Comparison
Planning Center alternative for churches
Planning Center isn't presentation software: it's a modular church management suite, and the module that competes with Worshi is Services. It plans the service and schedules volunteers, but it doesn't project (for that it relies on ProPresenter). Worshi does all of that in a single tool, and translates the sermon live too.
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Who Worshi is for
For churches whose challenge is Sunday itself
If you want one tool to prepare the service and project it: the setlist, the lyrics with chords and each musician's key on the web, and the room screen, the stage display and the livestream output with its free app for Mac or Windows. And if some of your congregation struggles to follow the sermon in English, Worshi translates it live.
How Worshi really differs
Both prepare Sunday's setlist and both know who's playing. The difference is that Worshi goes all the way to the screen, translates the sermon, and puts the whole service on every musician's phone with no paid add-ons.
It projects, not just plans
With Services you plan the service, and then you need another program from another company, with its own subscription, to put it on the screen. In Worshi, the setlist you built is what gets projected, with its free desktop app for Mac and Windows: nothing to rebuild and nothing to copy over.
The sermon, in every language
Worshi listens to the sermon and delivers it translated a few seconds later, as subtitles on the screen and on the stream, and as a voice, in 78 languages. Included in Pro and Premium. Services doesn't advertise anything like it.
The band, with the service in their pocket
During the service, every musician follows the lyrics and chords on their phone or tablet, each in their own key and turning their own pages. Works with Bluetooth foot pedals that send the page-turn keys.
Everyone's key, without touching the song
Every song transposes by semitones, up or down, and each musician keeps their own key for that song. The guitarist sees it in G and the keyboard player in C, without editing the song for everyone else.
Streaming with a URL
The livestream output is a web address with a transparent background: paste it into an OBS browser source and the lyrics appear over the broadcast, with no plugins, while you project with the desktop app.
Your church's public songbook
Every church has its own online songbook with its own URL to share with the congregation, showing the lyrics of published songs and their key.
Live translation
Everyone in your church understands the sermon, whatever language they speak
Worshi listens to the sermon and, a few seconds later, delivers it translated: as subtitles on the screen and on the stream, and with a voice that reads it in the other language. No interpreter, no special equipment: the computer that runs your projection, with the desktop app, and the audio from your mixer or a microphone.
On the projector and on the stream, with the size, position and background band you choose.
A voice reads the translation through the audio output you choose: speakers in a separate room, or headphones.
The preacher's language is detected automatically: a guest speaker doesn't mean changing anything.
Subtitles in the same language as the sermon, for people who are hard of hearing. Uses half the hours.
Included in Pro and Premium, with hours every month. See pricing →
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Worshi and Planning Center, side by side
Information from Planning Center's official website, checked in October 2026: the Services, Music Stand, integrations and pricing pages, and the languages article in their help center. If anything has changed since then, their website always takes precedence.
| Feature | Worshi | Planning Center |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | A single tool for Sunday: song library, setlist, musicians and projection (the latter with the desktop app) | A modular church management suite. The module that competes with Worshi is Services: “Service planning and volunteer scheduling” |
| Projecting lyrics in the room | Yes, it's part of the product: room screen, stage display and backgrounds, with its free app for Mac or Windows | Services doesn't project. ProPresenter, a separate program with its own subscription, imports Services plans |
| Interface languages | English, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan | English only: their help center says there are no immediate plans for other languages, and site buttons and emails aren't translated |
| Price | Free-forever plan; Pro at €19.99 a month, with 2 h of live translation, and Premium at €67.99 with 15 h (VAT included). 15 days of Pro free, no card required | Services: free for up to 5 team members; then $15, $32, $69, $115, $179 or $239/month depending on how many people can log in |
| Chords and transposition | Yes, in ChordPro, American or Latin notation, transposition by semitones, and each musician keeps their own key | Yes: multiple keys and arrangements per song, with chord charts imported from SongSelect, PraiseCharts or MultiTracks |
| Sheet music by instrument | Yes: several PDFs or images per song, each with its own label and key | Yes: PDFs in the service plan, and Music Stand to read and annotate them |
| Musicians follow the lyrics during the service | Yes, live mode on phone or tablet with the whole service, in each person's key; each musician turns their own pages, they aren't synced | Music Stand turns pages across several devices at once, but it's a separate paid add-on ($5/month for up to 50 members) |
| Live sermon translation | Yes: subtitles and translated voice in 78 languages, on screen and on the stream. Included in Pro (2 h a month) and Premium (15 h) | Not part of what they advertise |
| Volunteer scheduling | Yes: availability requests by date, time away, monthly planning with minimums per position, reminders and substitutes | Yes, and it's what they do best: availability, blockout dates, email scheduling requests, templates and auto-scheduling |
| Stage display | Yes: current slide, next slide, notes and timer, from the desktop app | Not part of what Services advertises |
| Streaming output | Browser source URL with a transparent background for OBS, from the desktop app | Services doesn't advertise a lyrics output for the broadcast |
| CCLI report | Report by period, downloadable as a PDF, which you submit by hand | Yes, and automatic: “Report your song usage to CCLI automatically” |
| Public songbook for the congregation | Yes, every church has its own online songbook with its own URL | Lets you share the service plan in a public view, which isn't the same thing |
Frequently asked questions
Does Planning Center project lyrics on the church screen?
Their Services page doesn't advertise it: it talks about planning the service, scheduling volunteers and preparing the team, not about what the congregation sees. For projection, their site offers an integration with ProPresenter, which is software from another company that you pay for separately. Worshi projects on its own: the room screen, the stage display and the livestream output all come from its free desktop app for Mac and Windows, using the same setlist you prepared on the web, with no second subscription.
Does Planning Center work for a multilingual church?
Not in the interface. Their own help center says there are no immediate plans to support Planning Center in other languages, and that videos, documentation and support are English-only; you can write the names of your events, ministries and assignments in your own language, but site buttons and automated emails aren't translated. Worshi's interface is available in English, Spanish, Portuguese and Catalan, it shows chords in American (C, Dm, G7) or Latin (Do, Rem, Sol7) notation, whichever each musician prefers, and it translates the sermon live into 78 languages.
How much does Planning Center Services cost?
Their site charges by the number of people who can log in. There's a free plan for up to 5 team members, and after that it's $15/month for up to 20 members, $32 for up to 50, $69 for up to 150, $115 for up to 400, $179 for up to 1,000 and $239 for unlimited members. Music Stand, the app your musicians use to read their sheet music, is extra: its page lists it at $5/month for teams of up to 50 members and $10/month for up to 150. Worshi has a free plan to get started; Pro costs €19.99 a month and Premium, with 15 h of live translation, €67.99, VAT included. You get 15 days of Pro when you sign up, no card required, and then you choose a plan.
Does Worshi replace Planning Center?
It replaces Services, the module that plans the service, and it also covers what Services doesn't do: projection and live translation of the sermon. Worshi focuses on the service itself; if you use Planning Center for other areas of church life, like your member database or giving, you can keep doing so.
Can I use both at the same time?
Yes, although there's currently no integration between Worshi and Planning Center. The easiest setup is to run the whole service in Worshi (setlist, team, musicians and projection) and keep Planning Center for the rest of the church.
Can I move my songs from Planning Center to Worshi?
Yes, with AI import on the Pro and Premium plans: paste the song text, upload a PDF or take photos of your songbook, and Worshi rebuilds the sections and where each chord goes. It's worth checking the result before saving. You can also type them into its chord editor, in ChordPro.
Which one should I choose if my problem is scheduling volunteers?
Worshi asks for availability by date (with a link you can send by WhatsApp or email, even to people without an account), keeps track of each person's time away, suggests the month's schedule while respecting the minimum for each position, sends reminders and lets people ask for a substitute. And it also takes care of the rest of Sunday (lyrics, keys, the screen) in the same place.
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