Church Presenter - 2026 Pricing, Features, Reviews & Alternatives

Church Presenter is free, open-source worship presentation software for Windows, macOS and Linux. It puts songs, scripture, slides, video, live captions and broadcast graphics on your screens from one application — with no subscriptions, no per-seat fees and no feature tiers.

Songs & Lyrics

Organize an unlimited song library across as many songbooks as you need, indexed straight from a folder. Search by title or number with contains, starts-with, exact-match and phrase filters. Edit songs in the built-in editor, run bilingual worship with two languages side-by-side or stacked, and give your band a look-ahead view of the current and next section. Imports OpenLyrics, SongPro and ChurchPresenter formats, with a bundled converter for your existing library.

Bible & Scripture

Put any verse on screen in seconds across all 66 books, with dual translations, multi-verse ranges, whole-Bible search, history and a built-in Strong's Hebrew/Greek dictionary. Connect a live speech-to-text feed and Church Presenter listens for spoken references — stated outright or simply the next verse in a passage — and stages or goes live with the matching verse automatically, tiered by confidence so only clear matches jump straight to the screen.

Slides & Presentations

Present PowerPoint, Keynote and PDF files natively — no Microsoft or Apple software required. Entrance, emphasis and exit animations, per-paragraph text builds, click-step sequencing, motion paths and slide transitions all play back live. Speaker notes flow straight to your stage monitor.

Media, Graphics & Canvas

Run image slideshows with crossfade and auto-advance, play local or streaming audio and video (VLC-powered, with full transport control and audio device selection), and display animated Lottie lower thirds with reusable text presets and a built-in generator. The canvas scene compositor layers images, text, video, shapes, gradients, clocks, QR codes, live cameras, screen capture, web pages and Bible verses into a mini production switcher inside the app.

Live Captions, Q&A and Announcements

Caption your service in real time from a speech-to-text server, with live translation shown as transcription, translation or both. Let the congregation submit questions by scanning a QR code, then approve, sort, queue and vote on them before anything goes live. Add on-screen announcements and countdown timers with custom colors, animations and end-of-countdown messages.

Stage Monitor & Service Planning

Give the platform its own confidence screen with current and next slide, clock, countdown, section labels and presenter notes in vertical, horizontal or quadrant layouts. Build services by drag-and-drop from every content type, save and reopen schedules, and rely on autosave, crash recovery, color labels, per-item notes and full undo/redo.

Remote Control & Integrations

A built-in server lets phones and tablets browse content, build the schedule and go live over your network — with desktop approval prompts, per-device allow/block lists and optional API-key protection. Link a second instance so an overflow room or secondary campus mirrors whatever goes live, with automatic reconnect and heartbeat monitoring. Integrates with Blackmagic ATEM (upload lower thirds to the media pool and drive the upstream key automatically), OBS Studio (per-content-type scene switching) and Bitfocus Companion (HTTP buttons or a native Companion Satellite connection).

Reporting & Personalization

Track every song and verse presented and export date-filtered CSV/Excel reports for CCLI licensing, plus usage charts over any period. The interface is available in 14 languages with 9 themes, a guided first-run wizard, comprehensive keyboard shortcuts, portable settings export/import, automatic update checks and crash recovery.

Released under the GNU GPL v3 — free to use, free to modify, free forever.