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ParishSOFT vs ProPresenter: Which is a better fit?

Updated on February 9th, 2025
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Summary
Key features rated by users
Features selected based on 2,770 reviews from Church Management users.
% Fit
Missing features
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Feature ratings
For Religious Organizations
2.5
Donation Management
3.3
Membership Management
4.0
Online Giving
3.7
Member Communication
NA
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Missing features
Feature ratings
For Religious Organizations
4.7
Donation Management
NA
Membership Management
NA
Online Giving
NA
Member Communication
NA
User satisfaction
4.2
User reviews110
Ease of use
4.0
Functionality
4.0
Value for money
4.1
Customer support
4.3
4.6
User reviews2,077
Ease of use
4.3
Functionality
4.5
Value for money
4.4
Customer support
4.4
Price starts from
One-time payment
Free version
Free trial
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Free version
Free trial
Best for

1 out of 2 of Parishes use ParishSOFT

ProPresenter is designed for productions of all sizes which enables users to show videos, lyrics, and graphics making it easy to create high-quality live events.

User reviews
pros & cons
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Video reviews
Mike L
Director of Operations
3.0

Mike: Hi, my name's Mike, I'm a pastoral associate. I give ParishSOFT a three out of five. For more views like this click the link below. I primarily use ParishSOFT to find just quick information on parishioners. So my job involved a lot of meetings, a lot of outreach to our parishioners. I'd go into ParishSOFT to find email addresses, and phone numbers and physical addresses, everything was there. It was a convenient resource for me. It was a lot easier than digging through an Excel spreadsheet, or looking through a physical book, definitely. There was a lot of load times, and that was frustrating. That made it harder to do... I know there is more advanced functionality in there, you could people into groups for quick communication, or contact list. And that just became so tedious because of how slow the program moved.

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Daniel J
Associate Pastor
4.0

Daniel J.: Hi, my name's Daniel. I'm at South County Bible Church. I'm the Associate Pastor here. We've been using ProPresenter for about 10 years, and I'll give it four out of five stars. We use ProPresenter every week, although not on a day-to-day basis. We use it for projecting lyrics and video content in our sanctuary on Sunday mornings. We also use it for rehearsals, but that's just for preparing for that Sunday service. What we like most about ProPresenter is that it just works for the most part. You can import all kinds of different content. It connects to a lot of the different services like SongSelect and other places that you can subscribe to that'll help you create your slides easier. It seems like no matter what kind of file I throw at it, ProPresenter can read it. In the last couple of years as the new versions of ProPresenter have come out, they've switched to a subscription base. The good thing about that is that they do seem to have a lot of new content and a lot of new features as time has gone on, and it works for the most part. They do seem to release updates so quickly that sometimes I feel like they aren't completely bug tested because we've had to, probably three times in the last year, we've had to roll back to a previous version because the new stuff they've added doesn't work right away. We've had to implement a test and see rather than just update. To be honest, the cost every year to subscribe is pretty prohibitive. Thankfully, our church is financially able to do that, but it used to be you'd buy it and it would just work for three or four years and then you'd buy the new version, so paying every year is a little bit of a burden.

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ParishSOFT

Top Features
24/43
  • Alerts/Notifications
  • API
  • Child Check-in
  • Contact Management
  • Credit Card Processing
  • Customizable Branding
  • Customizable Templates
  • Data Import/Export
  • Electronic Payments
  • Email Management
  • Member Communication
  • Reminders
  • Role-Based Permissions
  • SMS Messaging
  • Social Media Integration
  • Third-Party Integrations
  • Visitor Tracking
  • Website Management
  • Worship Planning
  • Accounting Integration
  • Activity Dashboard
  • Attendance Tracking
  • Built-in Accounting
  • Communication Management
  • Contact Database
  • Customizable Reports
  • Donation Management
  • Event Management
  • Event Scheduling
  • Forms Management
  • For Religious Organizations
  • Member Directory
  • Member Portal
  • Membership Management
  • Mobile Access
  • Multi-Location
  • Online Calendar
  • Online Giving
  • Pledge Management
  • Registration Management
  • Reporting & Statistics
  • Small Group Management
  • Volunteer Management
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ProPresenter

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ParishSOFT
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
ProPresenter
Deployment
  • Cloud, SaaS, Web-Based
  • Desktop - Mac
  • Desktop - Windows
  • Desktop - Linux
  • Desktop - Chromebook
  • On-Premise - Windows
  • On-Premise - Linux
  • Mobile - Android
  • Mobile - iPhone
  • Mobile - iPad
Support
  • Email/Help Desk
  • FAQs/Forum
  • Knowledge Base
  • Phone Support
  • 24/7 (Live rep)
  • Chat
Training
  • In Person
  • Live Online
  • Webinars
  • Documentation
  • Videos
ParishSOFT
  • By Ministry Brands
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2005
ProPresenter
  • By Renewed Vision
  • Located in United States
  • Founded in 2000
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