Apps for Pastors and Church Staff

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 (plus 2024's Well Done), Master's Seminary graduate, and Ligonier Ministries teacher whose ministry serves 500+ Academy members and 71.2K YouTube subscribers.

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.

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 as FlockConnect LLC by a seminary-trained pastor; Starter plan at $9/mo with Small through Network tiers coming soon.

Sermonly

Sermonly is Tithe.ly's subscription sermon writing workspace, with a built-in Bible, snippets, preaching mode, and an AI Researcher for outlines and illustrations. I reach for it when I want sermon prep in one place instead of a word processor plus a stack of tabs.

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.

The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast

One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads, 848 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 (Sept 15, 2026) is a pastoral playbook for leading the church through the AI era.

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 48 million hours transcribed. Created by Leif Foged, a former Meta software engineer. Web-based with a ChatGPT GPT integration; no official mobile app.

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.

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.

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.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send turns each sermon into one branded, shareable page with clips, a five-day devotional, and reflections, with optional AI drafts through Sermon Shots. It is a web tool in the Sermon Shots Suite for churches.

Text in Church

Text In Church is a subscription church communication platform for texting, email, and calling, with automated guest follow-up, Connect Cards, and a ministry phone system that keeps personal numbers private. It connects to church databases including Planning Center and is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

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.

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.

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.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is a subscription sermon-resource library for pastors, with series, graphics, calendars, Sermonary writing tools, a Series Planner, church-branded devotionals, and Churchly websites.

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.

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. 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.

Spf.io

Spf.io is TheoTech's web-based AI platform for live captions, speech-to-speech translation, documents, slides, and multilingual conversations, aimed at bilingual churches and other gatherings. Attendees follow on a phone through a link or QR code; Project Pentecost and free church guides sit alongside the quote-based commercial product.

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.

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.

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.

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: July 2026 mobile experience rebuild and music sidebar redesign, 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 25+. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

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.

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.

Sermonary

Sermonary is a browser-based sermon writing and preaching workspace from Justin Trapp and Ministry Pass, with a drag-and-drop editor, Podium Mode, a research suite, and an AI assistant. It is subscription-based 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 and a path into accredited degrees through Okanagan Bible College.

Two Ten Creatives

Two Ten Creatives is a done-for-you church website design and management studio in Richmond, Virginia, building custom Webflow sites so ministry teams can stay focused on people. Founder Evan Smith also offers Framer templates, local SEO help, and Tithely All Access as an official partner.

ChurchStats

An enterprise-level church analytics platform that consolidates attendance, baptisms, salvations, small groups, tithing, kids check-in, volunteers, preacher metrics, weather impact data, custom metrics, and Digital Church (YouTube/social) analytics into one dashboard. Complements existing CMS tools (Planning Center, Elvanto) with deep filtering by ministry, campus, event, and sermon series; built by Everprise (Gold Coast, Australia) for single-site and multi-site churches with role-based access, staff training, and contact-based enterprise onboarding via personal login portals.

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.

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 2,296 languages plus The Bible Project content.

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, selectable AI thinking modes with visible reasoning, image and screenshot context, accessibility features like VoiceOver, and a dedicated faith & church use case page.

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. Founded by Bob Pritchett and colleagues, it remains a free-to-start, subscription-optional app for pastors, students, and everyday believers.

Open Network

A free Life.Church library of sermon outlines, kids curriculum, graphics, and training for pastors and church leaders. Web-based, with no official mobile app, and free to use.

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. It is a Subsplash web product with a free trial and paid plans.

3-16

3-16 is a free Christian prayer network app for sharing requests, joining prayer groups, attending live global prayer events, and connecting congregations through Ministry Pages. Andrei Baburin built it for iOS and Android.

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.

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.

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.

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 now spanning five products (People, Services, Groups, Registrations, Check-Ins), an in-product Ask AI assistant, and a Project Phoenix design refresh.

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.

Sermon Central

SermonCentral is a free pastor-contributed sermon research library with optional subscription-based PRO media and generative AI helpers for outlines, research packages, and funeral messages.

Streamlingo

Streamlingo is a Karlsruhe-built live AI translation tool for churches, events, and lectures: guests scan a QR code and hear or read the talk in 80+ languages with no app. A Christian glossary, human interpreter channels, and a free two-hour plan sit alongside subscription plans for regular services.

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.

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 operated by Faith Software, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 42-3505436) that also builds the SOAPaDay Bible journaling app and the Agpeya Coptic Orthodox prayer book app.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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; live free for churches for 60 days, then flat monthly tiers.

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), founded and edited by Aaron Cline Hanbury, a past editor of RELEVANT magazine and author of "Wired for Wonder" (Broadleaf Books, 2026).

GetSermons

GetSermons gathers sermons from many preachers and churches into one free listener app, with playlists, offline listening, shareable clips, and Preachai chat. Churches can also host and distribute their messages through the same platform.

CareNote

A subscription-based pastoral care platform by Rev. Donnell Wyche that helps church care teams receive, assign, and follow up on visits and prayer needs, with volunteer SMS coordination, church-management integrations, and AI Care Story briefings.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Journeys - Custom Discipleship App

Journeys is scout+redeem's digital discipleship platform for churches and ministries: a content studio, white-labeled mobile apps, and in-room group tools that turn courses and devotionals into paced pathways with Bible integration and AI translation. Their free companion app, The Path, offers curated Christian devotionals on iOS and Android.

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.

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 — now with free standalone scheduling, supply-drive, and roster tools.

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.

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.

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.

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. New for 2026: AI lip-dubbed video replays in the pastor's own voice. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite trusted by 8,000+ churches, with integration partners including Switcher Studio and Resi.io.

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.

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.

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.

SermonAudio

SermonAudio is a free library of audio and video sermons from conservative Christian churches, with live webcasting, searchable Vault AI transcripts, and apps for phones and TV. Churches can upload without limits and use in-house Vault tools such as translation, Ask! answers grounded in sermons, and servers that preserve the archive.

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.

Polaris Bible

Conservative AI Bible companion on iOS, iPadOS, and web — Scripture-grounded chat, OIA devotion generation, offline Bible reading across five translations, Home/Lock Screen widgets, two-pane iPad/web study, and theological guardrails anchored in historic orthodoxy.

Glossa

Glossa gives churches real-time AI sermon translation in 100+ languages: connect audio, share a QR code, and people hear or read the message on a phone, including a voice modelled on the speaker. iOS and Android apps are available; a browser works too.

Lumenology

An AI-powered Bible study platform from CraftedPath, LLC offering eight study lenses, 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 For Churches program — designed for pastors, group leaders, and individual believers seeking Logos-level depth without the library. Available on web and iOS.

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.

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 that validate content across Protestant, Orthodox, Catholic, and Ecumenical traditions, and Planning Center integration for church workflows.