ProPresenter vs Yodeck: Which is a better fit?

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.

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.