It is hard being leader of a small church and maintaining a modest media budget. Popular worship lyric presentation software like ProPresenter, MediaShout and EasyWorship are wonderful pieces of software, but at $400 a pop they can be far out of reach for many media teams.
If you are looking for presentation software that is budget friendly than take a gander at these products. They don’t have all the bells and whistles of the best-sellers, but for free or close to it, one of these packages might all your need to present worship lyrics at your church.
Harmony
Price: $79.99
This Mac only software packs a lot of punch at such a low point. Key features include: motion lyrics, SongSelect import, HD support, live search, scripture, nursery call, themes and more.
OpenLP
Price: Free
This is a free PC worship lyric software that everyone who is on a tight budget should try. Some of the key features include: theme editor, transparency, font/text controls, alerts, song lyric importing, bible, video playback and more.
Worship Extreme
Price: $9/month
Need a cloud based worship lyric presentation software that will work on both Mac and PC? Look no further than Worship Extreme. This powerful presentation software has a lot of pro level features for a very low monthly price.
OpenSong
Price: Free
This is another free worship lyric presentation program that works on both Mac and PC. It has all the standard features you would expect from a simple presentation program with some extras that are specific to musicians like chord transposing, chord sheet printing and more.
Planning Center Online Projector
Price: $14/month
Planning Center is a pretty big deal in the church media industry, but a lot of people don’t know that they have a presentation app. This app runs from an Apple iPad and can do a lot of things most pro software applications can do.
VideoPsalm
Price: Free
This free worship presentation software that is PC only and is loved by a lot of users. It plays videos, motion backgrounds, finds scripture, organizes songs, displays music chords, multi-language display, PowerPoint integration and much more.
Creation Software
Price: £80
Designed to handle all the requirements for services, making the job quick and easy. Taking the hard work out of the preparation and producing a professional and effective service plan integrating all the various elements. From songs and hymns, bible passages, liturgical text, PowerPoint presentations Audio and video clips, YouTube clips and notices.
EpicWorship
Price: Free
EpicWorship is a free, open-source, high-quality church projection and presentation software. It is designed to not bog you down with complex User Interfaces and what-not. You can access all the features of EpicWorship very intuitively.