Worship Software Reviews

ZionWorx is high-quality, affordable church presentation software that does its job with no fuss. It's feature-rich but incredibly easy-to-use. Even non-technical operators can be trained in minutes to control the basic functions with confidence.

It offers hassle-free video and audio playback, including motion backgrounds and live video inputs with text overlay. With an internet connection you also get free instant access to any Bible translation through a unique integration with BibleGateway.com.  Include sermons and notices in your presentations too, with seamless integration to Microsoft PowerPoint.

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Features include:

• Modern and intuitive user interface, very easy to learn
• Comprehensive support for all video and audio file formats, fully-integrated codecs
• Easily import song data from a variety of sources including other popular worship presentation software
• Fast searchable song database
• Powerful theming engine
• BibleGateway.com integration to access free Bible text
• Easily package your whole presentation into a single file for transfer to another PC
• Adaptive text layout engine dynamically supports any projector resolution
• Configurable alert messages for nursery calls etc.
• Song usage reports to help with CCLI submissions

One of the most innovative and established worship software packages available. This company previously published "SongScreen". The publishers of Presentation Manager report the following features:

• Control two projectors with the same or different presentations on each
• Drag 'n' drop allows easy creation of service plans, Click 'n' show allows fast and easy on the fly service changes.
• Play PowerPointR presentations from within the software seamlessly, operator sees a thumbnail image of slide.
• Quickly find songs and bible passages with powerful searching abilities - great for on the fly service changes.
• Supplied with songs, 1000 images and 5 or more versions of the bible.

This software has a lot of features not found in other packages. You can get it in several different editions from a worship planning version to a combined planning and projection software package. It has a lot of special support for printing music, click-to-play chords and instant transposition, etc. This software continues to go through EXTENSIVE improvements. Visit them at: http://www.worship-live.com/index_ebt.shtml.

• Powerful worship leader tools include song library sort, search and filter and instant transposition
• Musical tools including click-to-play chords, metronome, and automatic guitar fingering printouts
• Easy import of CCLI song files and other text files, and integration with CCLI search tools
• Project songs, scriptures, announcements, images, video clips, even PowerPoint (if installed), with thumbnails in the playlist
• Parallel-project two Bible versions simultaneously - perfect for bilingual churches
  

MediaShout Version 4 combines time-saving tools and a streamlined workspace with the comprehensive list of features you've come to expect from a premier ministry presentation system used by over 50,000 organizations. From basic worship presentations to intricate multimedia experiences, Version 4 connects your creativity with powerful tools to communicate life's most important message.

• The Basics: Song Lyrics, Bibles, Text, Audio, Graphics, Video, DVD, PowerPoint & more.
• Simple Workspace: Create, Edit and Present with a streamlined interface perfect for volunteers & experts.
• Drag-and-Drop Formatting: Easily change text margins and background placement.
• Stage Display: A third display of large-format text perfect for your on-stage team.
• PowerPoint Import: Convert PPT slides to formatted lyric, text and graphics.

Worship software specifically designed for planning and organizing your worship service.  This is not song display software.  “Planning Center Services” allows you to schedule workers and volunteers as well as do CCLI reporting.  A particular nice feature is the ability to store files online for everyone on your team to access.  This is an online subscription service with the key being that your whole team can stay better connected and organized.  All they need is a web browser and an internet connection.  For those that don’t have this you can print out what you need for them.  Online collaboration is the future of worship planning.

The company reports these features:

• Planning Matrix – See all of your upcoming services side by side so that you will be able to see the songs, people and notes for each service and edit them with ease.
• Online File Sharing – With up to 15 GB of storage you may easily distribute your music, sermon notes, PowerPoint and any other files that your team needs without worry about e-mail size limits
• Chord Chart Transposing – Just copy and paste your chord charts into your song and identify what keys you want it in and they will automatically transpose it and generate a PDF for you.
• Customizable – There are several places within Planning Center Online that you can customize to fit the needs of your church
• Easy To Use – Elegant, easy, and web-based. You don't need to download, install, or configure anything (no IT department required!). All you need is a web browser and an internet connection.
   

SlideGen makes it easy to create your Song Service presentations.  It differs from other presentation software in that the end-result of using SlideGen is a Microsoft PowerPoint presentation.  So if you are currently using Microsoft PowerPoint in your live church environment and you don't want to re-train your computer operators, SlideGen is the software for you.  Simply use SlideGen before the worship service (at home or at church) to create your PowerPoint file, then show the PowerPoint file as usual during the worship service (using Microsoft PowerPoint or PowerPoint V

MediaShout for Mac is the highly-anticipated release from the makers of one of the most popular ministry presentation software on the Windows platform. MediaShout for Mac doesnʼt simply copy the interface from one OS to the other, but combines the features you need with the familiar interface and unique tools made just for Mac OS X, including built-in iTunes & iPhoto access, Quicklook previews & Spotlight searches.

• The Basics: Song Lyrics, Bibles, Text, Audio, Graphics, PDF, Video, DVD, Keynote &more.
• Simple Workspace: Designed exclusively for Mac OS X with Finder-based Decks, & preview monitors.
• Drag-and-Drop Formatting: Easily change text margins and background placement.
• Stage Display: A third display of large-format text perfect for your on-stage team.
• iLife Integration: Direct access to your iTunes and iPhoto libraries..

SongPro is a windows based song lyric and Bible display presentation system, designed to give ease of use and convenience in the planning and running of services. This software can be used in single screen or dual screen modes and has a non-linear control system - even follow the speaker's Bible references on the fly. SongPro features:

The one big difference between EasySlides and other presentation software is that EasySlides can display dual-language lyrics for use in bi-lingual churches, as in the case of many bi-lingual Chinese churches worldwide. It is also free.

Not just for song lyrics, this product also has features for projecting announcements, scriptures, video clips and sermon material. There are different versions of this software including controlling of PowerPoint presentations, nursery calls, etc. The basic version already includes the text of hundreds of songs and you only have to add in the songs that you want. The software supports the thousands of CCLI songs that can purchased separately. I found the program easy to use.

OpenSong is a Free program for use in Worship Services. The author has this to say: "OpenSong is free software for managing chords and lyrics sheets, presenting lyrics using a projector, and much more! This software is great for musicians who are looking for a program that will help with chords, transposing, capo/non-capo notation, etc. Also, worship leaders will find some great extra features such as scripture integration and timed loops for running announcements before services." Features include:

This company has a free demo version. This is one of and maybe the most popular worship software packages available. This software supports dual displays. It allows you to choose from over 100 great, smooth transitions. It really is fairly easy to use. The product is well designed. It comes with the King James and American Standard versions for automatically displaying scriptures on the fly. It also comes with a variety of nice graphic backgrounds. The program automatically sizes the song lyrics and Bible text to best fit the screen and allows you to add font shadows and other features.

PowerWorship is an add-in for enhancing Microsoft PowerPoint for worship. This software is now free!

This company has a free demo version. Includes 600 worship songs including not only lyrics but chord chart and video text as well as a 20 second mp3 audio sample.

• Display one verse at a time or display 2 verses at a time (for translated foreign language).
• Over 200 custom graphic backgrounds.
• Present "time looped" slide shows for announcements.
• Laptop friendly - all keyboard driven (mouse driven also).

AirStream from Seraphim Software is a product for creating, presenting and streaming your productions. Key features of AirStream are its extensive Cloud capabilities that means your users can access your content from anywhere on the Internet. Everything your team does is synchronized on the web and everyone is always on the same page and same version. Your whole team can share access to all of your group's media content through AirStream's Media Bin. Another cool feature of AirStream is that is allows your church members to view and interact with your services as if they were present. The content you create each week can be made available around the world 24 hours a day. - Cloud features allow your worship team to collaborate together across the web. - - Subscription based means all your staff is always using the current version. - 30 day Free trial

Database Software specifically for organizing your music, staff, presenters, programs, etc. This software is not for displaying songs but rather organizing. Has some neat features like auto-emailing people scheduled to be part of the service. An interesting feature is the ability to set one secure place on the Internet where worship team members can come to see the order of service, to listen and learn worship songs, to download chord charts or lyrics.

OpenLP is a Free, opensource program for use in Worship Services. The features include a Lyric Database, Bible Database, the ability to handle Powerpoint Presentations, MP3's, AVI's etc.

Includes a Song List Editor and Multiple Monitor Support.  Bookshelf component is used to manage, add and edit songs and groups of songs called books.  Songs are simply text files with a few special indicator flags to mark the beginning of new verses and the chorus.  Optionally, songs can include Guitar Chords.  Marietta allows for changing fonts and colors.   A free trial version is available.

Free song display software from Great Britain. They have a free trial version.

A closed source free worship program with the ability to play almost an media format as well as display bible verses and songs. It also can run on almost any hardware. As long as it is at least the minimum windows specs.

This is a powerful presentation software for Apple Computers. Not specifically a worship software product.

Free Worship software from Sweden. Download and run!

Not so much a worship software product as a product for instrumental bands that shows words, chords and even a metronome from a centrally controlled computer. Chord chart presentation software that can be used to display and transpose chord charts on multiple monitors on stage and eliminate paper copies and song binders.

Church Music Organiser is a Microsoft Windows-based computer program designed to help small to medium-sized churches organise their congregational music.