Christian Journaling and Prayer Journal Apps

Restore + Revive Journal

Restore + Revive Journal is a topical Bible journaling app, paired with paper card decks, that walks you through Scripture on fear, doubt, worry, and dozens of other life topics with daily prompts, voice or SMS replies, and weekly review. Founded by Telisha Ortiz, it is free to start with optional Premium and group sessions on iOS and Android.

Encountering Peace

A free, listener-supported Christian meditation ministry with 500+ Scripture-rooted guided meditations (300+ hours), daily new content, 170+ YouVersion Bible plans, a private journal, community features, and 200+ YouTube videos — reaching 300,000+ daily subscribers. Founded by Dr. Drew Dickens, who also hosts the weekly AI & Spirituality podcast on Substack. Available on iOS, Android, Apple TV, and web.

Bible Notes

A sermon and Bible notebook whose Auto-Complete feature inserts full passages as you type a reference, with recording timestamps, folders, and a multi-language Bible reader. Personal devotion follows a pray-read-examine-apply-devote pattern; listed on iOS and Android.

Anchor Christian: Daily Mood

Anchor Christian: Daily Mood is an iPhone daily check-in from Rooftop Labs that offers Scripture, biblical wisdom, and action steps from what you share, then tracks prayers and struggles. A subscription is required to use it.

Lamplight

A web-based Bible study workspace from tinkerSoft Pty Ltd (Australia) that unifies Scripture reading across nine public-domain translations with notes, commentaries, dictionaries, cross references, study journaling, memorization, and a documents editor — free to read, with paid tiers for deeper study and publishing. New app (submitted 2026); no native mobile app.

Every Day with Jesus

A free daily Bible devotional from Waverley Abbey Trust, continuing Selwyn Hughes's Every Day with Jesus notes with classic and contemporary tracks, audio, journaling, and sharing.

Bible Tiles

Bible Tiles is a free 501(c)(3) nonprofit Bible app for iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Apple Vision with Apple Pencil drawing, typed notes, 40+ offline translations, and optional iCloud sync — no ads, accounts, or tracking.

Obsidian Bible Reference Plugin

A free, open-source Obsidian plugin (MIT license) that lets you instantly look up and insert Bible verses into your notes — supporting multiple translations (WEB, KJV, NVI, CUV, DRB, UBG, BG, Korean, and Portuguese) across every platform Obsidian runs on. Includes offline Bible support with bundled WEB text, verse of the day, Literal Word linking, and a fully offline link-only insertion mode (July–Aug 2026 additions). 58k+ downloads, 68 contributors, 119 releases, actively maintained.

ThyWord: Prayer & Scripture

ThyWord is a voice-first Christian prayer companion that listens to your spoken prayers and responds with a matching Bible passage (NRSV) in real time. Built for the "six days between Sundays," it helps Christians build a consistent daily prayer habit through simple, spoken prayer paired with Scripture — deliberately avoiding chatbot theology in favor of surfacing God's own Word, with in-app Bible reading added in 2026.

Sermon Keeper

An iOS app for recording church sermons, taking timestamped notes, and getting AI transcription with summaries and SOAP Bible study entries — built for churchgoers who want to hold onto Sunday's message. Freemium with a free trial; English and Spanish.

LifeBible

A content-rich Bible study app with 40+ free translations, 150+ Study Bibles and commentaries (Premium), AI-powered verse search (now with fair-use daily quotas), and a new built-in dictionary — plus Explain (instant verse insights) and TouchPoints (500+ life-topic Scripture answers with video). Built by Tecarta in Palo Alto, loved by over 2 million users across iOS, Android, and web. Summer 2026 brought a redesigned Library; July–August 2026 releases added journal saving for verses, devotionals, and TouchPoints, theme options, and stability improvements.

Champion Prayer

Champion Prayer is a social prayer journal from Pastor David Harrelson that lets believers share voice and text prayers in open or closed groups, mark requests answered, and follow a daily Pray As You Go guide. Free to download on iPhone and Android, with optional subscription features.

still: pray together & gospel

A prayer-focused iPhone app named after Psalm 46:10 that helps Christians track every prayer's journey, grow alongside their community through shared Prayer Groups and Accountability Partners, overcome distraction with Prayer Lock, and deepen their prayer life through guided Scripture-led prayers, personalized devotionals, and spiritual trends.

Share the Struggle

Share the Struggle is a Christian nonprofit providing discipleship coaching (1-on-1 and group) across 35+ focus areas and expert-led 8-week video courses on anxiety, trauma, grief, pornography, and more — trusted by churches like Church of the Highlands, FCA, and Cru. Founded by Ryan Miller in 2019, based in Opelika, AL.

Reflect

Reflect is an AI-personalized daily Christian reflection app pairing a Scripture passage with a short reflection, a prayer, and one question, tuned to your tradition and season of life.

Scribe Scripture

Scribe Scripture is a web experiment by Cam Pak for memorizing Proverbs by typing one chapter each day as the calendar turns. The Berean Standard Bible text loads in the browser; there is no official native app for this tool.

Dear God - Prayer Diary

A prayer journal where each letter to God becomes a flower in a personal garden, with Scripture-based daily prompts and optional anonymous community letters. Analog Studio (Namu) offers a free app with an optional Fellow membership.

My BibleVerse: Daily Faith

A personal prayer and Scripture app that pairs how you're feeling with a Bible passage and writes a unique prayer for that moment. Formerly Verselah, it's available on iOS with a free trial followed by a subscription.

Harvous

A beautifully designed, open-source Bible notes app that helps you capture, organize, and revisit your Bible study with threads, automatic scripture text, and cross-referencing across 11 translations — now featuring a Recall memory layer, Easton's Bible dictionary, Daily Passage, collaborative Shared Spaces, and an invite-only church education platform for teaching plans, sermon series, and congregant curriculum delivery. Built to complement your existing Bible app, with group study, spaced-practice review, and an AI connector add-on on the roadmap.

Soultime Christian Meditation

A Christian meditation app with 250+ guided sessions covering anxiety, sleep, and stress, plus a proprietary emotional and spiritual check-up, mood tracker with friend alerts, in-app journal, 100+ music tracks, sleep stories, and a complete AI-narrated audio Bible. Founded by Mark Wagner in Cambridge, UK and endorsed by the former Archbishop of Canterbury.

Psalmlog

Psalmlog is a voice and text journaling app that puts what you write next to Scripture and returns a six-point reflection with a next step, across web, iOS, and Android, with an in-app Bible reader, optional YouVersion highlights, and a shareable Psalmstory format.

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.

Pencil Bible

A Bible journaling app for iPhone, iPad, and Android that lets you write, highlight, and draw directly on Scripture, with Apple Pencil support on iPad. Freemium from Erin Walker and Launchround in South Africa — free to read, with a short trial before unlimited annotation.

Dabar

Dabar is an AI-powered spiritual reflection tool that responds to real-life questions — grief, doubt, anxiety, purpose — with structured four-part answers grounded in Scripture (KJV by default, five other translations available). Created by indie developer Michael Clarke, it now offers a web app, a free iOS app, a daily devotional, KJV reading plans, and a private journal, with clear AI disclosure (Claude/Anthropic) and a 'not pastoral counsel' posture.

Thank God

A Chrome browser extension that delivers scheduled spiritual blessings with audio, ambient themes, a 60-second breathing reflection, a private gratitude journal, and streak tracking — designed to weave moments of gratitude and calm into your browsing day.

Spirit Notes

Spirit Notes keeps sermon recordings, typed notes, and a customizable Bible reader together, with Scripture auto-complete that works offline. Built by Leio McLaren for iPhone and iPad. Freemium.

Inner Room

Inner Room is a free 24-7 Prayer app that gathers prayer cards and Prayer Pots into a quiet, no-account space, with daily and Scripture-rooted guided prayers. Personal prayers work offline; the current store listings include iPhone and Android.

HisWord

A web-based, AI-powered Bible study platform by Soundview Anchor Labs LLC (founder Kelley Farris, Fayetteville AR) — daily AI devotionals, full Bible reader with neural TTS audio, Scripture Q&A, prayer journaling, and study groups, originally built to help a mother with macular degeneration stay in God's Word. Still web-only; an Organization tier for churches is coming soon.

Dreamnl - Christian Dream Journal

Dreamnl is a free Christian dream journal for recording, reflecting on, and praying through dreams, with AI-assisted overviews, questions, and prayers that refuse to interpret. Available on iOS and Android from Made Responsively Ltd, it includes a personal symbol dictionary, search and export, and optional private sharing with friends.

Chad Coach - Overcome Lust

An AI-powered pornography recovery coach available 24/7 on WhatsApp, built by a former Tesla ML engineer. Combines CBT, neuroscience protocols from Dr. Andrew Huberman, and Catholic teaching from Love and Responsibility to help men break free — shame-free, free to use, and open to men of any background. Over 100,000 men helped worldwide.

Overflow Quiet Time Companion

A free iOS quiet time companion that guides prayer, worship, reflection, and SOAP/SWORD Bible study, built to sit beside the Christian apps you already use rather than replace them.

RockReader

RockReader is a free, ad-free daily devotional and Bible study app with built-in cross-references, classic commentaries, original-language word study, and SOAP-method journaling. Your reflections stay private and encrypted by default, shared only with the friends, small group, or church circle you choose. Available on iPhone, Android, and in any web browser.

Prayse

Prayse is a free, open-source prayer journal that helps you organize requests into folders, set reminders, journal, read a daily verse, and pray with others through groups and biblical questions — on iOS and Android.

Eirene - Christian Mental Wellbeing AI

Eirene is a scripture-guided iOS reflection app that helps Christians replace mindless scrolling with prayer, Daily Flow devotionals, voice reflection, breath prayer, a Journey calendar, and ambient soundscapes. It uses AI for conversation and scripture recommendations and is not a substitute for therapy, pastoral care, or crisis support.

Doxa

A prophetic encouragement app from the UK (“Know the God who speaks”) that saves, weighs, and remembers the words spoken over you against the full Bible and 1,700+ verified testimonies from church history — free across iOS, Android, and web with daily Engage (AI) interactions, free small-group courses, and low-cost paid tiers for unlimited text and voice.

VerseLink Bible

VerseLink Bible is a free, fully offline, privacy-first Bible study app with bidirectional verse-note linking, Greek and Hebrew interlinear tools, a rich text note editor, Bible dictionary, and the Berean Standard Bible—no account, no tracking, no ads. The developer has committed to keeping it permanently free. Available on iOS, Android, and Windows.

Gospel Partner | Day & Night

Gospel Partner | Day & Night is Joseph Prince Ministries' iOS and Android app for morning and evening devotionals, free Bible reading and notes, and a subscriber Joseph Prince Study Bible plus sermon library.

My Prayer Room

A free, beautifully simple prayer journal app that helps you create, track, and manage prayer requests — 22 languages, no ads or subscriptions, entries stored only on your device. Now maintained by solo developer Rachel Park (myprayerroom.app), with iOS actively updated again as of August 2026.

Biblegram

Biblegram is a daily cryptogram puzzle game that reveals Bible verses as you decode them, pairing gentle brain training with optional devotionals and journaling prompts — built by the Vocabulous US team behind Word of the Day (7M+ downloads). iOS only.

Samaritan

A calm Christian AI voice companion for iOS that helps anxious or overwhelmed believers process their thoughts through Scripture-rooted conversations, daily devotionals, and prayer support — built with a non-judgmental tone, a new onboarding flow for newcomers, and a commitment to tithe 10% of subscriptions to Christian causes.

Arete7

A free spiritual discipline app rooted in Catholic tradition that combines habit tracking, prayer reminders, examination of conscience, and journaling — operating under the honorary patronage of Bishop Piotr Wawrzynek of Legnica, with active feature updates through late 2025.

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.