Scripture and prayer apps
Apps for reading, studying, memorizing and reflecting on religious texts, mostly the Bible but also the Quran, Bhagavad Gita and Catholic prayers, often with AI-guided devotionals, prayer tracking and daily verse habits.
Built for: Religious believers and pastors
Projects since May 04
85
Different builders
82
Last 4 weeks vs 8 before
+24%
AI is the core
25%
Projects per week
Mostly mobile app (64%), web app (26%), browser extension (4.7%) · from r/SideProject, r/ShowYourApp, r/vibecoding, r/IMadeThis
Latest
- Churchit — Provides a public church website, a member portal, and a back-office for tracking people, groups, events, donations and other church records.“OpenSource Church Management App”
- Parakleo — Provides a canvas workspace for reading Scripture, capturing notes, and linking ideas with AI assistance.“Bible study workspace app, please give it a try.”
- Nur Reader — Lets readers browse all 114 Quran surahs with Arabic text, translations, tafsir, and reading progress tracking.“Built a Quran reader as a side project”
- Verses: Bible Search — Searches and reads the Bible offline on Android without ads.“[Beta Invite] Verses: An Ultra-Fast, Offline, Ad-Free Bible Search App”
- AISUS — Lets users speak about what is on their mind and reflect on it through a voice conversation inspired by the Gospels.“I built AISUS, a Christian spiritual companion for iPhone. I’d love your honest feedback.”
- Zad — Offers a free, ad-free Quran reader with tafsir, adhkar collections, prayer times, and qibla finder that works offline.“Zad - a free Quran, adhkar and prayer times app with no ads, no tracking and no paid tier”
- Credo — Guides users through Liturgy of the Hours and the Rosary with widgets, Live Activities and habit tracking.“Built Credo — an “anti-super-app” for Catholic prayer (LotH + Rosary) on iOS”
- Athar — Provides Muslim prayer times with countdowns, a Quran reader with recitations, daily adhkar counters, and a qibla compass.“أَثَـــر - Introducing: Athar”
- ImanFlow — Provides Islamic prayer times with adhan alerts, a Qibla compass, a Quran reader with translations and audio, and an AI assistant that answers questions about Quran verses.“I built a privacy-first Islamic prayer app with an AI Quran assistant — looking for brutal feedback”
- Luíza in Christ — Offers free online prayer and spiritual support through an Instagram presence.“Luíza in Christ 🕊️ Free Online Prayer Project”
- Theologia Search — Searches indexed classic Christian theological writings and returns cited source passages grouped by historical period.“I built a free search tool for classic Christian theology”
- Sakina — Matches a user's mood to a Quran verse and its tafsir, fully offline.“I shipped an offline-first Expo app where a wrong citation fails the build”
- Dharmasthan — Hosts a library of Hindu aartis and bhajans, offers synchronised live lyric reading for groups, and provides free websites for mandals.“Built a free Hindu devotion platform (aartis, live sync, mandal mini-sites) — looking for blunt feedback”
- Mercies — Delivers a daily scripture-based affirmation with a short prayer, reflection question and closing on an iPhone app and widgets.“Mercies: a calm daily Bible devotional for iPhone with free Home & Lock Screen widgets”
- Bíblia ao Lado — Quizzes players on matching Bible verse references to their text, offline, with study, short-round, survival and daily modes.“I launched an offline Bible reference game for iPhone: 250 verses, no ads or subscriptions”
- Postil — Aggregates sermons, podcasts, videos and articles from RSS feeds and tags them by Bible verse, and writes a daily devotional from ingested content.“Postil - an app that pulls sermons/podcasts/YouTube teachings and tags them by Bible verse - A bible app your bible app wishes it could be!”
- Daily Rosary Audio Prayer — Guides users through the daily rosary mysteries with audio and tracks prayer streaks.“This app changed how I pray.”
- Sojourn — Provides a streaming Bible study chat that replaces AI-generated scripture citations with verified text from a bundled database.“The Sojourn iOS App Was 45 One-Shot Prompts”
- YeshiAI — Provides AI-guided religious and spiritual practice across several traditions, adapting onboarding, terminology and daily content to each chosen path.“Building one SaaS across 5 religions taught me that personalization is harder than AI”
- Qurus — Lets users study the Quran ayah by ayah with progress tracking, private notes, bookmarks, and recitation audio alongside Urdu translation.“I kept struggling to study the Quran consistently, so I built a app around this problem”
Most discussed
- Jesus Christ, Esquire — Lets users confess a sin or petty lapse and receives a defense argument built from Bible verses in King James style.“I built an iMessage-style chat where Jesus Christ, Esquire uses Bible verses to argue your case on any sin”
- Hadith Vault — Lets users read hadith with search, bookmarks, offline access and daily notifications.“I completely rewrote my failed 2018 iOS app from scratch last week. Zero downloads. Turns out the code was the easy part.”
- Nur Reader — Lets readers browse all 114 Quran surahs with Arabic text, translations, tafsir, and reading progress tracking.“Built a Quran reader as a side project”
- Dawnstone — Shows one daily Stoic passage from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, or Epictetus as an iPhone Lock Screen wallpaper.“I built a calm daily Stoic app — one passage on your Lock Screen, then nothing”
- samscripture — Answers Bible questions using an AI model constrained by code that verifies quotes against Hebrew and Greek texts and ranks verses by speaker.“I built a Bible tool designed so the AI can't just make things up.”
- Talk To Lore — Answers life-advice questions using only passages retrieved from a curated library of ancient wisdom traditions.“My friend & I built an AI app that gives life advice grounded from ancient wisdom”
- Remain — Surfaces Bible verses and generates daily devotionals based on what a user types about their prayers and struggles.“Remain - a prayer app. This is not an ad! Just trying to find good advice from people on a project ive been working on that isnt family.”
- bible-3D — Lays out all Bible verses in 3D by semantic similarity computed from embeddings of the French Louis Segond text, with search by meaning.“I placed all 31,170 Bible verses in 3D by what they mean, so verses sitting next to each other are about the same thing even a thousand pages apart”
- Finds Bible passages matching a user's described emotional situation and adds a short AI-written pastoral reflection on the verse.“I built a semantic Bible search that understands what you're feeling, not just what you're typing”
- Bible Glory — Lets users chat with an AI that answers questions about Bible passages in the voice of the Bible, alongside daily verse widgets and prayer scheduling.“I'm not entirely sure if anyone will use this app, but it makes The Bible easier to understand.”