Soulstream

What Soulstream does

SoulStream is a mobile application publisher headquartered in Bucharest, Romania, with a US operational hub in Highlands Ranch, Colorado, focused on faith-based and wellness applications for global consumers. Its flagship product, Bible Chat, is positioned by the company as the "World's Most Popular Faith App" and the highest-earning Bible app in its category, alongside Sam, a children's faith exploration app. The company reports 40 million users across its product portfolio, 300% year-over-year growth, and a 43% increase in user well-being, with Bible Chat alone reaching 1.5 million downloads by March 2025 after doubling its downloads in 2024.

The company employs approximately 46 people across product, engineering, marketing, and operations functions, organized into thematic teams (BioProduct, BioEngineering, BioMarketing, BioOperations). Revenue is generated through a freemium model with in-app monetization and digital advertising across TikTok, SEO, and paid campaigns, with global distribution via Apple's App Store. SoulStream was founded in 2019 by Laur — a serial entrepreneur who previously co-founded T-Me Studios, one of Europe's largest consumer app publishers with over 3 billion downloads — and Marius, a technical co-founder with 20+ years of coding experience. The company has raised approximately $10.86M across multiple rounds, with the largest being a $7M financing in March 2025, and has expanded its footprint to include the OpenSoul Foundation for charitable initiatives and Hacker25, Romania's first mobile app community launched in May 2025.

Name

Soulstream

Legal name

SoulStream

Website

https://soulstream.ai

Company type

Private

Founded year

2019

Operating status

Operating

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

SoulStream is a mobile app publisher building faith-based and wellness applications for global consumers, including Bible Chat (40M+ users, positioned as the highest-earning Bible app) and Sam, a children's faith exploration app, distributed via the App Store under a freemium model.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Mobile Faith & Wellness Applications

NAICS

Software Publishers (5132), Software Publishers (513210)

SIC

Services-Prepackaged Software (7372), Services-Computer Programming, Data Processing, Etc. (7370)

akta.pro primary industry

Devotional & Prayer Publishing (Devotionals, Prayer Books, Meditation Guides) (MPAJAHAB)

akta.pro secondary industries

Spirituality & Personal Growth Publishing (Mindfulness, Contemplative, New Age) (MPAJAHAH), Meditation Apps, Digital Courses & Online Communities (HSADAJAH)

Keywords

• Faith-based mobile apps
• Bible study applications
• Children's faith apps
• Mobile wellness apps
• Freemium mobile software

Headquarters

HQ city

Bucharest

HQ country

Romania

HQ region

Europe

Offices3 records

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Software

Cost components

Personnel, Marketing or Sales, Technology or R&D, Operations

Revenue model

1. Bible Chat App Revenue: The Bible Chat app became the highest-earning Bible app, generating revenue through app monetization strategies including freemium model, premium features, and advertising
2. Children's App (Sam): Sam app provides interactive faith content for children, monetized through freemium model with premium content features
3. Digital Advertising: Revenue attributed to extensive advertising campaigns across TikTok and other platforms

Go-to-market motion2 records

Distribution channels2 records

Marketing channels4 records

Core offering

SoulStream develops and publishes mobile applications aimed at reducing human suffering. Its primary commercial offerings are Bible Chat, a faith-based adult app for Bible exploration and spiritual guidance with over 40 million users, and Sam, a children's interactive faith and Bible stories app. The company is also prototyping AI-powered mental wellness tools (e.g., MindMate). Revenue is generated through freemium subscriptions/premium features and in-app advertising.

Product overview

SoulStream is a mobile app company that builds apps for a more meaningful life. Their product portfolio consists of Bible Chat, the world's most popular faith app with over 40 million users, and Sam, a children's faith adventure app designed for kids to explore faith and learn Bible stories. Both apps are available on the App Store and work together to serve different audience segments within the faith-based mobile app market.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Brands

• Bible Chat: World's Most Popular Faith App - Find answers to life's challenges and explore the Bible in a fun and engaging way
• Sam
• OpenSoul Foundation

Products and services

• Bible Chat A mobile faith application enabling individual users to find answers to life's challenges and explore the Bible in a fun and engaging way. Positioned by the company as the World's Most Popular Faith App with over 40 million users. Available globally on iOS via the Apple App Store.
• Sam A fun and interactive children's faith application that allows kids to explore faith and learn Bible stories. Targeted at families and parents seeking age-appropriate spiritual content for children. Available globally on iOS via the Apple App Store.

Quantifiable outcome

• 40 million users across product portfolio
• +3 more outcomes

Named customers3 records

Segments3 records

Ideal customer profiles3 records

Technology focussed Yes

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

API detail

Core technology

AI maturity

App detail

Feature3 records

Partnerships

One partnership is on record.

• OpenSoul FoundationcoreStrategic or Co-development Partner · 30 May 2025OpenSoul Foundation is a charitable initiative affiliated with SoulStream. The foundation believes in the power of faith to transform lives, inspire change, and build stronger, compassionate communities. SoulStream co-creates with the foundation to drive faith-based social impact initiatives.

Scale indicators6 records

Recent moves6 records

Expansion highlights6 records

Direct peers

• YouVersion (Life.Church): YouVersion is the largest and longest-standing Bible app globally, operated by Life.Church. It directly competes with SoulStream's Bible Chat in the same category and target audience, with a much larger content library and established brand.
• Hallow: Hallow is a leading Catholic prayer and meditation app that has raised tens of millions from major VCs and pursued aggressive celebrity-led marketing. It directly competes for the same faith-seeking consumer audience SoulStream targets with Bible Chat.
• Pray.com: Pray.com is a faith and prayer app offering sleep, meditation, and Bible content. It targets an overlapping audience with SoulStream's Bible Chat, competing on app store rankings, paid acquisition channels, and premium subscription monetization.
• Glorify: Glorify is a daily Christian devotional and prayer app with strong brand recognition. It overlaps directly with Bible Chat's faith content offering and competes in the same paid social and App Store placement channels.
• Abide: Abide is a Christian meditation and sleep app positioned at the intersection of faith and wellness. It overlaps with SoulStream's content portfolio and competes for the same faith-curious consumer audience, particularly in meditation and sleep use cases.

Broad incumbents

• Headspace: Headspace is a leading mainstream meditation and mindfulness app. While broader and secular, it competes with SoulStream's MindMate concept and overlaps with the wellness positioning of SoulStream's portfolio of apps targeting well-being.
• Calm: Calm is a major meditation, sleep, and wellness app serving a broad consumer audience. It is comparable as a large, established player in adjacent wellness verticals that SoulStream's MindMate and broader portfolio could expand into.
• BetterHelp: BetterHelp is the largest online therapy platform globally. It is relevant as the established incumbent in the therapist-matching space that SoulStream's MindMate project would compete with if it scales beyond its current hackathon-stage MVP.

Others

• T-Me Studios: T-Me Studios is one of Europe's largest consumer app publishers (3B+ downloads) and the prior company co-founded by SoulStream co-founder Laur. It is relevant contextually as the prior studio that demonstrates the founder's playbook for scaling consumer apps at the scale SoulStream aspires to.

Emerging players

• NeuBible: NeuBible is an independently-designed Bible app focused on clean UX and modern interface design. It targets a similar design-conscious subset of SoulStream's audience and competes on App Store placement and design-led differentiation.

Market position

Strengths5 records

Weaknesses5 records

Competitive moat5 records

Key risks6 records

Key highlights7 records

Customer concentration

Revenue estimate

Valuation estimate

Number of profiles

Profiles13 records

Funding overview

Funding rounds6 records

Investors1 record

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M&A

Investments

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