Lightpost vs ChurchHarmony
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Lightpost
Access your personal congregation account on the go. Search the church directory, update your details, download important files, and complete member forms.
- Login to personal account
- Search church directory
- Update member information
- Download files
- Fill out member forms
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The companion mobile app for Lightpost platform — allows members to login to their personal account for their congregation. Members can search their church directory, update their information, download files, fill out their member involvement form and much more.
ChurchHarmony
Streamline church operations and boost engagement with this comprehensive management software. Manage members, events, and communications efficiently. Features include online giving, SMS, and email marketing tools.
- Member and group management
- Event scheduling
- Mass mail and SMS communication
- Online giving and donor management
- Attendance tracking
- Reporting and analytics
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Church management software that will increase member, visitor, and community engagement. Streamline operations and increase efficiency with time-saving tools. ChurchHarmony is a powerful, innovative, and integrated ministry and giving platform that's super easy to use. ChurchHarmony is a highly innovative, scalable, secure, cloud based Church Management Software solution that can be used by any size church. As you grow, we grow with you. Use ChurchHarmony ChMS to efficiently manage members, member groups, event scheduling, church communication with mass mail and church SMS software, track attendance, and more. Online giving is state of the art with best in the industry pricing and donor management tools. A church management solution packed with everything you need! Gain more time to invest in your members and your community by simplifying your workflows and processes with ChurchHarmony's highly innovative features. Church Online Giving & Payments with Reporting & Donor Management. Intuitive reporting. Report by date or date range, fund, donor, transactions, and more. Simple donor management allowing transaction history reporting, donor receipts, and year-end or date range based statements for tax receipting. Single or Auto Recurring Gifts. Members can donate as a single transaction or easily setup recurring gifts to ensure they're meeting their goals, as well as yours of increasing generous giving. Donor Can Pay Processing Fees. Allow the donor to cover the processing fees of the transaction so that your church can retain 100% of each donation. Offline Giving Too! (Cash & Check entry). Accept in person / offline gifts and easily combine with your online transactions to allow for streamlined efficient reporting and tracking using our Batch manager. Church SMS Software The best solution for text messaging for churches. Blast out mass text updates to your individual member groups or your entire database. Great for praise reports, prayer requests, news, or those quick general updates. Church Texting (SMS. Send out mass SMS texts to your entire membership, or select from a pre-built list of subgroups. Want to just update your admins and group leaders? No prob. Want to update just your parents? No prob. Group SMS Texting. Group leaders can send out mass texts to their group participants within their group admin area, and the notification will only send to that group. Real 2 Way Messaging. Have folks that would like to respond to you? What about when you send out a mass text to 2000 folks and they respond? We got this. You can toggle a setting to automatically include a reply to your name and number number at the end of every text allowing folks to truly communicate back to you individually for any text sent in our system! Church Email Marketing ChurchHarmony provides a simple email marketing and communication software solution for churches. ChurchHarmony is the best choice for any church or ministry looking to grow its online presence and communication outreach. Easily create html based emails, or choose from our custom templates to send out your next mass email. Great for weekly bulletins, news, updates, prayer requests, praise reports, or member and community engagement. Allow members to subscribe to email lists. You can create public and private lists so that you can manage sections of folks and send to them as you see fit. Associate a member, member group, or upload a .csv list, the choice is yours. Preview, Send Test, Send Now, Schedule for later. Using ChurchHarmony mass mail service, you'll not be bombarded with tons of options, settings, marketing tactics, etc. Want to send a quick and easy email, or include an attachment in the send, do so in just a few clicks. We ensure you are CAN-SPAM compliant by allowing folks to unsubscribe from your list, or from all of your sends, on each email. We'll also include your organization's contact info to ensure compliance.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Lightpost at 33 against ChurchHarmony's 2. ChurchHarmony's advantage is iOS requirement (14.0.0 vs 16.4). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Lightpost against 5.0 for ChurchHarmony. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Lightpost has 33 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Lightpost | ChurchHarmony |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (33 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 33 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 14.0.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 132 MB | 35 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Tiny Bit Farm | Unexplainable Solutions |
Customer experience
Lightpost
ChurchHarmony
In-app purchases
Lightpost
No in-app purchases
ChurchHarmony
No in-app purchases
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