Church Center vs Offgrid Guide
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. Access event calendars, sermons, giving options, and join groups. Manage family check-ins and browse the church directory.
- Event calendar
- Sermon access
- Online giving
- Family pre-check
- Church directory
- Group joining
- 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
Offgrid Guide
This app serves as an offline resource for homesteading, off-grid living, and emergency preparedness. It offers practical guides, build instructions, checklists, and planning tools to help users prepare for disruptions without needing an internet connection.
- Offline practical guides
- Step-by-step build instructions
- Supply checklists
- Seasonal calendars
- Household and contact organization
- Emergency scenario planning
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Offgrid Guide is an offline companion for homesteading, off-grid living, and emergency preparedness. Explore practical guides, step-by-step builds, supply checklists, seasonal calendars, and useful calculators. Organize household supplies, contacts, and emergency plans, then use Scenario Playbooks to prepare, rehearse, and work through disruptions—even without an internet connection. *Educational reference compiled from practitioner sources. Not medical, legal, or professional advice. Verify all guidance against current local conditions and your own judgment.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Church Center at Free against Offgrid Guide's $14.99. Church Center also leads on ratings volume (3K vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). Offgrid Guide's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.3). On ads, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Church Center is free to download; Offgrid Guide costs $14.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Offgrid Guide holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Church Center has 3K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Church Center ships an update weekly, Offgrid Guide monthly. The most recent releases landed on November 13, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Church Center | Offgrid Guide |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $14.99 |
| Rating | 4.3 (3K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.8% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Monthly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #98 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 78 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Ministry Centered Technologies | Brent Burroughs |
Customer experience
Church Center
Offgrid Guide
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
Offgrid Guide
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Church Center
No in-app purchases
Offgrid Guide
No in-app purchases
Questions
Is Church Center free?
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