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Remix Church Media

A subscription library of 6,000+ ready-made church graphics templates (sermon series, events, slides, social posts, motion loops) with Remix Studio, a built-in browser editor whose Pro tier adds AI images and a Sermon Builder, run by Church Media Company LLC of Herriman, Utah, in the Church Media Squad family.

Pastor Notes App

Pastor Notes App helps pastors share sermon notes, live polls, prayer requests, and an invitation to accept Jesus with their people through the free companion Bible Notes app. Concierge Contacts Pty Ltd in Australia maintains the congregation-size subscription for iOS and Android.

ICF EQUIP

Free resource-sharing platform from the ICF church movement offering sermon series, ministry manuals, leadership videos, job descriptions, and small group studies — part of ICF Digital's growing suite of church tools serving 71 locations and 95 micro churches across 12 countries.

Givebutter

Fundraising and donor management for nonprofits and churches: donation forms, campaigns, events, auctions, and a donor CRM in one platform, with a free plan funded by optional donor tips.

Cultivate Leadership Institute

Cultivate Leadership Institute is a Christian leadership training program that walks churches, companies, and individuals through two-year Leadership and Ministry tracks — plus custom paths — on its Develop.Me platform, with academic partnerships for transfer credit.

Sites by Ministry Designs

A church-specific website builder and management platform trusted by 67,000+ churches worldwide, featuring drag-and-drop design kits, built-in SEO, online giving through a church's chosen provider, a free library of 80,000+ church graphics through Ministry Designs Media, a Small Groups Manager, and an optional fully managed website service — founded by Tyler and Vincent Rominger in Battle Creek, MI (2013).

Sermonary

Sermonary is a browser-based sermon operating system from Justin Trapp, Wade Bearden, and Ministry Pass, covering a preaching calendar, study from named commentaries, writing, presenting, and post-sermon Recap coaching. It is subscription-based with a 14-day free trial, and its Library of more than 2,000 Ministry Pass series ships with the base plan.

MinistryHelper.ai

AI-powered platform that turns a single sermon into 30 pieces of discipleship and outreach content — video clips, social posts, devotionals, study guides, kids lessons, and coaching reports — all written in the pastor's own voice and calibrated to the church's theology. Two free, no-account tools (Instant Sermon Quiz and Instant Devo) let anyone sample the platform before subscribing.

Sermon Central

SermonCentral is a free pastor-contributed sermon research library from Outreach, Inc. (acquired by Gloo in 2024), with an optional subscription-based PRO tier for church media and generative AI helpers for outlines, research packages, and funeral messages.

Church Visuals by Ministry Designs

Free library of 80,000+ church media assets — sermon bundles, motion backgrounds, social graphics, countdown timers — with new content added regularly. No subscription or credit card required. From Ministry Designs, founded by Tyler Rominger and serving 67,000+ churches since 2013.

AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis

A grounded, crisis-safe AI assistant that turns a church's own published content into a 24/7 "front door" - answering visitors and members from the church's words, citing sources, and routing care and crisis to real people. Web-only SaaS built by Vision Genesis AI (Knoxville, TN), founded by a former youth minister; free Staff Desk tier for internal staff use (400 answers/mo), with the Front Door website assistant as a paid subscription scaled to congregation size.

Igniter Media

Igniter Media is a church media library of graphics, videos, and worship assets, with Creator AI for custom sermon and social graphics. Founded in 2003 by Rob Thomas and now part of Gloo, it serves churches through membership or a la carte downloads.

Orderly Meetings

Meeting and records software for church sessions, boards, and vestries: build the agenda, minute the meeting live, seal the record on approval, and run records review with an AI pre-check.

FrontDoor

A free church outreach platform from Stackhouse Ventures that helps churches follow up with visitors: ready-made felt-need resources (or a church's own uploads), branded landing pages, embeddable signup widgets, and automated welcome and discipleship email sequences tracked in a connections dashboard. Co-founded by Michael Lukaszewski (ex-Church Fuel) and Kenny Jahng (AI for Church Leaders); completely free with no paid tiers.

Open Network

A free Life.Church library of more than 100,000 sermon outlines, kids curriculum, graphics, and training resources for pastors and church leaders, serving more than 1 million pastors and leaders. Web-based, with no official mobile app, no subscription, and no paid tier.

Church Media Squad

Church Media Squad is a subscription creative team for churches. A remote roster of church creatives handles graphics, video, branding, social, and websites so staff can stay with people instead of a design queue.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,175 video-based lessons across 199 studies for preschool through adult from 12 providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches. Summer 2026 added three new NextLevel adult studies (Discipleship, Evangelism, Zephaniah); companion FreePlay TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

CareNote

A subscription-based pastoral care platform by Rev. Donnell Wyche that helps church care teams receive, assign, and follow up on care needs in one shared system, with no-login volunteer coordination by email and SMS, AI Care Story briefings before visits, and integrations with nine church management systems.

ChurchCreate

An AI design tool from Church Media Squad that turns a plain-language request into three on-brand church graphics in every size in minutes, counted in projects rather than credits, with a free plan for churches to start.

Divinav AI

DiviNav AI generates complete, ready-to-teach ministry lesson kits aligned to your church's statement of faith, with built-in theology, plagiarism, and sensitivity review. Built by the Wurster family behind the DiviNav Bible-study curriculum line in Donnelly, Idaho.

Foster the City

A free app for churches partnering with Foster the City, connecting Foster Parents, Support Friends, and Advocates through shared calendars, prayer requests, messaging, and curated foster care resources. Since launching in 2015, the movement has grown to 368 partner churches, 527 foster families, and 1,117 children welcomed into loving homes — with foster family retention nearly double the national average.

AlignedAI

A free, doctrine-aware AI workspace for pastors and church leaders, covering sermon prep, exegesis, sermon repurposing, media, meeting notes, and automations, now paired with Aligned Church, an AI-run church-management suite for people, giving, websites, church apps, and social media. Available on the web and as a free iOS app; a Pro subscription adds unlimited requests, staff seats, and two-way SMS.

TWELVE

TWELVE is a safe discipleship platform for youth and kids ministries: a closed, invite-only community with moderated messaging, a ministry feed, an in-app Bible, and free resources. Made by One Hope Canada and free to use.

Church Motion Graphics

A ministry-focused design studio with a subscription library of worship backgrounds, slide templates, and social graphics, plus in-browser tools such as TempoMatch and CMG Designer. Founded by Jeff McIntosh in 2010 and now part of Ministry Brands, it also carries kids curriculum in its media store and offers scholarships to small churches.

Voco

Voco streams live speech-to-text sermon translation into 200+ attendee languages via a QR code, letting multilingual congregations follow along on their own phones without an app or hardware.

FreePlay

A free TV app for churches: connect a curriculum provider, download lesson videos ahead of time with one click, and play them in class with the TV remote, with everything working offline after download. Built for Apple TV, Fire TV, and Android TV.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI design studio for church ministry. Describe the graphic you need in plain language and get sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more — built by pastors so teams can spend less time designing and more time with people.

Reach The Lost

Reach The Lost is a Colorado Springs church marketing agency that helps churches win Google and AI search through Google Ad Grant management, local SEO, paid ads, AEO, Meta Ads, and YouTube Ads — serving 55+ churches across 24 states, plus a Promoting Pastor service for individual pastors' platforms.

SundayU

An online training platform and resource hub for church communications leaders, offering 300+ video classes, certification courses, done-for-you design resources, and an annual planning system. Founded by Justin Dean in 2017 and acquired by Sylva, Inc. in 2021; Dean has since launched a newer companion platform, SaltyChurches.com.

In The Bulletin

A digital church bulletin that works alongside the paper bulletin or replaces it: build Sunday's bulletin from cards for events, the order of service, connect cards, giving, announcements, and fill-in-the-blank sermon notes, and your congregation opens it on any phone, with no app to install.

Playlister

Playlister is a cloud-based Kids Ministry presentation app that streams curriculum and media to Apple TVs, replacing USB drives and ProPresenter in classrooms. Trusted by 10,000+ churches with direct Orange curriculum integration and the Church-to-Church content sharing feature (launched May 2026 with the free CKids curriculum, now ranked among Playlister's top five recommended curricula). Playlister now captions videos automatically, and the Apple TV app remains under active development, shipping new releases through October 2026. Recent multi-campus case studies include The Church of Eleven22 and Red Rocks Church.

Nucleus

Premium all-in-one church website builder with sermon management, conversational Flows, a private Prayer Wall, online giving (no percentage taken), the signature Launcher, Posts for ministry content, Stacks reusable sections, and Planning Center and Zapier integrations. Built by Brady Shearer (Pro Church Tools), used by 4,000+ churches, with the free Launcher installed by 17,000+ churches, and featured in Forbes and Christianity Today. Nucleus builds church websites free of charge, including free makeovers with professional photography. Actively developed, most recently release 2.5.6 in September 2026.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is a subscription sermon-resource library for pastors, with 2,000+ series, graphics, calendars, the Sermonary writing tool with an AI assistant, a Series Planner, church-branded devotionals, and Churchly websites.

Bible Verse Image Generator

A free ChatGPT custom GPT by Rob Laughter, Director of Summit Online at The Summit Church, that generates shareable Bible verse graphics from a verse or theme, ready for social media, sermons, or encouragement with no design experience needed. Originally built on DALL-E 3 (retired May 2026), it now runs on OpenAI's current image model.

Lightstock

Lightstock is an unlimited-membership marketplace of faith-focused stock photos, 4K video, and design elements for churches and Christian creatives. Founded by Jon and Josh Bailey, it is now part of Gloo through The Igniter Company.

Pastors.AI

AI-powered platform that turns church sermons into Bible studies, devotionals, social media clips (with one-click posting), embeddable chatbots, and real-time translations — all from a YouTube link or uploaded manuscript.

Christicons

Christicons is a free library of 61 hand-crafted Christian SVG icons with a browser customizer and npm packages for React, Vue, and JavaScript, launched in July 2026. Dimitri Conejo Sanz, the Catholic designer behind Cathopic and the other Dimconex Media evangelization projects, licenses the set free for personal and commercial use with no attribution required, not as a redistributable icon pack, not as a logo element, and not for AI training.

Cathopic

Cathopic is a subscription-based Catholic stock-media library of photos, videos, vectors, artwork, and AI-generated images for parish and ministry communications. Dimitri Conejo Sanz founded it in 2017, and Dimconex Media also runs Holydemia, Mater Coeli, Tolkian, and Christicons.

NextSteps by Jesus Film Project

A free interactive journey builder from Jesus Film Project that lets ministries create shareable digital gospel experiences with video, polls, and branching stories — with AI translation into ~80 languages, AI image generation, a built-in analytics dashboard, and access to 200+ films in more than 2,200 languages plus The Bible Project content.