The Best Church Management Software

B1 Church

4.9★  Live Church Solutions

A genuinely free, open-source church platform - app, website, giving and check-in on one database - run by an Oklahoma nonprofit. The catch is not the price - it is that the vendor own docs call the native app deprecated.

Involv Chat (church.chat)

4.9★  Carson Suite LLC

Involv Chat combines ministry-team messaging, rosters, blocked dates and service scheduling in a focused church workspace—useful when leaders protect volunteer consent and resist turning attendance or gifts data into a spiritual score.

ChurchSoftware

4.9★  ChurchSoftware.com / Lyt House Studio LLC

ChurchSoftware—formerly StoreHouse—offers an unusually broad church-management core for $0, including giving, check-in, accounting and a shared mobile app, while charging transparently for vendor-heavy extras.

Pastor Notes App

4.9★  Concierge Contacts Pty Ltd

A two-app system that lets leaders publish sermon notes and invite live congregational response while attendees use the free Bible Notes companion—but its pricing math, refund terms and app privacy disclosures need correction before a church commits.

Take Root

4.9★  Rooted Software LLC

A low-cost, offline-friendly relationship tracker built specifically for evangelism and discipleship follow-up—more intentional than a spreadsheet, but its old generic privacy policy does not adequately describe the sensitive ministry data the product exists to hold.

Develop.Me

4.9★  Cultivate Leadership Institute LLC

Develop.Me packages course building, cohorts, discussion, assignments, gamification and mobile learning for churches and mission-driven organizations—with unlimited learners on paid plans, but a vague free tier and a 2022 website privacy notice leave procurement questions open.

VisitorReach

4.9★  Visitor Reach, LLC

VisitorReach combines managed digital advertising, local texting numbers, AI-assisted replies, automated follow-up journeys, a mobile inbox, NFC connection cards, coaching, and church-database integrations—but unpublished prices and the sensitivity of seeker conversations make this a procurement decision, not a simple app download.

Gracely

4.9★  Gracely LLC

Gracely is an unusually affordable church-management platform with unlimited members, free migration, a capable free plan, flat-rate paid tiers, giving, accounting, child check-in, communication, websites, and the My Gracely member app—but its low price should not shorten security, privacy, finance, or safeguarding review.

Called

4.9★  Called, LLC

A thoughtfully designed church-community layer for chat, groups, prayer, events, and shepherding—stronger on engagement than full ChMS operations, with a costly pricing cliff and conflicting youth rules.

Flare - For Groups

4.9★  Flare App, Inc.

Flare is a genuinely free, genuinely capable group app with attendance tracking, admin-only announcements and QR check-in - and its own site, FAQ, tutorials and 28 blog posts never once mention a church, a ministry, or prayer.

Clearstream

4.9★  Clearstream, LLC

Bootstrapped since 2010, founder-owned, church-only since around 2016, with the deepest integration list in church texting and a compliance position most buyers never think to ask about - sold on a credit ladder that punishes buying too small.

Subsplash

4.9★  Subsplash, Inc.

The all-in-one church platform megachurches keep choosing - fully custom-branded apps across phone, web, and TV that make a 5,000-member ministry feel like an Apple keynote.

Givelify

4.9★  Givelify, LLC

The church giving app that won the donor side of the market by treating the person in the pew as the customer - and letting the church benefit from that gravity.

Engage Spaces

4.8★  Engage Spaces Inc.

Engage Spaces combines contacts, training, events, groups, automation, reporting and communication for distributed ministries at $50 per location—but the mandatory onboarding fee, currency, SLA and security evidence need a sales-stage review.

Text In Church

4.8★  Text In Church (App Store seller: Select Photo-Graphics LLC)

A church texting service built around automated guest follow-up, now available as an add-on inside Planning Center - and priced by a monthly text allotment that is counted per recipient, which changes the sum entirely.

CareNote

4.6★  Digital Lighthouse Designs LLC

A remarkably thoughtful pastoral-care operating system for assignment, follow-up, risk, volunteer response, and reporting—but churches must keep protected health data out and govern sensitive notes rigorously.

Flowforth

4.6★  Trivo Technologies LLC / Thomas Harmond

Flowforth gives Planning Center churches a polished email builder, list-triggered automations, signup forms, archives, QR codes, and link pages without per-contact billing—an unusually focused value whose member-level tracking and unencrypted-at-rest policy deserve serious governance.

SolaSites

4.6★  SolaSites

A remarkably transparent managed WordPress package for churches that need sermons, events, giving, and real support—affordable enough to shortlist, with governance questions worth settling first.

Sunday Best

4.6★  Sunday Best

A church-specialist Webflow agency offering strategy, messaging, custom design, development, and launch—premium work for teams ready to own the content and long-term platform decisions.

Tilma

4.6★  Glass Canvas

A Catholic parish website and digital-formation platform from Glass Canvas, combining easy publishing, curated ministry content, and optional giving—clear mission fit with significant vendor, data, and content governance.

Undershepherd

4.6★  Undershepherd by SolaSites

Simple pastoral-care software for people, interactions, life events, documents, and follow-up—affordable and focused, with highly sensitive data to govern.

Voco

4.6★  Voco

Live speech-to-text translation for multilingual services through a reusable QR code—accessible and affordable, but every language still needs human testing.

ChMeetings

4.6★  ChMeetings

A church management platform built for the whole world, not just the United States - and the only serious option with a real free tier for small congregations.

Acts2Track

4.5★  GiddyUpGenie / Joe and Margie Arnett

A focused church care-management system for recipients, visits, milestones, assignments, benevolence, and pastoral follow-through—with unusually clear pricing and accessibility documentation, but sensitive third-party records and AI briefings demand disciplined consent.

Donkey Mobile

4.5★  Donkey Mobile B.V.

A mature Dutch white-label church-app platform combining personalized feeds, groups, chat, calendars, member directory, giving, web access, discipleship content, and livestream-derived AI summaries—with strong community design and transparent seat-band pricing, but substantial data stewardship, annual commitment, store-account, rollout, moderation, and cross-language contract details to settle.

ChurchRaise

4.5★  Faith Systems, LLC

The renamed and radically expanded eChurch platform from Faith Systems, combining unlimited people records, giving, communications, events, check-in, websites, groups, forms, reports, media, and nine AI assistants for $0 per month—astonishing breadth funded through donor tips, optional checkout fees, and AI credits, with equally large migration, privacy, finance, safeguarding, governance, and vendor-sustainability questions.

Notebird

4.5★  Notebird Cares LLC / Notebird, Inc.

A focused, approachable pastoral-care workspace that is much easier to sustain than scattered notes, texts, meetings, and spreadsheets, with thoughtful follow-up tools and useful ChMS connections—but churches must govern its deeply sensitive care records, avoid HIPAA-regulated health information, and clarify several privacy, security, billing, and legal details before rollout.

OneAccord

4.5★  In One Accord LTD / Anne Adams

A thoughtfully church-specific live translation service with browser-based text and audio, human moderation, transcripts, branded access, and more than fifty languages—but churches must budget limited hours, protect recorded speech, test every accent and room, and keep human interpreters and safety-critical communication in the loop.

Parable

4.5★  Parable

A polished analytics layer that syncs every Planning Center module nightly, answers natural-language questions, builds dashboards, and surfaces engagement patterns—powerful for leaders who govern giving and congregant data carefully, but costly, privacy-intensive, and not a substitute for human interpretation or pastoral knowledge.

Sites by Ministry Designs

4.5★  Ministry Designs

A church-specific site builder with hands-on migration, ministry modules, and an optional managed service—strong on launch support, but verify ownership and renewal terms before moving your public front door.

Tabernacle

4.5★  Tabernacle Technologies Private Limited

A church management and accounting platform built in Nagaland for Indian churches, with member records, finances, giving, messaging, and reporting—localized depth with real data-governance work for leaders.

Two Ten Creatives

4.5★  Two Ten Creatives

A Webflow-based, done-for-you church website service with fast ongoing edits and clear pricing—strong design help if ownership and exit terms are secured.

Tithe.ly

4.5★  Tithe.ly

Tithe.ly has quietly become the default church platform for small and mid-sized congregations - giving, app, website, and ChMS under one login, starting free.

Rock RMS

4.4★  Spark Development Network (501(c)(3))

A full church management system and digital ministry platform given away with no licence fee by a 501(c)(3) - and the only question that matters is what it costs to actually run, which is not nothing.

Journeys

4.3★  Scout and Redeem Ltd

A purpose-built discipleship publishing platform that turns ministry content into paced pathways, in-app invitations, leader-guided sessions, analytics, and white-label mobile experiences—more intentional than dropping PDFs into an app, but £200 monthly plus £5,000–£10,000 setup demands a disciplined pilot, durable data rights, and proof that completion signals represent formation rather than clicks.

OurChurchCare

4.3★  John Hicks / OurChurchCare

A focused, pastor-built care tracker for assigning households, recording calls and visits, scheduling follow-ups, and seeing who may be overlooked—affordable and unusually specific about privacy, but still a sensitive pastoral-notes system that needs disciplined access, retention, and human judgment.

Scatter

4.3★  Made to Flourish

A focused Made to Flourish survey and dashboard that helps churches understand members’ daily work, skills, vocational needs, faith integration, and community involvement—useful for ministry discovery, provided leaders earn consent and resist turning individual answers into pastoral surveillance.

Flocknote

4.3★  Flocknote

A church communication platform with a household database attached, built first and most seriously for Catholic parishes - free forever under 40 members, then priced on the size of your roster rather than how much you use it.

Nucleus

4.2★  Nucleus, LLC

Nucleus is a $99-a-month church website platform from the team behind Pro Church Tools, with online giving sold separately at $49 and card gifts processed at 1.9 percent. That is the cheapest published rate in the category - on the condition that your givers, and never your church, are the ones who pay it.

FlockConnect

4.2★  FlockConnect LLC

FlockConnect reframes church software around relationships, pastoral contact, and early signs of drift rather than attendance alone—a thoughtful young product whose $9 live Starter tier is much narrower than the AI-rich experience still marked coming soon.

myChelper

4.2★  Faith Software, Inc.

A nonprofit-built church hub combining a shared mobile app, synchronized website, groups, push messages, daily Scripture, and Stripe Connect giving with a genuinely useful free entry—but inconsistent public fee claims and unusually short subscription terms require written clarification before donations or a branded-app commitment.

Sermon Send

4.2★  Telling Ministries / Sermon Shots

A focused church follow-up page that gathers clips, quotes, reflections, devotionals, and branding behind one shareable link—cleaner than scattering assets across platforms, though tied closely to the Sermon Shots suite and governed by an old privacy notice that barely describes the product.

StraightText

4.2★  cdot4, LLC

Desktop bulk texting from the same phone number people already recognize—effective for small, consented lists, but “unlimited” never overrides carrier, privacy, safeguarding, or TCPA obligations.

One Church Software / My One Church App

4.2★  One Church Software, Inc.

One Church Software is a capable all-in-one ChMS with contacts, groups, check-in, giving, events, serving, sermons, forms, and a free shared member app—but profile-based pricing and add-ons accumulate, sensitive church data demands disciplined permissions, and its store privacy labels show only part of the service.

Ministry Planner

4.1★  Jethro Software LLC

A promising church-operations workspace that lets one teaching-calendar entry feed service plans, run sheets, worship sets, volunteer schedules, projects, care, and team communication for one flat church price—but a brand-new platform with very thin privacy documentation should earn access gradually, especially before sensitive people notes move in.

Reach The Lost

4.1★  Colorado Christian LLC

A church-specific search marketing agency combining Google Ad Grant management, paid ads, conventional and AI-oriented SEO, local search, social, and video—potentially valuable for measurable outreach, but expensive under a twelve-month minimum and burdened by a privacy policy that appears materially older than the current service.

Church Metrics by Gloo

4.1★  Gloo LLC · originally created by Life.Church

Church Metrics remains a remarkably capable free dashboard for attendance, baptisms, salvations, giving, volunteers, campuses, custom categories, and network reports—but Gloo synchronization, national comparisons, AI-generated insights, and spiritually sensitive numbers demand definitions, permissions, consent, and governance that a free account cannot supply for you.

Aplos

4.1★  Aplos Software, LLC (part of Velora)

Fund accounting built for churches rather than adapted from business bookkeeping, started in 2009 by a CPA who could not find it for his own church - and now a brand inside a private-equity-backed suite, which is worth thinking about either way.

Faithlife Equip

4.1★  Faithlife Corporation

The church platform side of the Faithlife ecosystem - and the only one that hands a Logos-trained pastor a unified workflow from study to Sunday morning.

The Church Co

4.0★  Paul Cox / The Church Co

The Church Co builds a church website for free and charges $29 a month to host it, with online giving from $49 and a branded mobile app only at $199. Giving runs on the church's own Stripe keys - which is the whole argument, because it means the church, not the platform, decides who pays the fee.

ChurchStats

4.0★  Everprise PTY LTD

A flexible church-health analytics layer for custom ministry, campus, preacher, weather, and digital metrics—easy to understand and broad in scope, but priced from $409 monthly and dependent on disciplined manual entry, metric definitions, and privacy controls.

Ministry Way

4.0★  Corey Haines / Ministry Way

A focused volunteer-discovery workflow that turns ministry descriptions and member surveys into ranked AI recommendations, emailed results, and follow-up sequences—but a $100 monthly Pro jump and generic policies that barely describe the actual matching service make a small, consent-based pilot essential.

Altar Live

4.0★  JX3 Digital LLC

Altar Live turns a one-way church stream into a hosted digital gathering with chat, tables, rooms and meetings—but leaders must price the live calculator and govern the people layer carefully.

FrontDoor

3.9★  FrontDoor

A genuinely free church visitor-engagement platform with resource campaigns, branded landing pages, embeds, QR sharing, contact tracking, and automated email follow-up—an unusually generous offer that still needs stronger consent, data-governance, and pastoral-use documentation.

OpenFaith

3.9★  FaithBase AI / Izak Filmalter

An ambitious alpha project building a universal church-data model, bidirectional ChMS adapters, fast table editing, flexible relationships, permissions, and future natural-language operations—but public sources conflict on what is production-ready, the repository’s license is still marked TBD, and sensitive church data should not become the test fixture for an unfinished platform.

Harvest (formerly HarvestSites)

3.8★  Harvest · founded by James and Jacqueline Taylor, Tanner Moushey, and Justin Dean

An ambitious all-in-one church platform built around managed, AI-assisted websites and connected ministry modules—promising for a church that wants one vendor, but pricing, giving fees, assurance language, portability, and production evidence need written clarification before migration.

Planning Center

3.7★  Planning Center

Planning Center has quietly become the operating system that most US churches actually run on - and the modular pricing is the reason it stuck.

FlowLeed

3.5★  FlowLeed

FlowLeed turns Planning Center signals into engagement scores, care alerts, AI answers, and visual ministry journeys—an appealing early-access idea that should not receive sensitive church data until pricing, privacy, terms, security, and AI governance are actually published.

ShareFaith

3.5★  Sharefaith Inc. · Ministry Brands

A broad church subscription combines media, kids curriculum, website hosting, giving, and a member app—but the exact App Store product is only a congregant shell, while stale iOS software, opaque add-ons, and contradictory plan cards make procurement harder than it should be.

Churchlytics

3.2★  Churchlytics / Josh Breland

A bespoke church data-audit and dashboard consultancy—not a self-serve analytics subscription—with sensible ministry context and a promising discovery process, but almost no public pricing, architecture, security, deliverable, or recent customer evidence.

Safehold

2.7★  Corey Haines / Safehold

A clean web-based children’s ministry check-in, consent, activity, and reporting system with flat per-center pricing—promising in workflow, but not ready for responsible production use while its public “privacy policy” and “terms” pages contain template instructions instead of actual legal and data-protection commitments.

Pushpay

2.7★  Pushpay Holdings (acquired Church Community Builder in 2018)

The platform a striking share of the largest US churches run their giving, their ChMS, and their app on - and the one most small churches cannot justify writing a check for.

Breeze ChMS

2.7★  Breeze ChMS (a Tithe.ly company)

A church management system built for the small-to-mid church that wants member records, check-in, and giving without a Planning Center-sized learning curve - and the flat-rate pricing is the part that wins the argument.

Gloo Communications

2.3★  Gloo, LLC

A capable church-texting workspace with a genuinely useful free entry point—but contradictory credit pages and a 2.3-star iPhone app demand a careful pilot.