MediaShout vs Yodeck: Which is a better fit?

Karen: My name is Karen. I am an administrative assistant. I give MediaShout a five rating. For more information, click below. When I came to work at this church, there was no media program at all. But I had seen the program MediaShout being used in another small church, and I thought, "Well, maybe this would be something that would make the church run more smoothly on a Sunday morning." So we started looking at programs, MediaShout and others as well. When we started looking for programs, I had heard of MediaShout and I had heard of ProPresenter. So I went online and I started to do some research. One of the things I love best about MediaShout, and one of the reasons we made that decision to go that direction, is because it gave us a 30-day free trial. And during that 30-day free trial period, I was able to learn how to use the program. And also, I had live phone support and lots and lots of tutorials and things to teach me about it. When I went and looked at the other program, it didn't have any kind of a free trial. And I wasn't sure about what the support would look like, because it really didn't tell you much about it on the website, so we went with MediaShout. MediaShout, at first, was incredibly intimidating to me. Now I'm pretty tech savvy, but I had never used any kind of a program like MediaShout before. But it was not hard at all. I got the basic tutorial and I printed it out and I used it as a guide, and within a week, I felt fairly comfortable. Within the end of the first month, I was very comfortable using the program. Now, I'm a lover of MediaShout, you can tell. I use the program every week. And at first it took me a couple of hours to put together the Sunday service. But now, I put everything together, including the announcements before church and everything in an hour, it's maybe even less. It's a real simple program once you get used to it. So here's what I suggest, go to the MediaShout website, download that free 30-day trial and see what it can do for you. I think you'll be amazed, even if you've never done anything like this before. We trained an 88-year-old man to be the guy who runs it in the church, and he and I work together all the time with it.

Allen V.: My name's Allen. I'm a pastor at Reach Church in Port Hawkesbury, Nova Scotia. I'm the only staff member on, we have lots of volunteers working with us as well, and I would give Yodeck five stars because I love it. Before selecting Yodeck, I did as much research as I could on Raspberry Pi-based business displays and informational displays. I didn't end up going with any of them, because Yodeck seemed the best, and I have not regretted that decision for one second. I chose Yodeck right now, as we are very small. It gave a very low bar for entry. We purchased our own Raspberry Pi. I set that up myself. You can purchase that through them, but I did it myself, and for one monitor, there's no cost, and so it allowed us to get in and to see how it worked before committing to the future with them. It was extremely simple, and it was extremely streamlined. It was very easy and quick to do. I found it incredibly easy to set up. Now, I had some experience working with Raspberry Pi already, but if you purchase it from them, it's just plug and play. So a setup is extremely easy, and the web portal to change what your displays show and when is incredibly simple. It's some of the more simple stuff I've seen out there. Well, my recommendation would be to use it. It's exceptional. It's easy to use. It has never gone down on us. They have never had their servers down. It's easy to set up. It's simple to manage and operate, whether you're just a single monitor for free, which there's no better price than that, or whether you scale up and use multiple monitors. Just incredibly simple, easy to use, no fuss, and no extra burden. In fact, it takes the burden away.