Tithely, Planning Center, Pushpay, TouchPoint, ChurchRaise, Churchstream and Breeze are good tools — that bill your church every month. Free Church ChMS does it all, runs on your own hosting, and never sends you an invoice.
One platform replaces the whole stack — people, check-in, worship, giving, accounting, events, communications and AI — with nothing behind a paywall.
| Capability | Free Church ChMSFree & open | TithelyBreeze | Planning Center | Pushpay | TouchPoint | ChurchRaise | Churchstream | Breeze |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Member management & directory | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Mass email to your church | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Text / SMS messaging | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Child check-in with security codes | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Allergy tracking + printed name tags | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Guardian text alerts at pickup | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Worship service planning | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — | ✓ |
| Song library & chord charts | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | — | — | — | ✓ |
| Volunteer team scheduling | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Online & text giving | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Contribution / IRS statements | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Pledge tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Fund accounting & budgets | ✓ | — | — | — | ✓ | — | — | — |
| Bank statement import (OFX/CSV) | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Printable checks | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Event registration & calendar | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ |
| Attendance tracking | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| At-risk / disengagement prediction | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Donor intelligence segments | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | — |
| Built-in AI assistant + content studio | ✓ | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | ✓ | — | — |
| Analytics + Tableau (.twbx) export | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| No-code workflows / automations | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ | ✓ |
| Self-hosted — you own your data | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Open source — free code to run yourself | ✓ | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| What it costs your church | $0 forever | Free + paid add-ons |
À-la-carte (People free)1 |
Enterprise contract |
Paid subscription |
"Free" + donor tips & tiers3 |
Paid subscription |
$72/mo flat2 |
✓ green = included at no cost · ✓ amber = available but paid or as an add-on · — = not a standard feature. Compiled in good faith from each vendor's public pricing & feature pages (June 2026); competitor features and prices change — verify with the vendor. Free Church ChMS is free and open-source under the AI Church Community License v2.0. Comparison is for honest, factual information; all trademarks belong to their respective owners.
Real, published pricing — the reason 380,000+ churches are looking for a way out of the monthly bill.
Tithely, Pushpay, TouchPoint and Churchstream price by quote or tiered subscription. Planning Center also charges $5/mo + $0.02/text for congregation texting.1
Not a free tier, not a trial. The AI Church Community License makes it free for every church in perpetuity, and we'll even hand you the code.
It runs in your own hosting account. Your congregation's data never lives on a vendor's server and is never used to train AI.
People, check-in, worship planning, giving, fund accounting, events, communications, analytics and AI — no six-app tab-juggling.
Deterministic disengagement scoring flags who's drifting weeks before a Sunday, plus a Claude-powered assistant — included.
Fund budgets, an expense register, bank-statement import and printable checks — features most ChMS make you export to QuickBooks for.
The interface is in English, and your browser's Translate feature shows it in your language, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, German and Italian.
Bring everything in-house, keep your data, and give the monthly fee back to the mission. We say yes to every church.