Missions Apps and Tools

Gospel Bots

White-label AI chatbots from The Apologist Project that churches and ministries embed on their own sites to answer faith questions anonymously from a curated, cited Christian corpus in nearly 200 languages, with a handoff to real people. The parent platform also offers API and MCP integrations and contextualized agents for specific audiences, including Muslim seekers.

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.

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.

Epistle

Epistle is a missionary update and Ministry Partner Development platform that turns field posts into partner email digests and adds donor CRM, sync, and AI-powered MPD coaching. Frankie and Chelsea O'Rourke founded it while serving with Cru in Moscow and now lead a church plant in Oaxaca while running it.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app from a Washington nonprofit: gather a group, press play, and discuss Scripture together, with curriculum in 63 languages. It includes a nine-week Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons, offline lessons, and a Security Mode with encrypted data for restricted-access settings.

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.

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. A free workspace includes up to 5 teams with unlimited users, and paid plans scale for larger organizations.

Men's Ministries

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

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.

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.

Kingdom Training

Free M2DMM training from Gospel Ambition that helps disciple makers, church planters, and missionaries use media, advertising, and AI tools to find spiritual seekers online and connect them with face-to-face disciplers among unreached and least-reached peoples.

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.

MessengerX

Free discipleship app from Messenger International with courses, ebooks, audiobooks, and daily teachings in 140+ languages. Donation-funded library from John and Lisa Bevere for Scripture-centered growth on iOS, Android, and the web.

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.

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.

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. Its team also made The Life, a wordless five-minute gospel short film.

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 Scripture served directly from Paratext files since v2.0. 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 220 AI models from 36 providers on their ability to support evangelism, discipleship, and outreach — revealing which popular AI tools help or hinder Great Commission work.

Paper Bible

A free, open-source web app from Gracious Tech for printing customized Scripture in over 1,000 languages — as a fold-at-home booklet or a file for a professional printer.

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.

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. Ministries have used it to create over 2,600 Bible apps; Frontier Ventures reported apps for 1,960 languages in more than 140 countries with over 65 million installs. Actively maintained with nine releases between April and October 2026 (v14.0–v14.7), including YouVersion Platform integration on both Android and iOS, direct Paratext and Scripture Burrito imports, a Compare Versions view, Simple and Advanced builder views, Covenant and Acts film clips, a Quiz Preview in the builder viewer, and Gloo AI as an optional faith-aligned guardrails provider for the AI Assistant.

Continue To Give

Faith-based giving and church-management software for churches, nonprofits, and missionaries, with text and app giving, fund accounting, livestreaming, a website builder, and the Our Church Body community app. Built by Jesse Wellhoefer for small to medium organizations; free to start, with tiered subscription plans including an All Inclusive option.

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 17 translations covering 5.5 billion speakers with 15 audio versions, Holy Land photos, red-letter text, and a dedicated Listen audio player. Over 11.5 million active users across 197 countries. Led by John Sawyer (former Zondervan VP, Clear Bible CEO).

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 more than 2,200 languages plus The Bible Project content.

Jesus Film Project App

Free Cru app that puts the JESUS film, now translated into more than 2,300 languages, and hundreds of other Gospel films on a phone, with offline downloads and heart-language playback for sharing Jesus anywhere.

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.

Aquilla

Aquilla is a browser-based, AI-assisted translation workspace for text and audio, with captions and subtitles now available, 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 every translator, with paid plans coming; partners include Come and See (The Chosen), Biblica, and ETEN Innovation Lab.

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. A full rebuild arrived in October 2026 after no store update since January 2024; the blog remains dormant since May 2020.

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 210+ languages.

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.

Revelation Media

Christian nonprofit producing free animated Bible content — including the iBIBLE visual Bible (Genesis complete, the first three Life of Christ episodes released at Easter 2025, with production continuing), The Pilgrim's Progress film, and The Real Story of Jesus in over 160 languages — distributed worldwide via apps, solar-powered tablets, and missionary partnerships.

Apologist AI

Free conversational AI from The Apologist Project that answers questions about God, Jesus, and the Bible from a curated orthodox Christian corpus in about 200 languages. The same engine now powers branded white-label chatbots, voice agents, and API integrations for ministries through apologistai.com, while the seeker chat at apologist.ai stays free.

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, and multilingual support for global missions, plus a Gospel of Luke in American Sign Language launched with the International Mission Board in September 2026.

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, plus iOS and Android apps that carry the full training offline.

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), Paratext integration, and community checking tools that connect translation teams with language speakers across the globe, including an emerging oral Bible translation workflow. More than 600 projects have been onboarded, and incremental draft generation was enabled for all projects in September 2026.

United Hive

A global testimony-sharing platform where Christians post real-time stories of evangelism and encounters with God, explore what God is doing worldwide, find events and community, and use Beacons to get real-time prayer while they share their faith, with training content, organization tools for churches and ministries, a blog, and the Contagious Faith Podcast.

tools.bible - Bible Translation Tools

Centralized, searchable library of 128 Bible translation tools covering every phase of translation: assessment, drafting, quality assurance, publishing, and engagement. A collaborative effort by Biblica and Wycliffe, built on the Gloo platform, free to use, with an AI-powered discovery assistant. Includes Paratext, Scripture Forge, Scripture App Builder, and tools from SIL International, United Bible Societies, Faith Comes By Hearing, and more.

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.

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 different worldview partners. Gospel Coach is available both inside the app and as a standalone web app at gospelcoach.ai.

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. The native mobile apps are no longer in the App Store or Google Play; teams use it in a mobile browser.

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.' Its 2025 annual review reports 600,000+ users worldwide, 15,932 people indicating a decision to follow Jesus, and 60% of users in Africa.

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.

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. One of eight OneWay Ministries (ECFA-accredited), founded by Michael Thompson.

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.

LightNet - Media Library Kit

Open-source developer tool from OM's MediaWorks team for building fast, static digital media libraries that help ministries share gospel-centered media in any language. Eight libraries are now online, and more ministry teams are exploring it.

Rava: Discover God's Story

Rava is a free, group-centric Discovery Bible Study app from the Waha nonprofit team. Press play, listen to Scripture and discussion questions aloud, and discover God's story together, with offline lessons, encrypted data, and a security mode for sensitive regions, across the Waha platform's 63 languages.

PrayerMate

A free prayer organizer from UK charity Discipleship Tech that turns your lists into daily swipeable cards, with private prayer groups, more than 500 prayer feeds, and new encouragements, urgent, and inbox tools to capture requests and look back on answers to prayer.

5fish

Free multilingual evangelism app by Global Recordings Network with the story of Jesus in 7,300+ languages and speech varieties — 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.

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, Digital Day, and a growing gaming outreach extend that work into specific cultures and digital mission fields.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 on iOS and Android, with no in-app purchases.

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.

One Audiobooks

Christian audiobooks with no subscription: discounted and free titles and a free audiobook each month, listened to in the browser or in the iOS and Android apps. Behind the store, ONE produces and distributes audiobooks for publishers, ministries, and authors, with over 2,000 titles distributed. Both mobile apps were updated in fall 2026.

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.

Discover

A free Discovery Bible Study app in forty-five 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.

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.

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 nine languages on web, iOS, and Android. A hamsafar walks with a new or growing believer through Scripture, prayer, and practice — no classroom required.

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 iOS app update since February 2025; reporting and contact-import features remain on the roadmap.