1 product
Bible study and research
Software for deeper biblical research, sermon preparation, teaching and discipleship, including searchable libraries and study workflows.
Independent help for UK churches
Make the next software decision with less guesswork.
Church admin is already a lot. Start with the job that needs making easier, then assess the software behind the sales language — including the UK details that are easy to miss.
A familiar situation
You do not need more software. You need fewer loose ends.
Perhaps information lives in too many places. Maybe giving is hard to reconcile, rotas keep changing, or a database has become difficult to trust. The right next step may be a new tool — but it may also be a clearer process or a simpler setup.
This directory is here to help you tell the difference before your church commits time, money and sensitive data.
A calmer way to choose
Find a way forward in three useful steps.
No league tables or invented certainty. Just a clearer route from a real problem to an informed conversation.
Name the job
Begin with what is getting harder to manage, not a product name.
Check the fit
Use practical criteria and UK-specific questions to narrow the field.
Compare the evidence
Put confirmed facts and unanswered questions side by side.
Start where the work is
What would you like your church to handle better?
Choose a task to see what is worth considering before you choose a tool.
2 products
Children’s ministry and check-in
Tools for registering children, checking them in and out, recording attendance, communicating with guardians and coordinating children’s ministry teams.
2 products
Church accounting
Software for church and charity bookkeeping, fund accounting, reporting and financial administration.
11 products
Church communications
Software for consent-aware church messaging, email, SMS, connection and member engagement.
3 products
Church livestreaming
Platforms for delivering live church video to a website, social channels, remote congregations and, in some cases, other campuses.
25 products
Church management systems
Tools that bring people records, groups, attendance, communication, rotas, events and related administration into one system.
4 products
Church websites
Website-building services designed to help churches publish service information, events, news, forms and online giving.
2 products
Events and ticketing
Tools for publishing events, managing capacity and registrations, collecting ticket payments and communicating practical details to attendees.
28 products
Online giving
Services that help churches accept, record and reconcile card, bank or digital donations, sometimes alongside Gift Aid administration.
8 products
Presentation software
Software for displaying songs, Bible verses, notices, media and service content during church gatherings.
2 products
Sermon hosting
Services that publish, organise, stream or distribute church sermons as audio, video, podcasts and searchable archives.
18 products
Worship planning
Tools for planning services, arranging orders of service, scheduling volunteers and sharing music or production information.
A small, researched starting point
Products need context, not a podium.
These foundation listings are deliberately not a “best of” list. Each shows the evidence we have, the gaps we have found and who may want to investigate further.
Aplos
Partially verifiedNonprofit and church accounting software with fund accounting, financial reporting, donations and operational management tools.
- UK focus
- Available more broadly
- Organisation
- Not confirmed
- Pricing
- Tiered
- Free trial
- Yes
- Gift Aid
- Not confirmed
B1 Church
Partially verifiedA free church platform with an app, website builder, people records, giving, check-in, forms, groups and workflows.
- UK focus
- Available more broadly
- Organisation
- Not confirmed
- Pricing
- Free
- Free trial
- No
- Gift Aid
- Not confirmed
Beacon CRM
Partially verifiedA UK charity CRM for supporter and donor management, payments, preferences, reporting and operations.
- UK focus
- UK-specific evidence
- Organisation
- Not confirmed
- Pricing
- Tiered
- Free trial
- Yes
- Gift Aid
- Yes
Before you commit
A good decision is more than a feature checklist.
Our guides help teams ask better questions about data, cost, migration and day-to-day ownership — so the decision still makes sense after the launch meeting.
Updated
How to choose church management software
A practical UK process for deciding whether a church management system is needed, defining requirements, protecting data, testing workflows and making a responsible choice.
Updated
GDPR questions for church software suppliers
A starting set of evidence-focused questions for UK churches assessing personal-data handling, contracts, security and data exit arrangements.
Keep the directory useful
The useful answer is sometimes “not yet”.
A new system is only worthwhile when it solves a real problem your church can support well. If a listing is incomplete or out of date, help us improve it with first-party evidence.