lds-apps-gamesBelow is a list of LDS mobile apps that your family may enjoy. They were created by members and are not sponsored by the Church. They are all available on public websites or App Store sites.

These are the apps that were submitted in the 2014 Gospel App & Game Contest. They represent a variety of  interests, and options that are sure to appeal to any family.

Comment below about which ones you like the best.

Android

App Name & Link Description
A B See Enjoy learning the alphabet (and numbers) through visual associations, using: upper & lowercase letters, photographs, sounds, 3D objects, a memory game, and a geo-location experience. Also available on iOS (below).
FHE Planner Create and manage highly customized agendas for family home evening. Keep a history of past agendas as well.
Gospel Study Challenge Pro Drive gospel study efforts among a group of friends or family by issuing a challenge, tracking progress, and including an element of competition.
Gospel Treasures A collection of gospel themed quiet games
Home Teaching Way to store info/notes on families you home teach. From app, view message, contact families/companion, email report, view map of where families live.
Indoor Ideas Parenting for free, one minute at a time! 365 videos to spark imaginative play.
Journey to the Desert The game is about the history of the brother of Jared and his preparation to go to the promised land.
LDS Apostles Explore Church History from a new perspective! “”LDS Apostles”” lets you see what the First Presidency and Quorum of the Twelve Apostles looked like at any point in modern history. Drag the slider from 1832 to the present day to see who the leaders were in that year. Or for more precise control, select the calendar button in the toolbar to select an exact date. Tab on a picture to see the biography.
LDS Children’s Activity App This is an app for children who need something churchy to get them through sacrament meeting. There are various games including memory, 2048, and simon.
LDS Podcasts Free A collection of podcasts and audio streams selected to cover a variety of interests for members of the church.
LDS Temple Puzzles Sliding puzzle game featuring 17 different temples in more than 30 pictures, plus you can use your own. Adjustable difficulty for all ages.
LDS Tweets Free A convenient collection of Twitter feeds including official accounts from the Church as well as others that are faith promoting. Especially useful for those interested in following LDS-oriented tweets but don’t have a Twitter account or don’t want to learn to use Twitter. Also lessens the chance of viewing inappropriate tweets.
Quiet Games 5 LDS games that are quiet, fun, and ad-free for General Conference or Church.
Scripture Chain Scripture Mastery game where, from a grid of words, you chain the correct words together from a grid of words.
Scripture Mastery SUPERSTAR! Memorize the D&C seminary scripture masteries in a new and fun way that combines text, voice acting, animation, and other mnemonic devices that help cement the concepts in your mind! Also available for iOS (below).
Sunbeam Roundup Sunbeam Roundup teaches primary kids how to be reverent by having them teach a class of rowdy Sunbeams. Six real lessons with more to come!
Harbinger of Truth A 3D Action Platformer symbolic of missionary work. Try to weave your way through the layers of reality to save the captured seeker of truth.
LDS Articles of Faith Learn the articles of faith. Settings include: fill in the blank, first letter, random levels, language selection, hints.
Missionary Tracker An app that allows you to track missionaries about to serve or that are currently serving in the field with different information on them.
LDS Scripture Mastery Study learn and memorize all 100 scripture mastery verses with settings for quiz type (fill in the blank, first letter, fill in only short words, long words, random workds) and hints.
LDS Texting Whenever you send a text message, a scripture pops up on your screen.
LDS Word Games Hangman and Word Scramble using words and names from LDS works and scriptures.
Lehi’s Escape Play as Lehi in a full 3D environment during 600 B.C. Jerusalem. Talk to key players, get missions, learn principles, then Go and Do!
LL Scripture Mastery How are your scripture memorizing skills? Want to improve in a simple and fun way? Do so now with Letter Legends: Scripture Mastery!
Music from EFY In this app. you can find Lyrics and YouTube videos for latest efy (especially for youth) songs.
One Stake Ask LDS members around the world for advice about the doctrine and gospel living.
Saving Samuel Tap the projectiles being thrown at Samuel.
THIS DAY in My Family History See all the events that happened on this day in your Family History!
Verse First Read a scripture first, then go about your business.
Who Wants To Be A Missionary? This game is similar to Who Wants to be a Millionarie, but the questions are LDS related.
Book of Mormon Adventures Play through the story of how the Jaredites came to be, solving puzzles along the way.
LDS BoM Adventure Play the first chapters of the BoM in these ‘mini-games’ inspired by popular games.
Old Testament Paper Doll Old Testament Paper Doll brings your children’s favorite Bible stories to life. Dress dolls. Create scenes. Save your masterpiece to share with family and friends.
Over Sea Over Plains Interactive illustrated true pioneer story about the journey of a convert family to Zion. Includes parallel story of musical immigrant mice (not true).
This is Catherine Illustrated interactive true pioneer story tells of a convert family’s journey to Zion from the perspective of a child. Engaging interaction for families.
My Mission (LDS) My Mission helps LDS missionaries organize and share their favorite missionary pictures, stories and experiences with their family and friends back home. (Also available on iOS and in Spanish.)
MormonTube MormonTube brings Mormon-related videos into one app for easy access to clean, uplifting content. Search, watch, and get notified about new videos. Also available on iOS and Web (below).

Apple iOS

F.H.E-Z F.H.E-Z is a “gospel-centered productivity app.” Its purpose is to help users plan and conduct their Family Home Evenings.
Inspired Questions- For Missionaries A communication game to prepare missionaries by encouraging self expression and testimony discovery and strengthening by asking them Inspired Questions. There are also social media sharing components.
LDS GPS Tour Guide-Independence to Nauvoo This app will help you plan your church history trip from Independence to Nauvoo. As you travel, a tour guide will come on automatically.
LDS Puzzler TEMPLE EDITION – Vol. 1 Explore the timeline of the temples…one puzzle at a time! Play from St. George to Hong Kong! 48 stretch-slider puzzles featuring temples between 1877-1996.
MormonTube MormonTube brings Mormon-related videos into one app for easy access to clean, uplifting content. Search, watch, and get notified about new videos. Also available on Android (above) and Web (below).
Promptings A journaling app which encourages you to write with questions from the scriptures, conference talks, Ensign & Liahona articles, etc.
Scripture Fling Scripture Fling is an exciting way to quickly connect verses with their references. All 100 Scriptures Mastery verses are included, each set with 4 levels of difficulty.
Scripture Masters Scripture Masters is a game that helps you memorize scripture masteries by having you fill in the blanks as you race against the clock.
Stake Dance Card This app is used to gain admittance to stake dances. The bishop must interview the youth and enter the stake password to activate the dance card. Features include a dance calendar, map, dress and behavior standards, and a sharing feature.
3D Book of Mormon Infinite Run FREE A fun and exciting 3D infinite runner game using characters and scenery from the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Jump the Fun LDS Jumping Game FREE A fun jumping game using characters from the Book of Mormon
Book of Mormon Match 3 Game FREE A Match-3 game based on Book of Mormon events
LDS Mormon Missionary Run FREE An infinite runner game where the characters are missionaries
SB-World_Shine Brite Kids Join the Shine Brite Kids on adventures and learn the Golden rule, to think positive, be kind, be diligent, doing your best and much more. Shinebrite.org (browser version also).
Scripture Mastery SUPERSTAR! Memorize the D&C seminary scripture masteries in a new and fun way that combines text, voice acting, animation, and other mnemonic devices that help cement the concepts in your mind!
A B See Enjoy learning the alphabet (and numbers) through visual associations, using: upper & lowercase letters, photographs, sounds, 3D objects, a memory game, and a geo-location experience. Android also available (above).

Web/Browser

Deseret Alphabet Translator Bad speller? You’d have thanked Brigham Young for the Deseret Alphabet. Transport yourself to 1850s Territorial Utah with this useless but fascinating translator!
LDS Bingo Have your kids pay attention in sacrament by marking the picture when they hear it during sacrament meeting!
LDS Meetings This is a web application that generates Meeting Agendas (Programs, Bulletins, Schedules, etc.).
LDS Locations Locate historic church locations. (Might also be available for Apple iOS.)
Easy Autobiography Web site helping folks easily organize their life events, and to provide detailed stories about those important memories from their lives.
Guess My Mission This is a facebook app allowing future missionaries to allow friends to vote where he or she will serve. Correct guesses are recognized.
Hymnboard Hymnboard helps choristers (and families) plan, organize, and track hymns for church meetings and family home evenings.
LDSConventions System LDSConventions is a free event management system that will help to manage event registrations for any auxiliary.
Memory Fusion Social, real-time family history story collaboration. Write. Collaborate. Share. Discover.
ScriptureCharts.com ScriptureCharts.com is a free online scripture reading chart that allows you to track what you have read.
ShareMyTempleTrip.org ShareMyTempleTrip.org aims to increase temple attendance by facilitating the sharing of rides and babysitting (coming soon!) in your local wards and stakes.
Teancum’s Run The story of Teancum, how it should have ended. Continuous runner where you help Teancum escape from the Lamenites by Jumping, Running, and Sliding.
Cricket Cruncher Answer questions from the scriptures and church history to help the seagull save the pioneer garden from the hungry Mormon crickets.
LDS Scriptures A convenient way to read the standard works and now more on desktops and laptops, including Windows, Macs, Linux, and Chromebooks, all offline.
ScriptUReLookup ScriptUReLookup is a Google Chrome extension that generates URLs to specific scripture references in the LDS.org online scriptures and share those links via social media.
WordPress Ward WordPress Ward highlights Mormon Bloggers who publish on WordPress.com. The goal is to establish a Mormon community online. We have virtual “Ward Socials Link-Ups”, monthly “Blog Teaching” and “Sunday Talks” selected from blogs in the virtual ward.
MormonTube MormonTube brings Mormon-related videos into one app for easy access to clean, uplifting content. Search, watch, and get notified about new videos. Also available on Android and iOS (above).

Windows

LDS 4 Pics 1 Word Identify words based upon four pictures. Words are related to the Gospel of Jesus Christ, teachings, standard works and other gospel related themes.
Church Mouse Maze The player helps the Church Mouse find the cheese at the end of each Maze. The Mazes start off easy, but get harder each level.
Lesson Gospel Doctrine lesson helper. Takes lds.org lessons and puts them into OneNote along with the scriptures and highlighting.
Manna Mania A fun PC game, loosely based on events in the old testament. This is a PC game and requires a mouse and keyboard.
EZSolitaire [No link] Simplified solitaire card game with the General Authority’s picture and name on the back of the cards to help children and youth become familiar with the names and faces of Prophets and Apostles.

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