Top 10 Best Free Church Software
Tithely is a church management software that offers all the tools you need to run your church from a single platform. Tithely offers:
An online giving platform, including text-to-give, recurring giving, and more
A communications tool (text and email) with a drag-and-drop email builder, email scheduling, and more
A contact database management system with customizable fields and a search and filter tool
A website and church app builder for building beautiful, custom sites and apps in minutes
A media tool for accessing customizable graphics (see below)
Event management, including registration, child check-in, and volunteer management
And more...
What's free: Tithely's online giving platform is free to use, with no monthly subscription fees or contract. And, Tithely Media–a free church media library–is also free to use.
What's not free: Tithely costs $99 a month to use absolutely everything (Tithely Giving is always free!)
Tithely Media is a free tool that helps churches to download and customize graphics for social media channels, their church website, sermon series, and more. While not technically a church management solution, Tithely Media can help you create awesome custom content for your church needs.
With Tithely Media you can:
Resize, flip, and customize downloadable images
Apply frames, filters, stickers and shapes
Change the color saturation
Draw on or upload your own image
And more!
Tithely People is a contact database solution for storing and managing your church member information. Although Tithely People syncs beautifully with other Tithely products, it can also be used as a standalone solution.
Here's what Tithely People includes:
Customizable fields for inputting the kind of member data that's important to you
Filter and search for people according to custom information
Run background checks quickly and conveniently
Connect contacts in relationships and households
Group people in any way you want to
And more!
What's free: Tithely People is free to use when you also use Tithely Giving.
Breeze is an all-in-one church management solution that can help ministry leaders manage their people, staff, and volunteers.
Breeze includes:
Tools for communication with volunteers
Ministry check-in, including child and volunteer check-in
Staff resources for managing workflows
A built-in online giving platform, including donation tracking and text giving
Text and email communication tools
And more!
What's free: Breeze will move over all your data for free, meaning that setup with their platform is smooth and simple.
What's not free: To use all of their tools, Breeze charges $67 a month.
PastorsLine helps church leaders to text and email their visitors and members. It's not an all-in-one solution, but a standalone communications tool.
With PastorsLine, you can:
Set up automated text messages to first-time visitors
Send updates, reminders, and even emergency texts
Integrate with other church management tools
And more
What's free: PastorsLine offers a free trial with 500 text messages included.
What's not free: You'll have to pay to use PastorsLine for more than one month. These trials range from $15 to $750 per month.
ChurchTrac is a church management solution with a wide range of features for ministry leaders.
ChurchTrac offers tools for:
What's free: ChurchTrac's member management ("People") tool is free to use, along with a few of their core features.
What's not free: To use anything beyond their People tool, you'll need to pay a minimum of $48 per month for a 1,000-person church (their pricing scales up with the size of your congregation).
Elvanto is a church management solution that offers a range of advanced features to help your church manage their members, plan events, send out communications, and much more.
Elvanto provides tools for:
Database management, including reporting
Event management, including registration and service planning
Child check-in
Sending text messages and email
Attendance tracking
Small group management
Online giving
And more
What's free: Elvanto is one of the most advanced church management products out there, and doesn't offer any free products.
What's not free: You can use Elvanto's church management solution + giving platform for $50 a month–or pay an extra $45 for their custom app.
Continue to Give is primarily an online giving platform for churches, missionaries, and ministries. But they also offer tools for church management.
Here are some of the things you can do with Continue to Give:
Offer giving tools via text, app, online giving form, and more
Generate reporting
Manage small groups
Create picture directories
Offer child check-in
Build custom forms
What's free: Continue to Give offers a free version of their online giving tool, but the transaction rates are high (3.2% + $0.45). They also offer free setup and free coaching.
What's not free: For $29 a month, you can use Continue to Give's online giving tool with a 2.7% + $0.25 per transaction rate.
Churchteams is a church management solution that offers giving tools, volunteer coordination, group management, event registration, and more.
Churchteams can help you:
What's free: Churchteams offers a free 30-day trial.
What's not free: Churchteams' monthly pricing ranges from $37-$227, depending on what you use and how many church members you have.
Subsplash is a church management solution that offers tools for online giving, livestreaming, event planning, volunteer scheduling, and more.
Here are just a few of the things you can do with Subsplash:
Schedule volunteers
Build and send emails
Manage small groups
Build a custom website
Manage events
What's free: Subsplash's Giving platform is free to use.
What's not free: Subsplash's base package costs $99 a month, plus a $499 setup fee.
Which Free Church Software is Right for Your Church?
When choosing a church management solution for your church, you'll want to look for a solution that fits your budget and specific needs.
Again, a solution that is 100% free may not be a great choice. But a solution that offers free products to some degree (such as a free giving platform) can be a great choice!
What Software Do Churches Use?
Churches use a range of software products to manage their people, events, workflows, and more. Often, a large customer base indicates that a product is a great choice. Tithely, for example, has 37,000 customers–a great sign that this is both affordable and high-value.
What Does Church Management Software Do?
Church management software can perform just about any administrative function that a church may need. That includes any internal operations or staff/volunteer management needed for events; marketing needs, such as online marketing, email communication, and more; and online giving.
Finally, church management software can provide much-needed insight into the health of a church. That can include member engagement, giving stats, and more.
What to Look For in Church Management Software?
Look for ease of use, functionality, and affordability. We recommend a software that charges one flat fee, so that you don't need to pay more as you grow!
