Top Church Management Systems | Streamline Operations

Clearstream

Bootstrapped church texting, email, and voice platform trusted by 10,000+ congregations — offering mass texting, automated workflows, unlimited email with analytics, NFC tap tags, QR codes, voicemail/call forwarding, a congregant companion app (Clearstream Tap), and deep integrations with Planning Center, Rock RMS, and other major church management systems. Ranked first in Rock RMS's 2026 customer survey.

Grain Ledger

Grain Ledger is a cloud-based fund accounting platform built for churches and ministries — offering true double-entry fund accounting with FASB 117 compliance, donor analytics, budgeting, payroll with tax filings, and GAAP-compliant reporting, now with a free iPhone companion app for mobile transaction review and payroll self-service. An official Acts 29 finance partner with integrations to Planning Center, Pushpay, Rock RMS, and Subsplash.

Text in Church

Text In Church is a subscription church communication platform for texting, email, and calling, with automated guest follow-up, Connect Cards, and a ministry phone system that keeps personal numbers private. It connects to church databases including Planning Center and is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

Continue To Give

Faith-based giving and church-management software for churches, nonprofits, and missionaries, with text and app giving, fund accounting, and the Our Church Body community app. Built by Jesse Wellhoefer; free to start, with an All Inclusive subscription option.

Parable

A church reporting and analytics platform that connects to Planning Center via nightly sync across all modules, providing automated dashboards, AI-powered natural language data queries (with answers that name individual people), giving and attendance forecasting, a modelled SQL data warehouse with BI-tool integration, and a Chrome extension that overlays engagement badges on Planning Center profiles — helping pastors be Spirit-led and data-driven, with a strict never-sell-never-train-on-AI data stance.

Flocknote

All-in-one church communication, household database, and online giving platform from a 100% employee-owned Catholic company. Trusted by 10,000+ churches, 50+ diocesan partners, and 200,000+ ministry leaders. Web-based — no app download required.

myChelper

A free, all-in-one church engagement platform offering a branded mobile app, drag-and-drop website builder, mobile giving, and small-group communication — built by a YouVersion engineer and operated by Faith Software, Inc., a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit (EIN: 42-3505436) that also builds the SOAPaDay Bible journaling app and the Agpeya Coptic Orthodox prayer book app.

CareNote

A subscription-based pastoral care platform by Rev. Donnell Wyche that helps church care teams receive, assign, and follow up on visits and prayer needs, with volunteer SMS coordination, church-management integrations, and AI Care Story briefings.

HarvestSites

Harvest is a subscription-based church platform that uses generative AI to build hosted church websites and pairs them with giving, people tools, messaging, volunteer scheduling, social posts, and a church app. James Taylor founded it in 2024 with a ministry-minded team that asks how each feature helps churches reach more people for Jesus.

Vimond VIA

Vimond VIA is a cloud-based video CMS and OTT streaming platform from Bergen, Norway, offering two tiers — Essentials (pre-configured, fast launch) and Unlimited (enterprise, modular). Churches and broadcasters build branded streaming apps across web, mobile, and smart TV with AWS-certified infrastructure, 99.999% uptime, and flexible monetization.

One Church Software

One Church Software is a subscription church management platform for people records, giving, groups, events, check-in, service planning, and communication, with a companion iOS and Android app. Founded in 2015 in South Florida, it serves churches, schools, and nonprofits from one system.

Undershepherd

Undershepherd is subscription-based pastoral care software for logging interactions, tracking life events, assigning care tasks, and syncing people data from Planning Center, Breeze, or ChurchTrac. It is a privacy-focused web app from the SolaSites team, with a scholarship path for under-resourced pastors.

ShareFaith

ShareFaith Suite is a subscription-based church toolkit for media, kids ministry, websites, church management, giving, and livestreaming, now part of Ministry Brands Amplify+.

eChurch ChurchRaise

A free, all-in-one church management platform with 80+ tools and 9 AI specialist assistants — covering people, giving, communications, website building, worship planning, small groups, signups, polls, Quick Tap QR/NFC smart links, donor analytics, and sermon-to-content pipelines, built by Faith Systems as an independent, non-VC-backed company serving churches.

Subsplash

Subsplash One is an all-in-one church platform for branded apps, websites, giving, media, livestreaming, groups, and church management, including Pulpit AI tools that turn sermons into shareable discipleship content. Tim and Kristy Turner built it so local churches can share the gospel without juggling disconnected products.

Tilma

Tilma is Glass Canvas's Catholic parish and diocesan platform for websites, formation libraries, events, people, and giving. It helps churches move from a static homepage to a shared ministry presence their own team can keep.

FlockConnect

A Church Relationship Manager (ChRM) that tracks relational connections between church members — not just attendance — to flag isolation before people drift away. Features an AI companion (Collie) with human-in-the-loop approval, official Planning Center two-way integration, visual network ring, and a dedicated security transparency page. Founded July 2025 as FlockConnect LLC by a seminary-trained pastor; Starter plan at $9/mo with Small through Network tiers coming soon.

Breeze ChMS

Simple, intuitive church management software — now officially rebranded as Tithely Church Management within the unified Tithely 3.0 platform (4,000+ churches migrated) — handling people management, online giving, events, check-in, messaging, service planning, groups, and reporting for 50,000+ churches worldwide. July 2026: Groups launched in Breeze at no extra cost (200+ churches activated in week one); 2026 roadmap also shipped multifund giving, Tithely Tap engagement uses, and speed/stability work. TithelyAI assistant remains in limited pilot.

Ministry Way

Ministry Way (formerly Ministry Match) is an AI-powered church volunteer matching tool that analyzes survey responses to connect congregation members with ministry opportunities fitting their gifts, interests, and availability, with a volunteer pipeline and follow-up automation for ongoing engagement. Rebranded from Ministry Match to Ministry Way in 2026 at ministryway.com.

Ministry Planner

A ministry operations workspace for church staff that turns one teaching-calendar entry into service plans, worship sets, and volunteer schedules, syncing with Planning Center rather than replacing it — now with free standalone scheduling, supply-drive, and roster tools.

OpenFaith

Open-source, discipleship-first church management software with a universal sync engine for Planning Center and other ChMS platforms. Features a fast table-based interface, sacrament tracking, custom fields for all data types, and an AI-native architecture for natural language interaction with church data. Currently in free alpha; the master branch has been frozen since October 2025 while the founder's primary focus is SteepleInc/church-work, though a small community (external contributor + active bug reporter) remains engaged.

Notebird

Pastoral care software helping church leaders and care teams track visits, conversations, follow-ups, and life milestones in one place — with recurring tasks, file attachments, end-to-end encryption, ChMS integrations, and care reporting — so no one falls through the cracks.

Acts2Track

Acts2Track is a web-based care ministry management tool for churches, using AI-powered pre-visit briefings and visit tracking to help volunteer teams coordinate widow care, homebound visits, and benevolence outreach. Subscription-based with a flat rate for unlimited users.

Engage Spaces

Engage Spaces is a subscription-based operations platform for ministries, denominations, and nonprofits that unifies training, groups, events, communication, and reporting under location-based pricing with unlimited users.

ChurchSoftware

Free all-in-one church management platform for 501(c)3 churches and ministries, covering people, giving, worship planning, accounting, check-in, groups, and a mobile app. A nine-person team keeps a free core, with optional paid add-ons and eight languages.

Planning Center

A complete, modular church management system trusted by 100,000+ churches across 11 integrated products — worship planning, volunteer scheduling, giving, check-ins, groups, events, and free mobile apps. Independently owned and committed to never being acquired; celebrating 20 years in 2026 with SOC 2 Type 2 compliance, PicoLabs AI integration now spanning five products (People, Services, Groups, Registrations, Check-Ins), an in-product Ask AI assistant, and a Project Phoenix design refresh.

OurChurchCare

A web-based church care management tool that helps deacons, elders, pastors, and volunteers assign families, log personal outreach, track follow-ups, and see who needs care before anyone quietly slips through the cracks. Now actively expanding with a resources library and Founding Cohort program as founder John Hicks transitions into full-time pastoral ministry.

Safehold

Safehold is a web-based children's ministry check-in system that replaces paper sign-in sheets with real-time attendance tracking, digital permission slips, activity logging, and attendance analytics — built for churches of any size.

B1 Church

Free, open-source church management platform with member app, website builder + templates, digital giving, check-in (now iOS and Android kiosk), AI-powered admin search, Claude/ChatGPT MCP integration, workflows, QR guest registration, built-in blog, rooms & resources booking, and multi-campus support — built by a Christian nonprofit serving 15,000+ churches in 30+ languages. Formerly CHUMS, redesigned 2026 with a new comparison hub vs Planning Center, Pushpay, Tithe.ly, and Breeze.

Tabernacle

Cloud-based church management software from Nagaland, India, built specifically for churches — covering member records, built-in accounting, online giving, event planning, bulk SMS and now bulk WhatsApp receipts, and reporting. Includes FaithPay, a dedicated digital donation platform (UPI, cards) with a donor mobile app in development, plus a Fiscal Statement report and a self-serve Razorpay wallet for messaging balances. Trusted by 150+ churches across Asia Pacific with free data migration and 24/7 support.

Rock RMS

Rock RMS is a free, open-source church management platform from Spark Development Network covering people, check-in, giving, communications, digital publishing, and engagement pathways, with AI Agents that act inside a staff member's own permissions.

Gracely

All-in-one church management platform with unlimited members, online giving via Stripe and PayPal, event planning, attendance tracking, volunteer scheduling, built-in accounting, a website builder, and a native iOS/Android member app — purpose-built by a Christian entrepreneur to be affordable for churches of any size. Actively developed through 2026 with monthly release notes and consistently top-rated customer support.

ChMeetings

All-in-one church management platform trusted by 7,000+ churches, ministries, and dioceses — handling people, giving (with Apple Pay & Google Pay via Stripe), events, child check-in, volunteer scheduling, worship planning, project & task management, payments via forms, fixed assets accounting, and messaging, in 26 languages. Three thoughtfully-scoped AI features: an AI Email Writing Assistant, an AI-Powered Advanced Search (Beta) that turns plain-language requests into people filters, and a read-only MCP integration for asking ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini questions about your church data — with published security, privacy, and accuracy guidance. G2 Best Support 2026 (4.9/5). Free plan available; paid tiers scaled by congregation size. Built by Jios Apps Inc, led by founder Michael Attia, whose team actively serves in church ministry. Seven web releases May–August 2026.

Pushpay

The complete church engagement platform trusted by 14,000+ churches, unifying digital giving, ChMS with AI-powered people search, custom mobile apps, livestreaming via Resi, and pastoral care via Nurture.io — now in the Staq Transformation, with Groups and Single Staq Giving delivered and AI Involvement Summary, Staq Data Lake, and Process Queues on the roadmap through September 2026.