Comparison

Lightpost vs ChurchHarmony

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

Head to head
About

Lightpost

Access your personal congregation account on the go. Search the church directory, update your details, download important files, and complete member forms.

Highlights
  • Login to personal account
  • Search church directory
  • Update member information
  • Download files
  • Fill out member forms
Features
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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.

About

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.

Highlights
  • Member and group management
  • Event scheduling
  • Mass mail and SMS communication
  • Online giving and donor management
  • Attendance tracking
  • Reporting and analytics
Features
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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.

Screenshots

Lightpost4 screens
ChurchHarmony3 screens

Verdict

The call

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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

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.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Lightpost versus ChurchHarmony: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLightpostChurchHarmony
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (33 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings33 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 3 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.414.0.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size132 MB35 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperTiny Bit FarmUnexplainable Solutions

Customer experience

Lightpost

All ratings33 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews2 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

ChurchHarmony

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Lightpost

No in-app purchases

None

ChurchHarmony

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Lightpost free?
Lightpost is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is ChurchHarmony free?
ChurchHarmony is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Lightpost or ChurchHarmony?
ChurchHarmony is rated higher. Lightpost averages 4.9 out of 5 from 33 ratings, while ChurchHarmony averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Lightpost or ChurchHarmony have ads?
Neither Lightpost nor ChurchHarmony shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Lightpost or ChurchHarmony?
Lightpost ships an update every 3 months, and ChurchHarmony every 3 months. Most recently, Lightpost was updated on October 24, 2026 and ChurchHarmony on October 4, 2026.

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