Again, ProPresenter has advanced functionality, but there is a significant learning curve.
Once a user understands when to reflow a song, when to create a different arrangement of the same song, when to edit individual slides, and when to use the “quick edit” feature, he or she will be proficient at working with songs. Yes, I know that one from experience! ProPresenter 5 has made huge strides in allowing users to quickly make a new song or a new arrangement of a song. The inexperienced operator will inevitably have lyrics appear over irrelevant backgrounds, like that of a newborn baby. ProPresenter has a significantly higher learning curve than both Proclaim and EasyWorship. The layout is intuitive, but does require the operator to do plenty of scrolling on a live presentation if using a small laptop screen. The program automatically divides the song into slides based on the location of blank lines. Adding and editing songs is quick and easy because, like Proclaim, EasyWorship allows the user to work with the text of a song, not separate slides of the song. I taught a seventh-grader the basics to run EasyWorship in about five minutes. Transferring a database to a computer is fairly complicated, but should not need to be done often. If you can use Microsoft Word, you can use Proclaim.ĮasyWorship is easy to use once it is setup on the computer. Since all the media, songs, and slides can be added throughout the week by multiple different people, ideally no pile of flash drives should be sitting on the sound table right before the service starts.
Just a quick download and then the operator just needs to sign into his or her Logos account. No database of songs and backgrounds to transfer. Since all presentations and media are stored in the cloud, a church can have Proclaim up and running in a minute or two on a new computer. Proclaim is quite easy to use from beginning to end.
Since no one-size-fits-all worship software exists on the market today, a church should make a wise decision in determining its worship software. From my experience, most churches will pay money for the capabilities of software designed specifically for worship services. Also, open source options exist along with creative ways to make one’s own PowerPoint or Keynote database. I have used it on one occasion and from my experience, it most closely resembles and competes with EasyWorship. I absolutely love Logos Bible Software and was truly excited to test drive Proclaim when Logos first released it.Ĭertainly, these three are not the only options in the worship software category. I used EasyWorship for over three years at the church at which I served in college, and now we use ProPresenter at our church in Louisville. I have firsthand experience both creating and running worship service presentations using EasyWorship and ProPresenter.