Build The Flow. Leaders walk in knowing every student by name — who's struggling, who's new. Students get a text. Birthdays don't get missed. Nobody downloads anything.
Every youth pastor knows this list. You weren't called to admin. You were called to teenagers. LockIn handles the admin so you can show up for them.
Three audiences. Three completely different experiences. All flowing from the same plan — no copy-paste, no GroupMe, no forgetting.
Every volunteer walks in knowing their students by name — who's struggling, who's new, who hasn't shown up in weeks. Plus a personal note from you. They confirm in one tap. You see it in real time.
Students get a real SMS from a dedicated number saved in their contacts. No app. No account. No link to click unless they want to. Just a text that lands at the right time from a number they already know.
On their birthday, the student gets an SMS with a magic link. They tap it. A full-screen card appears with personal notes from every leader who wrote them one. No app. No account. Just a moment they remember.
Build The Flow once. Hit send. LockIn routes the right message to the right person — students via SMS, parents via email, volunteers via The Brief — all from one plan.
Hey parents — tonight we're talking through anxiety with your students.
Convo starter"What's been on your mind lately?"
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It's the #1 thing youth leaders struggle with. So we built around it. The right message to every audience — automatically from The Flow.
You're not going to convince a 14-year-old to download another app. So we don't ask them to. SMS and magic links. Native. Natural. It just works.
Two-adult rule. Leader threads visible to the youth pastor by default. Crisis flagging. Audit trails. The stuff that lets your exec pastor sleep at night.
I didn't get into ministry to manage a slide deck on a Wednesday afternoon. I got into ministry for the kids.
Nope. PCO runs your Sunday. LockIn runs your mid-week night. We play nice with Planning Center — most churches use both. We don't ask your exec pastor to rip and replace anything.
Hard no. SMS and magic links. The app teenagers already have is the messaging app on their phone — that's the one we use. Zero installs, zero passwords, zero 'where did I save that login' energy.
Parents get an email or text with the night's info — what you're teaching, a conversation starter for the car ride home, and anything they need to know. They feel included. They trust the ministry more.
Built in from day one. Leader↔student threads are visible to the youth pastor by default. Crisis flagging. Full audit trails. The stuff your exec pastor and elders actually need to see — not bolted on.
Tiered by church size — with a real free tier for volunteer-led or under-100 ministries: The Flow, The Brief, birthday texts, magic links, and every safety feature. From there it's $19/mo for a single campus under 500, $29/mo once you add campuses, and $59/mo for large ministries. Paid plans bundle your SMS, and safety features are never paywalled — on any plan.
Yes — actually, you might benefit the most. Smaller youth ministries don't have a full-time admin or a tech team. The whole point is to make one person feel like they have a team behind them.
We're accepting early-access churches now. Free for the first cohort of design-partner churches in exchange for honest feedback. If you're in, you'll help shape the product before anyone else gets it.
Join the early-access cohort. Free for design-partner churches. Help shape a product made for you — by people who've been in the chair.