Cornerstone Circles

Overview

Cornerstone Circles helps a small group actually finish a Bible study together — without a shared spreadsheet, a text thread nobody reads, or a facilitator doing all the bookkeeping by hand.

Create a Circle, pick how often it meets, and Cornerstone Circles lays out every lesson's date automatically — skipping government, Christian, Jewish, or Islamic holidays with one tap, plus any birthdays, standing weeks off, or vacations you add yourself. Start from the built-in Five-Year Bible Read-Through, paste in your own study plan and let the app turn it into lessons, or build one lesson at a time.

Invite your group the way you'd share a Note or a Reminders list — no accounts to create, no passwords, just an invite over Messages, Mail, AirDrop, or a link. Everyone's copy of the Circle stays in sync through iCloud.

Each lesson carries its scripture reference and discussion questions, and members respond right in the app in a threaded discussion under that lesson — rich text, replies, the works. A facilitator can see who's responded, who's due today, and who's fallen behind at a glance, and choose exactly when each lesson becomes visible: right away, the day before, or the morning it's due.

Cornerstone Circles at a glance:

• Auto-scheduling that skips holidays across four categories, plus your own custom exceptions
• A built-in Five-Year Bible Read-Through, or paste any plan to generate lessons instantly
• Invite-only Circles that sync over iCloud — no account system, no passwords
• Threaded, rich-text discussion attached to every lesson
• At-a-glance progress: who's responded, who's due, who's late
• Gentle reminders for lessons coming due
• Runs on iPhone, iPad, and Mac

Cornerstone Circles doesn't run its own servers, show ads, track you, or ask you to sign in — your Circles live in your own iCloud account, the same way your Notes and Reminders do.