CadenceUse cases
Built for reading alone. Built for reading together.
Every group in Cadence is the same feature underneath — an invite code, a shared plan everyone gets their own copy of, and a discussion thread tied to the day's reading. What changes is who's in it: two people, a household, a mentor and a mentee, a small group, or a whole congregation.
Two people
A husband and wife, reading together
Start a group with just the two of you. You each get your own copy of the plan, so a busy week for one of you doesn't stall the other's streak — but the shared discussion thread is tagged to the day's reading, so a verse either of you wants to talk about has an obvious place to land.
Progress sharing is your call
Sharing defaults to off when you create or join a group. Turn it on for each other and you'll see whose streak needs a nudge; leave it off and the group only ever sees display names.
One of you misses a week, not both
Each person catches up their own way — skip the missed days, compress what's left, or push the end date out. One partner's travel week doesn't force a decision on the other.
A place to talk about what you read
Post from the end of the passage without leaving the reader. Every message carries the day it belongs to, so "what did you think of today's chapter" never needs restating.
One household, several generations
Families and extended families
A shared plan works whether everyone's at the same table or scattered across time zones — grandparents, parents and kids all reading the same passage on their own schedules, in the translation and text size that suits them.
Everyone reads their own way
Five translations and four text sizes, including a typeface designed for low-vision legibility, so one plan can serve a grandparent and a grandchild without either compromising.
Not location-bound
A group is reachable by its invite code alone, and each device syncs its own timezone — so "today" is correct whether family is in one house or three states.
Parallel tracks for family devotions
Run an Old Testament reading, a New Testament reading and a Psalm side by side, so a family devotional plan can cover more ground than one book at a time.
The group survives a change of leadership
Whoever set up the family plan can hand admin to another member — a parent handing off to a grown child, say — instead of the group ending when they step back.
Mentor and mentee
Discipleship groups
A discipling relationship is usually one or two people walking through Scripture together over months. A small group with a plan built around what the mentee needs to work through gives that relationship a shared, dated structure without turning it into homework.
Built for exactly this pace
Describe the plan in plain English — a topical study, a book worked through slowly, a custom day-by-day schedule for irregular passages — and Cadence generates it, reviewable before it's saved.
Discussion that stays on topic
Because every message is tagged to a specific day's reading, a discipleship thread naturally stays organized by what was actually read, even months in.
Private by default
There's no public group directory. A discipleship group is reachable only by its invite code, which the mentor can regenerate at any time.
Small groups and life groups
Community groups
A weekly small group usually has two rhythms at once: a shared passage everyone shows up having read, and everyone's own broader reading. Parallel tracks let a group plan carry both without forcing one member's pace onto another.
This week's passage, plus personal reading
Run the group's weekly study passage as one track and a personal read-through-the-Bible plan as another, all inside the same plan, tracked separately.
See who's engaging, without a leaderboard
There's no ranking or public streak comparison. A leader who wants visibility can ask members to turn sharing on; the app never surfaces it uninvited.
Late joiners aren't behind for good
Entering the invite code shows the plan's name and length before joining, and the same three catch-up options apply to a member who joins a group already underway.
Leadership can change hands
When a small-group leader rotates off, they can hand admin to the next leader rather than the group needing to be recreated.
Congregation-wide
Whole churches
A church-wide reading challenge — a Bible-in-a-year push, an Advent plan, a series that runs alongside the sermon calendar — works the same way a small group does, just at the size of a congregation, printed invite code and all.
One invite code for the whole church
Put the group's invite code in the bulletin or on a screen and anyone who enters it sees the plan before committing to join — no account for the church to manage on members' behalf.
Congregation-scale catch-up
Missing the second week of a twelve-week churchwide plan doesn't mean starting over: skip, compress, or extend, per person, same as any other group.
Admin controls that scale
Church staff can remove members, regenerate the invite code if it leaks, or delete the group when the series ends — and hand the role off as staffing changes.
A themed plan the whole church can follow
An AI-generated plan can carry a theme for each day, visible both in the reader and in the whole-plan view — useful for a churchwide series built around a topic rather than a straight read-through.
Elsewhere in the church
Wherever a group reads together
The same handful of features — invite codes, private-by-default sharing, per-person catch-up, a discussion thread tied to the reading — cover more ground than the sections above spell out.
Youth and student ministry
A leader builds the plan and shares the invite code with the group text — students catch up on their own terms when a week gets away from them, without a leader having to track it.
Sunday school and children's classes
Text size and typeface options, including one built for low-vision legibility, make a shared class plan usable across a wide range of readers and ages.
Prayer and accountability partners
Two people, one plan, progress sharing turned on for both — the same shape as a couple's group, applied to any accountability pairing.
New believers
Describe a plan in plain English scoped to where someone's starting — the Gospels first, or a short topical track — and it's ready to review and start the same day.
Missionary and cross-cultural teams
Each member's device syncs its own timezone, so a team spread across the globe still gets a correct "today" and a shared discussion thread tied to the reading, not the sender's clock.
Recovery and support groups
Reminders and streaks that count any day read — with scheduled rest days that don't break them — support the same steady, forgiving rhythm a recovery group is usually built around.
Multi-site and multi-campus churches
One plan, one invite code, works the same regardless of which campus — or which country — a member is reading from.
Church staff and ministry teams
A staff devotional plan gets the same private-by-default sharing as any other group, so a team can hold each other to a rhythm without turning it into a performance review.
Not released yet
Cadence is still in development. Everything described on this page is built, but the app isn’t on the stores yet.
Not on the stores yet — Cadence is still in development.