Worship Software Reviews

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.
• Background Mode: Change media in real-time under live text.
• 50+ Bible Translations: Searchable by reference or keywords.
• Web Cues: Show websites cleanly with no external browser.
• Section Cues: Group pieces of your presentation into collapsible sections.
• On-Screen Nursery Messaging: Instant messaging for emergencies.

Proclaim is the new cloud-based church presentation software that engages iPhones, iPads, and Android devices in your congregation. With Proclaim, worship leaders, pastors, and volunteers can all access and edit the Sunday morning presentation from any computer - anywhere. With a built in digital store and over $500 in free media, Proclaim makes it simple and fast to make a stellar presentation. Proclaim also adds Signals to slides, sending quick links to mobile devices for Bible verses, mobile donations, websites, contact cards, calendar events and more. Easily link your Planning Center Online, SongSelect, Logos and Graceway Media accounts to pull in plans, songs and media to make your presentation. Proclaim even comes with free remote apps to control your presentation from anywhere in church. Overall, this presentation software makes presenting simple and engaging.  See their impressive introductory video here:  http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cm9AeJzk1wY&feature=relmfu

• • Download Proclaim free at www.ProclaimOnline.com
  • Cloud-Based - Build presentations on any Mac or PC. Present from any computer - anywhere. 
  • Signal-Sending - Engage the congregation. Send Signals to their mobile devices.
  • Well-Connected - Connect your Logos, CCLI SongSelect, Graceway Media and Planning Center Online accounts.
  • Smart Media - Proclaim includes over $500 in free media that is easily designed to make your presentation look excellent.
  • Go On Air - With one license your group can present from any computer on campus.
  • Volunteer-Friendly - Proclaim is simple to use with no heavy training time for volunteers.
  • Media Storage - Upload your media library in Proclaim and your team can access the media from any computer.
  • No Expensive Upgrades - Subscribe to Proclaim for a low monthly or yearly amount, and get new features as soon as they are available.
• Surveys - Coming soon you will be able to survey your congregation live during a service and display the results on-screen
  

ProPresenter is a cross-platform (Mac and Windows) lyric and media presentation package built specifically to make high-quality live productions easy.  ProPresenter operators control a presentation on one screen, while dynamically affecting the visuals and lyrics experienced by an audience on one or more screens. ProPresenter was recently named a Reader's Choice Winner by Worship Leader Magazine, winning 71% of the total vote.  ProPresenter has become the choice of large and small churches all over the world with a presence in 89 of the largest churches in America as well as 9 of the top 10 church plants (per www.ChurchRelevance.com).

• • Dynamically project Text (lyrics, scripture, etc.), Videos, DVD, Audio, Graphics, Websites, Countdowns, Nursery Calls, and Twitter feeds with incredible ease (identical interfaces and features on both platforms)
  • Animated Text Fly-ins and Transitions for exciting presentations with motion that can be cued
  • Built-in Scripture engine with fast look-up and custom display (over 50 Bibles available)
  • PowerPoint import and playback support from within ProPresenter
  • Song Select and Planning Center On-line integration for fast song look-up and importing
  • Advanced, customizable Stage Display (confidence monitor) for Pastor and band / choir to see slides, notes, clocks/timers, and custom messages
  • DVD bookmarking and ripping for fast, easy import and playback of video clips
  • Optional Cloud feature for synchronization and collaboration over the Internet making media and song management simple across all systems
  • iOS apps that work on iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch which allow remote control of ProPresenter or a wireless version of the Stage Display over WiFi
  • Optional modules to extend functionality with advanced capabilities such as multi-screen display on 2 or 3 screens, Alpha Keyer, HD/SDI output, Edge Blending, and control of multiple systems from one main computer

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
  

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

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.

We have been made aware of yet another new open source worship software product called "DreamBeam".

Designed for worship bands. Music is displayed on screen instead of having to search through music books and folders. There is a foot pedal available for turning pages, which is done by one click. It can display sheet music, chord sheets, or both. Play lists can be set up. Audio files and performance notes can be attached to each song. Features include:

• Free!
• Preview panes showing slide as it will be shown on screen
• Song location via text and title search
• Slide editing including background selection during live displays
• Congregation Alerts
• Automatic production of song use history for CCL license

This company has a trial version to download. This software can run well on an older system. Includes CCLI support. It can be run in multimonitor mode if you wish. It uses text files for song lyrics.

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).

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:

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:

Ministry Assistant is church management software that allows you easily keep track of all that is going on in your church or organization. Worship Assistant is a software tool for planning your worship services and present song lyrics using a video projector. Worship Assistant reports the following features:

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.

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.

This is a special add on for PowerPoint users. Features:

• Special support for non-English fonts!
• Quickly find hymns by number, topic, alphabetical index, and keyword
• Customize appearance of all hymns by simply editing one template
• Export All hymns to regular PowerPoint files with embedded fonts

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.

GPL license free song projection software runs as Java software on Linux, Windows or Max.  Available in English, Brazilian Portuguese and German languages.

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.

Free Worship software from Sweden. Download and run!

This is not a regular worship software product. It is a specialty product designed for performers. Designed to fill a need for the performing artist working with recorded background music. Allows the performer to easily control background music as well as a built in prompter.

If your church is committed to using PowerPoint and has hundreds or thousands of slides, this product is designed to create an automatic searchable database of your slides and then allows you to drag and drop the slides into your presentation. This software is not specifically designed for churches but has an obvious use for churches that have put all their song and scripture slides on PowerPoint and now have lots of slides. It is a PowerPoint plug-in and adds right into your PowerPoint menu bar.

It's for Linux only, not Mac or PC. It's free/Open Source software. Uses mysql or sql lite. Precue auxiliary package allows web based front end to access the database over the internet or LAN. Allows multiple playlists, etc.