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Church Center
“The free member app fronting Planning Center, the church management platform many treat as the standard.”
Church Center is the free app and web portal that members use to plug into a church running Planning Center, and Planning Center is, for a lot of people, the gold standard in church management software. Through Church Center a member can give, register for events, sign up for groups, check their kids in, browse the calendar, and access the directory, all from one clean, well-designed place.
What makes it work is what sits behind it. Planning Center is modular, so a church turns on People, Services, Giving, Check-Ins, Groups, Registrations, and Calendar as needed, and Church Center automatically surfaces the member-facing side of whatever the church uses. The design is genuinely excellent, the reliability is high, and the whole system is a favorite of medium and large churches for good reason.
The honest caveats: the app is free to members, but the church pays for the Planning Center products behind it, and stacking several modules can climb into the low hundreds of dollars a month for a larger congregation. The member app's App Store rating sits around 3.9 stars, reflecting occasional gripes about notifications and navigation. Even so, for churches that want a modern, unified member experience, it is tough to beat.
Is it right for you?
Medium and large churches that want a modern, unified member app and are willing to run Planning Center's modular platform behind it.
You're a small church on a shoestring wanting one flat low price, or you'd rather not pay per module and would prefer a single all-in-one tool like ChurchTrac.
What’s inside
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Apps marked “tested” show their hands-on score out of 100. The other numbers are editorial ratings out of 10.
Common questions
Yes, Church Center is free for members to download and use. The church behind it pays for the Planning Center products that power its features.
Members can give, register for events, join groups, check in children, view the directory, and browse the church calendar, all from one app.
Yes. Church Center is the member-facing front end for Planning Center, so a church configures the modules it wants and Church Center surfaces them automatically.
Each Planning Center product has a free tier and paid plans that generally start near $15/month and scale with attendance, so a church using several modules can reach a few hundred dollars monthly.
Reviews are broadly positive on design and function, with the lower marks tied to occasional complaints about notifications, navigation, and features that vary by which modules a church enables.
