Missions Apps and Tools

Epistle

A missionary communication and Ministry Partner Development platform that sends auto-bundled email updates to supporters and now includes donor management, CRM, commitment tracking, and AI-powered MPD coaching — built by missionaries for missionaries.

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.

GodTools

Free evangelism app by Cru with interactive gospel presentations, conversation guides, and lessons in 100+ languages. Features QR screen sharing, dual-language support, and tools like 'Seen. Known. Loved.' and 'Spirit-Filled Life.' Actively maintained — iOS v6.3.18 shipped July 1, 2026, and the app continues to chart in the App Store Reference top 100.

Aquilla

Aquilla is a browser-based, AI-assisted translation workspace for text and audio (with video captions coming), built for Bible and resource translation in the world's low-resource languages. It is the web-based evolution of the Codex Translation Editor from Frontier R&D, using 'Living Memory' so a human expert steers while each correction compounds across the project. Currently in public beta and free for everyone; partners include Come and See (The Chosen) and Biblica.

Safar Discipleship

A free one-to-one discipleship app guiding new believers through 30 biblical steps over 100 days — born from the explosive growth of Iran's underground church, created by Elam Ministries, now available in 10 languages including Arabic, with a dedicated church launch program and used by churches worldwide.

Lightdao

LightDao is a faith-driven NFT marketplace on Solana that connects Christian digital artists with supporters, directing art proceeds toward charitable causes. As of July 2026, the platform remains in internal testing, still recruiting its founding artist cohort with no public launch yet.

Wild Brothers TV

An award-winning streaming platform by four missionary-kid brothers featuring 350+ episodes, the animated WILD BROS series, companion shows like WILD HOME, community features (Adventure Chat, Bible in a Year audio), and weekly new episodes — all centered on inspiring families toward the Great Commission.

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.

United Hive

A global testimony-sharing platform where Christians post real-time stories of evangelism and encounters with God on a live map spanning 50+ nations, with community tools, training content, the Contagious Faith Podcast (now 52 episodes), a blog on evangelism foundations, organization tools for churches and ministries, real-time prayer Beacons launched in January 2026, and a revival and evangelism news feed curating stories of God's movement worldwide.

School Prayer Challenge

A free prayer app that unites Christians to pray for protection over all 132,000 US schools, with an interactive map to track prayer coverage nationwide. Includes a Children's Literacy Project challenge connecting reading mentors, churches, and literacy nonprofits with kids who need help learning to read.

PrayerMate

Free prayer organizing app by Discipleship Tech (UK charity) that helps you pray consistently through personalized categories, daily reminders, 500+ church and mission organization prayer feeds, group prayer sharing, and curated biblical prayer resources. PrayerMate v9 (2025) delivered a full rewrite with improved cloud sync and encryption, and v10 (May 2026) added the long-awaited ability to record and reflect on answers to prayer plus urgent-prayer-request tracking. Over 100 million prayers supported across nearly every country. Available on iOS, Android, Mac, and Apple Vision. Celebrating 15 years in 2026.

CV (Christian Vision)

UK-based global Christian charity equipping the Church for evangelism through free video resources, training courses, the yesHEis app (16+ languages), the annual DigitalDay conference, a pioneering CV Pioneers program deploying culturally embedded local mission workers, Activation Hubs providing worldview-specific evangelism pathways (Hinduism, Buddhism, Uzbekistan), and an active Digital Mission Fields initiative taking the gospel into online gaming communities — with outreach campaigns that have reached over 1.5 billion people worldwide.

AdelFi Banking

AdelFi Christian Banking is the largest faith-based credit union in the U.S., formed from the December 2025 merger of AdelFi (formerly ECCU) and Christian Community Credit Union. With $1.4 billion in assets, they offer full personal, ministry, and business banking powered by the Alkami digital platform, tithe 10% of profits to Christian ministries, and provide free biblical financial stewardship courses through Crown Financial Ministries. In July 2026, Cameron Forbes joined as Chief Innovation & Technology Officer to lead technology and AI strategy through the post-merger integration. Deposits insured by ASI.

FaithTech

The largest global community for Christians in tech, now active in 50+ cities across 20 countries on six continents. FaithTech gathers developers, designers, and entrepreneurs to build redemptive technology together — hosting Awaken 2026 (its first global gathering in 10 years, Sept 24-26 in Monterey, registration now open), the annual BUILD hackathon, Story Nights in 20+ cities, and the Glocal Hackathon, while producing the Missional Tech Trends research series and a podcast exploring faith, AI ethics, and culture.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web tool by Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture booklets in 800+ languages — at home or professionally. Founded by Jon Here in Sydney, Australia, it offers four one-click formats and deep layout customization for small groups, missions, personal study, or church handouts.

The Bible Plugin

A free, open-source WordPress plugin that embeds a customizable Bible reader into any site, supporting 2,000+ translations via the Bible Brain API with Paratext file support in v2.0 (now available May 2026). Built by missionaries for global digital engagement — localized, strategic, and designed to keep seekers on your site.

Great Commission Benchmark

A free web platform that benchmarks 79 AI models from 25 providers on their ability to support evangelism, discipleship, and outreach — revealing which popular AI tools help or hinder Great Commission work.

Seed Bible by AO Lab

A free, open-source web platform by AO Lab (501c3) that turns Bible reading into a shared, real-time experience inside group chats and messaging apps. Following a 2026 refactor, it features fast multiplayer sessions, a polished mobile UI, full-text search, immersive 3D reading, a live Discord bot, and live AI chat integration with the Apologist Project (GotQuestions, Kenboa, Apologetics Canada) — all powered by the Free Use Bible API (1,256 translations, 1,004 languages, now ~14M monthly hits, up from 7M). The 'Today' welcome screen is now live, and bible-api now supports importing commentaries. No downloads, no paywalls, no ads.

iEvangelize

An evangelism toolkit with AI-powered conversation starters, a voice-based evangelism simulator for practicing with different worldviews, structured courses, an Evangelism-Pedia reference library for common objections, global mission challenges, and discipleship follow-up tools. Includes a Discord community. In 2025, thousands of users collectively reached over 5,000 people with the Gospel.

Prayer Global

A free, community-driven prayer app that divides the world into 4,770 regions and guides you through Scripture-based, location-specific prayers for each one. Inspired by the Moravians' 100-year prayer movement, it coordinates global intercessors to complete prayer laps around the world (59 laps by 33,000+ intercessors), with active Prayer Relays for churches and groups. Built by Gospel Ambition alongside Disciple.Tools, Zúme Training, and Prayer.Tools.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app that facilitates small group meetings in 63 languages — just press play and discuss. Includes a full Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons for personal growth, a read-along mode for following along in different Bible translations, full Bible access with verse navigation, karaoke-style verse highlighting, and encryption for sensitive regions.

Prayercast

Free, beautifully produced prayer videos for nations, religions, and global topics — used in 200+ countries to activate world-changing intercession through art and media. A ministry of OneWay Ministries (ECFA-accredited), founded by Michael Thompson.

Continue To Give

A faith-based all-in-one platform combining online giving (seven methods including text, app, kiosk, and round-up giving), church management (ChMS), fund accounting, website building, and live streaming — built by a missionary for small to mid-size churches, nonprofits, and mission organizations, with a free plan, modular add-on pricing, and an All Inclusive bundle. Active development continues on the "Our Church Body" companion app (now v2.0) while the standalone giving apps age.

yesHEis

Free evangelism app from CV (Christian Vision) with practical tools, training courses, interactive challenges, a global activity map, and a "My People" tracker — helping everyday Christians share their faith with confidence in 20+ languages, backed by nearly 5 million social media followers and actively maintained by CV Digital through 2026.

Life On Mission

A free evangelism app by NAMB featuring the 3 Circles and Best News gospel presentation tools, plus Gospel Coach — an AI-powered practice tool for simulated evangelism conversations with eight different worldview partners. Gospel Coach is available both inside the app and as a standalone web app at gospelcoach.ai. Updated July 2026.

Voco

Voco streams live speech-to-text sermon translation into 157+ languages via a QR code, letting multilingual congregations follow along on their own phones without an app or hardware.

Switchboard

A nonprofit digital missions platform from Tentmakers Network matching 8,000+ skilled believers with Gospel workers across 100+ countries — volunteer your professional skills for the Kingdom via one-time consults, ongoing virtual roles, and the new Prayer Circles feature. Free for individuals and Great Commission organizations; partners include Pioneers, Cru, Christar, Lausanne, and the Colson Center.

Kingdom Training

Free M2DMM training platform by Chasm Solutions that equips disciple makers to use digital media, advertising, and AI tools to find spiritual seekers online and connect them with face-to-face disciplers, with a focus on unreached people groups.

Jesus Film Project App

Free evangelism app from Cru with 200+ films including the JESUS film in 2,200+ languages. Download for offline viewing, stream via Chromecast or AirPlay, and start Gospel conversations anywhere — used by 1,800+ ministry partners across 80 countries.

tools.bible - Bible Translation Tools

A centralized, searchable library of 118 Bible translation tools — a collaborative effort by Biblica and Wycliffe, built on the Gloo platform — helping translators find the right software for every phase of the translation process, from language assessment through publishing, with an AI-powered discovery assistant for personalized recommendations.

Streetlights Bible

A free, word-for-word audio Bible set to a hip-hop soundtrack, read by diverse voices — built by Chicago creatives to make Scripture accessible to urban communities and multimedia learners worldwide. Now featuring the completed English Audio Bible (all 66 books, NLT), Spanish Audio Bible (NVI), BibleProject collaboration videos, Corner Talk teaching series, Intersection Podcast (108+ episodes), Streetlights Academy, and ALERT312 music. Governed by a formal Board of Directors including pastors from Chicago Tabernacle and Grace Family Church. New languages in development: Portuguese, Japanese, Arabic, and German. Also available on YouVersion.

GiveSendGo

A free Christian crowdfunding platform where every campaign creator receives a personal prayer call from the Hope Team, with 0% platform fees, a Giver Army supporting campaigns without community backing, and a 501(c)(3) charity arm that deployed $667K+ in relief in 2025 with Candid Platinum Transparency.

Take Root

A free evangelism and discipleship CRM for churches, missionaries, and individual believers to track gospel conversations, manage contacts, and coordinate follow-up across teams. Built by Rooted Software, the Christian tech company behind Hodos and the Hope680 ministry.

Holy Reads

The first app built exclusively for Christian book summaries — offering 1,000+ bestselling titles in written, audio, and animated video formats, with a Bible donation mission delivering Bibles to remote villages in India.

Gospel Bots

White-label AI chatbots for Christian ministries from The Apologist Project, drawing on a curated apologetics corpus across ~200 languages and dozens of selectable AI models. Now at 1.5m+ faith questions answered across 190+ countries with 400k+ gospel conversations, featuring social/messaging integrations, MCP support, a Fusion API, Engel Scale seeker assessment, embeddable models for closed countries, and contextualized chatbots like Alim for Muslim seekers.

GAPP

GAPP (Gospel to All Peoples and Places) is a mission-tracking platform by Ta Ethni that helps agencies, churches, and missionaries log activities, monitor church health, and coordinate strategy across teams and languages — trusted by organizations like the International Mission Board and featured in the peer-reviewed International Bulletin of Mission Research.

Stello

Stello is a free, open-source desktop app for sending secure and interactive newsletters. Built by a non-profit for workers in sensitive contexts, it encrypts messages on your device and lets recipients view rich, interactive updates in their browser — no accounts or apps needed.

MissionHub

A free discipleship and evangelism app from Cru that helps you track the people you care about, see where they are on their spiritual journey, and take practical next steps of faith — with community features for churches. No app update on either store since January 2024 (30+ months); the Indigitous network remains active but MissionHub development is fully stalled, with the blog dormant since May 2020.

World Prayer

A free prayer app by Every Home for Christ that gives you a personalized daily schedule to pray for every nation — with cultural insights, country profiles, an interactive map, and community prayer tracking. Available in 8 languages on iOS and Android, with no in-app purchases.

LightNet - Media Library Kit

Open-source developer tool from OM (Operation Mobilisation) for building fast, static digital media libraries — now with CMS and analytics integrations — that help ministries share gospel-centered media in any language.

5fish

Free multilingual evangelism app by Global Recordings Network with the story of Jesus in 7,000+ languages — audio, films, audio Bibles, LUMO Gospel films, and songs for sharing the gospel cross-culturally, all downloadable for offline use on Android, iOS, and web.

Disciple.Tools

A free, open-source WordPress CRM designed for disciple-making movements — track contacts, groups, baptisms, and church health with generational mapping, saturation heat maps, and unlimited users. Built by Gospel Ambition and deployed by IMB, 24:14, and missions teams worldwide, with an active monthly release cadence through July 2026 (latest v1.82.2).

Scripture App Builder

Scripture App Builder is a free desktop tool from SIL Global that lets Bible translators create customized Android, iOS, and Progressive Web Apps with synchronized text and audio — no programming required. Over 2,500 apps in 1,960 languages with 65 million installs worldwide. Actively maintained with four major releases between April and July 2026 (v14.0–v14.3), including YouVersion Platform integration on both Android and iOS, direct Paratext and Scripture Burrito imports, devotional notes in reading plans, and Gloo AI as an optional faith-aligned guardrails provider for the AI Assistant.

Men's Ministries

Free discipleship app from the Assemblies of God's National Men's Ministries offering 400+ Bible studies in three tiers (Growth, Biblical, Targeted), a daily devotional email, connections to local men's ministry networks, Light for the Lost missions content, 360Go missions trips, the weekly 360Man Podcast, and the free 360Equip church coaching program.

Rava: Discover God's Story

Rava is a free, group-centric Discovery Bible Study app from the makers of Waha. Press play, listen to Scripture and discussion questions, and discover God's story together — now available across the Waha platform's 63 languages with offline support, encryption, a security mode, and a read-along mode for following along in different Bible translations.

Faith Story App®

A free web-based tool from Strategic Impact Ministries that guides Christians through organizing their personal testimony into a clear, compelling five-minute presentation — with LifeGroup study guides, 12 practical tips, 19 example stories, and resources on prayer and conversation starters.

Scripture Forge

A free, open-source web app by SIL International for collaborative Bible translation — featuring AI-powered draft generation (powered by the open-source Serval model, now used in nearly 500 projects worldwide), Paratext integration, and community checking tools that connect translation teams with language speakers across the globe, including an emerging oral Bible translation workflow. Currently v5.60.2 (July 2026).

Concise Bible

A free Bible app by Initiative.Global (501c3, Dallas TX) that curates key Scripture excerpts into an easy-to-follow path revealing the Bible's central theme — Jesus Christ as Creator, Redeemer, Judge, and King. Available in 15 translations covering 5 billion speakers with 14 audio versions, Holy Land photos, and red-letter text. Over 11.4 million active users across 190 countries. Led by John Sawyer (former Zondervan VP, Clear Bible CEO).

The Word One to One

A free evangelism and Bible study app that guides you and a friend through John's Gospel and Acts verse by verse, with helpful notes, maps, and conversation prompts — available in six in-app languages with additional PDF resources in five more, now used in over 80 countries. A companion one-year reading plan is available on YouVersion. The resource is now produced by Make Known, a new UK charity launched by the same team, backed by international partners across five continents.

Contagious Disciple Making

Free app from Contagious Disciple Making with podcasts, videos, scripture lists, and training resources to help Christians engage the lost through Discovery Bible Studies and multiplying disciple-making groups. Founded by Paul Watson and led by CEO Rebecca Ewing as part of a 501(c)(3) nonprofit devoted to the Great Commission.

Apologist Agent AI

Free conversational AI chatbot trained on trusted Christian apologetics materials from partners like Got Questions, Ligonier, Reasons to Believe, and the Zwemer Center. Over 1.5 million faith questions answered and 400,000+ gospel conversations across 190+ countries in ~200 languages — built by a nonprofit on a mission to break down barriers to belief.

Discover

A free Discovery Bible Study app available in 41 languages with text and audio, designed to catalyze disciple-making movements by guiding small groups through Scripture from Creation to Christ — used in over 200 nations since launching in 2015. Built by The Discover Network, a UK registered charity. Stable as of July 2026: iOS v26.01 and Android v0.32.01 remain current with no new releases since the March 2026 iOS update.

Change The Map

A prayer movement app connecting Christians to pray specifically and knowledgeably for the Buddhist world, with weekly Prayer Moments, a monthly podcast (now at EP 54, 294 total episodes), country-level and missionary prayer spaces, multilingual content, and denominational partnerships across multiple AG districts. Now at 9,538 of 50,000 prayer partners, with a parallel five-year vision to recruit 100 new missionaries to the Buddhist world.

Missio

A security-first communications platform for missionaries and ministry workers that turns social-media-style posts into automated email newsletters — with end-to-end encryption, face blur, Invisible Mode for sensitive contexts, auto-generated landing pages, giving integration, Groups for team feeds, draft posts, hands-free voice posts via Siri, and email analytics. Free and donation-supported; available on iOS, Android, and web.

Prayvine

Prayvine is a free, nonprofit prayer platform that helps missionaries stay connected with supporters through secure, encrypted prayer circles — built by Stanford-digital-strategy-turned-missionaries Ian and Kim Hsu, trusted by workers with Cru, InterVarsity, and Food for the Hungry, and recommended by SEND International.

Bible.is - Faith Comes By Hearing

Free dramatized audio Bible app by Faith Comes By Hearing with word-for-word Scripture in 2,713 languages, Gospel Films in 1,700+ languages, offline downloads, playlists, and reading plans. Working toward Vision 2033 to provide audio Scripture in every translated language. Founded in 1972.

BLESS App: Bless Your Neighbor

BLESS (formerly Bless Every Home) helps Christians love their neighbors through five daily practices — Begin with prayer, Listen, Eat, Serve, and share your Story. Now led by Palau, it's used by nearly 95,000 individuals and 18,000+ churches across all 50 states, with new map features that let congregations coordinate neighborhood prayer coverage.

Voice of the Martyrs App

Free app from The Voice of the Martyrs for daily prayer for persecuted Christians, with e-books, audiobooks, films (including the free Sabina: Tortured for Christ movie), VOM Radio, group studies, kids resources, and offline downloads — all at no cost. In 2025, VOM helped 100K+ persecuted Christians and logged 1.2M+ prayers through the app.

Revelation Media

Christian nonprofit producing free animated Bible content — including the iBIBLE visual Bible (Genesis complete, 16 Life of Christ episodes released through Nicodemus), The Pilgrim's Progress film, and The Real Story of Jesus in 150+ languages — distributed worldwide via apps, solar-powered tablets, and missionary partnerships.

God's Gift

A multilingual evangelism PWA by Power to Change Australia (Cru) with gospel-presenting websites across 50 languages, each connecting seekers with prayer and personal mentoring in their own language.

Zúme Training

Free, self-facilitated online discipleship course for small groups, covering 32 disciple-making and simple-church-planting concepts in 20 hours across three formats (10-Session, 20-Session, or weekend Intensive) in 50+ languages. iOS app available; Android app removed from Google Play. Built by a volunteer community through Gospel Ambition, with offline distribution via solar-powered devices for restricted-access areas and YouVersion Bible plans reaching 183,000+ subscribers.

Hope Translator: live sermon translation

Real-time sermon translation and captioning app supporting 44 languages (40 with audio). Audience members scan a QR code to read or listen in their language with no app download required. Built by Hope Harbor, LLC in Missouri and trusted by 300+ organizations monthly across churches, conferences, and events worldwide. Integrates with ProPresenter and OBS, supports external microphones, AI session summaries, transcript exports, and a Solo Mode.

Perspective Cards

A free evangelism app by Cru that turns worldview conversations into open doors for the gospel — using a card-based format that invites listening before speaking.

Outpour

Outpour is a free Christian ministry platform by Epaphroditus Corporation (Austin, TX) that connects missionaries, churches, nonprofits, and supporters through newsletters, transparent fundraising, prayer requests, and threaded messaging — serving 50+ ministry profiles worldwide with zero platform fees.

iBIBLE

Free animated Bible app presenting Scripture's one story from Genesis to Revelation through approximately 280 episodic animations covering 20,000+ Bible verses — with 42 Genesis episodes, a 3D-animated Life of Christ series now at 16 episodes (through Nicodemus), interactive quizzes, ASL content, and multilingual support for global missions.

TntWare DonorHub

DonorHub is a fully managed cloud service by TntWare that automatically delivers donation and financial data from a church or mission organization's accounting systems into the support-raising CRMs their missionary staff already use. Founded in 2005 by Cru missionary Troy Wolbrink and continuously maintained since, it connects dozens of donation platforms to free tools like TntConnect, MPDX, and Donor Manager.

Bible in One Scroll

A free, single-page walk through the Bible's storyline from Creation to Restoration that ends in the gospel, actively maintained on GitHub and available in more than 200 languages.

One Audiobooks

Affordable Christian audiobooks from 150+ trusted publishers and ministries — now distributing 3,000+ titles at ~50 new productions per month — with free monthly titles, flexible publishing models, and multilingual missionary partnerships. No subscription required. Note: both iOS and Android mobile apps remain stale (no updates since 2024) with persistent playback issues; the web storefront is actively maintained.

LangQuest

Free, offline-first mobile app for oral Bible translation in underserved languages. Native speakers capture Scripture, stories, and songs by voice or text, validate translations through community voting, and sync when connectivity returns. Built by Frontier R&D (Ryder Wishart, PhD) as the data-collection half of a translation pipeline with Aquilla. Community members have contributed over 319,000 clips across 290 projects and 286 language profiles. Note: the GitHub repo is public but contains no LICENSE file; the website claims MIT.

MessengerX

Free discipleship app from Messenger International (John & Lisa Bevere), celebrating 35+ years of ministry since 1990. Offers courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and daily teachings in 130+ languages across 240+ countries — entirely donation-funded. Recent additions include "The King Is Coming" (2026) and the Foundations for New Believers course. Actively maintained (App Store v2.5.8, Jul 2026).