Best Apps for Small Groups | Support Activities

Bible Words

Bible Words is a free Christian word-guessing party game from Mighty Good Games. Hold up the phone, take shouted clues, and race through Bible, church, and family word packs in sixty-second rounds on iPhone, iPad, and Apple Vision.

Rule of Life Builder by Practicing the Way

A free web tool from John Mark Comer’s Practicing the Way ministry that helps you drag and drop spiritual practices into a personalized Rule of Life — daily, weekly, and monthly rhythms you can edit and print — for yourself or your community.

Echo Prayer

A prayer companion from The Parable Group that keeps your requests organized with reminders, answered-prayer tracking, small-group sharing, and church or ministry feeds, plus an optional ECHO+ subscription for extra group and desktop features.

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.

Flare - for Groups

All-in-one group communication platform combining chats, event calendars, attendance tracking, photo albums, polls, Venmo payments, cross-group connections, 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.

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 chat with Bible Glide AI for study questions, prayer, and cross-references — now extended with a free 1,189-chapter summary library, a Sermon Companion tool, a communities leaderboard with reading streaks, and a remote MCP server that brings Bible readings and AI chat into ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible clients.

Mooch

Free sharing app from Okie Apps in Edmond, Oklahoma, that lets trusted friends lend, borrow, and track everyday items in a private network — no fees, no public listings.

Simplified Prayer

A free, privacy-focused prayer request organizer that helps believers build consistent prayer habits with reminders, prayer groups, Turbo Mode hourly alerts, and answered prayer tracking.

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, created by a Christian ML developer at Ontario Tech University.

Soul Refiner

Soul Refiner is a Bible-based streaming platform of discipleship courses for churches and individuals facing addiction, betrayal, and marriage struggles, including the Conquer Series hosted by Dr. Ted Roberts. KingdomWorks Studios founders Jeremy and Tiana Wiles built it as a subscription-based home for those cinematic courses, group tools, and community on the web, iOS, and Android.

WordGo

Free Bible study app from Bible Study Fellowship with 50+ guided courses across the Old and New Testament. Daily readings, audio teaching, and group tools for personal or church small-group study on iOS and Android.

Journeys - Custom Discipleship App

Journeys is scout+redeem's digital discipleship platform for churches and ministries: a content studio, white-labeled mobile apps, and in-room group tools that turn courses and devotionals into paced pathways with Bible integration and AI translation. Their free companion app, The Path, offers curated Christian devotionals on iOS and Android.

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.

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.

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.

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 four players to place Scripture's events in order — from a Tennessee studio whose sibling title Dot Conner: Webtective is a live-action series and a feature film streaming on Angel Studios.

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.

Marco Polo

A private, ad-free video messenger for sending face-to-face messages people can answer on their own schedule. Families, small groups, and churches use it to stay close; optional Plus adds AI captions, transcripts, and summaries.

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.

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 (Season 13 ongoing through August 2026) — designed to keep women connected to God's Word and each other between group meetings.

Navigate The Way ✝️

Navigate The Way ✝️ is a Christian AI assistant for Scripture and theology with a first-party chat experience on navtheway.com and AI responses powered by Apologist AI. Basic chat remains free, while announced paid membership features and the enhanced workspace are still being built and are not active yet.

God Listens

God Listens is Hope Media Group's free digital prayer wall for churches, radio stations, and small groups, with branded community walls, a live Global Prayer Wall, a Prayer Team, and a daily intercession newsletter.

Everyday Institute

Free digital discipleship platform from Austin Gohn (Lead Pastor, Bellevue Christian Church) offering four structured video courses — Day One, Everyday Habits, Everyday Faith, and Everyday Life — with downloadable church resources, designed for individuals, small groups, and churches to accelerate spiritual growth.

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, growing government partnerships for veteran suicide prevention, and Kirby, an in-app AI assistant for planning hangouts and answering app questions (shipped Aug 2026, the consumer debut of Krew's pending agentic-AI patent). A Tampa Bay Chamber 2026 Small Business of the Year finalist.

Every Man Ministries

Every Man Ministries: Founded by Kenny Luck in 2000, now Lead Pastor at Mariners Church Trabuco Canyon. EMM offers a streaming video library with 11 group curriculums, weekly Vimeo livestream teaching (12,000+ men), a podcast with nearly 600 episodes, and iOS/Android streaming apps — equipping men for spiritual maturity and godly leadership. Distributed through Pray.com, RightNow Media, Roku, and God Behind Bars.

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.

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, Lysa TerKeurst, Jennie Allen, Lisa Harper, Matt Chandler, and Anne Graham Lotz. Tiered subscription plans serve individuals, small groups, and churches across iOS, Android, web, and smart TV platforms, with new studies released regularly — most recently Making Peace with What I Can't Control (Lysa TerKeurst) and Epic of Eden: Deborah (Sandra Richter).

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.

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.

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.

Bible Brief

A free app, podcast, and book from the Bible Literacy Foundation that walks the whole Bible story in ten eras and three levels of depth, with church and small-group launch kits.

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.

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 March 2026, it's now led by co-founders Joe Aleshire (CEO), Boyd Landis (CXO), Jason Gleim (CTO), and Joshua Aleshire (COO) — all Nazarene church ministry leaders who were customers before becoming owners. The Android app is now published under the JX3 Digital developer account (updated Jun 2026); however, the iOS app remains on version 1.0.53 (Nov 2023), now ~2.75 years without a new build. Serving 1,300+ churches worldwide.

Pure Desire

Pure Desire Ministries provides Christ-centered online support groups, IITAP-certified counseling, two podcasts, and free recovery tools for people seeking freedom from compulsive sexual behavior and healing from betrayal trauma. Founded by Dr. Ted and Diane Roberts and led by Executive Director Nick Stumbo, the ministry is biblically based and clinically informed.

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 remains in an invite-only Early Access program with flat monthly pricing for unlimited members.

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. Actively developed through 2026 with monthly release notes and consistently top-rated customer support.

Knowing Him

Knowing Him is a 50-day chronological Gospel study by Mark Edwards that walks through the life of Jesus with Israel-filmed videos, daily podcasts, and Harmony readings. Power to Change Australia uses it as SHIFTm2M preparation for pastors and ministry teams.

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.

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.

Called

A Newman Ministry church communication platform that puts group chat, events, prayer, and engagement insights in one place so leaders can shepherd people between Sundays. Used by churches, campus ministries, high schools, and small groups.

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.

Family ID Assessment

A free family assessment and 501(c)(3) ministry from Greg and Rhonda Gunn that helps households discover identity in Christ and build a shared, multi-generational vision — with a companion iOS app, YouVersion plans, and a free masterclass.

Engage Spaces

Engage Spaces is a subscription-based operations platform for ministries, denominations, and nonprofits that unifies training, groups, events, communication, and reporting under location-based pricing with unlimited users.

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.

Re:generation

A biblically-based, 12-step discipleship and recovery ministry from Watermark Community Church in Dallas, now active at 215 locations across the U.S. with both in-person and virtual options. 351 people completed the full program at Watermark in 2025. Developed by Nathan Graybill in 2013 from Watermark's earlier Celebrate Recovery ministry, and now directed by John Elmore (ThM, DTS). Curriculum available in English, Polish, Albanian, and Romanian, with Spanish offerings expanding to multiple U.S. locations. Also offers Re:generation for Students, a 12-week study for grades 9–12 piloted in 2019.

Church.Chat

Involv Chat, also listed as church.chat, is an event-oriented group messaging platform for church volunteer teams that combines chat, scheduling, rosters, and tasks with notifications that fire only when someone is scheduled to serve. It is free for verified churches on the web and iOS; Android users use the browser.

Relay: Quit Porn Addiction

A subscription-based, therapist-designed recovery program that helps men and women quit pornography through anonymous group accountability, video lessons, and daily check-ins, with partner paths for churches and therapists.

Discovery Bible Studies

A free, no-signup web app offering a growing library of Discovery Bible Study courses that let anyone lead a small group or one-on-one Bible study using the same simple three-step rhythm every session.

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.

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.

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. A brand-new Alpha Series (15 episodes, reimagining the Alpha Film Series) is in production for a 2027 launch.

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.

Sola — Bible companion app

Bible reading companion with custom plans you can share, plus maps, timelines, and BibleProject videos beside the passage — free on iPhone and Android with optional supporter purchases.

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, calendar sync, polls, video posts, and resource sharing. Built by Connect – ITZ (MAP Sports Co-Mission, LLC) in Lexington, KY, it received a major redesign in 2026 and operates from a clear orthodox Christian statement of faith.