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ChurchTrac or PraisePad?
For a church of 150 with an office to run and a worship team to lead.
ChurchTrac is the church office in one product, priced by the names it tracks: people, giving, check-in, events, fund accounting, basic messaging, worship planning, and a site and an app. PraisePad is one product by team size, with the worship team’s half (the stage, charts in any key, Present) beside the office modules. Here’s what each does better, what each costs, and whether to stay or switch.
From $14 a month for a team of 10. Free for invited churches during the beta.
What ChurchTrac does better
- Church accounting in the same product, which PraisePad doesn’t have
- One price by names tracked with every feature included, from $29 a month for 75 names
- A website builder and app in the box; a build done for you from $477 once
- Free people data migration when you join, and small groups
- Yearly billing takes 10% off, and a 30-day trial
Not in PraisePad yet: accounting, Groups, an app in the stores.
What PraisePad does better
- The stage: a typed chart in any key or capo, numbers, diagrams, offline, playing together In the help: Change the key, or play with a capo
- Present: slides from the set list and the sermon’s notes, every screen; in beta, free by request In the help: Present: slides for the screens
- A church site in English and Spanish with its own chat, with no build fee In the help: PraisePad Church: your church's own site, on every screen
- Imports that read PDFs, Word files and photos into typed charts you check before they’re saved In the help: Upload charts, Word files, photos, and PDFs
- AI that does work: the set builder, Change with words, the sermon builder, pictures In the help: Get song suggestions for a theme or sermon
What matters to a church of 150
Swipe sideways to see ChurchTrac’s column.
| What matters | PraisePad | ChurchTrac |
|---|---|---|
| Songs in every key, on stage, offline | Yes typed charts, capo, numbers, offline | Partly a song library; nothing about keys |
| Scheduling every team | Yes Serve, every team, rules in your words | Yes Worship Planning & Scheduling |
| Slides and the booth | Yes Present: in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Not listed |
| Kids check-in | Yes in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Yes child check-in |
| Giving on your own Stripe account | Yes your own Stripe; 0.5% to PraisePad | Partly Stripe’s nonprofit rate; ask them for details |
| Events, tickets, rooms | Yes in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Yes Events & Registrations |
| Your church’s site with its own chat | Yes English and Spanish, with its own chat | Partly Website Builder and app included; a build from $477 once |
| Texts to the team | Yes on every paid plan | Yes Church Texting; two-way texts $7 a month more |
| Spanish | Partly church sites, statements, captions | Not listed |
| AI that does work | Yes set builder, Change with words, sermon builder | Not listed |
| Imports in a day | Yes PDFs, photos, Word, OnSong, ProPresenter | Yes free people data migration |
| People and households | Yes Everyone: families, children, guests | Yes priced by names tracked |
| Groups | Not yet on the list | Yes small groups |
| An app in the stores | Not yet installs from the browser; the iPhone app is with Apple | Yes Church Connect, iOS and Android |
| A free plan | Yes 5 team members, 150 songs; Solo free | No a 30-day trial |
| Price | $14 a month for a team of 10. Present is in beta: free, by request; founding churches pay $9 a month at launch | $59 a month for 250 names (a church of 150), every feature included; a website and app build from $477 once |
Every PraisePad Yes opens the help article that shows it. ChurchTrac’s column is from churchtrac.com, read October 31, 2026. See a mistake? Tell us.
What it costs
PraisePad Team 10
$14 a month for a team of 10. Present is in beta: free, by request; founding churches pay $9 a month at launch
ChurchTrac, a team of 10
$59 a month for 250 names
Priced by the names tracked, not by team size, so a church of 150 pays the 250-name tier whatever its team’s size: 75 names $29 a month, 125 $39, 250 $59, 500 $79, 1,000 $99, unlimited $119; 10% off yearly. Enhanced Messaging (two-way texts, a dedicated number, 250 credits) is $7 a month more.
From www.churchtrac.com, read October 31, 2026. See a mistake? Tell us.
Bringing your songs over
- Bring your people in from a spreadsheet: columns matched, families found, a review before anything is written, and undo
- Your charts come in from PDFs, Word files or photos, read into typed charts you check before they’re saved
- Giving records come in from your provider’s file, and PraisePad exports deposits by fund for QuickBooks or Aplos; the books stay in your accounting software
In the help: Import your church from a spreadsheet
Stay or switch?
Stay with ChurchTrac if accounting in the same product, a price by names and a site built for you are what you use most.
Move to PraisePad if your worship team needs the stage and slides built from the plan, you’d like a site with its own chat in Spanish too, and you’d rather pay by team size.
Questions
Is there a ChurchTrac alternative with real worship tools?
PraisePad has the office modules (people, giving, Kids check-in, events, the church site) and the worship team’s half ChurchTrac doesn’t have: a stage with typed charts in any key, playing together, and Present for the screens.
From the help: Change the key, or play with a capo
ChurchTrac vs Planning Center: where does PraisePad fit?
Planning Center prices nine products apart; ChurchTrac prices everything by names tracked; PraisePad prices by team size, $14 a month for a team of 10, with the stage and Present in it. Planning Center has a page of its own here.
From the help: Your plan, the 14-day trial, and the AI allowance
Does PraisePad do accounting like ChurchTrac?
No. PraisePad keeps the giving records (gifts, batches counted by two, statements, reports) and exports deposits by fund with each fund’s account and class for QuickBooks or Aplos. The books stay in your accounting software.
From the help: Exporting giving for QuickBooks, Aplos or a spreadsheet
Is PraisePad cheaper than ChurchTrac?
A church of 150 pays ChurchTrac $59 a month (the 250-name tier). The same church with a team of 10 pays PraisePad $14, with Present, Kids and Events free in the beta. A church with a big team and few names in its database can be cheaper on ChurchTrac. From churchtrac.com, read October 31, 2026.
Something else? Search the help centre, or ask Pad, PraisePad’s assistant, with the button at the corner of the page.
More comparisons
- Planning Center or PraisePad? Services, People, Check-Ins, Giving and Registrations, each priced apart, against one plan for the church.
- OnSong or PraisePad? One musician’s charts on an iPad, against a free Solo library and a church library the whole team shares.
- ProPresenter or PraisePad Present? $29 a month a seat, against Present for the whole church: free in the beta, $9 a month at launch for founding churches.
- Proclaim or PraisePad Present? Cloud slides with Logos, against slides built from the service and the sermon’s notes.
- Tithely or PraisePad? Free giving plus $72 to $119 a month for the rest, against one plan.
- Every comparison PraisePad against Planning Center, ChurchTrac, OnSong and more, with the ones coming.
Try it with your own church.
Every new church starts with 14 days of Team 10’s features for up to 5 people, no card needed.