Why Worship Metrics
We handle the stream. And everything around it.
Worship Metrics is the streaming destination that also carries the rest of Sunday — the plan, the volunteers, the presentation, the booth, and the monitoring — as one connected platform instead of five separate subscriptions. Backed by AI support any hour on Pro and Max, and people on call with Care or Sunday Assurance.
Comparison
vs. your streaming provider
Most streaming tools carry your feed from the booth to the internet — and do that well. On Max, Worship Metrics is the streaming destination that also carries the plan, the people, the presentation, and the monitoring around the stream — with AI support any hour and people on call behind it.
- One feed in — fan-out to YouTube, Facebook, your website, and custom RTMP
- Automatic recordings and clips, live during the service or after
- AI phone support that already knows your system, any hour (Pro and Max)
Comparison
vs. Planning Center
Planning Center is strong at service planning. Worship Metrics is what you add when the church also needs the production booth, volunteer execution, and the Sunday operating layer around the plan.
- Planning Center excels at planning and church administration
- Worship Metrics goes deeper into production execution and booth workflows
- The fit is strongest when Sunday complexity is outgrowing planning-only software
Comparison
vs. ProPresenter
ProPresenter is excellent for slides. Worship Metrics builds presentation from the service plan itself — songs, lyrics, and stage display come straight from what the team already planned, with no re-typing the setlist.
- Slides, lyrics, and stage display generated from the same service plan
- Worship Metrics also owns planning, coordination, and production flow around the screen
- Keep ProPresenter if your team loves it — Worship Metrics works alongside or replaces it
Comparison
vs. spreadsheet and group text
This is still the honest comparison for many churches. Worship Metrics replaces the fragile patchwork that breaks the moment one person is unavailable.
- No more translating Sunday across docs, texts, and booth memory
- A clearer picture of who is serving, what is planned, and what happened
- A better system for churches that need more than improvised coordination
Comparison
vs. the status quo
The default church workflow often depends on one expert carrying the whole ministry. That is workable until burnout, turnover, or growth makes it fail all at once.
- The risk is not just technical failure, it is institutional fragility
- Better software protects the team, not just the stream
- Worship Metrics is built to spread context across staff and volunteers
Choose Worship Metrics when
your church needs the service plan, volunteer system, and booth workflow to stop living in separate silos.
Wait if
your team truly does not yet stream or need a shared Sunday operating system — a single-room service with no online congregation may not need us yet.
Upgrade when
the church is ready for the paid automation layer and the reduction in Sunday friction is worth paying for directly.
The honest version
We are not the biggest option, and we are not trying to be.
WorshipMetrics is three people who met over church live streaming and spent years watching the same problems repeat in booth after booth. We are building the platform our own congregations needed, which is a narrow mission and a deliberate one.
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Paul Richards
Educator & Onboarding
Twelve years helping churches stream, at PTZOptics. Author of Helping Your Church Live Stream.
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Seth Haberman
CTO & Digital Pastor
Worship leader, camera operator, and the engineer who builds what he has already had to run.
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Rev. Andrew Esqueda
Pastor & Visionary
An active senior pastor with a real congregation and a real Sunday to get through every week.