Ministry Order vs OnStage

Ministry Order combines church service planning and volunteer scheduling on the web, iOS, and Android. Leaders can reorder service items, and changing an item's duration updates the start times that follow. Worship sets record song titles, keys, lengths, and singers. Volunteer requests arrive by push notification, with accept or decline actions on phones. Live Mode shows a pre-service countdown, then a live clock with the current item highlighted. Churches can organize serving groups into teams with roles such as drummer, camera operator, or greeter. Accepted assignments can be added to device calendars; the overview specifies Google Calendar on Android and the system calendar on iOS. The Ministry Order plan costs $20 a month, renews monthly, and allows up to 200 users, unlimited service plans, and unlimited teams. A 30-day trial requires a payment method, charges nothing during the trial, and can be canceled online. Giving, check-in, member records, chord charts, lyrics, and a song library are not included.

OnStage is a service-planning platform for churches, bringing event preparation, people, songs and team communication into one place. Teams can set up events and rehearsals, create setlists, assign people to positions and reuse event templates. Its song library handles chords, lyrics and song structures, with PDF import, annotations, key changes and capo settings. Team and event chats support messages, attachments, polls, replies and read receipts. Events, rehearsals and blockouts can sync to Google Calendar; that sync is available on iPhone, iPad and Android. The app also supports offline access during rehearsals and services, and runs on Android, iOS, macOS and web. Starter is free, does not expire and does not require card details, but is limited to five members, 200MB of storage and five events per month. Paid plans are billed monthly or yearly, with member sizes from 20 to 1,000 and different storage and event limits. The listed 20-member plan costs $10 a month; yearly billing is available at 15% off.