Christian Parenting Apps | Raise Children Biblically

Bible Memory Kids

Bible Memory Kids helps young children memorize Scripture through illustrated artwork, original songs, and simplified one-key typing — designed by the makers of The Bible Memory App for pre-readers and families building a biblical foundation together. iOS only, one-time purchase.

Safehold

Safehold is a web-based children's ministry check-in system that replaces paper sign-in sheets with real-time attendance tracking, digital permission slips, activity logging, and attendance analytics — built for churches of any size.

The Pour Over

The Pour Over is a free, politically neutral Christian news source reaching 1.6M+ readers three times a week with concise news summaries paired with Scripture and an eternal perspective. Available via email newsletter (on beehiiv), free mobile apps on both iOS and Android — the Android edition adds an optional "Quiet the News" feature that blocks other news apps during set quiet hours — and a companion podcast, it also offers Decaf (a family edition), News Health, Praying the News, and TPO Explains. Ad-supported and always free, with an optional premium membership and a BibleGateway partnership.

Kidslox Parental Control

Cross-platform parental control app for iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. Block apps or categories, set daily screen time limits with up to 5 custom schedules, filter web content across 4 million+ URLs, monitor social media activity on TikTok, Instagram, and YouTube, detect nudity in photo galleries, track locations with geofencing alerts, and use screen time rewards — all from one account covering up to 10 devices. Website now shows a three-tier subscription model (Basic, Family, Guardian).

Adventures in Odyssey Club

A Focus on the Family subscription club with on-demand Adventures in Odyssey audio dramas, devotionals, games, and Clubhouse magazine extras — helping families grow in faith through long-running, fully dramatized storytelling.

Limit Phone

Limit is an Android Device Owner blocker that installs over USB and cannot be removed on impulse. It pairs a system-level app blocker with a Firefox-based browser, delay timers for individuals, and PIN locks for families, and it is still in Beta.

Families Arising App

A free Christian Mom 360 app from Families Arising with a five-part growth curriculum, devotionals, coaching, and family resources for moms, dads, kids, and teens, plus a hosted Mom 360 Café community and a Family Ambassador Mentoring Experience.

Gertrude

Gertrude is an open-source family internet-safety suite for Mac, iPhone, and iPad built by a Christian homeschool dad. It defaults to blocking everything until a parent or accountability partner unlocks it, and includes Mac screenshot and keystroke monitoring, iOS Screen Time loophole blocking, a PIN-protected podcast app, and a parent-curated Apple Music player.

Glorifind Search Engine

Glorifind is a free, ad-supported whole-web search engine for Christians, with always-on safe search, ranking that prefers quality Christian sources when they are relevant, and a gold border for known Christian-owned sites. It is available as a website and as Chrome, Edge, Firefox, and Safari options, and the same creator also built ABCSearch.org for kids and schools.

Family ID Assessment

A free family assessment and 501(c)(3) ministry from Greg and Rhonda Gunn that helps households discover identity in Christ and build a shared, multi-generational vision — with a companion iOS app, YouVersion plans, and a free masterclass.

Virggil

Virggil is a web-based Christian AI companion that personalizes responses through user-selected "discernment keys" aligned with your values, faith, and life stage — filtering out cultural consensus in favor of wisdom. Active across web, X, and Instagram with growing social reach.

UP Faith & Family

UP Faith & Family is UP Entertainment's subscription streaming service for ad-free, faith-affirming movies and series, including the exclusive U.S. home of Heartland. Watch on phones, tablets, TVs, and streaming devices with a free trial.

Love Nudge™ Mobile App

The official companion app to Dr. Gary Chapman's The 5 Love Languages®, published by The Moody Bible Institute of Chicago under the Love Language Brand. Take the Love Language quiz with your partner, set personalized relationship goals, track your Love Tank, and send playful nudges — turning intentional love into a daily habit.

Tech Lockdown

Multi-layered DNS content filtering platform with bypass prevention tools and an Apple Device Config Generator, now adding opt-in Mobile Device Management (Remote Supervision, early access) for real-time, remotely-enforced restrictions on Apple devices; paired with the sibling iOS app LivingRoom for Families — screenshot-based monitoring with automatic nudity detection — operated separately under LivingRoom App LLC. Founded by Ben Bozzay, a Christian developer who built it as a practical tool for freedom from pornography and digital addiction.

New City Catechism

A free catechism from Tim Keller, Sam Shammas, The Gospel Coalition, and Crossway — 52 questions and answers adapted from Reformation catechisms, with ESV readings, prayers, commentary, and kid-friendly memorization songs. Print companions include a Devotional edited by Collin Hansen and a 52-lesson Curriculum for ages 8–11.

Sabbath Space

Sabbath Space pairs a physical NFC tag with an iOS and Android app so you can lock distracting apps and notifications until you scan again, making room for God, family, and rest.

Bible Engagement Project

Free, age-aligned digital discipleship curriculum from the Assemblies of God covering preschool through adults across four years (Listen, Learn, Live, Lead) — now discipling nearly 800,000 people weekly in 176 countries with 600+ videos, family devotions, Scripture Memorization Games, seven in-app Bible translations, topical series, and the KidminRoadmap year-long ministry strategy tool.

I'm Safe

A free personal and family safety app with private location-sharing 'Bubbles,' one-tap SOS, and a growing family of connected hardware (Bluetooth tags, standalone alarms, and safety kits) — recommended by Australia's 1800RESPECT domestic-violence support service and built by twin brothers with documented ties to the global Christian tech community.

Qustodio

Comprehensive cross-platform parental control and digital wellbeing platform for families. Set screen time limits, filter web content across 29 categories, block apps by category, track location with geofencing alerts, receive AI-powered alerts for suspicious messages and in-game voice chat, monitor social media on WhatsApp, Instagram, and Line, set custom routines, and review calls and text messages — all from one dashboard across iOS, Android, Windows, Mac, Chromebook, and Kindle. Now part of Aura (ASX: AXQ) following the July 17, 2026 completion of Aura's acquisition of Qoria; Aura's first post-close earnings (Aug 5, 2026) reported pro forma ARR of $339.7M (+27% YoY) and reaffirmed 2026 growth targets.

clearspace

A screen time coach that helps you break phone addiction through mindful pauses, timed sessions, and physical challenges — with a Chrome extension for desktop, Step to Scroll via Apple Health, and a sibling Clearspace Family app for household screen-time management. Backed by Y Combinator, featured on the Huberman Lab podcast and NYT Wirecutter, named Forbes 30 Under 30.

Dot Conner: Webtective

A free Season 1 app of eight offline live-action episodes in which teen detective Dot Conner investigates Christian faith questions, published by Mighty Good Games for Huff Media Productions. A later feature film continues the story on Angel, with a free church curriculum on the official site.

Axis

Axis is a donor-funded 501(c)(3) Christian ministry, founded in 2007 by David Eaton and Jeremiah Callihan, that equips parents to have gospel-centered conversations with their teens about culture, identity, and faith. Its free toolkit includes Parent Guides, the weekly Culture Translator email, podcasts, short videos, and Conversation Kits.

helloHOPE

A free Soul Care + Hope app from Marietta nonprofit helloHOPE, Inc., offering Scripture, prayer prompts, Stanton Lanier music, and family stories for parents walking through a childhood diagnosis. The same organization still runs Stories of Hope, Meals of Hope, and Free Parking Day.

Land of Promise Minecraft Server

A Christian Minecraft server with 1:1 scale biblical landmarks where kids ages 7–12 join facilitated Bible education sessions, explore Jerusalem and the Tabernacle, and grow in faith through interactive gameplay — now also offering a 12-month Builders Program, an Ambassador Program, and the Beyond Survival Advanced Camp (Genesis 1-themed) to equip churches and families worldwide to launch their own Minecraft ministry.

Accountable2You

A subscription-based accountability app from Ben and Alissa Lawrence that monitors device activity across Windows, Mac, Android, iOS, Chromebook, and Linux and shares reports with partners you choose. It is a transparency tool for individuals, families, churches, and schools rather than a content filter.

Verso

Verso is a family-safe iOS music app from Verso AI, LLC that mutes profanity, slurs, and blasphemy in real time from your Apple Music library. It requires both an Apple Music subscription and a Verso subscription; Android is not on Google Play.

Wingfeather Sage on Roblox

A free, family-friendly Roblox collectathon developed by Christian studio Soma Games with Angel Studios, set in Andrew Peterson's Wingfeather Saga world of Glipwood. Game content has been quiet since February 2026, though the animated series' Season 4 premieres September 12, 2026.

UCB Spark

Free daily video devotional app for kids aged 10-12 by United Christian Broadcasters (UCB), a UK Christian media charity. Bible-based videos with interactive activities, games, and prayers — ad-free, no sign-in required, no data collected. Actively maintained on iOS and Android.

LeadMeNot

LeadMeNot is a digital wellness and accountability platform that blocks apps, websites, and keywords, alerts trusted partners, and offers parental controls and Safety Checks across iOS, Android, Windows, and Mac. It is subscription-based and listed as a YouVersion partner organization.

Bentkey

Bentkey is a family-friendly kids' streaming service from The Daily Wire, offering ad-free original shows and curated international content for children ages 2–12. Available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, Roku, Fire TV, and smart TVs. The service is operating in maintenance mode after its original content team was laid off in 2025; the existing catalog remains available but no new original programming is in production.

Pure Flix

Great American Pure Flix is a subscription streaming home for faith-and-family movies and series, begun as Pure Flix by David A.R. White, Michael Scott, and Russell Wolfe and now part of Great American Media. Families can watch on the web and on iOS and Android without the usual mainstream surprises.

Bark

Bark is a subscription parental-control platform that alerts parents to concerning texts, email, and social activity, with optional Phone, Watch, Home, and Sync hardware. Brian Bason built it so families can get insight without reading every message.

MyTRIBE.watch

A family Bible streaming platform by Pastor Jason David (Sluyter) that teaches Scripture chronologically through comedy-infused video episodes, interactive worksheets, Bible games, and original music — anchored by his testimony as a two-time cancer survivor and the viral multi-language song "These Walls," now expanding into juvenile detention ministry with a growing six-season content library across all major platforms.

Sanctuary

A Christian AI assistant for everyday life — Bible study, prayer, parenting, and work decisions — built on a biblical worldview with 10 denomination support, three AI modes (Standard / Pro / Deep Research), 26 Ministry Tools for church leaders, Sanctuary Kids mode for ages 8–16, and a Plant With Purpose tree-planting referral program. Web-based with credit-based freemium pricing: Free (50 credits/mo), Grace ($9.99 / 300 credits), Believer ($24.99 / 1,000 credits), Disciple ($49.99 / 5,000 credits).

Parent Cue App

Parent Cue helps parents raise kids with faith and character through weekly age-specific cues, Bible story videos, memory verses, and devotionals, with an optional Phase subscription and a church finder for partner congregations.

Formed

Catholic streaming platform by the Augustine Institute offering thousands of exclusive study programs, movies, documentaries, audio dramas, e-books, kids' shows, daily reflections, and *The Augustine Institute Show* with Dr. Tim Gray (73 episodes). Trusted by 1.6M users, 5,000+ parishes, and 180 dioceses worldwide. Content highlights include *Into Great Silence*, *LoFi Saints*, *What Catholics Believe*, and *The Ulmas: A Blessed Family*. iOS on v10.301.1 (July 2, 2026); Daily Reflections posting daily through August 2026. 4.9 stars on both app stores.

minno

Minno is the leading Christian streaming platform for kids ages 2–10, offering hundreds of hours of ad-free, faith-filled shows, Bible stories, worship music, and family devotionals. Features VeggieTales, original series like Young David and Laugh and Grow Bible, and content vetted by a 50+ point checklist. Now includes a screen-free audio platform with CarPlay and Android Auto, featuring Adventures in Odyssey (3 seasons) and 100+ hours of audio content. Home to the Young David series that inspired the $70M+ theatrical film DAVID. The Laugh and Grow Bible franchise expanded in summer 2026 with new streaming specials Who is Jesus? (July) and In The Beginning (August 15).

Lightgliders

Lightgliders is a Christian virtual world and kids ministry from Made to Shine Inc., with weekly Bible-based games, events, and parent conversation prompts. Families play in a browser or on iOS and Android through a subscription after a free trial.

Biblingo

Learn biblical Greek, Hebrew, and Latin through an immersive web and mobile curriculum of picture-and-video lessons, graded readers, and a path into the biblical text itself. Freemium flashcards cover all three languages; subscription and lifetime options add the full Learn and Read tracks, community, and live courses.

VidAngel

VidAngel is a subscription-based streaming filter that connects to Netflix, Prime Video, Apple TV+, Peacock, and several Amazon add-on channels so families can skip or mute profanity, nudity, violence, and other scenes. Content Guides preview what a title contains before you press play; the filtering company is led by CEO Bill Aho and is separate from Angel Studios.

Covenant Eyes

Victory® by Covenant Eyes pairs the Victory Shield™ app — screenshot accountability and porn blocking on iOS, Android, Mac, and Windows — with a free Victory companion app for the journey. Founded in 2000 by Ron DeHaas and now employee-owned, it also offers 5 Stones, a free church kit for fighting pornography congregation-wide.

Pinwheel Wireless

Purpose-built kids phones, a standalone GPS smartwatch, and a screen-free Pinwheel Home landline with a parent Caregiver Portal for contact safelists, app approval, text monitoring, and GPS, plus PinwheelGPT, a parent-monitored ChatGPT chat. No social media or open internet by default; subscription-based; available in the US, UK, Canada, and Australia.

Neurocycle

A 63-day mind-management app from Dr. Caroline Leaf that uses her 5-step Neurocycle method to work with stress, anxiety, and toxic thinking, on iPhone, Android, and the web.

Fast Facts About Pornography

A research-backed collection of 100+ statistics on pornography's effects across 25 filterable categories including an AI/Deepfakes section — by Fight the New Drug, a non-religious nonprofit now part of the PHASE Alliance, with an AI assistant at ask.ftnd.org.

Canopy

Canopy is a subscription content filter that strips explicit images, video, and text out of websites, social apps, and major chatbots without blocking the whole internet. Parents get device rules and removal alerts; adults can add a human or AI Ally for accountability.

Cloudflare 1.1.1.1 for Families

Free Cloudflare DNS resolver that blocks malware and optional adult content for a whole home network when you change the DNS addresses. A companion 1.1.1.1 app can apply the same Families filter on a single phone or tablet.

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, an Inspiration and Hope screen, 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.

DUO Space

A free space-themed preschool Bible game from Mighty Good Games. Kids fly spaceships, help neighbors, visit Pastor Leon at the church, and play early-learning mini games offline, with no in-app purchases or third-party ads.

Listener Kids

Listener Kids is an ad-free subscription home for animated Sunday school and Bible songs, with offline viewing and continuous play on iOS and Android. The same catalog also lives on Apple TV, Minno, Good News Line, and a YouTube channel with about two million subscribers.

Dude Perfect App

Free family-friendly streaming app from the five Christian friends behind YouTube's biggest sports channel (62.6M+ subscribers, TIME100 Creators 2026 honorees). Unlimited trick shots, comedy, and game shows — every ad guaranteed family-safe — built on their shared mission to glorify Jesus Christ through trusted entertainment.

Gabb Wireless

Kid-safe phones and watches with no internet browser, social media, or app store — just calls, texts, GPS, and a camera. Current lineup: Gabb Watch 3e (ages 5–12) and Gabb Phone 4 (ages 9–14), plus Gabb Music streaming on iOS and Android and the Gabb Go activity app.

Gabb Music

Gabb Music is a subscription, kid-safe streaming app from Gabb Wireless: more than a million songs across mainstream genres, including Christian and gospel, screened so parents do not have to manage an explicit-content toggle. It runs on iPhone, iPad, Android, and Gabb phones, with a preset-channel plan and a Music+ plan that adds search, playlists, and offline listening.

LivingRoom for Families

Screen recording-based parental monitoring for iPhone and iPad that captures activity across every app — including incognito browsing, Snapchat, iMessage, and AI chatbots like ChatGPT — with automatic adult-website blocking, on-device nudity detection, and AI-powered email alerts for explicit content. Built by two Christian dads, including the founder of Tech Lockdown. Flat-rate family subscription.

Clearplay

Clearplay is a Chrome extension for Windows and Mac computers that skips or mutes violence, language, and sexual content in real time on Amazon, Apple TV, Disney+, HBO Max, and Netflix. Filtering requires ad-free subscription tiers — including a paid ad-free add-on for Amazon Prime — and is designed and supported for use in the United States only. Founded in 1998 by brothers Matt and Lee Jarman, Clearplay helped pass the Family Movie Act of 2005 and states it will not build phone, smart-TV, or streaming-box apps because those environments would require an unauthorized copy of the stream.

DigitalParenting.com

A research-based, biblically grounded digital parenting resource offering a 7-step framework, a highly rated companion guidebook, a 10-week church small group course, and an online community to help Christian families navigate technology safely.

Lectio for Families

A free daily family devotional from 24-7 Prayer that uses the P.R.A.Y. pattern — Pause, Rejoice, Ask, Yes — for 5–10 minutes of Scripture, conversation, and prayer. Aimed at ages 7–11, it is written and read by adults and children in the movement and lives on the web in text and audio.

TruPlay Games

A subscription-based Christian entertainment app for kids ages 4–12, with Bible-based games, comics, and videos in the World of Rhym. Founded by Brent Dusing, it is ad-free, chatroom-free, and a kidSAFE Seal Program member.

Bible Kids App

Bible Kids is a free, ad-free app of animated Bible films from BCC Media, grouped for Juniors through Tweens, with church-ready Explorers events alongside the library. Watch on the web, iPhone, iPad, or Android.

Focus on the Family App

Free Christian family resource app from Focus on the Family featuring the daily broadcast with Jim Daly, articles, devotions, assessments, group messaging, and community tools for every season of life — marriage, parenting, and beyond. Founded by Dr. James Dobson in 1977, now serving families in 98 countries, with the animated Adventures in Odyssey feature film *Journey into the Impossible* arriving in theaters in 2027.

TheoScope

TheoScope is a web-based, AI-powered discernment tool that scores Christian media — books, podcasts, movies, and 85+ faith apps — on biblical faithfulness and doctrinal alignment. Built by a pastor, it offers tiered subscription plans, a lifetime Founder's Offer, and a church licensing program that covers entire congregations under one access code.

Safe Surfer

Safe Surfer is a New Zealand-built internet filter that blocks pornography and other harmful categories across phones, computers, and routers, with optional Pro screen monitoring for parents and accountability partners. Founded by Rory Birkbeck and Aaron Sinclair, it also powers Samsung New Zealand kid-safe devices and partners with Surfguard Africa.

DUO Town

DUO Town is a free preschool neighborhood play set from Mighty Good Games where kids drive, help neighbors, and practice the Golden Rule, including a stop at church to meet Pastor Leon. It plays offline on iPhone and iPad with no in-app purchases or third-party ads.

BRAVE+

BRAVE+ is a parent-curated, ad-free kids streaming service from Christian publisher BRAVE Books, featuring the original series Iggy and Mr. Kirk plus vetted classics and children's audiobooks. It is subscription-based and available on iOS, Android, major living-room devices, and the web.

WORLD News Group

WORLD News Group is a nonprofit evangelical newsroom that reports current events from a biblical worldview through a monthly magazine, daily digital journalism, podcasts, and a subscriber iOS and Android app. Sister products God's World News and WORLD Watch bring the same approach to children, families, and classrooms.

Instill Kids Bedtime Prayer

Personalized, Scripture-based bedtime prayers that speak your child's name aloud with soothing Christian music. Designed for ages 3–12 to build spiritual identity, overcome anxiety, and sleep peacefully. Features automatic prayer timers and repeat-after-me mode for younger kids.