Equip

A free, open-source learning management system built for Bible schools, church ministries, and nonprofit educational programs.

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Live at equipbible.com. Course pages, the lesson reader, and the teacher and director views (course editor, gradebook, analytics) are behind sign-in. Anyone can create a free student account; teachers join a school by invitation.

Hundreds of small Bible schools, home churches, and missionary training programs around the world still manage courses on paper, WhatsApp, or spreadsheets. Commercial LMS platforms are expensive, overkill, or require technical expertise that volunteer-run organizations simply don't have.

Equip is designed to change that:

• Free forever — MIT-licensed, no paywalls, no "premium" tiers.
• Serverless hosting — a Vercel frontend and backend on a Supabase project. No Docker, no servers to manage.
• Built for small scale — optimized for 20-100 students, not enterprise pricing models.
• Multilingual out of the box — a teacher writes in one language and students read in theirs; Russian, English, German, and Ukrainian.

• Node.js 22.x (.nvmrc pins 22.18.0), npm >= 10
• Python 3.12
• A free Supabase project (or just run backend tests with SQLite — no Supabase needed)

git clone https://github.com/<your-username>/equip.git
cd equip

# Frontend
cd frontend && npm ci && cd ..

# Backend
cd backend && pip install -r requirements.txt && cd ..

cp frontend/.env.example frontend/.env.local   # fill in VITE_* vars
cp backend/.env.example  backend/.env           # fill in Supabase creds

See each .env.example for a description of every variable.

# Terminal 1 — API
cd backend && uvicorn app.main:app --reload     # http://localhost:8000

# Terminal 2 — SPA
cd frontend && npm run dev                      # http://localhost:5173

cd backend  && python -m pytest tests/    # 4000+ tests (SQLite in-memory)
cd frontend && npm run test:run           # Vitest + jsdom
cd frontend && npm run i18n:check         # locale parity across ru / en / de / uk

backend/            Python FastAPI application
  app/
    api/v1/         Route modules
    core/           Config, database, auth helpers
    models/         SQLAlchemy ORM models
    schemas/        Pydantic request/response schemas
    services/       Business logic
  tests/            pytest suite

frontend/           React SPA (Vite + TypeScript)
  src/
    components/     UI components (shadcn/ui + custom)
    pages/          Route-level pages
    services/       API client + Supabase helpers
    context/        React contexts (auth, theme)

supabase/
  migrations/       SQL migration files (production schema source of truth)

.github/
  workflows/        CI pipelines

The source is open under the MIT license and the issue tracker is open, but this is a single-maintainer project with no contribution process to speak of: no review rotation, no triage promises, no roadmap to sign up against. Fork it freely. If you run a Bible school and something here is close to what you need, an issue describing the gap is more useful than a patch.

If you're a Bible school, ministry, or educational nonprofit considering this platform:

• It's free. The MIT license means you can use, modify, and deploy it with no license fee; you pay only for whatever hosting you choose.
• No vendor lock-in. The code, the schema (supabase/migrations/), and your data are yours to move.
• Hosting it yourself takes someone comfortable with a terminal. The quick start above and docs/DEPLOYMENT.md cover the steps (two Vercel projects, a Supabase project, migrations, env vars). The per-minute translation cron needs a paid Vercel plan.
• Your feedback shapes the product. Open an issue describing what your school actually needs — that is what the work gets pointed at.

There are great LMS options out there. Equip exists in a specific gap they don't fill well: a small Bible school or ministry that wants something modern, free, and Bible-aware without standing up a full LAMP server or paying per student.

Pick Moodle if you have IT staff and need every feature ever shipped. Pick Canvas if budget isn't a constraint. Pick Google Classroom if your students already live in Google Workspace and you don't need certificates or real assessments. Pick Equip if you want a small, modern, scripture-aware platform you can deploy in an afternoon.

MIT — free for personal, educational, and commercial use.