Apps for Pastors and Church Staff

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.

Sermons.app

An AI sermon-writing coach for pastors that talks messages through with you, reviews drafts, and preserves your voice — built by pastor Jon Horton (NewCulture Consulting) on a 'coaching, never automation' model with a strict no-training-on-your-sermons policy.

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.

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. Built by founder Levi Morales, a full-stack developer in Poway, California.

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.

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 and Android, launched May 2026) added comments, reactions, and a Daily Devotional in summer 2026 updates. Led by President & CEO Nicole Massie Martin and Editor-in-Chief Marvin Olasky, with Russell Moore as Editor-at-Large. The One Kingdom Campaign has raised $28.3M of its $32M goal (as of June 2026) to fund Global, Next Gen, and Big Tent initiatives.

StraightText - Church Texting

A Mac and Windows desktop app that lets churches send personalized bulk iMessages and SMS from a pastor's own phone number, with replies landing in the regular Messages app.

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.

iBreviary

iBreviary is Paolo Padrini's free Catholic breviary for iOS, Android, and the web, with the Liturgy of the Hours, Missal, and Lectionary in ten languages plus Holy Land texts through the Custody of the Holy Land.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads, 830+ numbered 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 book AI and the Future Church, released September 15, 2026, is a pastoral playbook for leading the church through the AI era.

Lumenology

An AI-powered Bible study platform from CraftedPath, LLC offering study tools that open beside every chapter, a cited Research Assistant with user-selectable trusted sources, a curated Library of reference works including the UBS Greek and Hebrew dictionaries, a History of Christian Doctrine reference library tracing 42 doctrines across 278 historical movements, and a Church Staff plan giving pastors and group leaders Premium seats — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library. Available on web and iOS.

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.

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.

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.

Lingua Deo Gloria

Lingua Deo Gloria teaches Biblical Hebrew and Koine Greek free of charge, through stories and comprehensible input instead of memorized paradigms. Its browser courses, illustrated readers, and live online classes serve the global Church.

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.

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. Founder John Hicks, who is transitioning into full-time pastoral ministry, built it after his own church relied on paper lists that left some families unseen.

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.

Flappy Pastor

Flappy Pastor is a free Flappy Bird-style game about the chaos of church life: flap a pastor past pews, ladders, and podcast mics, unlock the whole church staff lineup, and survive Sunday morning.

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.

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, a PicoLabs AI integration that now covers all eight products, an Ask AI assistant available in every product, and a Project Phoenix design refresh.

Shepherd Docs

A writing app for pastors that organizes sermon notes and Bible study around Scripture itself, automatically indexing everything you write by passage. Built by Luke Netti (Luke Netti LLC); web-based and subscription-based after a free trial, with no AI writing and a clear promise never to train on your notes.

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 updates: caption animation styles and sermon dubbing built into Sermon Shots, following the July 2026 mobile experience rebuild and music sidebar redesign, Discussion Guides 2.0 with denomination/Bible version settings (April 2026), and Social Sharing to Facebook/Instagram (March 2026). Named to the Inc. 5000, trusted by 8,000+ churches with a team of 25+. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

Text in Church

Text In Church is a subscription church communication platform for texting, email, and calling, with automated guest follow-up, Connect Cards, a ministry phone system that keeps personal numbers private, and AI-assisted message and connect-card tools. It syncs with Planning Center, Tithely, and other church databases and is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a Christian AI assistant for Scripture and theology with a first-party chat experience on navtheway.com and AI responses powered by Apologist AI. Basic chat remains free, while announced paid membership features and the enhanced workspace are still being built and are not active yet.

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.

BibleBolt

A 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. Listed as free of charge with paid features on Google Workspace Marketplace.

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.

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.

Sermonly

Sermonly is Tithely's subscription sermon writing workspace for pastors, with a built-in Bible, snippets, templates, read-only preaching mode, and an AI Researcher for outlines, character studies, and illustrations. Available on web, desktop, and iOS.

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.

Ministry Planner

An all-in-one church operations platform that turns one teaching-calendar entry into service plans and volunteer schedules, now with a church website, online giving, people and engagement tools, and a built-in AI assistant - plus an expanded hub of free standalone tools and sync with Planning Center and CCB.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Undershepherd

Undershepherd is subscription-based pastoral care software for logging interactions, tracking life events, assigning care tasks, and syncing people data from Planning Center, Breeze, or ChurchTrac. It is a privacy-focused web app from the SolaSites team, with a scholarship path for under-resourced pastors.

Pulpit AI

Pulpit AI turns one uploaded sermon into more than twenty ministry resources, captioned clips, devotionals, group guides, and recap emails, plus a sermon assistant for prep. Built by Michael Whittle and Jake Sweetman, it is now part of Subsplash, says more than 5,000 churches use it, and offers a free trial before paid plans.

TheoScope

TheoScope is a web-based, AI-powered discernment tool that scores Christian media — books, podcasts, movies, 85+ faith apps, and worship songs — 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.

Notebird

Pastoral care software helping church leaders and care teams track visits, conversations, follow-ups, and life milestones in one place, so no one falls through the cracks. It includes recurring tasks, comments and mentions with a notification Inbox, household updates, end-to-end encryption, and ChMS integrations, on a subscription with a free trial.

BiblicalTraining

BiblicalTraining is a free, donor-supported classroom of evangelical Bible teaching from professors across many seminaries, spanning basics through seminary-level study. Founded and still led by Dr. Bill Mounce, it also offers church leadership training, certificates for an enrollment fee, and a path into undergraduate and graduate degrees through Okanagan Bible College.

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. Mobile apps updated in October 2026, a weekly podcast with recent guests from Focus on the Family and The Park Church, and an active blog on church leadership and staffing.

Sermon Title AI

A free 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; still in free beta.

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.

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.

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. Created by a Christian ML developer at Ontario Tech University.

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.

Gloo Communications

Church text messaging inside Gloo Workspace, with broadcasts, keyword workflows, a prayer inbox, and visitor follow-up. The Gloo Messaging app is on iOS and Android; Gloo+ adds video messages and polls.

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.

ReProof.AI

AI-powered Messianic apologetics engine (ARIA, 11 agents, patent-pending) that cross-references 1.7M+ sources across 11 worldviews with real-time fallacy detection and live debate support; now also publishes a book series and operates company social accounts. Openly operates from a Torah-observant perspective.

Fext

Fext is an iPhone and iPad mass-texting app that delivers each message as a private one-to-one SMS, so pastors and other leaders can reach a list without a group-chat thread. It is subscription-based and includes templates, first-name personalization, contact imports, and media attachments.

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.

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.

Logos Bible Study App

Logos is Faithlife's Bible study platform: original-language tools, a large theological library, Reading Plans, and a Study Assistant that answers from the books you own, now previewing a deeper research mode in version 54. Founded in 1991, it remains a free-to-start, subscription-optional app for pastors, students, and everyday believers.