Let the congregation follow along on their phones — QR Bible slides
Audience follow-along puts a QR code on the projector so phones track live Bible slides — no church app, no sign-in. Built for hard-of-hearing seats, overflow rooms, and anyone who can’t read the screen.
Not everyone in the room can read the sanctuary screen. Back rows, overflow, hard-of-hearing seats, parents juggling kids, and guests who left their reading glasses at home all hit the same wall: the verse is on the wall, but they can’t follow it.
BibleSlides Audience Follow-Along puts a QR code on the projector. Phones open a live view that tracks the presenter’s slide position — no church app to install, no account to create.
Follow-along isn’t a second sermon feed. It’s the same teaching deck, synced to the advance you’re already making.
Why “just make the text bigger” isn’t enough
Larger type helps until you hit:
- A long passage that still needs context on screen
- A room where sightlines are blocked by pillars or livestream cameras
- Guests who will never download your church’s branded app mid-service
Phone follow-along solves the distance problem without forcing people into another software stack.
How Audience Follow-Along works
- You launch the slideshow as usual (booth laptop or tablet presenter)
- A QR overlay invites the room to scan
- Phones open the follow URL for that document and stay on the current slide
- When you advance a verse step or annotation beat, follow-along devices move with you
No parallel “mobile edition” to maintain. It’s the same project you built for the projector.
What the congregation sees (and what they don’t)
| Surface | Shows |
|---|---|
| Sanctuary projector | Clean teaching slide (verse, map, photo, analysis) |
| Phone follow-along | Live slide position for that document |
| Pastor tablet | Notes + step chips + optional security messages |
Tech alerts from your media team can land on the tablet only (Security Messaging) so a “mic battery low” note never flashes over John 3:16 for the whole room — or for people following on phones.
When churches use QR follow-along
- Sunday teaching — long passages, stepped annotations, hard-to-read rooms
- Overflow / lobby — same deck without a second operator guessing when to click
- Hybrid / Zoom adjunct — pair with readable verse slides (project Scripture on Zoom); follow-along helps anyone who joined late on a phone
- Accessibility — people who need personal text size without you redesigning the house slide
Setup checklist (about two minutes)
- Finish the sermon project in BibleSlides (cloud autosave — no USB)
- Confirm display settings once for your venue (media laptop guide)
- In slideshow options, leave Audience follow-along enabled
- Launch slideshow; show the QR when you want phones to join
- Teach — advances from tablet or booth push follow-along with you
FAQ for media teams
Do people need the BibleSlides app?
No. A phone camera + browser is enough.
Does follow-along require church accounts?
No sign-in for the audience.
Will phones show my private notes?
No. Follow-along is the slide surface, not the pastor’s interleaved notes on the tablet.
What if Wi‑Fi is weak?
Phones need a network path to the live sync. Test once in the room you actually use; don’t rely on “it worked at home.”
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