Resource Review · Worship Apps
Sing! Worship
The worship app for congregations that love hymn-shaped theology with a modern band — built around the catalog behind "In Christ Alone."
- Editor rating
- 4.5 / 5
- Starting price
- Free, with paid resources + Sing! Conference around $200/year
- Free tier
- Yes
- Platforms
- iOS · Android · Web
- Developer
- Getty Music (Keith & Kristyn Getty)
- Launched
- 2017
The verdict
Sing! Worship has quietly become the favorite of worship leaders who want modern-band instrumentation without giving up hymn-shaped lyrics. The free tier is generous, the paid resources are clean, and the Sing! Conference is the real differentiator — most users do not need every paid track to get their money’s worth.
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Sing! Worship is the official app and resource hub for Getty Music — the husband-and-wife songwriting team of Keith and Kristyn Getty, whose modern hymns ("In Christ Alone," "By Faith," "Speak O Lord," "He Will Hold Me Fast") have spread further into Sunday morning rotations than almost any other catalog written in the last twenty-five years. The app is where their full catalog lives alongside chord charts, multitracks, lyric videos, articles about hymn-singing, and registration for the annual Sing! Conference.
It is not Hillsong. It is not Bethel. It is not Elevation. The app is built around a specific musical idea — that the great congregational hymns of church history, plus newly written hymns in that same melodic and theological tradition, can be played by a modern band with drums, electric guitar, piano, and strings without losing what made the hymns work in the first place. That conviction shapes everything in the app, from the song list to the conference programming to the editorial voice of the articles.
For worship leaders in Reformed, Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, Wesleyan, Methodist, and broadly evangelical congregations — and increasingly in Catholic parishes that want congregational singing with substance — Sing! Worship has become the obvious second tab next to MultiTracks or PraiseCharts. It does not try to compete on volume of catalog. It tries to compete on a particular kind of song.
✓ The good
- Best-in-class for modern hymnody — the Getty catalog is the deepest single source of singable, theologically dense hymns written in the last quarter century
- Clean, well-produced multitracks and stems — the recordings are made for actual church bands, not just listening
- Generous free tier — lyric videos, lead sheets, and a meaningful slice of the catalog are accessible without paying
- Sing! Conference content is genuinely excellent — sessions from Alistair Begg, John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, Matt Boswell, and the Gettys themselves
- Doctrinal range that crosses tribes — sung in Reformed, Anglican, Catholic, Wesleyan, and broadly evangelical congregations alike
- Strong companion resources — chord charts in multiple keys, planning notes, and articles on the craft and theology of congregational singing
- The Gettys actually care about the local church — the ecosystem feels pastoral, not commercial
✗ Watch out
- Catalog is narrow by design — if your church needs a deep bench of Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, or Maverick City, this is not your primary app
- Multitrack player is fine but not class-leading — MultiTracks.com still wins on player features (yet)
- Sing! Conference is the headline ecosystem event but pricing creeps up year over year — around $200 for the live-stream pass, more for in-person
- Search and song discovery inside the app could be smarter — the catalog deserves better tagging
- No transposition or stem mixer on par with dedicated rehearsal tools like Loop Community or MultiTracks
- The articles and editorial voice lean Reformed-evangelical in tone — some readers from other traditions will read past it, others will feel it
Best for
- Worship leaders building a hymn-anchored Sunday set
- Reformed, Anglican, and Baptist congregations
- Church plants without a full band library
- Pastors thinking about congregational singing
Avoid if
- Your church’s sound is Hillsong/Bethel/Elevation
- You need a massive multi-publisher catalog
- You only want a chord-chart app — OnSong is cheaper
- You will not use the Sing! Conference content
What Sing! Worship is
Sing! Worship is Getty Music’s app and online resource hub. At its core it is two things stitched together: a catalog product (the Getty hymn library, with chord charts, multitracks, lyric videos, and orchestrations) and an ecosystem product (the Sing! Conference, the Sing! Global movement, and a stream of articles, interviews, and short courses about the craft and theology of congregational singing).
The catalog covers the Gettys’ own songs ("In Christ Alone," co-written with Stuart Townend; "By Faith"; "Speak O Lord"; "He Will Hold Me Fast"; "O Church Arise"), retunings of historic hymns ("Power of the Cross," "When Trials Come"), and contributions from collaborators like Matt Boswell, Matt Papa, and Kristyn herself. Resources are sold individually or bundled, and the conference pass is a separate annual purchase.
Why hymn-leaning worship leaders prefer Sing! Worship
The single biggest practical difference between Sing! Worship and a general worship app like MultiTracks or PraiseCharts is that this one has a point of view about what congregational singing is for. Most worship apps are warehouses — every publisher, every song, every key, sorted by CCLI rank. Sing! Worship is a curated catalog with an editorial conviction: that hymns with dense theological lyrics and strong four-line melodies are what the local church most needs on Sunday morning, and that those hymns can be played with a modern band without becoming concert music.
For a worship leader trying to escape the gravity of the Hillsong/Bethel/Elevation rotation without retreating into pump-organ traditionalism, that point of view is the whole product. The Gettys are not just selling tracks. They are arguing for a kind of worship music, and the app is the most efficient way to participate in that argument with your Sunday set list.
The Getty Music catalog: the real differentiator vs. Hillsong/Bethel-dominated worship apps
The catalog is the reason this app exists. Open MultiTracks or PraiseCharts and the front page is whatever is climbing the CCLI charts this quarter — usually songs from Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, Maverick City, or whichever megachurch label is having a moment. Open Sing! Worship and the front page is the Getty catalog: their original modern hymns, retunings of historic texts ("Crown Him With Many Crowns," "When I Survey," "Be Thou My Vision"), and a growing bench of songs from collaborators in the same melodic tradition.
This sounds like a small thing. In practice it is transformative for set planning. A worship leader looking for a song on assurance can find "He Will Hold Me Fast" in twenty seconds. A pastor wanting to preach through Romans and sing the doctrine of justification can find "In Christ Alone." A church doing a Lenten series can find "Power of the Cross." The catalog is small enough to know and deep enough to use — closer to a working hymnal than a streaming library, which is exactly what most pastors say they want and almost no other app delivers.
Sing! Conference and the broader ecosystem
The Sing! Conference is held each fall in Nashville and draws several thousand worship leaders, pastors, and songwriters. Main sessions feature the Gettys leading hymn-singing in a room of thousands of voices — which is, by most accounts, the actual draw — alongside teaching from figures like John Piper, Alistair Begg, Joni Eareckson Tada, Sandy Patty, Trip Lee, and a rotating cast of pastors and theologians. Breakouts cover songwriting craft, family worship, the small-church band, and the history of hymnody. The Live Stream Pass — around $200/year — gives you everything on demand for roughly a year.
The conference is the connective tissue that makes the app feel like more than a catalog. It is also where the editorial voice of the broader Sing! Global movement comes through clearest — the conviction that the local church should sing, that pastors should care about what their church sings, and that the songs themselves should carry the weight of teaching. For worship leaders, the conference is genuinely formative; for many it is the one event they prioritize each year, and the app is how they keep that formation going between Octobers.
A focus on modern hymnody — and what that actually means
"Modern hymnody" is a term the Gettys and their collaborators have effectively defined over the last two decades. The shape is: four to six verses, strong rhyme scheme, a single melodic idea that can be sung by a congregation without rehearsal, dense doctrinal content per line, and instrumentation that can run from solo piano to full band without breaking. "In Christ Alone" is the prototype. "He Will Hold Me Fast," "Speak O Lord," "By Faith," and "Christ Our Hope in Life and Death" (the Boswell-Papa song the app hosts) all fit the mold.
For a church wanting hymn-style lyrics on Sunday — but with a drummer, a bass player, and an electric guitar — this is the catalog that delivers. The recordings in the app are made with that exact band in mind, and the chord charts are written for working musicians rather than classical players. It is the thoughtful worship leader’s worship app: narrow on purpose, deep where it matters, and unapologetic about the kind of singing it wants to encourage.
Pricing
Free tier
Free
Lyric videos, song previews, a meaningful slice of lead sheets, and access to most editorial articles. Plenty for a small church to try before committing.
Individual resource purchases
Varies — typically $3–$15 per song bundle
Buy multitracks, full chord chart packs, and stems for the specific hymns your team is learning that month. Pay-as-you-go is the most common way Sing! Worship is used.
Sing! Conference Live Stream Pass
Around $200/year
Full access to the annual Sing! Conference — every main session, breakout, and worship set streamed live and available on demand for about a year afterward.
Sing! Conference In-Person
Around $400–$600 + travel
The Nashville gathering each fall. Three days, several thousand worship leaders and pastors, large-room hymn singing, breakout tracks for songwriters and church planters.
The free tier is more generous than worship leaders expect. You can stream lyric videos, preview tracks, read most editorial articles, and pull down basic lead sheets without paying. For a smaller church that only wants to introduce a few Getty hymns a year, the free tier alone is workable.
Where money actually changes hands is on multitracks, chord chart packs, and the Sing! Conference. Multitracks and stems for a single song bundle typically run $3–$15 depending on what is included, and most teams end up buying à la carte as they learn songs rather than committing to a flat subscription. The pricing model rewards teams that work through the catalog steadily rather than dabbling.
The Sing! Conference Live Stream Pass — around $200/year — is the real "subscription" in the ecosystem and the bestValue tier for most users. It is genuinely the cheapest way to give a worship team and the senior pastor formative content on congregational singing for a year. The in-person pass plus travel runs $400–$600+ per person, which is the harder budget conversation.
Across the whole pricing surface, the Gettys make their money on conference attendance and orchestra-level resources sold to mid-size and large churches, not on locking down the basic catalog. That posture is part of why the app feels pastoral rather than predatory.
Where Sing! Worship falls behind
No deep multitrack player. The in-app player is functional — play, mute, adjust simple mix — but it is not on the level of MultiTracks.com’s Playback app, which is the industry standard for live multitrack rigs with click, guide vocals, MIDI patch changes, and Ableton integration. If your front-of-house workflow depends on serious multitrack playback, Sing! Worship is the catalog source, not the playback engine.
No real chord-chart projection. OnSong, Planning Center Music Stand, and ChartLib all do dedicated on-stage chord display better than Sing! Worship does. You can absolutely use Sing! Worship to find and buy charts, but most teams will export to a dedicated chart app for the actual Sunday-morning stand.
Narrow catalog by design. The Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, Maverick City, Vertical Worship, Phil Wickham, and CityAlight catalogs are not here in any complete form. That is the point — but it means almost no church can run on Sing! Worship alone. It is the curated layer on top of a broader subscription like CCLI SongSelect or PraiseCharts.
Discovery inside the app is uneven. The catalog is small enough that browsing works, but search by theme, scripture, or liturgical season could be much smarter. For a product whose pitch is "find the right hymn for this Sunday’s sermon," the topical and scriptural indexing is thinner than it should be (yet).
Editorial voice is identifiably Reformed-evangelical. The Gettys are Northern Irish, Anglican by background, Reformed in temperament; their conference speakers and editorial collaborators lean that direction too. The music is sung across Reformed, Anglican, Catholic, Wesleyan, and broadly evangelical congregations — but readers from outside the Reformed-evangelical world will sometimes feel a particular tradition’s voice in the articles. Real, but not a dealbreaker.
Sing! Worship vs. MultiTracks vs. PraiseCharts
Different strengths. Sing! Worship is a curated hymn-first catalog with a conference ecosystem on top. MultiTracks.com is the industry-standard multitrack platform — broadest selection of stems and tracks for almost any worship song you would actually use on a Sunday, plus the best playback app, plus rehearsal mix tools. PraiseCharts is the chord-chart and orchestration giant — every key, every arrangement, the deepest bench of brass and string parts for churches with traditional instrumentation.
Most churches use two of the three. Sing! Worship pairs naturally with either of the other two — you buy Getty hymns and a Sing! Conference pass on Sing! Worship, and you use MultiTracks or PraiseCharts for the rest of the rotation. Trying to run a worship ministry entirely off Sing! Worship would leave most teams with too narrow a catalog; trying to run it entirely off MultiTracks would leave you without the Sing! Conference content and without the curated hymn layer.
The honest rule of thumb is: pick MultiTracks if your bottleneck is "we need stems and click tracks every Sunday," pick PraiseCharts if your bottleneck is "we need chord charts in three keys and an orchestra part for the next hymn arrangement," and pick Sing! Worship if your bottleneck is "we need our team and our pastor to care about congregational hymn singing again." The Gettys solve a problem the other two do not address at all.
The bottom line
Sing! Worship is not trying to be the only worship app on your team’s phone, and it is better for it. As the catalog source for modern hymns and the front door to the Sing! Conference ecosystem, it is the most coherent worship product on the market — generous free tier, fair à la carte pricing, and a $200-ish annual conference pass that is the actual best-value purchase in the ecosystem. Pair it with MultiTracks or PraiseCharts and you have a complete worship-team stack. Skip it only if your church does not sing hymns at all — and even then, the Sing! Conference content is worth a look.
Alternatives to Sing! Worship
MultiTracks
The industry-standard multitrack platform — broadest catalog, best playback app, the engine most touring-grade church bands actually run on Sunday.
PraiseCharts
The chord-chart and orchestration giant. Every key, every arrangement, deepest bench of brass and string parts — the natural pair for churches with traditional instrumentation.
OnSong
The on-stage chord-chart app of choice for solo worship leaders and small bands. Pairs well with Sing! Worship — buy the chart there, project it from OnSong.
Hymnary
The deepest free hymn database on the internet. Strong on historic texts, tune indexing, and scriptural cross-references — the research layer beneath any modern hymnody practice.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Sing! Worship free?
- There is a generous free tier — lyric videos, song previews, basic lead sheets, and most editorial articles are accessible without paying. Multitracks, full chord-chart packs, and the Sing! Conference pass are the paid pieces. Most teams use Sing! Worship à la carte rather than as a flat subscription.
- How much does the Sing! Conference cost?
- The annual Sing! Conference Live Stream Pass runs around $200/year and gives you on-demand access for roughly a year. In-person attendance in Nashville is around $400–$600 plus travel. Pricing creeps up modestly year over year — check gettymusic.com for the current registration page.
- What tradition is Sing! Worship aligned with?
- Keith and Kristyn Getty come from a Northern Irish Anglican background and are broadly Reformed-evangelical in temperament. Their music is sung across Reformed, Anglican, Presbyterian, Baptist, Wesleyan, Methodist, Catholic, and broadly evangelical congregations. The catalog itself is doctrinally broad in the way historic hymnody tends to be.
- Can I use Sing! Worship as my only worship app?
- For most churches, no. The catalog is narrow by design — it does not include the full Hillsong, Bethel, Elevation, Maverick City, or CCLI Top 100 rotations. Most worship leaders pair Sing! Worship with MultiTracks or PraiseCharts and use it as the curated hymn layer on top.
- Does Sing! Worship include CCLI licensing?
- No — Sing! Worship sells you resources for songs, but congregational use still requires a separate CCLI license through your church’s existing subscription. The Getty catalog is registered with CCLI and reports normally through SongSelect.
- Is the Sing! Conference content worth $200/year?
- For worship leaders, pastors, and songwriters who care about congregational singing — yes, it is the best-value purchase in the ecosystem. The main sessions feature Alistair Begg, John Piper, Joni Eareckson Tada, and the Gettys themselves leading large-room hymn singing. For someone who only occasionally uses Getty songs on Sunday, the conference pass is overkill.
- What about the Getty Kids hymnal content?
- The Gettys have released a substantial family-worship and kids’ hymn catalog ("Getty Kids Hymnal" series, "Family Hymn Sing"), and that content is surfaced inside the app alongside the main catalog. Households with small children often find the kids’ hymnals the easiest entry point into the broader Getty Music ecosystem.