Come Follow Me Companion

What Come Follow Me Companion is

Come Follow Me Companion is a third-party mobile app that mirrors the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints’ official weekly Come Follow Me curriculum and adds a curated layer of supplemental study material. Each week of the year, the app loads the block of scripture the Church is studying (currently following the four-year rotation through the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, and Doctrine and Covenants), then surfaces related General Conference talks, Church-produced videos, BYU lectures, and journaling prompts keyed to those exact chapters.

It is a companion app in the literal sense — it does not replace Gospel Library, the official Church manual, or the printed scriptures. It sits next to them and answers the question "what else should I be reading, watching, or thinking about this week?" The intended user is an adult Latter-day Saint who already knows the Come Follow Me rhythm and wants a curated study layer instead of building one from scratch every Sunday night.

Why Come Follow Me students use it

The single biggest practical difference between Come Follow Me Companion and Gospel Library is curation. Gospel Library gives you the assigned reading and the manual text — clean, official, complete. What it doesn’t do is hand you, week by week, the three General Conference talks and two Church videos that map onto the chapters you just read. That work is left to you, and most members either skip it or spend twenty minutes pulling tabs together every week.

Come Follow Me Companion has already done that work. Open the app on a Sunday night and the week is laid out — assigned chapters at the top, two to four related Conference talks below, a short video or two from the Church’s video library, a set of journaling prompts, and a family discussion section. It is the thoughtful member’s shortcut to a richer weekly study without giving up the official curriculum the rest of the Church is following.

Weekly Come Follow Me lesson companion: the core of the app

The weekly lesson view is the front door of the app and the reason most users keep it installed. It auto-syncs to the Church’s published Come Follow Me schedule — open it any Sunday and you land on the current week’s block, with the assigned chapters listed at the top and the manual’s key themes summarized in a few lines. From there you can tap straight into Gospel Library to read the chapters, or stay in the companion app and scroll through the supplemental layer.

What makes this work is that the curation feels considered rather than algorithmic. Each week, the lesson view shows two to four General Conference talks that directly cite or expound the assigned chapters, one or two Church-produced videos (often from the Book of Mormon Videos or New Testament Videos series), and a handful of cross-references to related passages elsewhere in the standard works. It’s the layer a careful Sunday School teacher would assemble themselves — done for you, every week, for free.

Supplemental video and talk library: curated, not dumped

The supplemental library is where the app stops being "Gospel Library lite" and starts being genuinely useful. Pulled together from General Conference, the Church’s video library, BYU Speeches, and the Book of Mormon and New Testament cinematic series, the library is organized two ways — by the week of the year (everything tied to this week’s reading) and by topic (faith, atonement, priesthood, covenants, family, and so on). You can pull up "everything we have on the Sermon on the Mount" or "everything for the week of Matthew 5–7" with two taps.

This sounds like a small thing. In practice it’s transformative for anyone preparing a Sunday lesson or family scripture study. The Church publishes a vast amount of supplemental material — far more than any one member can keep up with — and Gospel Library does not surface it on the lesson page. Come Follow Me Companion does, week after week, and the curation choices are conservative enough that you’re not going to get blindsided by something off-topic or off-tone.

Study prompts and journaling: the part that turns reading into study

Every weekly lesson includes a set of journaling prompts written for adult learners — open-ended questions that point back to specific verses and invite a written response. They are not "what is the main idea of this chapter" busywork; they are more like the questions a thoughtful teacher would ask in a small-group setting. Sample prompts: "Where in your life this week did you see the principle in verse 17 at work?" or "Read verses 22–24 again. What is the speaker assuming about the audience, and does that assumption apply to you?"

The journal itself lives inside the app, with entries organized by week and chapter so you can scroll back through your study history. It’s not as full-featured as a dedicated journaling app — there’s no rich text, no photo attachments, no tagging — but for the specific job of "answer the week’s prompts and keep them somewhere I can find later," it works. Many users pair it with a paper journal or with Gospel Library’s own notes feature, using the prompts as their starting questions.

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Where Come Follow Me Companion falls behind

Not official. The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints does not publish, endorse, or correlate Come Follow Me Companion. The content is conservative and the curation choices are careful, but members who want only Church-published material should stay in Gospel Library. This is a real consideration, not a minor one, for many users.

No first-party scripture reader. The app links out to Gospel Library for the actual chapter text rather than embedding the LDS edition of the scriptures itself. That’s the right call legally and editorially — the LDS scripture text is owned by the Church — but it means you’re always bouncing between two apps to do the full study.

No web version. Everything happens on iOS or Android. Members who study primarily at a desk with a laptop will find this awkward, especially if they’re used to having ChurchofJesusChrist.org open in a browser tab.

Android trails iOS. New features and curation updates land on iPhone first and then arrive on Android a release or two later. The gap is not enormous, but if you’re on Android and waiting for a specific feature you saw an iPhone friend use, it may take a few weeks.

Streaming dependency. The supplemental videos pull from YouTube and the Church’s video library rather than being cached in-app, so a weak connection or a long flight can break the experience. There is no offline mode for video content.

Come Follow Me Companion vs. Gospel Library vs. ScripturePlus

These three apps are the core of the modern LDS study stack, and most engaged members end up with all three installed. They do different jobs.

Gospel Library is the official Church app — it owns the LDS edition of the scriptures, the Church manuals, the General Conference archive, and the weekly Come Follow Me lesson page in its canonical form. It is the only one of the three that is published by the Church, and for any question of "what does the manual actually say this week" it is the source of truth. Where it’s thin is on the supplemental layer — the page tells you what to read, but it doesn’t hand you the curated video, the related Conference talk, or the journaling prompt.

Come Follow Me Companion fills exactly that gap. It points back to Gospel Library for the actual chapter text and the official manual, then wraps the week with supplemental media and prompts the Church publishes but doesn’t connect to the lesson page. Different strengths. Gospel Library is the authoritative source. Come Follow Me Companion is the weekly curation layer on top.

ScripturePlus, from the Book of Mormon Central team, plays a third role — it’s a scripture-reader app with verse-by-verse commentary, infographics, maps, and audio drawn from the scholarly community around the Book of Mormon and the broader LDS canon. Where Come Follow Me Companion is about the weekly curriculum and Gospel Library is about the official text, ScripturePlus is about deep reference content for any given passage. Many members use Gospel Library for the canonical text, Come Follow Me Companion for the weekly study layer, and ScripturePlus when they want to dig into the scholarship on a single verse or chapter.

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