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Church and worship apps.

6 apps · 883 reviews held · 360 negative · 2026-09-02 snapshot

The market’s shape

2.0star
How angry
41%
Negative reviews
60%
Room to enter
2 of 4
Willingness to pay

Mostly solved: billing. 2 of 3 apps run below the store’s typical rate on it, while 3 of 6 still carry login & auth complaints.

3 gaps.

Shares of this market’s 360 negative reviews.

Login & authhigh

21.1% vs 7.5% typical store-wide.

Counted in 76 reviews · 3 of 6 apps · 2.0star mean

What they said · 3 of 76
  • Planning Center Services3star· Jun 30, 2026

    Does not let me Login — I used to use this app all the time until one day it asked me for authorization required on both the browser and my app on my iPhone. I was able to see the tab on my laptop browser, but on my iPhone app it doesn’t show the authorization tab so I’m no longer able to use planning center on my iPhone app. I reached out by email and no one has reached out to me.

  • Church Center App1star· May 24, 2026

    No app should work this way — This app woks better when you don't log in. As a guest you are able to skip the broken log in which doesn't work randomly. One church I was able to log in and see, the other I couldn't Iwas sent back to log in over and over. This app works as if it was someone's first class project. It doesn't work and it has little functionality.

  • Planning Center Services3star· May 3, 2026

    Please make an option to switch between accounts while staying logged in — It would be helpful if you could make the app where it is easier to switch between users and roles. I have to completely log out from my praise band login to see my sons serving status since he is too young to manage his own account. Because it is under my email address I have to log out and back in to select his user name.

UXhigh

12.8% vs 4.9% typical store-wide.

Counted in 46 reviews · 4 of 6 apps · 2.3star mean

What they said · 3 of 46
  • Church Center App3star· Jul 29, 2026

    not intuitive — The app gets the job done, but its lack of intuitive use makes for an unnecessarily difficult learning curve.

  • Planning Center Services1star· May 13, 2026

    The church has control over your account — If you are a musician you need to know a couple of things: (1) This software is incredibly clunky to use if you play at multiple churches, and (2) The churches have control over your account. You cannot remove a church from your account unless the church grants you permission. I understand the churches are the paying customers, but this app will not exi

  • Planning Center Services2star· Apr 3, 2026

    Why is it so slow? — So the app is really great and useful for planning and scheduling church serve times. My main complaint or I should say two complaints are: #1 Why is it so slow? It takes forever for the app to load and then if you switch to a different section, it takes forever again. I don’t understand! I thought maybe it was the Wi-Fi at our church because it can be a little sketchy, but I

Performanceelevated

24.7% vs 16.3% typical store-wide.

Counted in 89 reviews · 4 of 6 apps · 2.5star mean

What they said · 3 of 89
  • Whoop Triggerz Plus1star· Apr 28, 2026

    Force Closing — Downloaded the app and subscribed, but the app force closes each time I click “play” on any trigger

  • Planning Center Services3star· Apr 9, 2026

    Bugs — New update fixes messaging which is great! But the app gets stuck when I go back to the last page and has to be closed each time. I also lost the ability to see teams for scheduling, only myself. Rough when you serve on different teams with family members the same day.

  • Whoop Triggerz Plus1star· Apr 7, 2026

    Not good while churching — It keeps glitching during each song.

Also counted

ThemeOf 360 negatives
  • Billing30 · 8.3% · 4 apps
  • Support11 · 3.1% · 3 apps
  • Limits & caps3 · 0.8% · 2 apps
  • Accuracy2 · 0.6% · 1 apps
  • Sync & data2 · 0.6% · 2 apps
  • Ads1 · 0.3% · 1 apps

The tick marks the store-typical rate. A review can mention more than one theme, so these sum past 100%.

Is anyone looking for this?

What Apple and Google complete after church and worship apps, in their order.

Who they're for
all nationsthe nationsall nations incall nations wa
App Store
church centerchurch for all nations appchurch for the nationschurch's chickenchurch for all nations incchurch for all nations wachurch of the highlandsa church for norman

Marked App Store phrases are searched, but no app in this market says them in its name. Audiences are what Apple and Google complete after “church for”, with the query stripped.

Who’s in it

All 6 apps counted in this market · 2026-09-02.

  • Worship Backing Tracksno Android match · Billing 50%
  • Whoop Triggerz Plus101,133 installs · Billing 52.9%
  • Planning Center Servicesno Android match · Login & auth 27.2%
  • Church Center Appno Android match · UX 15%
  • Church by MinistryOneno Android match ·
  • Oak Hills Church +no Android match ·

Installs are Google's own count, captured 2026-09-06. 1 of 6 apps have an Android listing we could match. A dash means we could not pair the two stores, not that the app is absent from Play.

What they charge, and what it costs them

Prices from Apple’s public pages; the share counts payment-mechanics language only.

AppMoney complaints
Worship Backing Tracks$34.99–$399.99 · 3 tiers21.4% of 14
Whoop Triggerz Plus$24.99–$239.99 · 2 tiers14.7% of 34

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Every app we count, with the complaint it runs furthest above the store’s typical rate.

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Is there a market for a new church and worship app?

6 apps compete on this shelf, holding 883 App Store reviews. And the widest unfixed complaint, login & auth, runs in 3 of 6 of them at 21.1% of negative reviews against 7.5% typical. Those are counts, not a verdict. The page shows what is unfixed, not whether to build.

What do users complain about most in church and worship apps?

1. Login & auth: in 3 of 6 apps, 21.1% of negative reviews; 2. UX: in 4 of 6 apps, 12.8% of negative reviews; 3. Performance: in 4 of 6 apps, 24.7% of negative reviews.

How many church and worship app reviews did App Imp count?

883 US App Store reviews across 6 apps, 360 of them negative. Counted on the 2026-09-02 snapshot, never estimated.

How markets are ranked

We give each market a mark out of 100 for seven things (nobody's fixed it 20 · above the norm 15 · how angry 10 · room to build 15 · room to enter 15 · getting bigger 20 · willingness to pay 5). Then we multiply the marks together. We do not average them.

Averaging lets a market hide one bad problem behind good numbers. Multiplying means one bad mark pulls the whole score down. That is the point. A market you cannot win is still a market you cannot win, however badly it is served.

Each mark has a fixed rule. Nobody’s fixed it and willingness to pay are plain shares. Above the norm maxes out at 4 times the store’s usual rate. How angry runs from star3.0 down to star1.5. Room to enter is what the biggest app does not own. Getting bigger hits 100 at 10% growth. Room to build is different. It is a sweet spot, not a size. A market can be too small to live on, or too big to break into.

If we cannot count something, we leave it out. We never guess it. The score only sorts this list. Every other number you see on a market is counted.

How this is counted

Every number is arithmetic over the reviews we hold, re-counted weekly: nothing modelled, nothing scored. Themes come from a frozen pattern classifier rather than a model reading reviews, so the same review always lands in the same bucket. A market rate is pooled across every app here; the store rate is the same count across 12,728 apps. A complaint is only called a gap when at least half the market carries it, at least 20 reviews are behind it, and the market’s rate is elevated above the store’s, the same cutoff used everywhere on this site, because a problem concentrated in one app is that app’s bug, and a problem every app on the store shares is nobody’s gap. This market has no full report yet, so the per-app notes are absent rather than estimated. The anger axis is counted either way: mean star of the reviews carrying each theme, from the same classifier as the counts above.