For pastors
A personal CRM for pastors — care for a congregation the way a good shepherd does: by name.
The widow whose first Christmas alone is coming, the family that quietly stopped attending, the teenager you promised to check on after the hospital visit. Endearist is being built as a pastor's memory — kept on the pastor's own device, where confidences belong.
Not launched yet Endearist is in development — there is nothing to download yet. This page describes how the app is meant to work. The first release is intended for Android and Windows; end-to-end encrypted sync over your own storage is planned for v1. See the roadmap →
Grief has anniversaries — and they arrive after the casseroles stop
Everyone shows up the week of the funeral. The hard days come later: the first birthday without him, the anniversary of the diagnosis, the date itself, one year on. Log the loss once and set a gentle reminder for those dates — a call, a card, a visit. Nobody else in that person's life is tracking this. That a pastor remembered, unprompted, eleven months later, is ministry no sermon can match.
Hospital visits, birthdays, baptisms — a care rhythm per person
Pastoral care isn't a campaign; it's a hundred small rhythms running at once. The shut-in who needs a monthly visit, the new parents who need a call in week three when the help dries up, the elder recovering from surgery. Endearist's planned per-contact cadence is meant to give each person their own rhythm, and a warmth score could quietly show who's been waiting longest — so care is steered by attention, not by whoever spoke up loudest on Sunday. Warmth tracking: scope and availability are not confirmed. Status: not decided yet.
Whole families, not entries in a member database
You don't minister to individuals in isolation — you walk with households. Endearist is designed to treat families, kids, and even pets as first-class: ask after the daughter's confirmation prep, the son who moved to Hamburg, the dog the kids campaigned for. When a member mentions her mother's diagnosis in passing, it is meant to go on the family's page — and surface before your next visit, so the question "how is your mother doing?" comes from you first.
Confidences belong on your own device — Seelsorgegeheimnis by design
What people tell a pastor — the failing marriage, the relapse, the doubt — is among the most protected speech there is, and it has no business in a church-management cloud or a US SaaS database. Endearist is designed local-first: pastoral notes are meant to stay on your device. Sync between phone and study computer is planned as end-to-end encrypted sync over storage you run yourself, designed so that no one — including us — can read it. For German congregations, the aim is the Seelsorgegeheimnis and DSGVO taken seriously, by design rather than by policy document. On the device itself, though, local storage is not yet encryption. End-to-end encrypted sync over storage you run yourself — a local or shared folder, or a WebDAV server — is planned for v1. Google Drive as a destination is not decided yet. Managed sync on Endearist Cloud is planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only. The vendored app measurement does not confirm an encrypted local database. It records an unencrypted SQLite file; an app lock does not encrypt that file. Protect your device and backups independently.
A memory aid, not a surveillance system
There's a real line between remembering people well and monitoring them, and Endearist is built to stay on the right side of it. No engagement scores on parishioners, no attendance analytics, no dashboards ranking your flock. It is meant as the digital version of the worn notebook generations of pastors kept — names, stories, dates that matter — searchable and private. The goal isn't data about your congregation; it's walking into the room already knowing what to ask.
Planned as a one-time licence — made for a ministry budget
Ministry budgets don't love subscriptions, and pastoral notes shouldn't be hostage to a lapsed credit card. Endearist's pricing proposal has a free tier up to 25 contacts — enough to try it with your core care list — and a one-time lifetime licence instead of a subscription; none of it can be bought yet. Importing the parish list you already have via CSV or vCard is planned, as is exporting everything as plain Markdown whenever you or a successor needs it. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local core and data export. The proposed 25-contact limit is not a confirmed entitlement. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: local app and AI with your own key (planned for v1). Sync over your own storage is planned for v1. Managed cloud services are not a lifetime feature. Proposed plan, not purchasable yet: managed AI (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only) and Endearist Cloud (planned for after v1, as part of the Pro Cloud subscription only). Specific budgets, routing and prices require approval. Family sharing: not decided yet; no included family seat is promised. The tool serves the calling, not the other way round.
When Endearist isn't the right fit
A clear boundary first: nothing said in confidence belongs here. Pastoral confessions, counselling detail, anything a person told you as clergy — those do not go in a contacts app, local-first or not, and the discipline of keeping them out of any system is part of the role. What Endearist is meant to hold is ordinary congregational care: who has been absent for a month, who just had a bereavement, who volunteered once and was never asked again. If your congregation is small enough to hold in your head, it already is.
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