AudioFetch vs Church Center
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
AudioFetch
Stream local audio directly to smartphones and tablets over WiFi. Ideal for fitness centers, sports bars, churches, and tourism venues to provide clear audio experiences without extra hardware.
- Stream audio over WiFi
- Use smartphones as receivers
- Enhance fitness center audio
- Improve sports bar game audio
- Assistive listening for churches
- Real-time translation
- Replace tour guide receivers
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AudioFetch is the premium solution for local audio to smartphones and tablets over WiFi for unlimited uses including: Fitness Centers: Delight your customers by enabling them to hear TV audio throughout the facility without being tethered to cardio equipment. Great for GroupEx classes as well. Sports Bars: Sports fans will choose your pub, stay longer, and order more items when they can hear their game. Church: Enhance your church services with assistive listening and/or real-time translation for those who need it. Works great with popular Bluetooth-enabled headphones. Tourism: Replace outdated, expensive and unhygienic tour guide receivers with your guests’ smartphones, and allow your guests to maintain a safe social distance while still hearing the program.
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.
- Event calendar
- Sermon access
- Online giving
- Family pre-check
- Church directory
- Group participation
- 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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Church Center at 4.2 against AudioFetch's 3.1. Church Center also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (2.6K vs 149). AudioFetch's advantage is review sentiment (56% vs 41%). 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.
Church Center holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Church Center has 2.6K ratings behind it against 149, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 56% of AudioFetch's written reviews are positive against 41% of Church Center's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
AudioFetch ships an update every 2 months, Church Center weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | AudioFetch | Church Center |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (149 ratings) | 4.2 (2.6K ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 55.8% of reviews — better | 40.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 149 | 2.6K — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #153 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 — better | 16.4 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 37 MB | 92 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Cardio Entertainment Inc | Ministry Centered Technologies |
Customer experience
AudioFetch
Church Center
User reviews
AudioFetch
From 149 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great concept for venues
- 👍 Useful for hearing impaired
- 👍 Good for real-time translation
- 👍 Works well in fitness centers
- 👍 Clear and loud audio
Room to improve
- 🐛 Audio frequently cuts out
- 🐛 App disconnects often
- 🐛 No audio sometimes
- 🐛 Intermittent connectivity
- 🐛 Audio doesn't stay on channel
Church Center
From 2.6K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Works and comes with linked apps
- 🙏 Helps people and what they can do
- 💻 Easy to navigate and use
- 👍 Great for older people
- 💰 Accessible prices compared to other platforms
Room to improve
- 🐛 Buggy in places
- 🔒 Age restrictions
- ⏱️ Lagging
- 🤯 Convoluted mess
- 🔁 Keeps logging me out
Bugs and requests
AudioFetch
Reported bugs
37 issues- No audio
- Disconnects sometimes
- Complex setup for delay/echo
- Stopped working after OS update
- Audio doesn't connect well
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- Connects in one earbud only
- Disconnects after phone locking
- Frequently fails
- Won't work somedays
- Audio doesn't stay on the right channel
- Stops playing audio randomly
- Doesn't seem to work in the background
- Audio keeps cutting
- Some channels don't play sound
- TV sound not playing over the app
- Unreliable, fails temporarily
- Blank white screen
- Doesn't connect
- Muffled static
- Doesn't connect
- Doesn't work, doesn't connect
- Simply doesn't work
- Blanks out & breaks up often
- Painful to reconnect
- Skips, audio goes dead
- Glitchy
- Audio keeps crashing
- App crashes after playing for a second
- App stops working on full WiFi
- Losses audio, needs restart
- Skips like crazy
- Disconnects after 5-8 minutes
- Has not worked since last iPhone update
- Never works, never connects
- Audio volume switches to FULL volume on WiFi reconnect
- Refuses to recognize WiFi signal
- Keeps asking to start in demo mode
Requested features
3 requests- Native Apple Watch app
- Apple Watch functionality
- Apple iWatch version of the app
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
In-app purchases
AudioFetch
No in-app purchases
Church Center
No in-app purchases
Questions
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