EasyWorship vs ProPresenter:
Which is right for your church?

Is EasyWorship cheaper than ProPresenter?

Yes. EasyWorship is cheaper for one computer and the price difference widens when using two or more computers.

EasyWorship starts at $210 per year with a campus license included, so you can install it on as many computers, for as many users, as your church campus needs. ProPresenter starts at $289 per year for a single-seat license, which covers one computer. Therefore, a church with one computer saves $79 a year with EasyWorship.

The gap grows with every computer you add. Two ProPresenter seats cost at least $578 per year, and its campus license starts at $649 per year for up to 20 seats. Both cost far more than any EasyWorship plan and every EasyWorship plan covers unlimited computers.

EasyWorship offers Premium Media for $120 per year ($10 monthly) with more than 50,100 pieces of content. ProPresenter offers ProContent with 50,000 pieces of content for $199 per year plus a $99 setup fee. This widens the price difference even more in favor of EasyWorship.

In addition, ProPresenter charges for copyrighted Bibles per translation per computer, while EasyWorship charges once per translation regardless of the number of machines.

Which is easier for volunteers to learn?

EasyWorship.

Its simpler workflow is especially well suited to churches that rely on rotating volunteers. Even Renewed Vision’s own EasyWorship comparison guide describes EasyWorship as “simple and straightforward to use” and “designed with Sunday mornings in mind.”

That simplicity matters when the person running the presentation changes from week to week. Training is not just something a church does when it first buys the software. Every new volunteer has to learn the workflow, so the time it takes someone to become comfortable in the booth becomes an ongoing operational cost.

ProPresenter offers considerably more production depth, and some reviewers find it easy to use once they know the software. But its learning curve does come up in user reviews. One G2 reviewer described the learning curve for setup as “a little steep,” while noting that running the software live becomes intuitive once learned. Another said there was a learning curve initially, but that the tutorials helped them get a good grasp of the program.

For churches with dedicated production staff, that additional complexity may be a worthwhile tradeoff for ProPresenter’s deeper capabilities. For churches that regularly put new volunteers in the booth, EasyWorship’s more straightforward workflow can make getting someone ready for Sunday simpler.

Does ProPresenter have features a small church actually needs?

Some, and several it does not.

ProPresenter’s advantages concentrate in broadcast production: four or more outputs, DMX, timecode, and an advanced design editor, features more suited to large churches with large scale production teams and multiple stage feeds. A church with one screen, a stage display, and a livestream feed is served by both EasyWorship and ProPresenter. EasyWorship likely has all of the features a small to medium sized church actually needs and can accomplish everything easily to build and run an effective service. ProPresenter has more bells and whistles, but many if not most small to medium sized churches do not need to pay for those extra features.

How fast is it to get a song’s lyrics onto slides?

EasyWorship reflows song lyrics inside the same outline editor used for everything else, and can break a song into slides automatically by number of lines.

ProPresenter handles this in a separate Reflow mode, with slide breaks placed manually. ProPresenter’s interface has distinct Show, Edit, Reflow and Bible modes; a volunteer has to know which one they need before they can do anything. On the contrary, EasyWorship keeps lyric reflow in the editor the volunteer is already in. EasyWorship’s lyric reflow is a major time saver: import a song, choose two lines per slide or four, and you’re done, with manual control still available when a chorus needs to break somewhere specific.

Do both EasyWorship and ProPresenter run on Mac?

Yes. EasyWorship 8 runs natively on macOS and Windows with feature parity, and ProPresenter runs on both as well.

EasyWorship’s Mac support is new with version 8. Some third-party comparisons and ProPresenter’s own guide still describe EasyWorship as Windows-only, which is now out of date.

The experience for EasyWorship users on Mac or Windows is designed to be cross-platform, so your schedules, songs, and media can be used on either operating system. That means your team can prepare a service on Windows and open it on a Mac, or vice versa, without maintaining separate versions of your presentation. One EasyWorship subscription also allows installations on multiple computers for the licensed church location, so your team isn’t locked into choosing Mac or Windows.

How many Bible translations do you get, and what do they cost?

EasyWorship offers 100 Bible translations, while ProPresenter offers 125.

Many translations are free in both programs, while major copyrighted translations such as the NIV, ESV, NLT, and NKJV require an additional purchase. EasyWorship currently lists these major translations at $29 each.

The biggest difference is how those purchases are licensed. EasyWorship Bible plugins are licensed to your church site, while ProPresenter licenses paid Bible translations per computer. That matters more as you add machines.

For example, if your church uses a booth computer, an office computer, and a backup computer, an EasyWorship Bible plugin is purchased once. With ProPresenter, a $15 translation licensed on all three computers would cost $45. For a church using only one computer, ProPresenter’s $15 price is lower.

So ProPresenter gives you more translations overall, while EasyWorship’s site-based licensing can become more economical when the same paid translation is needed across several church computers. Copyrighted translations are not included with EasyWorship or ProPresenter and must still be purchased separately.

See EasyWorship’s Bible plugins and current pricing

Does either one sync your services to the cloud?

EasyWorship is actively working toward cloud sync for both the Presentation software and also its Planning software. ProPresenter does not offer cloud sync.

EasyWorship has made recent database upgrades which are building toward cloud sync, where users will soon be able to sync among all computers and no longer need to copy files from one computer to the next. This will also ultimately allow EasyWorship’s Planning software to sync with its Presentation software. ProPresenter does not offer this functionality.