Comparison

Church Center vs Testifyre

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Church Center

Connect with your church community throughout the week. Access events, sermons, giving options, and manage family check-ins. Explore groups and register for activities, all powered by your church's Planning Center subscription.

Highlights
  • Event calendar
  • Sermon access
  • Online giving
  • Family pre-check
  • Church directory
  • Group participation
  • Event registration
Features
Currently charting
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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

About

Testifyre

This faith-based app helps believers record, organize, and share personal testimonies of God's work in their lives. Capture experiences through video, audio, or text, link them to scripture, and build a library of encouragement.

Highlights
  • Capture testimonies (video, audio, text)
  • Track prayer requests
  • Connect stories to scripture
  • In-app Bible
  • Organize into personal libraries
  • Share faith-filled stories
Features
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Testifyre is a faith-based storytelling app designed to help believers capture, organize, and share testimonies — the God moments we experience throughout our lives. Your story matters. Your story should tell His story. With Testifyre, you can capture testimonies through video, audio, or text, track prayer requests, connect your stories to Scripture, organize God moments into personal libraries, and share encouragement with friends, family, and community. Testimonies are more than memories. They help us remember what God has done, recognize His hand in our lives, strengthen our faith over time, and pass down a spiritual inheritance to the next generation. Use Testifyre to: • Capture testimonies through video, audio, or text • Track prayer requests and remember answered prayers • Connect testimonies and prayer requests to Scripture • Use the in-app Bible to find, add, and share verses • Organize God moments into personal libraries and collections • Revisit testimonies when you need encouragement • Share faith-filled stories, Scriptures, and encouragement with others • Build a living record of God’s faithfulness over time Testifyre helps take the pain out of capturing testimonies and gives believers a simple way to remember, preserve, and share what God has done. Whether you are remembering an answered prayer, a healing, provision, protection, peace in a difficult season, direction from God, or a breakthrough you never want to forget, Testifyre gives you a place to capture the story before the details fade. Your God moments are too important to forget. Download Testifyre today, capture your first testimony, and join the Testifyre Movement.

Screenshots

Church Center4 screens
Testifyre4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Testifyre at 100% against Church Center's 41%. Testifyre also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.1). Church Center's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and ratings volume (2.4K vs 13). On price, update cadence, ads and device support 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Testifyre sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Church Center asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Testifyre holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Church Center has 2.4K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 41% of Church Center's written reviews are positive against 100% of Testifyre's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Church Center ships an update weekly, Testifyre every 2 weeks. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.

Scorecard6 real differences · 5 level
Church Center versus Testifyre: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterChurch CenterTestifyre
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (2.4K ratings)5.0 (13 ratings) — better
Positive reviews40.7% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings2.4K — better13
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
Best chart rank#86 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size92 MB91 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperMinistry Centered TechnologiesGrow Rwanda Investments LLC

Customer experience

Church Center

All ratings2,203 ratings
Positive74.6%
Neutral9.0%
Negative16.4%
Written reviews226 reviews
Positive40.7%
Neutral22.1%
Negative37.2%

Testifyre

All ratings13 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

Testifyre

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Church Center

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

Testifyre

Subscriptions2
  • Testifyre Premium$3.991 Month
  • Testifyre Premium Annual$44.991 Year

Questions

Is Church Center free?
Church Center is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Testifyre free?
Testifyre is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Church Center or Testifyre?
Testifyre is rated higher. Church Center averages 4.1 out of 5 from 2.4K ratings, while Testifyre averages 5.0 from 13 ratings.
Do Church Center or Testifyre have ads?
Neither Church Center nor Testifyre shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Church Center or Testifyre?
Church Center ships an update weekly, and Testifyre every 2 weeks. Most recently, Church Center was updated on November 5, 2026 and Testifyre on November 5, 2026.

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