Best Apps for Small Groups | Support Activities

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 optional ECHO+ subscription for individuals and ministries.

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, two podcasts (471 + 113 episodes), and an annual Summit offering both in-person and virtual attendance.

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, Matt Chandler, 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 — most recently Becoming Like Jesus (Matt Chandler) and Unbreakable Courage (Max Lucado).

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 (version 20260318). Created by Ted Hallum of Ligonier Ministries, it uses AO Lab's Free Use Bible API for direct Scripture access and is now available exclusively on Apologist AI (GPT-5.4 Instant, no account required) after retiring its ChatGPT presence. The Berean Board small-group review game adds virtual buzzers, five age-tiered difficulty levels, and expanded file-format support. Very active GitHub: ~751 commits as of July 2026.

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.

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.

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.

Open Network

The largest free church resource library in the world — 100K+ resources from Life.Church (the biggest church in the U.S. by attendance) and 45 partner ministries. Sermon series, kids/youth curriculum, worship music, leadership training, and creative media. Serving 1M+ pastors worldwide since 2006. Completely free, web-based (no mobile app).

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.

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.

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.

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.

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) — designed to keep women connected to God's Word and each other between group meetings.

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.

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.

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 became a feature film, now streaming on Angel Studios.

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 both stores (4th consecutive cycle flagged); web-only as of 2026.

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.

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.

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, and Planning Center integration for church workflows.

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.

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 streaming on Angel Studios. Now iOS-only; removed from Google Play in 2026.

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, dedicated programs for therapists and churches, and a new million-person 'November Project' challenge.

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. Both the iOS and Android apps are now published under the JX3 Digital developer account as of July 2026, completing the ownership transition. Serving 1,300+ churches worldwide.

The Waha Discovery Bible Study App

Waha is a free, audio-based Discovery Bible Study app that facilitates small group meetings in 61 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

The Church Co

The Church Co is a complete digital platform for churches founded by Paul Cox in Sydney, offering drag-and-drop website building (free build included), custom branded mobile apps, online giving, sermon libraries, livestreaming, prayer requests, small groups, members portal, and integrations with Planning Center, PushPay, Tithely, and ChurchSuite. Trusted by 5,000+ churches worldwide. Beyond the core platform, they now offer managed church marketing services including Google Ads Grant management, Local SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for AI search models.

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.

Called

An all-in-one church communication and community platform by the Newman Ministry team — combining group chat, events with RSVPs, check-in, volunteer sign-ups, prayer requests, video posts, and member engagement insights with youth-safe messaging. Trusted by 500+ churches and 50,000+ members across churches, campus ministries, high schools, and small groups. Newest feature: Event Sign-Ups (June 2026), replacing the need for separate tools like SignUpGenius.

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.

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.

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 28-year nonprofit ministry with partnerships spanning Life.Church, RightNow Media, and YouVersion, plus a growing podcast now at 79 episodes.

Bible Brief

A layered Bible learning experience — app, podcast, and book — that guides you through the entire Bible story in 10 eras and 3 levels of depth across 246 lessons, built by the Bible Literacy Foundation. Features verse-synced audio, AI transcripts, gamified Bible Card collectibles, and dedicated group and church programs with launch kits.

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 61 languages with offline support, encryption, and a read-along mode for following along in different Bible translations.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Zaia

Zaia is a free Christian social network on a mission to unite 2.6 billion believers worldwide in obedience to Jesus' prayer in John 17:23. 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, ad-free space. Founded by former Amazon Prime Video CMO Ukonwa Ojo, the app also birthed Glimpse of Heaven, a 501(c)(3) nonprofit hosting cross-denominational worship gatherings including events in January and May 2026.

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 — now extended with a Sermon Companion tool and a remote MCP server that brings Bible readings and AI chat into ChatGPT, Claude, and other MCP-compatible clients.

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.

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.

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.

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 with active DACH region expansion.

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), full-length book translation in spf.io studio 2.0, and a free pastor's guide to multilingual ministry.

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.

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.

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.