached, scores engagement, and includes Connections for pastoral-care follow-up. It helps pastors be Spirit-led and data-driven, with a strict never-sell, never-share, never-train-on-AI data stance.

RollCall

A browser-based check-in and attendance tool for youth groups and churches: members type their name at the door with no app or account, and leaders see live attendance and get a heads-up when someone has been missing. Built by Ephraim Stocks in Christchurch, New Zealand; free for groups of up to 30 members, with a Planning Center integration.

Seedling - Prayer Platform

Seedling is a church prayer-management platform that routes voice and text requests to intercessors and gives pastors AI-powered insight into congregational prayer themes. Churches can start free and grow into a subscription-based annual plan.

FlockConnect

A Church Relationship Manager (ChRM) that tracks relational connections between church members, not just attendance, to flag isolation before people drift away. Its AI companion Collie drafts a weekly care brief that a pastor approves before anything happens, it integrates two-way with Planning Center, and Starter opened to every church in August 2026, with Collie plans priced by church size coming soon. Founded July 2025 by Michael Tribett, a seminary-trained founder in Raleigh, North Carolina.

Church Metrics by Gloo

A free Gloo dashboard for churches to count attendance, salvations, giving, volunteers, and custom totals on the web, iOS, and Android, with charts, scheduled reports, and Groups for networks. It tracks church-wide numbers, not individual attenders.

FlowLeed

A church-intelligence platform that layers pastoral care on top of your existing ChMS. Surfaces who needs follow-up, who's drifting, and what next step to take via an AI assistant, visual discipleship Flows, and a free Church Health Report diagnostic. Planning Center integration is live; Pushpay, Subsplash, Tithe.ly, and Rock are on the roadmap.

Anor

Anor is an AI-powered intelligence layer for churches and nonprofits that unifies people data from tools like Mailchimp, Fundraise Up, Shopify, and Eventbrite into one profile — with engagement scoring, network mapping, automated Intelligence Briefings, and Ask Anor Claude-powered querying so no one gets overlooked. Founded by Stephen McCaskell (Compassion International, Ligonier Ministries, Missionary.com, co-author of Spirit and Circuit: Seeking Wisdom for the Church in the Age of AI) with a team rooted in ministry and technology.

ChurchStats

A web-based church analytics platform that turns attendance, baptisms, giving, groups, and other ministry metrics into one dashboard for single-site and multi-site churches. Built by Everprise, it complements an existing church management system rather than replacing it, with contact-based onboarding for new churches.

Pushpay

The complete church engagement platform trusted by 14,000+ churches, unifying digital giving, a ChMS, custom mobile apps, livestreaming via Resi, and pastoral care via Nurture.io. Its Staq Transformation has now delivered the rebuilt Groups experience, Single Staq Giving, AI Profile Summaries, and Workflows replacing Process Queues, alongside one-click embedded giving and multi-campus campaign management.

Churchlytics

Churchlytics builds custom church analytics dashboards that unify ministry data — attendance, giving, groups, and more — into one clear view. Founded by Josh Breland, a seminary-trained church communications leader now Head of Marketing at Anedot. Web-based consulting service in low-activity mode; website live but no new content since August 2023.