Apps for Pastors | Sermon Prep & Pastoral Care

Seedling - Prayer Platform

A prayer management platform that helps churches track, follow up on, and gain AI-powered pastoral insights from prayer requests — with voice/text/QR/card submission, auto-assign intercessors, prayer campaigns, and ChMS integrations so no one slips through the cracks.

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 2,200+ languages plus The Bible Project content.

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.

Sermon Title AI

A web tool by Cody Cook (church-tech, MinistryHelper.ai) that turns a pastor's own sermon or transcript into three SEO-ready title options, each tagged with its hook strategy. Web-only.

Exegesis

A Bible study app that puts two thousand years of church commentary, confessions, creeds, hymns, and 6,211 letters from church history one tap from any verse, with Greek, Hebrew, and Latin word study, a guided seven-step daily devotional, and Aura, an in-app AI assistant. Built by Roberto Chavez Jr; free public beta across iOS, iPadOS, Android, macOS, Windows, and Linux.

Undershepherd

Pastoral care software helping pastors and care teams log interactions, track life events, assign tasks, and stay organized — with privacy-first design, Planning Center/Breeze/ChurchTrac integrations, a scholarship program for under-resourced pastors, and active blog resources. By Sabbath Ventures.

Lumenology

An AI-powered Bible study platform from CraftedPath, LLC offering eight study lenses, a cited Research Assistant with user-selectable trusted sources, a History of Christian Doctrine reference library tracing 41 doctrines across 271 historical movements, and a For Churches program — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library. Available on web and iOS.

WonAnother

WonAnother is a research-informed discipleship platform that uses a 60-question spiritual maturity diagnostic and adaptive learning paths to help individuals, mentors, and ministries grow — built by a Dallas Theological Seminary student with 50+ church partnerships, a Ministry Intelligence Suite featuring sermon-to-lesson conversion and theological guardrails, and Planning Center integration for church workflows.

BibleProject Classroom

Free, self-paced Bible courses taught by Dr. Tim Mackie and guest scholars like Dr. Carmen Imes (Exodus) and Dr. Lucy Peppiatt (1 Corinthians). The library of 15 classes spans the full biblical story — Genesis through Paul's letters — with a planned seven-class series through the Gospel of Matthew in progress. Seminary-depth video lectures, teacher's notes, quizzes, and reflection questions. Built by the BibleProject nonprofit, led by CEO Steve Atkinson. Also available in prisons through the Pando tablet program.

Gloo Communications

Church text messaging platform with automated workflows, prayer inbox, broadcast messaging, and an Explorer program for community outreach — built by Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO), a publicly traded faith-tech company serving over 450,000 churches. Q1 2026 revenue grew 238% YoY to $41.5M; FY2026 guidance raised to $195M. Portfolio now 20+ acquired brands including Westfall Group, EMD, Carey Nieuwhof Communications, and Midwestern Interactive.

BibleBolt

A free Bible Society add-on for Google Docs and Microsoft Word that lets pastors, students, and Bible communicators insert and format Scripture from 11 translations (now including the Berean Standard Bible) in 7 languages — right inside their documents. Multilingual with support for Welsh, Spanish, German, French, Italian, and Portuguese.

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.

Sermon Live

Sermon Live provides AI-powered real-time text and audio sermon translations in 30+ languages with 99% accuracy, letting multilingual congregations follow along live with just a shareable link — no app or special hardware needed. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite trusted by 8,000+ churches, with integration partners including Switcher Studio and Resi.io.

CareNote

A pastoral care platform helping 800+ care teams track visits, prayer requests, and follow-ups — with SMS volunteer coordination, 13 ChMS integrations, AI-powered care briefings, meal coordination via Care Table, spiritual gifts matching, a morning Daily Beacon report, and Spanish/Dutch localization. By Rev. Donnell Wyche of Ann Arbor Community Church.

Thrive and Cultivate

A membership-based training platform equipping pastors and church leaders with mental health skills, strategies, and 130+ expert-led video sessions across nine tracks covering burnout, anxiety, grief, trauma, suicide prevention, and building a mentally healthy church culture.

Sermon Central

The world's largest free sermon research library — with AI-powered sermon outlines, research assistants, and funeral sermon generators, plus a free sermon editor, built-in Bible reading tool, and Barna-backed church flourishing resources — equipping 250,000+ church leaders weekly in 100+ countries to preach with excellence.

Fext

Fext is a mass texting app for iPhone and iPad that sends personalized, private SMS messages to each recipient individually — no group chats or reply-all. Widely used by pastors, churches, and community leaders for devotionals, event updates, and outreach.

Planning Center

A complete, modular church management system trusted by 100,000+ churches across 11 integrated products — worship planning, volunteer scheduling, giving, check-ins, groups, events, and free mobile apps. Independently owned and committed to never being acquired; celebrating 20 years in 2026 with SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, PicoLabs AI integration across four products, and a Project Phoenix design refresh.

SermonAudio

The largest free library of over 3 million audio and video sermons from conservative Christian churches worldwide, with live webcasting, full AI transcription of the entire archive, Global Sermons translation into 46 languages, and physical preservation infrastructure across four Vault sites in three countries. New in 2026: Ask! natural-language Q&A grounded in sermon content with three dedicated portals (site-wide, single-broadcaster, Puritans), Smart Suggestions for auto-generated sermon metadata, Roku TV v5.0 with user accounts, 1,800+ Spurgeon sermons globalized (halfway mark), and 1.8PB storage expansion for The Vault UK. Founded 2000, fully independent of cloud services.

myChelper

A free, all-in-one church engagement platform offering a branded mobile app, drag-and-drop website builder, mobile giving, and small-group communication — built by a YouVersion engineer and now operated by Faith Software, Inc., a non-profit organization (501(c)(3) application in progress) that also builds the SOAPaDay Bible journaling app.

Text in Church

An all-in-one church communication platform (texting, email, calling) co-founded by Tyler Smith and trusted by 38,000+ church leaders, now featuring Calling as a full standalone phone system and expanded integrations with Planning Center, Tithely, Elvanto, and MinistrySafe.

BiblicalTraining

Free seminary-quality Bible education from 84 world-class professors across 180+ classes and 2,700+ hours of instruction. Four learning levels from basics to graduate-level, eight structured Certificate programs (several with ACSI CEU credits), a Leadership program for church elder development, and a 17,000+ article library. Founded by Dr. Bill Mounce (NIV translation committee). ECFA accredited. Partnered with Okanagan Bible College for accredited undergraduate and graduate degrees.

CP Sermons

A modern, feature-rich WordPress sermon management plugin with a persistent app-like player, SermonAudio integration (including WP-CLI), transcript support, podcast feed generation, and built-in analytics. Currently at v1.6.2. Built by Tanner Moushey of Church Plugins.

CiteVerse

CiteVerse is an AI-powered scripture display and sermon-prep platform that transcribes Bible teaching in real time, detects verse references as they're spoken, and auto-saves every session as a searchable, exportable Journey. Built by Joseph Obiagba (Gjio Technologies), it supports 11 Bible editions across six transcription languages through its web app and Chrome extension, with Presenter Mode for hands-free projector display.

Common Good Magazine

A print and digital magazine from Made to Flourish, publishing six times per year on faith, work, economics, arts, and culture — thoughtful, curated commentary for Christians seeking to integrate their faith with all of life. Now on Issue 24 (July/August 2026), edited by Editorial Director Aaron Cline Hanbury.

BibleBoard

A free visual Bible study web app that lets you lay out verses, notes, interlinear Greek/Hebrew words, and worship plans on a shared canvas — built for visual learners, seminary students, and small group leaders who want to see how everything connects. Open-source backend, created by a Christian ML developer at Ontario Tech University.

ReProof.AI

AI-powered Messianic apologetics engine (ARIA, 11 agents) that cross-references 1.7M+ sources across 10 worldviews with real-time fallacy detection and live debate support; openly operates from a Torah-observant perspective.

Faithly.co

A free networking platform built for Christians in ministry — connecting 4,000+ pastors, church staff, worship leaders, and volunteers across 650+ churches and 50+ denominations through profiles, job boards, groups, events, and resources. Continuously iterating mobile apps (now on v2.1 with image editing, event waitlists, and @mentions), a weekly podcast featuring leaders from the Jesus Film Project, Compassion International, and Ligonier Ministries, and a monthly church governance blog series.

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.

Sermonary

A cloud-based, all-in-one sermon writing and preaching platform from the Ministry Pass family, founded by pastor and CEO Justin Trapp. Features a patented drag-and-drop sermon editor, Podium Mode for preaching, an integrated Research Suite with trusted commentaries, and an AI assistant for editing and repurposing sermons. Subscription-based with a free trial; web-only with no dedicated mobile app.

Pastor Notes App

A church engagement platform that lets pastors share sermon notes, run live polls and Q&A, collect prayer requests, and present a "Follow Jesus" prompt — connecting with their congregation through the companion Bible Notes app. Tiered subscription by congregation size, with a ministry partnership program supporting global Bible translation and missions. iOS and Android; maintained by an Australian developer.

Notebird

Pastoral care software helping church leaders and care teams track visits, conversations, follow-ups, and life milestones in one place — with recurring tasks, file attachments, end-to-end encryption, ChMS integrations, and care reporting — so no one falls through the cracks.

Ministry Planner

A ministry operations workspace for church staff that turns one teaching-calendar entry into service plans, worship sets, and volunteer schedules, syncing with Planning Center rather than replacing it.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a free AI assistant for Scripture and theology, built on a conservative reformed evangelical foundation with an open-source AGPL-3.0 system prompt (version 20260318). Created by Ted Hallum of Ligonier Ministries, it uses AO Lab's Free Use Bible API for direct Scripture access and is now available exclusively on Apologist AI (GPT-5.4 Instant, no account required) after retiring its ChatGPT presence. The Berean Board small-group review game adds virtual buzzers, five age-tiered difficulty levels, and expanded file-format support. Very active GitHub: ~751 commits as of July 2026.

Doctrinally.AI

Doctrinally.AI gives each church its own AI assistant trained on its pastor's sermons and documents. A Website Chat widget captures visitor leads on the church site, while a member-facing chat hub answers congregation questions with citations — all from the same content library.

Streamlingo

AI-powered real-time audio translation with live transcription in 140+ input and 80+ output languages for church services and events — no app needed, just scan a QR code and listen through your headphones. Founded by a pastor's son in Karlsruhe, Germany, now a team of nine; recent milestones include the completed Spring Harvest 2026 partnership and UK distribution through Gather Movement.

LiveSunday

A web-based platform providing AI-powered real-time captions and translation in 100+ languages for church services and live events, accessible to attendees via QR code with no app download required; also serves conferences, corporate, and education settings.

The Ready Writer

The Ready Writer is an AI writing assistant that interviews Christian authors to draft a book in their own voice, with Scripture-aware drafting and a built-in doctrine review.

SermonSeeds

AI-powered sermon content repurposing tool that turns one sermon into a full week of ministry content — social posts, devotionals, video clips with a sentence-based editor, sermon slides, reels, and discussion guides — in under five minutes.

Christianity Today

The flagship evangelical media ministry founded by Billy Graham in 1956, now in its 70th anniversary year (2026). Reaches 40M people annually with news, theology, and 11+ podcasts (The Bulletin, The Russell Moore Show, Devil and the Deep Blue Sea). The CT mobile app (iOS v1.2.1, Android) launched May 2026, now at 15 iOS ratings (4.9 stars) and 1K+ Android downloads. Led by President & CEO Nicole Massie Martin and Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky, with Russell Moore as Editor-at-Large. The One Kingdom Campaign is raising $32M through the 70th anniversary to fund Global, Next Gen, and Big Tent initiatives.

FlockConnect

A Church Relationship Manager (ChRM) that tracks relational connections between church members — not just attendance — to flag isolation before people drift away. Features an AI companion (Collie) with human-in-the-loop approval, official Planning Center two-way integration, visual network ring, and a dedicated security transparency page. Founded July 2025 by a seminary-trained pastor; actively piloting with churches in the US and Latin America.

Sermons.app

An AI sermon-writing coach for pastors that acts as a thought partner across three modes — voice talk-through, distraction-free drafting, and finished-draft review — learning the preacher's own voice and helping shape the message without ever writing it for them. Built by pastor Jon Horton and operated by NewCulture Consulting, with a firm commitment that sermons stay private and are never used to train AI models.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is an all-in-one sermon resource library for pastors, offering 25,000+ resources including 2,000+ sermon series with graphics, videos, illustrations, talking points, and small group questions — plus Sermonary (with Sermonary Plus) for sermon writing, Churchly for church websites, My Devotionals for branded daily discipleship content with reading plans and family devotionals, a drag-and-drop Series Planner, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year.

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.

3-16

Free Christian prayer network app connecting believers worldwide to share prayer requests, pray in groups, join live prayer events with voice broadcasting, and connect through Ministry Pages for congregations. Built by Andrei Baburin in Indonesia, available on iOS and Android in 7 languages.

FULLER Equip

FULLER Equip is Fuller Theological Seminary's online learning platform offering 160+ self-paced courses and nine professional certificates across theology, ministry leadership, emotional health, church planting, youth discipleship, and spiritual formation — accessible from any device without enrollment in a degree program.

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.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send transforms each sermon into a branded, shareable page with clips, devotionals, summaries, and reflections — all in one link, powered by AI through its Sermon Shots Suite integration.

Sermon Shots

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into clips, quote images, carousels, devotionals, discussion guides, and social content in minutes. Founded by Corey Alderin (2x $1M+ ARR SaaS founder — also built Book Brush and ChristianQuotes.info) and Josh Wiley. Latest features: Discussion Guides 2.0 with denomination/Bible version settings (April 2026), Social Sharing to Facebook/Instagram (March 2026), full platform rebuild (January 2026). Named to the Inc. 5000, trusted by 8,000+ churches with a team of 30+. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

Tassel

A free discipleship app that matches seekers with trained disciple makers through a personal interview process, supporting ongoing spiritual growth through daily conversations, activities, group gatherings, and leadership assessments. Founded by design leader Edmund Azigi and available on iOS and Android.

OurChurchCare

A web-based church care management tool that helps deacons, elders, pastors, and volunteers assign families, log personal outreach, track follow-ups, and see who needs care before anyone quietly slips through the cracks. Now actively expanding with a resources library and Founding Cohort program as founder John Hicks transitions into full-time pastoral ministry.

Pulpit AI

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into 20+ content pieces — video clips, devotionals, group guides, newsletters, and more — now integrated into the Subsplash Dashboard with enhanced clip creation and branding tools. Founded by pastor Michael Whittle, backed by Roper Technologies, partnered with Southeastern University, and trusted by thousands of churches worldwide.

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.

Two Ten Creatives

A done-for-you church website design and management service built on Webflow by founder Evan Smith in Richmond, VA. An official Tithely partner offering discounted all-in-one church management tools, plus premium Framer templates and local SEO services for churches looking to grow their online presence.

FlowLeed

A church-intelligence platform that layers pastoral care on top of your existing ChMS. FlowLeed surfaces who needs follow-up, who's drifting, and what next step to take — with an AI assistant that answers plain-language questions about your people.

Journeys - Custom Discipleship App

A tiered digital discipleship platform that lets churches and ministries launch branded mobile apps, group facilitation tools, and multi-platform content delivery — with Bible integration, AI translation into 30+ languages, and engagement analytics. Built by scout+redeem, serving 170k+ monthly users across partners like Christianity Explored, Word One to One, and Good News for Everyone.

Spf.io

AI-powered translation and accessibility platform by TheoTech that delivers real-time captions, audio interpretation, and translations in 100+ languages for church services, civic meetings, conferences, and conversations — all web-based, no download needed. New: real-time ProPresenter integration with OCR slide translation, civic government adoption (City of Elgin, IL), full-length book translation in spf.io studio 2.0, and a free pastor's guide to multilingual ministry.

TurboScribe

AI-powered transcription tool trusted by hundreds of pastors and churches, converting audio and video to accurate text in seconds across 98+ languages with speaker recognition, live recording, YouTube import, WhatsApp integration, and subtitle export. Over 45 million hours transcribed. Created by Leif Foged, a former Meta software engineer. Web-based with a ChatGPT GPT integration; no official mobile app.

SermonSpark

AI-powered sermon preparation assistant by Missional Software with tools for research, writing, transcription, audio brainstorming, and content repurposing — featuring denomination and Bible version personalization and regularly upgraded LLM models to align AI output with a pastor's theological tradition.

Polaris Bible

Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, offline Bible reading, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.

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 a shareable Sermon Quiz — all written in the pastor's own voice and calibrated to the church's theology.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI creative team for church ministry — describe the graphic you need in plain language and get professional sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more in seconds. Used by more than 11,500 churches and ministries worldwide.

Glossa

AI-powered real-time voice translation for churches in 100+ languages — attendees scan a QR code or download the mobile app (iOS/Android) to hear or read the sermon in their own language, with voice cloning that preserves the speaker's voice. Used by hundreds of churches worldwide with a generous free tier and an ElevenLabs-backed translation engine.

Best Commentaries

Best Commentaries aggregates Bible commentary reviews and ratings from scholars, journals, and users into a searchable database with a transparent scoring algorithm. Now available in six languages, it helps pastors, seminary students, and laypeople find the right commentary for any book of the Bible.

Christian Productivity Planner

An all-in-one Notion template for Christians that unifies task management, goal tracking, prayer, Bible reading plans, and journaling in a single workspace — created by Reagan Rose of Redeeming Productivity, a Moody Publishers author and Master's Seminary graduate whose ministry now serves 500+ Academy members and 68.4K YouTube subscribers.

Logos Bible Study App

The world's leading Bible study platform — 30+ years of development, 250,000+ titles, Greek/Hebrew word study, side-by-side commentaries, and an AI-powered Study Assistant now built into prebuilt study layouts. Co-founded in 1992 by Bob Pritchett, Kiernon Reiniger, and Dale Pritchett; led today by CEO Chris Migura (Pritchett is Executive Chairman), with Baker Publishing Group having acquired Lexham Press in 2025. The June 2026 update added a mobile reading-plan builder and in-layout Study Assistant. Over 6 million users; free tier with 40+ books and an optional Premium subscription.

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 VP of Product & Marketing at Anedot. Web-based consulting service in low-activity mode; website live but no new content since August 2023.

Church.tech

An AI-powered platform that turns sermons into social clips, devotionals, discussion guides, and transcripts — now part of Gloo Workspace as Content Studio alongside Ministry Chat, Communications, and Insights. Founded by a former church planter to help pastors spend less time creating content and more time leading people. Features faith-safe AI guardrails, an AI Camera Crew for auto-tracking video, kids/youth content generation, team collaboration, and engagement analytics.

Lessons.Church

Free, open-source church curriculum platform with 1,100+ video-based lessons for preschool through adult from 12+ providers. Built by ChurchApps (Live Church Solutions), now serving 15,000+ churches in 130+ countries with companion FreePlay TV app, presenter mode, comparison pages against paid alternatives, and no login required to browse.

Sermonly

An all-in-one sermon writing platform by Tithely with AI-powered research assistance, built-in Bible access, a Snippets Chrome extension for clipping web content, and a distraction-free writing environment — built by pastors, for pastors.

RewriteBar

A lightweight macOS menu bar AI writing toolkit that fixes grammar, adjusts tone, translates in 500+ languages, and supports 37 AI providers — all inside whatever app you're already using, with one-time purchase licensing, accessibility features like VoiceOver, an edit-input mode for refining text in the review window, and a dedicated faith & church use case page.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads, 840+ episodes), hosted by former pastor Carey Nieuwhof. Features conversations with top church and business leaders on leadership, culture, personal growth, and navigating ministry in a changing world. Part of The Art of Leadership Network. Carey's new book AI and the Future Church releases September 2026.

ChurchSocial (formerly Discipls)

ChurchSocial is an AI-powered social media management platform built for churches, featuring Sermon Studio for automated sermon clip creation with speaker tracking, subtitles, and team collaboration, Graphics Studio with customizable templates and AI image generation, and multi-platform scheduling across Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, and Google Business — with Planning Center, Pushpay/CCB, and Tithely/Breeze integrations.

Open Network

The largest free church resource library in the world — 100K+ resources from Life.Church (the biggest church in the U.S. by attendance) and 45 partner ministries. Sermon series, kids/youth curriculum, worship music, leadership training, and creative media. Serving 1M+ pastors worldwide since 2006. Completely free, web-based (no mobile app).