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This company has a limited trial version of 70 songs to download. The full version has over 1250 hundred songs! (more being added each year.) NOTE: This software projects the MUSICAL NOTES not just the text! Both shaped notes and conventional notation are available. These slides are NOT simply scanned in images from songbooks. Each slide is made and designed for electronic presentation. It requires Microsoft PowerPoint to operate.
The publisher reports these features:
Projects both Lyrics and Music
Uses PowerPoint
Has Large Lyrics
Selection of older and newer hymns
CCLI not needed - copyrights are already paid
Easy to install and use
New artwork - not scanned
Shape Note music notation
Future volumes to be released
Users input used in selecting new material
Now has a Spanish version!
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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 and display song lyrics, notices and bible passages
Use images, movies and live video as backgrounds to text
Tutorial videos make operation quick and easy to learn
Create slides with multiple simultaneous transitions
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.
PC-Projector Serial Control
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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.
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With Freepath, increase the impact of your message to your congregation through dynamic, rich media presentations. Simply drag your PowerPoint slides and easily show them with music, video, images and websites. No need to create, upload or convert files. A free trial is available. Features include:
Drag, drop and show!
Use your content "as is"
Easy to use
Affordable
Create Engaging sermons
Play videos with PowerPoint
Autoplay and looping video
Save prep time
Manage multiple PowerPoints
Use content you already have!
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One of the most popular worship software packages used by churches. This company has a free trial version to download.
The publisher reports these features:
Dual monitor support: Control the presentation completely independent of the projector display.
Site license install on as many computers as you need.
Rich media support: Display Song lyrics, Bible verses, announcements, sermon points, PowerPoint, pictures, video clips, audio clips, DVDs and DVD clips, CD tracks play-lists and random play, and Shockwave/Flash movies, all in one easy to use interface.
CD player, DVD player, and video clip player all have full control including volume.
Easily import songs from CCLI Song Select online, CCLI Song Select software, and Integrity Worship Software 3.0-3.5. Also features advanced whole-song-paste for importing songs from Word documents, text files, etc.
Manual song entry features as-you-type spell checking and projector line-length indicators.
Announcement/sermon point builder. PowerPoint not required.
Automatic looping of announcement and picture slideshows. You can even edit songs and queue lists while announcements or slideshows are running.
90 picture backgrounds and 9 loopable video backgrounds included (+ add your own).
Automatic data backup.
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This is a powerful presentation software for Apple Computers. Not specifically a worship software product.
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This is a product for Apple OS X systems.
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Church presentation software for both Windows® and Macintosh® OS X platforms. LiveWorship's has a graphical interface. Drag and drop controls. It's non-linear control uses slide thumbnail images that display with one click. A flexible database keeps all of your song lyrics, backgrounds, Bible translations, video, and music at immediately available. You can edit presentations "on-the-fly" so you never have to interrupt your presentation to add slides, change slides, fonts, backgrounds, and more.
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Worship and song display software for churches, designed to easily display songs, PowerPoint presentations and so on to your congregation, using dual screen technologies to seamlessly control projection of words for songs and PowerPoint presentations.
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This is probably one of the most unique worship software products listed. It is HTML based software that can be used "on stage", either in single or dual monitor setup. Very suitable for spontaneous and free flowing-worship etc and can be controlled by the leader or performer if used in that setting. A unique feature is the ability to add a foot pedal to allow a performer to control the presentation "hands free". Another unique feature is the ability to show chords as well as user notes to the leader "on stage" without showing them to the audience.
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According to the press release, this software is now free. The press release states: ". . . software that enables projection of songs, scripture, texts, etc, for all your meetings. And now we are giving it away! . . . "
This software comes with 1200 public domain songs when you register the free version and you only pay if you want the two monitor version. This software is based in the UK. If you have used this "free" software then please contact me with comments about your experience.
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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.
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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:
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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:
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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.
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Display song lyrics, scriptures, videos, announcements, and nursery alerts using multiple screens while simultaneously teleprompting and running foyer announcements. Features:
1600+ preloaded songs.
7 Versions of the Bible Including Spanish.
Nursery Alerts.
Separate Channel Teleprompting.
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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
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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:
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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).
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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
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PowerWorship is an add-in for enhancing Microsoft PowerPoint for worship. This software is now free!
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PowerSong is completely free and open source unlike most other church presentation software.
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Includes "genlock" feature to allow switching overlay. Multiple Output Sources: enables users who have more than one output source (such as a video projector combined with monitors) to get the optimal picture on every screen, not just the "main" screen. Lots of song search features. This company has a trial version to download. Version 4.4 is now out.
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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.
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A free worship software program
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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.
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We have been made aware of yet another new open source worship software product called "DreamBeam".
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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:
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Type or paste the text in the editor and WorshipCenter Pro creates all of the slides for you and displays them with professional transitions and effects. WorshipCenter Pro also features a built-in scripture database and support for Powerpoint, video files, images, Flash presentations and web pages. Features include:
Point-and-click interface.
Text over video
4,000 hymns included
Bible database
PowerPoint support
Dual-monitor support
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Worship software specifically designed for planning and organizing your worship service. This is not song display software. “Planning Center Online” 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
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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.
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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
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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.
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ExpoSong is a free, opensource worship lyrics projection software for Windows and Ubuntu/Debian Linux. For more information, visit the features page.
Lyric Presentation and Text/Announcement Presentations
Automatic timer
Switch backgrounds during presentation
Import from OpenSong and SongSelect
English and German versions available
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ExpoSong is a free, opensource worship lyrics projection software for Windows and Ubuntu/Debian Linux. For more information, visit the features page.
Lyric Presentation and Text/Announcement Presentations
Automatic timer
Switch backgrounds during presentation
Import from OpenSong and SongSelect
English and German versions available
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Worship Software Selection Guide
Choosing worship projection software? This guide walks you step by step through the process of comparing and rating the right worship software program for your needs. Available as html, pdf and xls.
The worship software listed below is designed to be used with video projectors to display song lyrics, announcements, scriptures and other media during worship services. Unlike general presentation programs such as PowerPoint, these software programs are all specifically designed for worship displays. Most do song lyrics without music notes. Most are stand alone products but a few work as PowerPoint add-ons or may require you to own PowerPoint to function. See each website for specifics.
Paperless Hymnal
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This company has a limited trial version of 70 songs to download. The full version has over 1250 hundred songs! (more being added each year.) NOTE: This software projects the MUSICAL NOTES not just the text! Both shaped notes and conventional notation are available. These slides are NOT simply scanned in images from songbooks. Each slide is made and designed for electronic presentation. It requires Microsoft PowerPoint to operate.
The publisher reports these features:
Projects both Lyrics and Music
Uses PowerPoint
Has Large Lyrics
Selection of older and newer hymns
CCLI not needed - copyrights are already paid
Easy to install and use
New artwork - not scanned
Shape Note music notation
Future volumes to be released
Users input used in selecting new material
Now has a Spanish version!
Read our Full Review of Paperless Hymnal
Presentation Manager
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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 and display song lyrics, notices and bible passages
Use images, movies and live video as backgrounds to text
Tutorial videos make operation quick and easy to learn
Create slides with multiple simultaneous transitions
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.
PC-Projector Serial Control
Read our Full Review of Presentation Manager
Media Shout
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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.
Read our Full Review of Media Shout
FreePath
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With Freepath, increase the impact of your message to your congregation through dynamic, rich media presentations. Simply drag your PowerPoint slides and easily show them with music, video, images and websites. No need to create, upload or convert files. A free trial is available. Features include:
Drag, drop and show!
Use your content "as is"
Easy to use
Affordable
Create Engaging sermons
Play videos with PowerPoint
Autoplay and looping video
Save prep time
Manage multiple PowerPoints
Use content you already have!
Read our Full Review of FreePath
Worship Him!
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One of the most popular worship software packages used by churches. This company has a free trial version to download.
The publisher reports these features:
Dual monitor support: Control the presentation completely independent of the projector display.
Site license install on as many computers as you need.
Rich media support: Display Song lyrics, Bible verses, announcements, sermon points, PowerPoint, pictures, video clips, audio clips, DVDs and DVD clips, CD tracks play-lists and random play, and Shockwave/Flash movies, all in one easy to use interface.
CD player, DVD player, and video clip player all have full control including volume.
Easily import songs from CCLI Song Select online, CCLI Song Select software, and Integrity Worship Software 3.0-3.5. Also features advanced whole-song-paste for importing songs from Word documents, text files, etc.
Manual song entry features as-you-type spell checking and projector line-length indicators.
Announcement/sermon point builder. PowerPoint not required.
Automatic looping of announcement and picture slideshows. You can even edit songs and queue lists while announcements or slideshows are running.
90 picture backgrounds and 9 loopable video backgrounds included (+ add your own).
Automatic data backup.
Read our Full Review of Worship Him!
Keynote by Apple
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This is a powerful presentation software for Apple Computers. Not specifically a worship software product.
Read our Full Review of Keynote by Apple
ProPresenter
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This is a product for Apple OS X systems.
Read our Full Review of ProPresenter
LiveWorship
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Church presentation software for both Windows® and Macintosh® OS X platforms. LiveWorship's has a graphical interface. Drag and drop controls. It's non-linear control uses slide thumbnail images that display with one click. A flexible database keeps all of your song lyrics, backgrounds, Bible translations, video, and music at immediately available. You can edit presentations "on-the-fly" so you never have to interrupt your presentation to add slides, change slides, fonts, backgrounds, and more.
Read our Full Review of LiveWorship
Worship Presenter
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Worship and song display software for churches, designed to easily display songs, PowerPoint presentations and so on to your congregation, using dual screen technologies to seamlessly control projection of words for songs and PowerPoint presentations.
Read our Full Review of Worship Presenter
Worship Session
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This is probably one of the most unique worship software products listed. It is HTML based software that can be used "on stage", either in single or dual monitor setup. Very suitable for spontaneous and free flowing-worship etc and can be controlled by the leader or performer if used in that setting. A unique feature is the ability to add a foot pedal to allow a performer to control the presentation "hands free". Another unique feature is the ability to show chords as well as user notes to the leader "on stage" without showing them to the audience.
Read our Full Review of Worship Session
Sing and Read ("Software for Worship")
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According to the press release, this software is now free. The press release states: ". . . software that enables projection of songs, scripture, texts, etc, for all your meetings. And now we are giving it away! . . . "
This software comes with 1200 public domain songs when you register the free version and you only pay if you want the two monitor version. This software is based in the UK. If you have used this "free" software then please contact me with comments about your experience.
Read our Full Review of Sing and Read ("Software for Worship")
EasyWorship
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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.
Read our Full Review of EasyWorship
Worship Assistant
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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:
Read our Full Review of Worship Assistant
SongPro
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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:
Read our Full Review of SongPro
SongShowPlus Worship Song Display Software
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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.
Read our Full Review of SongShowPlus Worship Song Display Software
ChurchView Pro
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Display song lyrics, scriptures, videos, announcements, and nursery alerts using multiple screens while simultaneously teleprompting and running foyer announcements. Features:
1600+ preloaded songs.
7 Versions of the Bible Including Spanish.
Nursery Alerts.
Separate Channel Teleprompting.
Read our Full Review of ChurchView Pro
SlideGen
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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
Read our Full Review of SlideGen
Power Music
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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:
Read our Full Review of Power Music
Song Base & Video Presenter
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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).
Read our Full Review of Song Base & Video Presenter
Songview
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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
Read our Full Review of Songview
PowerWorship
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PowerWorship is an add-in for enhancing Microsoft PowerPoint for worship. This software is now free!
Read our Full Review of PowerWorship
PowerSong
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PowerSong is completely free and open source unlike most other church presentation software.
Read our Full Review of PowerSong
Words of Worship
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Includes "genlock" feature to allow switching overlay. Multiple Output Sources: enables users who have more than one output source (such as a video projector combined with monitors) to get the optimal picture on every screen, not just the "main" screen. Lots of song search features. This company has a trial version to download. Version 4.4 is now out.
Read our Full Review of Words of Worship
Presenter
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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.
Read our Full Review of Presenter
ZionWorx
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A free worship software program
Read our Full Review of ZionWorx
EasySlides
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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.
Read our Full Review of EasySlides
DreamBeam Open Source Worship Software
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We have been made aware of yet another new open source worship software product called "DreamBeam".
Read our Full Review of DreamBeam Open Source Worship Software
OpenSong
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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:
Read our Full Review of OpenSong
WorshipCenter Pro
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Type or paste the text in the editor and WorshipCenter Pro creates all of the slides for you and displays them with professional transitions and effects. WorshipCenter Pro also features a built-in scripture database and support for Powerpoint, video files, images, Flash presentations and web pages. Features include:
Point-and-click interface.
Text over video
4,000 hymns included
Bible database
PowerPoint support
Dual-monitor support
Read our Full Review of WorshipCenter Pro
Planning Center Online
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Worship software specifically designed for planning and organizing your worship service. This is not song display software. “Planning Center Online” 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
Read our Full Review of Planning Center Online
Service Builder
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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.
Read our Full Review of Service Builder
Church Presenter
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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
Read our Full Review of Church Presenter
OpenLP
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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.
Read our Full Review of OpenLP
ExpoSong
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ExpoSong is a free, opensource worship lyrics projection software for Windows and Ubuntu/Debian Linux. For more information, visit the features page.
Lyric Presentation and Text/Announcement Presentations
Automatic timer
Switch backgrounds during presentation
Import from OpenSong and SongSelect
English and German versions available
Read our Full Review of ExpoSong
Marietta Software
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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.
Read our Full Review of Marietta Software
Lyrics Software
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Free song display software from Great Britain. They have a free trial version.
Read our Full Review of Lyrics Software
Datasoul
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GPL license free song projection software runs as Java software on Linux, Windows or Max. Available in English, Brazilian Portuguese and German languages.
Read our Full Review of Datasoul
Digital Songs and Hymns
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A new PowerPoint based worship software product that projects both words and notes on the screen. They have over 900 songs available but you must supply your own CCLI license.
Read our Full Review of Digital Songs and Hymns
Renpad Worship
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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.
Read our Full Review of Renpad Worship
SongProjector
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Song Projector's user interface is accessible and understandable for all users, without limiting functionality for the more demanding user.
Read our Full Review of SongProjector
ShowNak
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Worship software with the special feature of being able to smoothly scroll text.
Read our Full Review of ShowNak
VideoPress
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Free Worship software from Sweden. Download and run!
Read our Full Review of VideoPress
Emcee Pro
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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.
Read our Full Review of Emcee Pro
Score Chart
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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.
Read our Full Review of Score Chart
Accent PowerSearch
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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.
Read our Full Review of Accent PowerSearch
Church Music Organizer
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Church Music Organiser is a Microsoft Windows-based computer program designed to help small to medium-sized churches organise their congregational music.
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VerseVIEW
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VerseVIEW is a free Bible verse presentation software showing multiple verses side by side on a project screen. It is also useful for people reading Bible in multiple languages.
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Lyricue
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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.
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Reviews of worship software on other websites:
www.churchmedia.net/forums/general-worship-software/41322-worship-software-do-you-use.html
www.dni-inc.com
www.thepeatgroup.com/MforM/presentation.html
Discontinued Worship Software
CCLI Worship Song Copyright Clearinghouse: The place to go to pay fees to allow
your church to use 200,000+ copyrighted songs. Download lyrics and music sheets available.
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