Missions Apps and Tools

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.

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.

God's Gift

God's Gift is a free progressive web app from Power to Change Australia that gathers gospel websites and videos in 50 languages so a believer can share a link someone can actually read. Each linked site offers prayer and answers from people who share that language and culture.

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.

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.

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 v5.62.0 (August 2026).

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.

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 August 2026.

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.

OneAccord

Real-time AI translation platform built by church interpreters, delivering text and audio translation in 50+ languages during services — no app download needed. Custom-trained on biblical terminology with ProPresenter/OBS integration, moderation mode for accuracy, Streamdeck/Companion API for remote control, broadcast and conversation modes, and dedicated sound technician support.

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.

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.

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.

Discover

A free Discovery Bible Study app in forty-one languages with text and audio, built for offline groups that want to make disciples from Creation to Christ. Backed by The Discover Network, a UK registered charity, and used across more than 200 nations.

CV (Christian Vision)

CV (Christian Vision) is a UK charity that equips churches and everyday believers to share Jesus through free videos, courses, articles, and the yesHEis evangelism app. Activation Hubs and Digital Day extend that work into specific cultures and the digital mission field.

Stello

Stello is a free, open-source desktop app for sending secure and interactive newsletters. It encrypts messages on your device and lets recipients view rich updates in their browser — no accounts or extra apps needed.

Disciple.Tools

A free, open-source WordPress CRM for disciple-making movements: self-hosted contact, group, baptism, and church tracking with generational maps and saturation heat maps. Gospel Ambition stewards the project; field teams including the IMB use it, with community translation and an active open-source codebase.

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.

Perspective Cards

A free evangelism app by Cru that turns worldview conversations into open doors for the gospel, using cards that invite listening before speaking.

The Four

A free web gospel presentation from Campus für Christus Switzerland that uses four symbols to explain God's love, our separation, Jesus' cross, and a personal decision to follow him. Editions also live with FCA and Power to Change Australia; the official tool is web-only.

Switchboard

Switchboard is Tentmakers Network's digital missions platform that matches everyday believers with Gospel workers and missions leaders for virtual volunteering, prayer, and skilled help. Connection is free for Gospel workers and ministries, with optional church and organization subscriptions.

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.

Change The Map

A prayer movement and Mighty Networks app that helps Christians pray specifically for the Buddhist world through weekly Prayer Moments, worker updates, a podcast, and a vision of 50,000 regular intercessors. Founded in 2013 by Assemblies of God missionary Mark Durene.

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.

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.

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.

Safar Discipleship

A free one-to-one discipleship journey from Elam Ministries: 30 biblical steps for two people over about 100 days, born in Iran's growing church and now offered in ten languages on web, iOS, and Android. A hamsafar walks with a new or growing believer through Scripture, prayer, and practice — no classroom required.

Kingdom Training

Free M2DMM training in the Gospel Ambition family that helps disciple makers use media, advertising, and AI tools to find spiritual seekers online and connect them with face-to-face disciplers among unreached peoples.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web app from Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture in 800+ languages — as a fold-at-home booklet or a file for a professional printer.

Continue To Give

Faith-based giving and church-management software for churches, nonprofits, and missionaries, with text and app giving, fund accounting, and the Our Church Body community app. Built by Jesse Wellhoefer; free to start, with an All Inclusive subscription option.

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.

Jesus Film Project App

Free Cru app that puts the JESUS film and hundreds of other Gospel films on a phone, including offline downloads and heart-language playback for sharing Jesus wherever you are.

MyCompassion

MyCompassion is Compassion International's official sponsor app for writing letters, sharing photos, praying for your sponsored child, and seeing updates from their community. It is free on iPhone and Android; child sponsorship itself is a separate commitment.

Seed Bible by AO Lab

A free web platform from AO Lab for shared Bible reading in group chats and the browser, with no download, paywall, or ads. It runs on AO.bot and is backed by AO Lab's key-free Free Use Bible API of over a thousand translations.

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.

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 August 2026, the platform remains in internal testing with no public launch; the team signaled continued building in a July 3, 2026 post but has not announced a founding artist cohort.

Bible.is - Faith Comes By Hearing

Free Faith Comes By Hearing app for dramatized audio Scripture, Gospel Films, offline downloads, and playlists in 2,749 languages and counting. The ministry is working toward Vision 2033: audio Scripture in every language that still needs it.

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.

tools.bible - Bible Translation Tools

Centralized, searchable library of 119 Bible translation tools (Aug 2026) covering every phase of translation — assessment, drafting, QA, publishing, engagement. Collaborative effort by Biblica and Wycliffe, built on the Gloo platform, free to use, with an AI-powered discovery assistant. Actively curated — grew from 116 (June 2026) to 118 (July 2026) to 119 (Aug 2026). Includes Paratext, Scripture Forge, AQuA, Scripture App Builder, and tools from SIL International, UBS, Faith Comes By Hearing, and more.

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, and in late August 2026 the credit union began migrating members to a unified digital banking platform. Deposits insured by ASI.

Gospel Bots

White-label ministry chatbots from The Apologist Project that answer faith questions from a curated Christian corpus, with real-time translation and a handoff to people. The parent platform also offers API and MCP integrations plus a contextualized agent for Muslim seekers.

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.

BLESS App: Bless Your Neighbor

BLESS helps Christians pray for neighbors by name and practice five everyday rhythms — Begin with Prayer, Listen, Eat, Serve, and Share. Palau now leads the free individual app and optional church tools that map congregational outreach.

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 team's 2025 annual review reports 600K+ users, 15,932 professions of faith, and 60% of users in Africa.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app that facilitates small-group meetings: gather, press play, and discuss. It includes a nine-week Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons, read-along Scripture, optional account sync, and a Security Mode for restricted-access settings.

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.

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.

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).

Contagious Disciple Making

Free Contagious Disciple Making app with podcasts, videos, and scripture lists that help Christians start Discovery Bible Studies and multiplying disciple-making groups. Founded by Paul Watson and led by CEO Rebecca Ewing.

Zúme Training

Zúme Training is a free discipleship course that walks groups through 32 disciple-making concepts in 20 hours, with online, workbook, and offline slide formats in 50+ languages. Gospel Ambition operates the site; optional coaching and an iOS app are available.

Bible Brain API

Bible Brain is Faith Comes By Hearing's developer API for Bible text, audio, and video across thousands of languages. Request an API key and build multilingual Scripture apps against documented REST endpoints.

Faith Story App®

A web app from Strategic Impact Ministries that guides Christians through questions and story modules so they can share a personal testimony in about five minutes.

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.

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. In maintenance mode — no app update since February 2025; reporting and contact-import features remain on the roadmap.

Apologist AI

Free conversational AI from The Apologist Project that answers questions about God, Jesus, and the Bible from a curated orthodox Christian corpus. The nonprofit also offers an embeddable widget, an API, and ministry tools so churches can meet seekers in a judgment-free chat.

Wild Brothers TV

A subscription streaming platform from four missionary-kid brothers, with adventure films, animation, and a moderated community that points families toward following Christ. Available on iOS, Android, Roku, and Fire TV.

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 5,486 people with the Gospel.

Outpour

Outpour is a free Christian ministry platform from Epaphroditus Corporation in Austin that connects missionaries, churches, and supporters through newsletters, fundraising, prayer, and messaging, with native iPhone and Android apps.

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.

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 six releases between April and August 2026 (v14.0–v14.4), including YouVersion Platform integration on both Android and iOS, direct Paratext and Scripture Burrito imports, a Compare Versions view, devotional notes in reading plans, PWA offline audio downloads, and Gloo AI as an optional faith-aligned guardrails provider for the AI Assistant.

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.

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.

MessengerX

Free discipleship app from Messenger International with courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and daily teachings in 130+ languages. Donation-funded library from John and Lisa Bevere for Scripture-centered growth on iOS, Android, and the web.

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.

School Prayer Challenge

A free, donor-supported app that maps prayer for US schools so Christians can select campuses, record prayers, and see where coverage is still thin. Five written protection prayers sit alongside a nationwide school list and a Children’s Literacy Project invitation.

PrayerMate

PrayerMate is a free prayer organizer from UK charity Discipleship Tech that turns your lists into daily swipeable cards, private prayer groups, and live feeds from churches and mission agencies.

Prayvine

Prayvine is a free, donor-funded prayer platform that helps missionaries share encrypted requests with private supporter circles. Orlando missionaries Ian and Kim Hsu built it for field workers and the churches that stand with them.

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.

Hope Translator: live sermon translation

Hope Translator is a live sermon and event translation app from Hope Harbor. Speakers broadcast from a phone or laptop, and the audience scans a QR code to read or listen in one of 44 languages without installing an app.

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.

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.

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.

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.