Why this exists
Nothing is built for the group that actually meets
This started with a real home Bible study and a real search for a tool to run it. There are dozens of apps. None of them fit.
Bible apps are built for one person
YouVersion, Bible Gateway, Olive Tree, Dwell — all excellent, all designed around a single reader. Group features are bolted on: "Plans with Friends" is a solo experience with a sharing button.
Church software is built for the church office
Planning Center and its peers run whole congregations — giving, rooms, scheduling, attendance. A leader with six people in their living room does not need any of that, and should not have to buy it.
Video curriculum is built for Zoom
RightNow Media and Study Gateway sell you a library and a cohort-course format. Useful — but not built around "we meet at my kitchen table on Tuesdays and I want everyone to have read chapter three first."
The closest thing is a bare-bones web tool
StudyChurch lets a leader build a study with embedded questions, and it is free. It also proves the need is real — it just has not been built mobile-first, or particularly well designed, yet.
Nobody had built the lightweight “create a group in sixty seconds, assign anything, meet in person, track who did the reading” tool.
Built with real leaders, not at them.
It is early. If it is the wrong shape for how your group meets, say so — that is the most useful thing anyone can send us right now.