EasyWorship

Kommentare: Love being able to include and onboard volunteers easily and having features that make running a smooth service up front do-able

Vorteile: We use EasyWorship for our Sunday services. I love how easy to use it is. Oftentimes volunteers are hesitant to volunteer to run slides because they think it requires a lot of technical experience, but EasyWorship is so straight forward we tell volunteers if you can use Facebook you can run EasyWorship. The black-out feature also makes transitions very smooth and the ability to preview what is coming up next helps you stay organized while running slides.

Nachteile: You do need a bit more technical training to load the songs/slides onto EasyWorship. Not a ton (if you are file opening, moving and attaching files, you could figure it out), but enough that the volunteer who can click buttons to advance slides may not be comfortable doing those things on the back-end. It just means a bit of extra prep before the service and is by no means an insurmountable obstacle. I honestly haven't run into many problems with EasyWorship. I know there are more expensive and fancier softwares out there for people that want more options/customizability. For us, EasyWorship works just fine!

Kommentare: Overall...excellent. It was so easy to install the software and use it. I was able to get up-to-speed myself. Later, I did have some post-sales questions. I found their support people to be accessible, professional, knowledgeable and friendly. EasyWorship is a tremendous value. I especially like their new pricing plan where I always have the latest update.

Vorteile: It is difficult to mention just one feature that I like the most. If I had to choose one thing, it is the final output of the product, especially when using the latest version (EasyWorship 7). It is simple to build and present a very high-quality service...similar to what large churches with a multi-staffed organization would offer. The software offers a true multi-media tool with audio/video, songs, scriptures, themes, presentations, iPhone support, streaming video, and more. No more need to go from one piece of equipment to another. Everything one needs is contained within the software. We are so pleased with the quality EasyWorship brings to our church, especially when visitors attend our services.

Nachteile: I would have liked to have seen more free video clips, perhaps with an annual license.

Kommentare: Easy worship makes it easy to customize the songs when our band decides to mash up two songs. It's as easy as copy and paste from one song to another and make sure the fonts match. Being able to choose our backgrounds for our songs also allows us to match with out stage lighting. Love it!!!

Vorteile: I love how you have control over everything including the lyrics in case you want to do a medley and how you can choose whichever background you want for each song.

Nachteile: I wish the user interface was a little more modern however that is just me being picky. Playing videos is not very easy as well. It takes a bit of research to learn how to do it.

Kommentare: Overall this is a very easy to use, but powerful presentation software for displaying song lyrics. It integrates with many lyric and license providers which makes adding new songs simple. The price is okay and the developer seems to work on upgrades pretty regularly. I would recommend this software to any church looking for a lyrical presentation application.

Vorteile: It really is easy. It's very nicely laid out and simple to learn, which makes it very easy and user friendly. The developer's have done a fantastic job in many respects and if you're looking for a presentation software for church I would highly recommend trying this one. It allows you to easily change backgrounds or to have a solid color as the background. Changing song lyrics is simple and straightforward and you have the ability to change how the lyrics look as far as font and how many words are on the screen. It's easy to re-order songs if you need to, or add and delete songs on the fly. The search feature helps find a song easily if your teams adds a song on the fly. It also has the ability to put scripture on the screen, with many different versions available.

Nachteile: Sometimes video with sound doesn't work well or at all and the program seems finicky about the type of video file. I've found displaying webpages hit or miss as well, but I'm not sure if that's the control or the program as I haven't done it often. There isn't much that I don't like about it.

Kommentare: We're using EasyWorship for projecting songs, announcement slides, scripture, and sermon powerpoints on Sunday morning. I've been using the program for just over a year and it was what was being used when I took over as office administrator. It does fill our need for our services, and we now have a wealth of songs and liturgy saved within the program, making putting together those weekly presentations fairly simple. However, if someone were just starting out and choosing which program to use, I would not recommend EasyWorship simply for the fact that it is not intuitive or user friendly and the learning curve to get to the place where it is easy to use is very steep (as I observed both for myself and for a secretary at another local church who just went through that process with my help this fall).

Vorteile: The best thing about EasyWorship is the interface with CCLI that allows me to import new worship songs into our presentation for Sunday morning, saving me the time of typing up the lyrics manually. And though I find the interface not very user-friendly, there is an extremely helpful wealth of "how-to" articles and videos provided by EasyWorship. When I run into a question of how to do something, I can simply google my question and the first return on the search is always an EasyWorship how-to page. Importing of powerpoints, which our pastors use to construct their sermon slides, is pretty seamless, though occasionally we run into snafus if one of the slides has a video.

Nachteile: As a designer who has used everything from the Adobe suite to Microsoft Office to Google's many online programs, I have to say that EasyWorship is one of the least user-friendly programs I've encountered. I have been frustrated by things like a simple "undo" function being absent from the program until the most recent update, and menus so confusing and counter-intuitive that I spent much of my first few weeks with the program googling "how to find__ in Easy Worship" just to access basic menus. For example, editing tools for anything but your basic font options are not found in an "edit" menu but through an "inspector" button. I helped train someone new in on the software and could tell that they were very overwhelmed, as many things are not where you would expect based on previous experience with software and Apple or PC operating systems.