Home base for youth ministers.
Plan events, shepherd your roster, track your budget, and pray for your students — all in one calm, focused app built for the way youth ministry actually works.
1. A Dashboard That Knows What Matters
Your first screen shows the things a youth 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. Youth Ministry’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. A Roster That Remembers for You
Track students, parents, volunteers, and leaders. Record engagement level, grade, school, and the little details that matter. Get automatic reminders about birthdays, follow-ups, new guests, and students who are starting to drift.
Filter by grade, demographics, or engagement for targeted outreach. 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 student 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 students in a specific engagement tier who haven’t attended a certain kind of event in a given window.
5. A Budget Without the Spreadsheet
Plan annual budgets with line items grouped by category. Each line item can be entered manually, tied to a single event, or aggregated across an entire event type. Actuals pull automatically from your event cost breakdowns, so the numbers are always current. Compare years side by side. Watch the charts tell you the story of where the money is actually going.
6. A Prayer Space Unlike Anything Else
This is what makes Youth Ministry different. A dedicated, contemplative prayer space — not an administrative afterthought. Capture prayer requests for your students, 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.
7. 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 subscription. No ads. No data mining.
Simple, honest pricing.
One purchase. All features. No subscription. No in-app upsells. Free updates. Your data is yours and stays on your devices.
Your ministry deserves better tools.
Download Youth Ministry and spend less time on logistics and more time with the students God has put in front of you.
Steven Hovater 