Most church management tools were built for administration — tracking attendance, managing donations, coordinating services. But what about the actual mission? OpenFaith is a new breed of church software designed around discipleship first, with powerful data sync that connects to the tools your church already uses.^1
At its core, OpenFaith is a universal sync engine that integrates with your existing Church Management Suite — starting with Planning Center, with Church Community Builder, Tithely, Subsplash, and Rock RMS coming soon. It keeps every system in sync bidirectionally and in real time, so you can adopt OpenFaith alongside your current tools without the painful migration process that usually comes with switching church software. Edit a person's record in OpenFaith, and it's updated in Planning Center within seconds — and vice versa.^2
What sets OpenFaith apart is how it rethinks the interface. Everything is displayed as a table — people, groups, teams, events, donations — all visible at once without bouncing between screens. Editing takes one click instead of five. Filtering is instant across every data type. Custom fields work on everything, not just people. And you can link any entity to any other — groups to people, teams to events, whatever your ministry needs.^3
OpenFaith also understands ministry at a theological level. It supports sacraments out of the box — salvation, baptism, receiving the Holy Spirit — so you can track spiritual milestones without hacking custom fields. You can even gate access to certain teams or groups based on spiritual qualifications, like requiring prayer team members to have completed foundational steps.^3
Built by Izak Filmalter, a pastor at Table Church in St. Petersburg, FL who has been building church software since 2019. After years of seeing churches held hostage by fragmented, dated systems, Izak felt the Lord speak to him in spring 2025 about building something new. His GitHub bio says it simply: "I feel him smile when I code."^4
The entire project is open source under the FaithBase-AI organization on GitHub. OpenFaith is also being built AI-native — talk to your AI church assistant to create events, modify runsheets, or generate custom reports using natural language.^6
Platforms: Web
Pricing: Free (currently in alpha; paid subscription and free self-hosted option planned)
