Church Center vs ChurchSoftware Mobile
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Church Center
Connect with your church community throughout the week. Explore events, access sermons, manage donations, and register for activities. Stay involved with your congregation beyond Sunday services.
- Event calendar
- Access sermons
- Online giving
- Family pre-check
- Church directory
- Join groups
- Event registration
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Church Center by Planning Center is where you can explore, engage, and get involved with your church throughout the week. See a calendar of events, access sermons, give, pre-check your family, browse the directory, join groups, and register for events on iOS. Each feature is powered by one of our products, based on what your church has subscribed to. Privacy Policy: https://www.planningcenter.com/privacy Terms of Service: https://www.planningcenter.com/terms
ChurchSoftware Mobile
This app is a comprehensive platform for managing church operations. It helps build relationships within the community and streamlines financial contributions, allowing staff to focus on outreach and engagement.
- Church management
- Relationship building
- Streamlined giving
- Community engagement
- All-in-one platform
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Your all-in-one church management platform to help you build relationships and streamline giving so you can spend more time focusing on what's important - impacting your community.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: ChurchSoftware Mobile at 5.0 against Church Center's 3.9. ChurchSoftware Mobile also leads on iOS requirement (12.2 vs 16.0). Church Center's advantage is ratings volume (1.9K vs 4) and update cadence (weekly vs every 5 weeks). 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.
ChurchSoftware Mobile holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Church Center has 1.9K ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Church Center ships an update weekly, ChurchSoftware Mobile every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 26, 2026 and August 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Church Center | ChurchSoftware Mobile |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (1.9K ratings) | 5.0 (4 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.9K — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | #126 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 12.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 89 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ministry Centered Technologies | Lyt House Studio |
Customer experience
Church Center
ChurchSoftware Mobile
Bugs and requests
Church Center
Reported bugs
14 issues- Links from notifications don't always work
- Insists on no internet connection when there is one
- Can't log in, just spins
- Clicking through from notifications makes you log in and select church each time
- Can't play previous week's lesson
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- Can't get in again, keeps spinning
- Can't log in, just says unlock with null or login again
- Retry message, app crashing
- Can't see giving history after update
- Can't delete account
- App won't open
- Undefined error after phone change
- URL links don't link properly after update
- Can't donate, just loads forever
Requested features
19 requests- Verse of the day
- Calendar integration
- Ability to add graphics/emojis to events
- Ability to pin event locations
- Option to not receive reminders for events you declined
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- Ability to delete old prayer requests
- Ability to choose to receive notifications for initial posts without all replies
- Multiple payment options in one giving transaction
- Ability to add notes to directory contacts
- Groups accessibility from the app
- Ability to post sermon recordings in the app
- Ability to take sermon notes in the app
- Ways to contact the leadership
- Place to upload featured resources
- Support for multiple campuses under one account
- Groups integration
- Check-in integration
- Dark mode option
- Advanced analytics dashboard
ChurchSoftware Mobile
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Church Center
No in-app purchases
ChurchSoftware Mobile
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Church Center free?
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Which has better reviews, Church Center or ChurchSoftware Mobile?
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