It hears the sermon. The verse is already on screen
It finds the passage while your pastor preaches, and puts it on every screen in the building.
Mac, Windows and Linux
Schedule
Preview Staged
16 For God so loved the world, that he gave his only Son, that whoever believes in him should not perish but have eternal life.
JOHN 3:16 · KJVLive On air
Great is thy faithfulness, O God my Father
GREAT IS THY FAITHFULNESS · V1CUE 3/9 SLIDE 2/6
Next
turn with me if you would, because for God so loved the world, that he gave
Suggestions · 3
AI authority
Smart Auto projects confident references & commands (≥95%); semantic matches always wait for you. Lyric follow never airs new content, it only moves within the song already live.
NaveLight is offline-first church presentation software with on-device AI scripture detection. Lyrics, scripture, media, countdowns and live captions on every screen in your building, from one console.
- Category
- Church presentation software
- Runs on
- macOS, Windows, Linux
- Internet
- Not required, ever
- AI
- On device, not cloud
- Free tier
- Never expires, countdowns are Pro
How it works
Three seconds, start to screen
Your operator watches the room. NaveLight does the typing.
We're filming it in a real service
Not a mockup, and not a screen recording with the timings tidied up.
Your pastor preaches
It listens on the mic you already run to the sound desk. The audio never leaves the machine.
NaveLight finds the verse
It catches the reference if they give one, and finds the passage if they only tell the story.
…for God so loved the world, that he gave…
It goes up
One tap and it's live on every screen. Or it goes up on its own, if you've let it.
16 For God so loved the world…
JOHN 3:16 · KJVYou decide how far it can go
One capability at a time. It arrives only ever suggesting, and one button puts it back there mid-service.
Smart Auto projects confident references & commands (≥95%); semantic matches always wait for you. Lyric follow never airs new content, it only moves within the song already live.
Pull the cable out mid-service
Nothing happens. No warning banner, no reduced mode, no feature quietly switching itself off. There is no account to sign into and nothing to check.
- The Bibles and the hymns are already installed
- The listening happens on your computer
- The phone remote runs on your own Wi-Fi
What your current software can't do on Sunday
Yours is probably fine. This is only the handful of things NaveLight does differently, and the places where it doesn't.
| Capability | NaveLight | PewBeam | ProPresenter | EasyWorship | OpenLP |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Live scripture detectionCatches references as they're spoken | ●Built in | ●Built in | —None | —None | —None |
| Meaning-based searchFinds the story without a citation | ●Built in | ●Built in | —Keyword only | —Keyword only | —Keyword only |
| Control over what the AI may airSuggest, or project on its own | ●Per capability | ◐One global switch | —n/a | —n/a | —n/a |
| AI that runs on your machineNothing sent away to be processed | ●Always | ◐Apple Silicon only | —n/a | —n/a | —n/a |
| Keeps working with no internetAnd for how long | ●Indefinitely | ◐14 days | ◐Periodic check | ◐Periodic check | ●Indefinitely |
| Lyric followTracks the line being sung | ●Built in | —No songs | —Manual | —Manual | —Manual |
| Song libraryArrangements, keys, CCLI | ●1,700+ hymns | —None | ●Yes | ●Yes | ●Yes |
| Imports a rival's libraryBringing your songs with you | ●EasyWorship & ProPresenter | —No song library | ◐Song by song | ◐Plain text only | ◐Many, but older versions |
| Live sermon captionsTranscript on the output screens | ●Built in | —None | ◐Via third party | —None | —None |
| Layer-based screen designComposited output, not fixed templates | ●Composer | ◐Theme designer | ●Yes | ◐Limited | ◐Limited |
| African-language BiblesYorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Twi, Èʋe | ●Six, no charge | ◐Three, paid only | ◐Bring your own | ◐Bring your own | ◐Bring your own |
| Stage displayMusician-facing screen | ●Yes | —None | ●Yes | ●Yes | ◐Basic |
| Phone remoteControl from the room | ●LAN + OSC | ◐OSC only | ●Yes | ◐Limited | ●Yes |
| Runs on LinuxBeyond macOS and Windows | ●Yes | —No | —No | —No | ●Yes |
Checked against each product's published documentation and pricing, 27–28 July 2026. Product names and trademarks belong to their owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. If something here is wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.
Switching is the hard part, not choosing
Most churches asking us this are on EasyWorship. A table won't tell you whether your library survives the move, so we've written up both common cases in full — including what doesn't come across.
Pricing
One licence. Every computer in your building
Not per seat, not per device. Your booth machine, the laptop in the back, the spare you keep for when the booth machine dies — all of it, one price. Every install starts with a month of Pro.
Community
For church plants and small congregations
- Lyrics, scripture, media and live output
- 1,700+ hymns, 6 translations and every language pack
- Two screens
- Services, themes and alerts
- Nothing on the screens the room sees , ever
- No time limit, no account, no card
Pro Most churches
For churches with a media team
or $25 a month or $240 a year, and save 20%
- Everything in Community
- AI Assist included , not sold separately
- Unlimited screens and the Composer
- Countdowns , and no mark on your console either
- Stage screen, phone remote, Stream Deck
- Brings your library over from EasyWorship or ProPresenter
- Support from someone who knows the software
Multi-campus
For networks, campuses and denominations
- Everything in Pro, at every location
- Shared themes and templates
- We help you set it up
- Someone whose name you know
Or don't rent it at all
Buy it once. $590. It's yours
A year of updates included, then it keeps working forever whether you renew or not. We can offer that because NaveLight runs on your machine; software that needs a server to answer can't.
Every plan works offline. We don't hold anything back behind a connection, and we don't count your computers.
Questions churches ask
The five that decide whether a church tries it.
Offline & privacy
Does church presentation software work without an internet connection?
NaveLight does, completely and indefinitely. The Bibles, hymns, songs and media are stored on the machine, the speech and search models run on the machine, and there is no account to sign into. Most presentation software works offline for the basics but checks a licence periodically, and cloud-based AI tools stop detecting scripture the moment the connection drops.
Where does the sermon audio go?
Nowhere. Transcription and scripture search run on the church's own computer, so the audio and the transcript never leave the building. There is no account, no upload and no cloud processing, which is also why the AI features keep working when the internet doesn't.
The AI
Does the AI put things on screen by itself?
Only if you tell it to, and you decide capability by capability. Six settings — explicit references, verse navigation, version switch, semantic matches, song cues and lyric follow — each run in Assist (suggest only), Smart Auto (project when at least 95% confident) or Full Auto. It ships cautious, with the guessier features on Assist, and one button returns everything to suggest-only mid-service.
Moving over
Can NaveLight import my existing songs?
Yes, from EasyWorship and ProPresenter, plus OpenLyrics XML and plain text. Both libraries are detected automatically during setup and bring across songs, media and presentations in one step. You can also paste lyrics directly, including from SongSelect with the CCLI details attached.
What computer does it need?
A mid-range machine your media team probably already has: 4 GB of RAM minimum, 8 GB recommended. During setup NaveLight checks the computer and recommends which speech model it can comfortably run, and the rest of the software works with no AI model installed at all.
All questions, including price and translations →
Still have a question?
Ask us anything, including the awkward ones. A real person answers, and if NaveLight isn't right for your church we'll say so.
Ready to put every word on cue?
Get on the list for early access. Or bring your media team along and we'll walk you through it properly.
No card, no account, no follow-up sequence. One email, when it's ready.