Best Apps for Small Groups | Support Activities

LifeWay Women App

A free companion app for Lifeway's women's Bible studies, featuring daily Scripture plans, journal prompts, private study groups, a prayer wall, and the MARKED podcast (now in Season 13) — designed to keep women connected to God's Word and each other between group meetings.

Donkey Mobile

A Dutch church community platform giving each congregation its own branded iOS, Android, and web app with group messaging, one-on-one chat (Donkey Chat), digital giving at 0% commission, shared calendars, a member directory, Donkey Inspire devotionals, and AI-powered sermon summaries (Donkey Echo) — now serving 600+ churches across the Netherlands and expanding into the DACH region.

Alpha

A free course exploring the basics of the Christian faith through food, a short talk, and open conversation — running in 158 countries and 100+ languages. 2025 was its biggest year ever: 2.8 million+ participants (31% increase), 105,000+ courses, with the Alpha Youth Series accounting for 45% of all courses. Over 37 million people have tried Alpha since 1977. New Alpha Series in production for 2027 launch.

Journeys - Custom Discipleship App

A tiered digital discipleship platform that lets churches and ministries launch branded mobile apps, group facilitation tools, and multi-platform content delivery — with Bible integration, AI translation into 30+ languages, and engagement analytics. Built by scout+redeem, serving 170k+ monthly users across partners like Christianity Explored, Word One to One, and Good News for Everyone.

Bible Times Bible Game

A free chronological card game with 150 hand-illustrated biblical event cards. Play solo against the clock or compete with up to 4 players to place Scripture's events in order — from a Tennessee studio whose sibling app Dot Conner: Webtective hit theaters in September 2025.

Called

An all-in-one church communication and community platform by the Newman Ministry team — combining group chat, events with RSVPs and check-in, prayer requests, video posts, member engagement insights, and youth-safe messaging. Trusted by 500+ churches and 50,000+ members across churches, campus ministries, high schools, and small groups. Free 30-day trial, then tiered annual pricing by community size.

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 in 59 languages with offline support and encryption.

Re:generation

A biblically-based, 12-step discipleship and recovery ministry from Watermark Community Church, now active at 209 locations across the U.S. with partner churches nationwide. 351 people completed the full program at Watermark in 2025. Curriculum available in English, Polish, Albanian, and Romanian, with a Spanish-language pilot now underway at select locations. Helps people find freedom from addictions, anxiety, past hurts, and destructive patterns through daily Scripture curriculum and authentic small-group community.

Gracely

All-in-one church management platform with unlimited members, online giving via Stripe and PayPal, event planning, attendance tracking, volunteer scheduling, built-in accounting, a website builder, and a native iOS/Android member app — purpose-built by a Christian entrepreneur to be affordable for churches of any size. Recognized as a G2 High Performer Spring 2026 with consistently top-rated customer support.

Every Man Ministries

Every Man Ministries: Founded by Kenny Luck in 2000, now Lead Pastor at Mariners Church Trabuco Canyon. EMM offers streaming Bible study series, small group curriculum, weekly livestream teaching, and a podcast with 595 episodes — equipping men for spiritual maturity and godly leadership. Distributed through Pray.com, RightNow Media, and God Behind Bars.

ICF EQUIP

Free resource-sharing platform from the ICF church movement offering sermon series, ministry manuals, leadership videos, job descriptions, and small group studies — part of ICF Digital's growing suite of church tools serving 71 locations and 95 micro churches across 12 countries.

Lome

Lome is an ad-free sign-up and community coordination platform — offering shared calendars, volunteer scheduling, meal trains, AI-powered form creation, and event RSVPs — built for churches, schools, and community groups by a faith-driven founder through the Praxis venture community.

TUVU

TUVU is a subscription-based, ad-free Christian social networking app where believers connect through posts, prayer requests, groups, and church communities. Available on iOS, Android, and web with a free 30-day trial, it also offers TUVU Communities for churches to manage events, livestreams, giving, and private content libraries.

Altar Live

Altar Live is an interactive online church platform combining livestreaming with virtual tables, lobby rooms, messaging, and analytics. Acquired by JX3 Digital in 2026, it's now led by pastors and church technologists serving 1,300+ churches worldwide with store listings updated to reflect new ownership.

Gatherly

Gatherly is a church communication platform with Fellowship Circles, a Prayer Wall, Daily Scripture, and Planning Center integration — designed to keep faith communities connected beyond Sunday with no ads or algorithms. Co-founded by Erik and Joaquin Llenado, it currently serves 3 churches nationwide through an invite-only Early Access program with flat monthly pricing for unlimited members.

Champion Prayer

A faith-based social prayer app by Pastor David Harrelson that lets users record and share audible prayers within open or closed groups, track answered prayers, and build digital prayer chains with Bible verse matching and daily guided prayers. Free with optional subscription. Available on iOS and Android.

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.

Marco Polo

A private, ad-free video messaging app for staying close to the people who matter most. Send videos back and forth on your own schedule — with AI transcription, Sharecast, and group chats. Widely adopted by churches, small groups, and faith communities for ministering and connection.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a free AI assistant for Scripture and theology, built on a conservative reformed evangelical foundation with an open-source AGPL-3.0 system prompt. Created by Ted Hallum of Ligonier Ministries, it uses AO Lab's Free Use Bible API for direct Scripture access and is available on ChatGPT (GPT-5.5 Instant) and Apologist (GPT-5.4 Instant). New in 2026: the Berean Board, an AI-generated small-group review game.

Family ID Assessment

A free faith-based family assessment that identifies your household as one of 16 family types through four core principles — Identity, Purpose, Direction, and Application — helping Christian families discover who they are, define their values, and lead with shared vision. Backed by a 25-year nonprofit ministry with partnerships spanning Life.Church, RightNow Media, and YouVersion.

Zúme Training

Free, self-facilitated online discipleship course for small groups covering 32 disciple-making and simple church planting concepts across 10 sessions in 52 languages. iOS app available; Android app removed from Google Play. Built by a volunteer community through Gospel Ambition, with offline distribution via solar-powered LightStream devices for restricted-access areas.

Knowing Him

A free 50-day chronological study through the life of Jesus with 42 on-location videos from Israel, supplemental podcasts, and deep-dive reflections — built by Power to Change Australia and Sonlife for individuals, small groups, and ministry teams across 149 countries.

Holy Reads

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

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app that facilitates small group meetings in 59 languages — just press play and discuss. Includes a full Disciple Making Course, Micro Lessons for personal growth, full Bible access with multiple translations, karaoke-style verse highlighting, and encryption for sensitive regions.

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.

Krew Social

An enterprise-grade community-building platform that helps churches, hospitals, universities, and military organizations fight loneliness by connecting members through shared interests, spontaneous micro-events, and a friend-suggestion algorithm — with Planning Center integration for churches and growing government partnerships for veteran suicide prevention.

Good Feed Media

Free video discipleship app from Tierce Green Ministries offering small group series, Bible study tools, worship, and personal stories — including all six volumes of 33 The Series from Authentic Manhood. Available on iOS and Android with no in-app purchases.

Church.Chat

An event-oriented group messaging platform for church volunteer teams — combining chat, scheduling, roster management, and task tracking in one web app with smart notifications that only alert members when they're scheduled to serve. Mobile apps removed from stores; web-only as of 2025.

WonAnother

WonAnother is a research-informed discipleship platform that uses spiritual maturity diagnostics and adaptive learning paths to help individuals, mentors, and ministries grow — built by a Dallas Theological Seminary student with 50+ church partnerships and a Ministry Intelligence Suite featuring sermon-to-lesson conversion and theological guardrails.

Bible Words

A Christian word guessing party game with 2,000+ words across five themed packs. Hold up your phone, get clues from friends, and race to guess Bible and church words in 60 seconds — from the same studio whose Dot Conner: Webtective film is now streaming on Angel Studios.

Bible Glide

Bible Glide is a focused Scripture reader and small-group discipleship app that lets you open any passage, scroll through surrounding context without losing your place, and optionally chat with Bible Glide AI for study questions, prayer, and cross-references — all built around multiple public-domain Bible translations with offline support.

Pure Desire

Pure Desire Ministries provides Christ-centered support groups, certified counseling, podcasts, and recovery resources to help men, women, and couples find freedom from compulsive sexual behavior and healing from betrayal trauma — now headquartered in Nashville, TN with 30+ years of ministry, a Barna-partnered research study, and an annual summit.

Soul Refiner

Soul Refiner by KingdomWorks Studios is a cinematic discipleship streaming platform offering Bible-based courses on sexual integrity, betrayal recovery, and marriage restoration — trusted by over 50,000 churches, reaching over 3 million people in 100+ nations through the Conquer Series and additional courses including Warpath, From the Ashes, Happy Ever After, and Stronger Together.

PRAYR App

A prayer-focused social platform that helps small groups, ministries, and churches stay connected through shared prayer requests, one-tap "I prayed for you" notifications, Scripture-based encouragement, premium group management tools, and customizable branding for ministry partners.

Spf.io

AI-powered translation and accessibility platform by TheoTech that delivers real-time captions, audio interpretation, and translations in 100+ languages for church services, civic meetings, conferences, and conversations — all web-based, no download needed. New: real-time ProPresenter integration with OCR slide translation, civic government adoption (City of Elgin, IL), and a free pastor's guide to multilingual ministry.

Relay: Quit Porn Addiction

A Y Combinator-backed, therapist-designed recovery program that helps men and women quit porn and compulsive sexual behavior through anonymous group accountability, interactive video lessons, and evidence-based tools — with a faith-focused track, a companion podcast, and dedicated programs for therapists and churches.

BibleBoard

A free visual Bible study web app that lets you lay out verses, notes, interlinear Greek/Hebrew words, and worship plans on a shared canvas — built for visual learners, seminary students, and small group leaders who want to see how everything connects. Open-source backend, actively maintained by its creator.

The Church Co

The Church Co is a complete digital platform for churches, offering drag-and-drop website building, custom branded mobile apps, online giving, sermon libraries, livestreaming, prayer requests, small groups, and integrations with Planning Center, PushPay, Tithely, and ChurchSuite. Trusted by 5,000+ churches worldwide with clearly published pricing and free website build included in every plan.

Echo Prayer

A prayer app that helps you organize, track, and share prayer requests with reminders, small group sharing, church prayer feeds, guided prayers, and a focused "Pray Now" mode — stewarded by The Parable Group, with an ECHO+ tier for individuals ($15/yr) and ministries ($300/yr).

Open Network

The largest free church resource library in the world — 100K+ resources from Life.Church (the biggest church in the U.S.) and 45 partner ministries. Sermon series, kids/youth curriculum, worship music, leadership training, and creative media. Serving 1M+ pastors worldwide since 2006. Completely free.

Sola — Bible companion app

Bible reading companion with fully customizable reading plans (up to 24 months), group sharing via link or QR code, scheduled notifications, interactive maps, historical timelines, and embedded BibleProject videos — free on iOS and Android with optional supporter tiers.

Engage Spaces

Engage Spaces is an all-in-one operations platform for ministries, multisite churches, and nonprofits that combines communication, training, reporting, and team management with location-based pricing and unlimited users across North America.

StudyChurch

A free web-based platform where small groups collaborate on Bible study lessons online — leaders build studies with embedded questions, members share answers and discuss before meeting in person, and churches manage all their groups from one dashboard.

Study Gateway

Study Gateway is a streaming video Bible study service from Zondervan and Thomas Nelson (HarperCollins Christian Publishing), offering thousands of teaching videos from trusted Christian authors and pastors like Max Lucado, Jennie Allen, Lisa Harper, Tony Evans, and Louie Giglio. Tiered subscription plans serve individuals, small groups, and churches across iOS, Android, web, and smart TV platforms, with new studies released regularly.

connect.

A private, branded communication and community engagement app for churches, schools, ministries, and sports organizations — with customizable channels, monitored messaging, event ticketing, fundraising campaigns, push notifications, and resource sharing. Built by Connect – ITZ, LLC (MAP Companies) in Lexington, KY, it received a major interface refresh in June 2026 and operates from a clear orthodox Christian statement of faith.

Flare - for Groups

All-in-one group communication platform combining chats, event calendars, attendance tracking, photo albums, polls, Venmo payments, and a flexible points system. Used by 500,000+ people across student organizations, ministries, Rotary clubs, and community groups. Free on iOS and Android with frequent updates and an active scholarship program for students.

Zaia

Zaia is a Christian social networking app on a mission to unite believers worldwide. Share your faith through photos, video, and words, join community "Tribes," read the Bible in-app, post prayer requests, and connect across denominations — all in one clean, uplifting space. Founded by a former Amazon Prime Video CMO, the app also birthed Glimpse of Heaven, a nonprofit hosting cross-denominational worship events including a second gathering in May 2026.

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.