Praise Vision is live presentation software for churches. Lyrics, scripture, slides, images and video on any number of screens, with songs and scripture in two languages at once.
For macOS (Apple Silicon and Intel) and Windows
Songs can be in any of 124 languages, each written its own way, or in one you add by name. Find yours
Every translation lives inside the song. Each service picks the two languages on screen, and the audience screen and stage display follow.
Edit a song with each translation in its own column, slide by slide, so nothing drifts out of place. Add a language in one click.
Choose from 124 languages in one searchable list. Type part of a name in English or in its own script, or a common name like “Chinese” or “Farsi”. If yours isn’t listed, add it by name.
Pick the top and bottom language once for the whole service, and every song follows. A song can still make its own choice. Try it:
Turn on romanization and the pronunciation appears under each line, in Latin letters, for everyone who speaks the language but never learned to read it.
Mandarin can be Simplified or Traditional, and Cantonese is a language of its own, with Jyutping instead of pinyin. Korean uses Revised Romanization, the official system. Mandarin gets pinyin with tone marks (with Taiwan readings for Traditional), and Japanese kana get Hepburn.
Kanji readings need a person, so a Japanese line with kanji waits for you. Type the reading once and it’s kept, the same way you’d fix any other line.
Example: the line 主の恵み gets the reading “shu no megumi”, typed by hand.
Search your library by any title or lyric: in Hangul, Chinese characters or kana, by romanization (“na gateun”, “ping an”), by Korean initial consonants, or in either kind of Chinese characters. Accents and tone marks are optional.
A confidence monitor for musicians and speakers, in both languages. Send a message to the stage and only the stage sees it.
A quiet, dark interface where the slides bring the colour. Amber means one thing: the audience sees this now.
Run the whole service from the keyboard
The same keys work in the output windows, and CtrlF searches the library.
Click here, then try Space ← and F1–F5Keyboard is live: Space ← F1–F5Tap the controls and backgrounds to try them
Everything a service needs, from the first welcome slide to the last chorus.
Verses, choruses and bridges, arrangements that play them in any order, and notes on any slide. Bring songs in from CCLI SongSelect, OpenLyrics or plain text.
Show a passage in two translations at once. Passages you’ve fetched are saved, so they work offline on Sunday.
PDF decks become slides. PowerPoint, Keynote and Impress files are converted with LibreOffice when it’s installed, and images can be slides.
Image and video backgrounds that loop seamlessly, audio, and crossfades on every layer. Video uses hardware decoding where your computer supports it, and the video engine is built in.
Change the font, size, colour, shadow or outline and watch the slide update as you go.
Audience screens go full screen on any monitor, next to a stage display and a live preview in the operator window. Add another output whenever you need one; with a single display, outputs open as windows.
A translation one church makes can serve many more. Search in any script, and each song appears in the language you searched in or picked.
15 songs
A working preview with demo songs. The churches are made up, and the non-English lines were written for the demo.
From the app
The library’s server is built. It opens to churches soon, and the Community tab in the app will connect to it.
Live presentation leaves no room for surprises, so Praise Vision is built to keep going.
Songs, media, themes and saved scripture all live on your computer, so the service doesn’t depend on the Wi-Fi.
If something goes wrong in the operator window, it’s logged and the screens carry on.
Unplug a screen and its output falls back to a window. Plug it back in and it moves back.
The video engine and its decoders come built in. There’s nothing else to install.
Written in Rust. Slides, text and video are drawn on the GPU, and the operator’s preview uses the same renderer as the screens.
Your songs and services stay on your computer unless you choose to share one.
Every song, service playlist and theme is a JSON file in your Documents folder, one per item. Back it up or sync it with any tool you already use.
Alpha builds for macOS and Windows are coming to the public soon.
Apple Silicon and Intel
Installer or portable zip
Everything it needs, including the video engine, comes in the download. It’s early software, so try it alongside your current setup before you rely on it for a service.
Churches that put lyrics, scripture, slides and video on screens during a service, and especially churches that worship in more than one language.
Any of them. Over 120 languages are listed, from Afrikaans to Zulu, in their own scripts: type part of a name to find one, and if yours isn’t listed, add it by name. A song can have as many as you like, and two are on screen at a time. Romanization (pronunciation in Latin letters) is available for Korean, Mandarin, Cantonese and Japanese kana.
Arabic, Hebrew, Hindi and the other Indic scripts, Thai, Lao, Khmer, Myanmar, Tibetan, Amharic, Georgian and Armenian display in the operator window, as well as Chinese, Japanese and Korean. Praise Vision uses the fonts on your computer for them.
No. Songs, media and themes live on your computer. Scripture needs a connection the first time you fetch a passage, and is saved after that. The community library, once it opens, needs a connection to browse.
Praise Vision fetches passages from YouVersion using a YouVersion Platform app key that you enter once in Settings. You can show two translations at once, and passages are saved so they work offline.
Yes. Songs import from CCLI SongSelect files (.txt and .usr), OpenLyrics (.xml) and plain text. PDF decks become slides, PowerPoint, Keynote and Impress files are converted when LibreOffice is installed, and images can be slides too.
A Mac (Apple Silicon or Intel) or a Windows PC. Connect a TV or projector for the audience, and another screen for the stage display if you like. With one screen, the outputs open as windows.
In Documents/Praise Vision, as plain JSON files: one per song, service playlist and theme. You can back it up or sync it with any tool.
Praise Vision is in alpha. Builds for macOS and Windows are coming to the public soon.
