Apps for Pastors | Sermon Prep & Pastoral Care
Find apps designed for pastors, offering sermon preparation tools, pastoral care resources, and leadership development aids.
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Sermonary
Sermonary is a sermon writing and preaching platform built by pastors, featuring a drag-and-drop editor, Podium Mode for distraction-free preaching, sermon templates, an illustrations library, and AI-powered tools to help church leaders prepare and deliver messages more efficiently.
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Two Ten Creatives
Easily create and manage your church website with our expert design services, allowing you to focus on your mission of making disciples.
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Christian Productivity Planner
The Christian Productivity Planner for Notion organizes projects, tasks, and goals alongside prayer and Bible reading, replacing 10 apps for streamlined productivity.
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Lessons.Church
Easily access and download weekly Lessons.Church content, configure schedules, and browse hundreds of hours of Bible teachings for all ages. Watch setup video included.
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Sermon Send
Sermon Send turns sermons into shareable, interactive pages with clips, devotionals, and reflections, seamlessly integrating with Sermon Shots.
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Sermon Shots
AI-powered platform that repurposes sermons into clips, quote images, devotionals, discussion guides, and blog posts in minutes — trusted by 9,000+ churches worldwide.
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Bible Notes
Bible Notes is a note-taking app featuring auto verse insertion, live communication for pastors, and congregation interaction for prayer, polls, and salvation.
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ICF EQUIP
EQUIP: Resource platform for church leaders with message series, manuals, leadership teachings, job descriptions, and small group studies to enhance ministry.
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BibleProject Classroom
Free, self-paced Bible courses taught by Dr. Tim Mackie and guest scholars — 15+ classes covering Genesis to Ephesians with video lectures, teacher's notes, quizzes, and reflection questions. Seminary-depth study, zero cost. Built by the BibleProject nonprofit.
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Thrive & Cultivate
Thrive & Cultivate equips church leaders with mental health training through 130+ expert video sessions, keynote workshops, and downloadable resources — covering burnout, anxiety, grief, trauma, and building a healthy church culture.
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iPreach.ai
iPreach.ai empowers pastors and educators to craft engaging, audience-targeted sermons using advanced artificial intelligence.
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CareNote
CareNote streamlines care requests and follow-ups, ensuring no one is overlooked. Manage your care team efficiently, track visits, and stay organized.
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Fext
Fext enables personalized mass texting, allowing pastors and community leaders to share messages like devotionals and updates without group threads.
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CV (Christian Vision)
UK-based global Christian ministry equipping the Church for evangelism through free video resources, training courses, the yesHEis app, and the annual DigitalDay tech-meets-mission conference.
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NextSteps by Jesus Film Project
Create personalized interactive Gospel stories that engage your audience and spark spiritual conversations. Perfect for churches and online outreach.
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Pastor Notes App
The Pastor Notes App helps pastors organize sermons, connect with congregations, and streamline communication with features for sharing, events, and engagement.
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FULLER Equip
FULLER Equip is Fuller Seminary's online learning platform offering 168+ self-paced courses and professional certificates in theology, leadership, ministry, and spiritual formation — no degree required.
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FlockConnect
FlockConnect helps churches build stronger, more connected communities by tracking the relationships between members—not just attendance or giving. Built on research showing members need 5+ meaningful connections to stay engaged, FlockConnect identifies isolated members before they quietly slip away. With AI-powered connection suggestions, relationship mapping, and real-time isolation alerts, pastors can see and strengthen the horizontal bonds that keep people connected. Integrates seamlessly with Planning Center, Breeze, and Subsplash to turn your church database into a connected community.
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Subsplash
All-in-one church engagement platform offering custom mobile/TV apps, websites, ad-free media hosting, live streaming, online giving, church management, group messaging, and AI-powered sermon tools — trusted by 20,000+ churches including Harvest, Fresh Life, and National Community Church.
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The Carey Nieuwhof Leadership Podcast
One of the world's most downloaded leadership podcasts (37M+ downloads), 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.
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SermonSpark
AI-powered sermon preparation assistant by Missional Marketing with tools for research, outlining, transcription, and content repurposing — built to support pastors through every phase of their weekly sermon-writing process.
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Common Good Magazine
A quarterly print and digital magazine from Made to Flourish exploring faith, work, economics, arts, and culture — thoughtful commentary for Christians who want to integrate their faith with all of life.
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Undershepherd
Undershepherd is a pastoral care tool that helps pastors and churches log interactions, track life events, assign tasks, and stay organized with privacy-first design — integrating with Planning Center and Breeze ChMS.
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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 and subtitle export.
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Pulpit AI
AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that helps pastors turn one sermon into 20+ content pieces — video clips, devotionals, group guides, newsletters, and more — saving hours weekly while extending the reach of their message beyond Sunday.
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CP Sermons
A modern, feature-rich WordPress sermon management plugin with persistent player, SermonAudio integration, transcript support, podcast feed generation, and built-in analytics — built by Tanner Moushey of Church Plugins.
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Sermonly
An all-in-one sermon writing tool by Tithely with AI-powered research, built-in Bible access, snippet collection, and a distraction-free writing environment — built by pastors, for pastors.
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Planning Center
A complete, modular church management system trusted by 90,000+ churches. Includes worship planning, volunteer scheduling, giving, check-ins, groups, events, and a free congregant-facing app. Independently owned, bootstrapped, and committed to never being acquired.
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Streamlingo
Streamlingo offers real-time audio translation in 57 languages, enabling accessible church services and events for all. Simple setup, no booking needed.
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SermonAudio
SermonAudio offers 2 million+ free audio/video sermons from conservative Christian churches globally. Enjoy sermons, webcasts, podcasts, and devotionals.
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Pastors.AI
AI-powered platform that turns church sermon videos into Bible studies, devotionals, social media clips, chatbots, and real-time translations in 150+ languages — all from a single YouTube link.
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RewriteBar
Enhance your writing with AI assistance for emails, Slack, and more. Fix grammar, simplify sentences, rewrite tones, translate, and expand text easily.
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Ministry Pass
Ministry Pass is an all-in-one sermon resource library for pastors, offering 2,000+ sermon series with graphics, videos, illustrations, talking points, and small group questions — plus Sermonary for sermon writing, Churchly for church websites, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year.
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Faithly.co
A free networking platform built for Christians in ministry — connecting pastors, church staff, worship leaders, and volunteers through profiles, job boards, groups, events, and resources in an ad-free space.
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Church.tech
An AI-powered platform for churches that turns sermons into transcripts, social clips, discussion questions, devotionals, and more. Official AI partner of Carey Nieuwhof. Founded by former pastor Josh Burnett to help church staff spend less time with technology and more time with people.
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Spf.io
AI-powered translation and accessibility platform by TheoTech that delivers real-time captions and translations in 100+ languages for church services, conferences, and conversations — all web-based, no download needed.
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Churchlytics
Churchlytics builds custom church analytics dashboards that unify ministry data — attendance, giving, groups, and more — into one clear view, helping church leaders make data-informed decisions.
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ChurchSocial.Media
ChurchSocial.Media helps churches take the step forward with social by having a library of ready made reels for sharing on their accounts. With 50 new reels added each month, from Bible Verses, Quotes, Invites, and more. Unlimited Access to the growing library is $15 a month.
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Sermon Central
Discover SermonCentral, the largest sermon research site with 300+ new sermons weekly, featuring top pastors. Access all sermons for free!
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ChurchSocial (formerly Discipls)
ChurchSocial is an AI-powered social media management platform built for churches, featuring sermon clip creation, branded graphics, AI caption writing, and multi-platform scheduling with Planning Center integration.
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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.
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myChelper
myChelper is a free cloud-based platform for churches, offering a branded app and website for engagement, event management, communication, and mobile giving.
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BibleBolt
**BibleBolt** is a productivity add-on from Bible Society that makes it quick and easy to insert and format Bible verses directly into your documents in tools like Google Docs and Microsoft Word. Designed especially for pastors, sermon writers, theology students and other Bible communicators, it saves time and ensures scripture is presented cleanly, consistently and accurately—helping you bring the Bible into your writing without clunky copy-and-paste work.
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Scatter
A survey and insights platform from Made to Flourish that helps church leaders understand their congregation's daily work, skills, and passions — bridging the Sunday-to-Monday gap with data-driven vocational discipleship tools.
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Thrive and Cultivate
A membership-based training platform equipping pastors and church leaders with mental health skills, strategies, and expert-led video sessions across topics like burnout, anxiety, grief, trauma, and suicide prevention.
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eChurch Bulletins
Create and share modern digital church bulletins to expand your church's reach and keep the community connected.
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