LEAD. vs GForce
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
LEAD.
This app helps ministry and lay leaders connect with their people by tracking attendance, managing schedules, and facilitating communication. It provides tools to understand individual involvement, organize events, and ensure timely follow-up for discipleship.
- Group member communication and connection
- Attendance tracking and special days reminders
- Needs assignment and event calendars
- Detailed people profiles and involvement history
- Schedule management and volunteer communication
- Service plan creation and event oversight
- Process queue management for discipleship
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The LEAD app equips you as a ministry or lay leader with the tools and information you need to know the story of your people so you can better disciple them — from wherever you are. GROUPS • Stay in touch with your Group members and facilitate communication and connection between them • Keep track of who’s staying connected and who’s slipping through the cracks by easily taking attendance from your phone • Never miss a birthday or anniversary with your group Special Days list • Create, view, and assign Needs to give your group members opportunities to support each other and their community • Use Calendars to see the events in your group and peruse the guest list to keep track of who is staying connected PEOPLE • See and edit information about your people and their family, and contact them easily with the built-in tools • Quickly understand a person's history and involvement in the church with the Timeline • Get a sense of the consistency of their connection with an overview of their Serving, Attending, and Giving patterns** • Add new people to your system with the Create Profile feature, and make sure their data is correct by importing information from your phone's Contacts and using google's address validation** SCHEDULES • See where there are holes in your schedule and easily fill them on the go • Update your volunteers' statuses for real-time schedule management • Send messages to your volunteers to keep them informed about their serving opportunities • Add more Schedule Weeks SERVICE PLANS • Create, Edit, or Add a Service Plan • Add more Schedule Weeks CALENDARS • Use Admin Calendars to see the details of all the events happening in your church across your various campuses • Hone in on your Group's events and see where things are happening and who is coming PROCESS QUEUES • Provide quick, intentional follow-up for your people, and keep them moving along the path of discipleship • Leave notes for people as you move them through a process so all leaders can stay informed about a person's journey NOTES • Use Notes to share and view vital information among ministry leaders, keeping all of that important context in one place to tell a person's story *You must have a current Church Community Builder software account in order to use this app. ** All functionality is based on your current Church Community Builder software permissions
GForce
This app streamlines volunteer management for organizations by simplifying volunteer applications, activity scheduling, and communication. It offers features like custom forms, event rosters, internal messaging, and resource sharing to enhance volunteer engagement and coordination.
- Custom application forms
- Event roster and task scheduling
- Internal messaging system
- Resource sharing
- Group forums
- Shift reminders
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GForce is a volunteer management system built for NGOs, Churches, Agencies (e.g. Ushering), Political organizations and similar organizations. GForce is designed to make it easy for your volunteers to apply, join and manage their activities in your volunteer workforce. With custom application forms, event rosters, forums, resource sharing, internal messaging, shift reminders, birthday/anniversary notifications and lots more. Your workforce will never be the same again! Features UNIQUE PORTAL Signup and get a unique username that users will use to login to your portal. GROUP & MEMBERSHIP MANAGEMENT Easily create and manage groups. Assign members and group admins. Receive and review applications for group membership. EVENT ROSTER & TASK SCHEDULING Group admins can plan activities and assign volunteers for upcoming events. Members can be grouped into teams for easy messaging and planing. Members can opt out of shifts or volunteer to new shifts. Event roster can be exported and shared outside the app. EVENT & SHIFT REMINDERS Members get notified automatically about upcoming events and shifts to which they are assigned. Reminders are sent via push notifications and emails. BIRTHDAYS & ANNIVERSARIES Group members get notified about birthdays and wedding anniversaries of other members. ANNOUNCEMENTS Create announcements visible only to group members. Easily pin important announcements. RESOURCE SHARING Members can easily create downloads to share resources with other members. INTERNAL MESSAGING SYSTEM All users can send messages internally. The system has a local inbox and sent messages folder. Attachments are supported. GROUP FORUMS Each group has a forum and group members can create multiple topics. GROUP GALLERY Create an image gallery for each group highlighting past events, members etc.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: LEAD. at 3.1 against GForce's 2.7. LEAD. also leads on ratings volume (162 vs 3). GForce's advantage is review sentiment (50% vs 26%) and update cadence (every 4 weeks vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
LEAD. holds the better App Store score, 3.1 against 2.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: LEAD. has 162 ratings behind it against 3, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 26% of LEAD.'s written reviews are positive against 50% of GForce's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
LEAD. ships an update every 3 months, GForce every 4 weeks. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.
| Parameter | LEAD. | GForce |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (162 ratings) — better | 2.7 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 26.0% of reviews | 50.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 162 — better | 3 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 4 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 66 MB | 65 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Church Community Builder, Inc. | Ayokunle Akinboboye |
Customer experience
LEAD.
GForce
Bugs and requests
LEAD.
Reported bugs
22 issues- Logged out every time app is closed
- Have to sign in every time
- New version logs out and doesn't save settings
- App forgets church association
- Face ID no longer enabled
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- App won't find churches when searching
- App stopped working after update
- App won't find church after reinstalling
- App won't allow locating church or domain
- App won't bring up church
- Newest update took out schedules
- App tells user they don't have permission
- App crashes frequently
- Face ID login removed/having issues
- App doesn't rotate on iPad with keyboard
- Buttons tangled with status bar on iPhone
- App won't load (spinning wheel)
- Latest update keeps crashing and losing attendance
- App is really slow
- Login screen freezes
- White screen after splash page
- Loading screen for minutes on end
Requested features
17 requests- Access notes on resources
- Update database on the fly
- Ability to upload new songs to song library
- Ability to attach documents in group email messages
- Add push notifications
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- Ability to share contact info quickly via text/email
- Support for landscape mode on iPad
- View serving options from phone
- iOS notifications instead of email
- Subscribe to iCal/webcal feed for calendars
- Full calendar options (church calendar, add events, add photos)
- Ability to view schedule within each group
- Second app for volunteers or modify for all members
- Mail merge feature via app
- Group schedules functionality
- Assign roles and tasks to members
- Full calendar options including adding events and photos
GForce
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
LEAD.
No in-app purchases
GForce
No in-app purchases









