Home base for ministers.
Plan events, shepherd your roster, track your budget, and pray for your people — all in one calm, focused app built for the way ministry actually works.
1. A Dashboard That Knows What Matters
Your first screen shows the things a minister actually thinks about each morning: what’s coming up, what’s overdue, who needs a text, and which prayers haven’t been lifted up in a while. No configuration. No widgets to arrange. It just works the way a minister works.
2. Events Built for the Events You Actually Run
Every ministry event is different. A retreat needs housing and packing lists. A mission trip needs ministry partners. A weekly meeting needs almost nothing. Shepherd’s component-based planner gives each event the exact sections it needs — and hides everything it doesn’t.
Fifteen planning components cover the whole lifecycle: overview, curriculum, registration, schedule, housing, food, costs, transportation, volunteers, communication, design, while-away plans, packing lists, supplies, and attendance. Save your own custom event types for the formats you run again and again.
3. Thinking in Groups
While the church may have systems for building a large network of sub-communities, most of our pastoral work comes from being in a few of these personally. Shepherd is designed for group-work, helping you keep the class you’re teaching on Sundays and the small discipleship group you meet with in Thursday mornings and the Bible study you teach on Wednesday’s right in your field of vision each week. The app helps surface the people in those communities, and how you’re nurturing those relationships. It can help you minister the broader roster by setting up contacts and groups for everybody, but where it’s really designed to shine is in your pastoral focus groups.
Import your existing roster from a CSV in seconds.
4. Attendance You’ll Actually Keep Up With
Fast check-in for any event, with automatic “last seen” tracking. Every person gets a colored indicator — green, yellow, or red — so you can see at a glance who’s been around and who’s slipping away. Run reports to find people in a specific engagement tier who haven’t attended a certain kind of event in a given window.
5. A Prayer Space Unlike Anything Else
This is what makes Shepherd different. Prayer is part of the work—it needs to be part of your tool, too. Shepherd provides a dedicated, contemplative prayer space — not an administrative afterthought. Capture prayer requests for your people, community, and ministry. Link them to people in your roster. Add updates as situations unfold. Mark prayers as answered and celebrate them.
Enter Carousel Mode for focused, distraction-free prayer time. One request per screen. Soft colors. Room to breathe. AirPlay to a TV for group prayer meetings — large-format prayer content on the display, controls on your device.
6. Works Everywhere You Do
Native iPhone, iPad, and Mac apps. Your data syncs privately across all your devices through iCloud. No web dashboard to log into. No ads. No data mining.
Simple, honest pricing.
I honestly long for the days when I simply paid for my software without having to subscribe to a weather app. I’d rather sell software like that, too.
The changing expectations around the app stores have made that challenging, though. So here’s my compromise: I’ll always offer both. For people that want a purchase model, I offer a one time purchase price as a lifetime “subscription”. All features. Free updates. But for those monsters out there who want an annual subscription, that’s wired in, too. You do you.
Your data is yours and stays on your devices.
Your ministry deserves better tools.
Download Shepherd and spend less time on logistics and more time with the people God has put in front of you.