Last Updated: September 2026
If you are searching for the best Church Metrics alternatives, price is unlikely to be the reason. Church Metrics is free, it is quick to set up, and it charts attendance, salvations and giving totals well. They are leaving because the church has reached the point where a number is no longer enough. The attendance chart says 40 fewer people came in August; it cannot tell you which 40, or who to call.
That is not a bug. Church Metrics says on its own FAQ page that it “was built to track overall data in your church, not individuals.” This page ranks the platforms that do track individuals, grouped by what a church usually needs next, and it is clear about when keeping Church Metrics for weekly totals still makes sense. You can also browse more alternatives to Church Metrics and other platforms in our hub.
Key Takeaways
- Church Metrics tracks headcounts, not people. It cannot hold an individual member record, attendance history or giving history for a person.
- It has no native integration with Planning Center or any other church management system (ChMS), so CSV export is the usual path in and out.
- It is free and now owned by Gloo, a Nasdaq-listed faith technology company. Its last release, v2.5.7 in March 2026, was a maintenance update.
- Best for full congregational management: Planning Center (free people database) or Breeze ChMS, now part of Tithely, at a flat $72 a month.
- Best for member records, events and communication without a full ChMS: Raklet, which has a permanent free plan for 100 contacts.
- The fastest way to choose: scan the comparison table below.
Why churches look for Church Metrics alternatives
Church Metrics holds 4.5 out of 5 across 29 reviews on Capterra, and most of those reviewers like it. The complaints that do appear are consistent, and nearly all of them trace back to the same design decision. We found no Church Metrics mentions in our own sales-call transcripts, so the themes below come from those reviews and from Church Metrics’ own documentation.
1. It counts people but cannot tell you who they are. Church Metrics records totals by category and service time. There are no member profiles, no contact records and no individual attendance history. Reviewers are blunt about it: one calls it “a nicer looking version of a spreadsheet”, another says it “does little more than a very simple spreadsheet would.” Kids ministry and the main auditorium need separate service entries just to be counted apart. That is fine for a weekly report to the elders. It stops being fine the first time someone asks who has not been seen in a month.
2. It does not connect to your other church software. A pastor on Capterra writes that it “doesn’t interact with our other Planning Center products.” There is no native sync with Planning Center, Breeze, Rock RMS or any other ChMS. Church Metrics does publish an API on GitHub, but without a developer, data moves by CSV export and import. Churches running both systems end up entering the same Sunday twice.
3. Reporting is rigid. Reports only come in a horizontal layout, and services cannot be charted separately. One reviewer asked for “a setting so you could have the services have their own graphs instead of adding all three together.” Another found some of the report features “seemingly impossible for me to understand.” The usual workaround is exporting to Excel and rebuilding the chart there.
4. The mobile app is unreliable for data entry. Reviewers describe the app having “challenges and errors with saving data” and closing as soon as they start typing a note. For volunteers entering counts from the back of the room, that is the moment the tool is supposed to be easiest.
5. The interface feels dated, and updates are infrequent. Reviewers describe it as lacking polish and confusing for beginners. The latest release, v2.5.7 in March 2026, fixed importer and CSV encoding issues rather than adding features.
6. Free now sits inside a public company. Church Metrics was created by Life.Church and is now owned by Gloo, which priced its Nasdaq IPO as GLOO. Gloo has announced no pricing change, and nothing here suggests one is coming. It is simply a planning consideration: a free tool’s future is set by its owner’s strategy, so export your history regularly whichever way you go.
What to look for in a Church Metrics alternative
Each criterion below answers one of the gaps above. Start with the first, because it decides which half of this list you are shopping in.
Individual records, or only better totals? If you want the same counts with nicer charts, you may not need to leave. If you need to know who attended, who is missing, and who gave, you need a people database. Every platform on this page provides one; Church Metrics does not.
How attendance gets recorded per person. Headcount tools count heads. People systems record attendance through check-in stations, QR codes, group leader roll calls or a volunteer ticking names. Ask each vendor to show you how a Sunday service and a small group meeting get recorded, and how long that takes on a phone.
Integration with what you already run. If you use Planning Center for worship scheduling, or QuickBooks for finance, check for a native integration or a public API before you sign. This is the gap reviewers feel most with Church Metrics.
Reports you can build yourself. Ask to build one report during the trial: attendance by service for the last quarter, split by campus or age group. If it needs a support ticket or an Excel export, you have swapped one rigid tool for another.
Mobile reliability for volunteers. The people entering data are rarely the admins. Test the app on an older phone, on church Wi-Fi, with a note attached.
Support you can reach when something breaks. A free tool sets no expectation of support, but a paid system you run Sunday check-in on does. Ask whether there is a phone line, what the published response time is, and whether anyone works weekend mornings. Breeze, Churchteams and Servant Keeper publish phone support; Planning Center and ChurchTrac work by email and chat.
A plan for your history. Church Metrics exports your data as CSV, so years of weekly totals can leave with you. They will not turn into individual records, though, because they were never recorded per person. Export the full history and keep it as an archive before you switch, ask each vendor whether it can import historical attendance totals alongside new people records, and expect to start per-person attendance from your first Sunday on the new system. Servant Keeper’s Complete plan includes white-glove data transfer if you would rather hand this off.
The real cost at your size, and who owns it. Moving from free to paid is a real decision for a small church. Price each platform at your people count, not the entry tier, using the cost by congregation size table below, and check who owns the company you are trusting with your records.
The Best Church Metrics Alternatives in 2026
How we evaluated these alternatives
We scored each platform on four dimensions. Pricing transparency: is there a public price grid, including add-ons and fees? Ownership stability: independent, PE-backed, publicly traded or recently acquired. Product cadence: how often meaningful updates ship. And church management feature depth, weighted toward what Church Metrics lacks: individual records, per-person attendance, integration and reporting.
Pricing comes from each platform’s published pricing page, fetched in September 2026; Churchteams publishes its tiers as an image, so its figures come from its Capterra listing, and figures derived from published rates are labeled as estimates. Review data comes from Capterra, each platform’s public documentation, and Raklet sales-call transcripts, which contained no Church Metrics mentions.
Raklet is one of the alternatives and we list ourselves first because this is our page, so treat the order as our opinion rather than a neutral ranking. Where Raklet loses, we say so: it is not a church management system, it has no fund accounting or child check-in, and it charges a platform fee on top of the payment processor.
1. Raklet
Raklet is a membership and community platform built on a CRM, and it is on this list for churches whose main gap is the one Church Metrics cannot close: knowing each person. Every contact has a profile with custom fields and a timeline recording their memberships, donations, event attendance and activity, so the history stays with the church when staff change. Services, classes and gatherings can run as events with registration and QR code check-in, which puts attendance on each person’s record rather than in a total. Email campaigns, donation forms, a member directory, a private community space and a free Raklet-branded iOS and Android app cover communication. Reporting is built on the same filters you use to segment contacts.
What Raklet does not do matters as much. It is not a church management system: there is no fund accounting, no church-style annual contribution statements, no child check-in with security labels, no volunteer scheduling or worship planning, and no built-in counter for salvations or baptisms by service. Categories such as visitor, regular attender and member are set up yourself as membership types or custom fields rather than coming preconfigured. If Sunday totals by category are what you rely on, Church Metrics still does that for free, and some churches keep it for totals while running people in Raklet. Raklet also fits the organizations a church-only tool leaves out, such as parachurch ministries, denominational offices and faith-based nonprofits. See how churches use it on our church software page.
Pricing: A permanent free plan for 100 contacts with no credit card, which is a plan and not a trial. Essentials is $49/mo on annual billing (500 contacts), Professional $99/mo (1,000 contacts, adds integrations and event check-ins), and Premium $399/mo (10,000 contacts, adds API access, SSO and a custom domain). Extra 1,000-contact packs cost $29/mo on monthly billing or $290/yr on annual billing, so you can grow without jumping a tier. Pricing scales on contacts and features together. Raklet charges a platform transaction fee that varies by plan, on top of the payment processor’s fee, and payments run on Stripe plus limited PayPal. Every rate is published on the Raklet pricing page.
Best for: Churches, ministries and faith communities that need individual member records, events, communication and donations in one place, without a full ChMS.
Not ideal for: Churches whose core needs are fund accounting, Sunday child check-in or worship scheduling. Breeze, ChurchTrac or Planning Center fit better.
For the direct comparison on features, data and migration, read Church Metrics vs Raklet.
2. Planning Center
Planning Center is the most natural step up for a Church Metrics church, for one reason: its People database is free at any size, with reporting included. You can move from counting heads to keeping individual records without paying anything, then add modules only where you need them. Check-Ins records attendance per person, Groups tracks small group rosters, and Services handles worship planning and volunteer scheduling, which many churches treat as the standard. It is founder-owned, has never taken outside funding, and says on its about page that more than 90,000 churches use it.
Pricing: People is free. Every paid module runs the same ladder, $15, $32, $69, $115, $179 and $239/mo, with a different unit per module. Check-Ins is free up to 10 daily check-ins, then $15/mo for 30 and $69/mo for 200. Groups is free to 15 members, then $15/mo for 75. Giving processes cards at 2.15% plus $0.30. No contracts and the first 30 days are free. See Planning Center pricing.
Best for: Churches of any size that want individual records for free today and a clear path to check-in, groups and worship planning later.
Not ideal for: Churches that want one predictable bill. Several modules at moderate usage add up quickly, and support is by email rather than phone.
3. Breeze ChMS (now Tithely Church Management)
Breeze is the simplest full church management system on this list, and for a church leaving a free counting tool, simple matters. Tithely acquired Breeze in 2021 and rebranded it Tithely Church Management in November 2025, so the two names now describe one product. Member profiles, per-person attendance, giving, groups, check-in, email and text messaging, contribution statements and an admin mobile app are all included, with unlimited people and users. Tithely’s free giving tools sit alongside it if you want online giving first.
Pricing: $72/mo flat, with no tiers and no limits based on church size. Giving is included at $0/mo, texting includes 250 messages a month then $10 per 500, and a bundle adding worship tools, church apps and a website is $119/mo. Free phone and email support, a 30-day free trial, no contracts and no termination fees. See Breeze pricing.
Best for: Small and mid-size churches that want individual records, attendance and giving in one place at a price that never changes as they grow.
Not ideal for: Churches that want detailed worship planning, where Planning Center is stronger, or buyers who prefer an independent vendor over a private-equity-backed one.
4. Churchteams
Churchteams organizes the church around groups and relationships, which makes it a strong fit if the reason you are leaving Church Metrics is follow-up. Group leaders take attendance for their own people, and workflow automation flags who has missed several weeks and assigns someone to reach out, which is exactly the question a headcount cannot answer. Every plan includes check-in, communication, giving, groups, membership, registration, text-to-church and volunteers. It publishes a phone line and rates 4.6 out of 5 across 471 reviews on Capterra.
Pricing: Three tiers by database size, listed on Capterra at $37/mo, $97/mo and $197/mo. Churchteams shows the size boundaries as an image rather than text, so confirm your tier before comparing. 500 texts a month are included, with overages at 2 cents each. 30 days free, no credit card, no contract. See Churchteams pricing.
Best for: Small-group churches that want attendance tracked by leaders and automatic follow-up for people who drift.
Not ideal for: Churches that want a modern interface, and budgets that feel the jump between tiers. We found no published API, so check integrations before you commit.
5. ChurchTrac
ChurchTrac is the most complete bundle at small-church prices, and it rates 4.8 out of 5 across 864 reviews on Capterra. Every tier includes people, attendance, check-in, giving, fund accounting, groups, events, volunteers, worship planning and a website and app. For a church moving off Church Metrics, it replaces the counting tool and the spreadsheet next to it in one login. It has no public API, so integration is limited to its built-in connections.
Pricing: ChurchTrac repriced in 2026. Its pricing page now starts at $29/mo for 75 names, then $39, $59, $79 and $99, up to $119/mo for unlimited names, with accounting included. Yearly billing saves 10%, and there is a 30-day free trial with no credit card. Enhanced Messaging is a $7/mo add-on. See how ChurchTrac compares to Raklet.
Best for: Small churches that want attendance, giving and accounting in one flat bundle.
Not ideal for: Churches that need an API or phone support; ChurchTrac offers neither.
6. Rock RMS
Rock RMS is for churches that outgrew Church Metrics’ reporting and want no ceiling at all. It is open source, governed by the nonprofit Spark Development Network, with people management, attendance, giving, check-in, workflows, event registration, a REST API and the most configurable reporting on this page. If your frustration was charts you could not split by service, Rock lets you build any view you want. The catch is that somebody has to build it.
Pricing: No license fees and no contract. Rock asks for a voluntary annual commitment of $4.45 per average weekend attendee, so a 100-person church would be asked for $445 a year. Hosting is separate, through Rock Cloud, Cloud 9 or your own servers. Support is community forums, documentation and Rock U training. See Rock RMS pricing.
Best for: Large or multi-site churches with a developer on staff or a church technology partner.
Not ideal for: Almost every church coming from a free counting tool. Without in-house technical help, Rock costs more in staff time than a paid subscription.
7. ChMeetings
ChMeetings is the gentlest price step up from free, and its about page reports more than 7,000 churches, ministries and dioceses. The free plan covers 50 people with email, calendar, a member portal and a church app, so a church plant can start keeping individual records without a budget line. Paid tiers add attendance, giving, groups, events, advanced reports and accounting features, and the interface runs in several languages, which suits multilingual congregations. We found no shipped AI features on its site.
Pricing: Free for up to 50 people, then $12/mo for 100, $25/mo for 250, $40/mo for 500, $50/mo for 1,000 and $60/mo unlimited. Annual billing charges 10 months instead of 12. SMS credits and a custom branded app are extra. No setup or termination fee. See ChMeetings pricing.
Best for: Church plants and small congregations that want individual records and attendance at the lowest possible cost.
Not ideal for: Churches that need phone support, or that want AI features today.
8. Servant Keeper
Servant Keeper has sold church software since 1994 and has moved from desktop to cloud while keeping a long-tenured customer base. Both plans include unlimited families and members, so the price does not change as your records grow, and phone, email and chat support is standard even on the entry plan. The Complete plan adds white-glove data transfer, which matters if your history lives in Church Metrics exports and spreadsheets, plus 1,000 texts a month, a website and an app.
Pricing: Core is $79.99/mo, or $73.32/mo on annual billing ($879.89/yr), for around 4 users. Complete is $159.99/mo, or $146.66/mo annually ($1,759.89/yr), for around 8 users. See Servant Keeper pricing.
Best for: Established churches that want a 30-year vendor, a phone line and help moving their data.
Not ideal for: Budget-driven small churches. There is no free tier, and Core costs about what Breeze does with fewer users.
Church Metrics alternatives compared
Church Metrics competitors split into two groups: tools that count, and systems that know who was counted. The table puts Church Metrics first as the baseline so the gap is visible.
Prices as of September 2026 based on published pricing pages. Every platform here publishes a price, so there are no quote-based figures. “Not stated” means we found no primary source and chose not to guess.
| Tool | Ownership | Best for | Starting price | Support | Contract | Mobile app | Public API | AI features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raklet | Privately held, independent | Individual member records, events and communication | Free (100 contacts); $49/mo (500) | Email and chat; phone and video a $100/mo add-on | Monthly or annual | Yes, free Raklet-branded iOS and Android app | Yes, on Premium | On the roadmap |
| Church Metrics (baseline) | Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO) | Aggregate counts: attendance, salvations, giving totals | Free | Online help and support site | None | Yes, for data entry | Yes (published on GitHub) | None shipped |
| Planning Center | Founder-owned, bootstrapped | Modular ChMS with a free people database | People free; modules from $15/mo each | None, cancel anytime | Yes, Church Center member app free | Yes | Yes, AI list building | |
| Breeze ChMS (Tithely) | Owned by Tithely (acquired 2021); Accel-KKR backed | Simple all-in-one at one flat price | $72/mo flat, unlimited people | Free phone and email | None, no termination fees | Yes, admin mobile app included | Yes | Yes, via Tithely AI Insights |
| Churchteams | Owner-operated since 1999 | Groups, follow-up and attendance by person | $37/mo (Capterra listing) | Phone, text and support portal | None, 30 days free | Yes, member app | Not stated | Not stated |
| ChurchTrac | Family-run, bootstrapped since 2002 | Small churches wanting attendance, giving and accounting bundled | $29/mo (75 names); $119/mo unlimited | Email, chat and weekly workshops; no phone | Monthly, or annual at 10% off | Member app; admin is browser only | No | None shipped |
| Rock RMS | Open source, nonprofit-governed | Tech-capable churches wanting full control | Free software; $4.45 per attendee/yr suggested, plus hosting | Community forums, docs and Rock U | None | Buildable with Rock Mobile | Yes, REST API | None natively |
| ChMeetings | Privately held (Jios Apps Inc) | Budget churches moving off spreadsheets | Free (50 people); $12/mo (100) | Email; priority support on higher tiers | None, cancel any time | Yes, church app; branded app extra | Not stated | None found |
| Servant Keeper | Privately held since 1994 | Established churches wanting phone support and migration help | $73.32/mo annual (Core) | Phone, email and chat | Monthly or annual | Yes, on Complete | Not stated | Not stated |
| Tool | Ownership | Best for | Starting price | Support | Contract | Mobile app | Public API | AI features |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Raklet | Privately held, independent | Individual member records, events and communication | Free (100 contacts); $49/mo (500) | Email and chat; phone and video a $100/mo add-on | Monthly or annual | Yes, free Raklet-branded iOS and Android app | Yes, on Premium | On the roadmap |
| Church Metrics (baseline) | Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO) | Aggregate counts: attendance, salvations, giving totals | Free | Online help and support site | None | Yes, for data entry | Yes (published on GitHub) | None shipped |
| Planning Center | Founder-owned, bootstrapped | Modular ChMS with a free people database | People free; modules from $15/mo each | None, cancel anytime | Yes, Church Center member app free | Yes | Yes, AI list building | |
| Breeze ChMS (Tithely) | Owned by Tithely (acquired 2021); Accel-KKR backed | Simple all-in-one at one flat price | $72/mo flat, unlimited people | Free phone and email | None, no termination fees | Yes, admin mobile app included | Yes | Yes, via Tithely AI Insights |
| Churchteams | Owner-operated since 1999 | Groups, follow-up and attendance by person | $37/mo (Capterra listing) | Phone, text and support portal | None, 30 days free | Yes, member app | Not stated | Not stated |
| ChurchTrac | Family-run, bootstrapped since 2002 | Small churches wanting attendance, giving and accounting bundled | $29/mo (75 names); $119/mo unlimited | Email, chat and weekly workshops; no phone | Monthly, or annual at 10% off | Member app; admin is browser only | No | None shipped |
| Rock RMS | Open source, nonprofit-governed | Tech-capable churches wanting full control | Free software; $4.45 per attendee/yr suggested, plus hosting | Community forums, docs and Rock U | None | Buildable with Rock Mobile | Yes, REST API | None natively |
| ChMeetings | Privately held (Jios Apps Inc) | Budget churches moving off spreadsheets | Free (50 people); $12/mo (100) | Email; priority support on higher tiers | None, cancel any time | Yes, church app; branded app extra | Not stated | None found |
| Servant Keeper | Privately held since 1994 | Established churches wanting phone support and migration help | $73.32/mo annual (Core) | Phone, email and chat | Monthly or annual | Yes, on Complete | Not stated | Not stated |
What does each platform cost at your member count?
Church Metrics costs nothing at any size, so the real question is what each step up costs as your people database grows. Figures are annual, on annual billing where the vendor offers it.
Prices as of September 2026 based on published pricing pages, with annual totals derived from each published rate. Planning Center figures assume a Sunday check-in count of roughly 40 to 50% of people tracked. Rock RMS figures assume every person tracked attends weekly, which overstates most churches.
| Platform | 500 people tracked | 1,000 people tracked | 2,000 people tracked | 5,000 people tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Metrics (baseline) | $0 (totals only, no individual records) | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Raklet | $588/yr (Essentials) | $1,188/yr (Professional) | $1,478/yr (Professional plus one $290/yr contact pack) | $2,348/yr (Professional plus four $290/yr contact packs), or $4,788/yr on Premium for API and SSO |
| Planning Center | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 200 a day adds $828/yr | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 500 a day adds $1,380/yr | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 1,000 a day adds $2,148/yr | $0 for People; unlimited Check-Ins adds $2,868/yr |
| Breeze ChMS (Tithely) | $864/yr ($72/mo flat) | $864/yr | $864/yr | $864/yr |
| Churchteams | $444/yr or $1,164/yr; size boundaries are published as an image, so confirm your tier | $1,164/yr or $2,364/yr; confirm tier | $2,364/yr (Extra Large) | $2,364/yr (Extra Large) |
| ChurchTrac | $948/yr ($79/mo, 500 names); about $853/yr annual | $1,188/yr ($99/mo); about $1,069/yr annual | $1,428/yr ($119/mo, unlimited); about $1,285/yr annual | $1,428/yr; about $1,285/yr annual |
| Rock RMS | $2,225/yr suggested if all 500 attend weekly, plus hosting | $4,450/yr suggested, plus hosting | $8,900/yr suggested, plus hosting | $22,250/yr suggested, plus hosting |
| ChMeetings | $400/yr (Medium, annual billing) | $500/yr (Large, annual) | $600/yr (Unlimited, annual) | $600/yr (Unlimited, annual) |
| Servant Keeper | $879.89/yr (Core, annual) | $879.89/yr | $879.89/yr | $879.89/yr, or $1,759.89/yr on Complete |
| Platform | 500 people tracked | 1,000 people tracked | 2,000 people tracked | 5,000 people tracked |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Church Metrics (baseline) | $0 (totals only, no individual records) | $0 | $0 | $0 |
| Raklet | $588/yr (Essentials) | $1,188/yr (Professional) | $1,478/yr (Professional plus one $290/yr contact pack) | $2,348/yr (Professional plus four $290/yr contact packs), or $4,788/yr on Premium for API and SSO |
| Planning Center | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 200 a day adds $828/yr | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 500 a day adds $1,380/yr | $0 for People; Check-Ins for up to 1,000 a day adds $2,148/yr | $0 for People; unlimited Check-Ins adds $2,868/yr |
| Breeze ChMS (Tithely) | $864/yr ($72/mo flat) | $864/yr | $864/yr | $864/yr |
| Churchteams | $444/yr or $1,164/yr; size boundaries are published as an image, so confirm your tier | $1,164/yr or $2,364/yr; confirm tier | $2,364/yr (Extra Large) | $2,364/yr (Extra Large) |
| ChurchTrac | $948/yr ($79/mo, 500 names); about $853/yr annual | $1,188/yr ($99/mo); about $1,069/yr annual | $1,428/yr ($119/mo, unlimited); about $1,285/yr annual | $1,428/yr; about $1,285/yr annual |
| Rock RMS | $2,225/yr suggested if all 500 attend weekly, plus hosting | $4,450/yr suggested, plus hosting | $8,900/yr suggested, plus hosting | $22,250/yr suggested, plus hosting |
| ChMeetings | $400/yr (Medium, annual billing) | $500/yr (Large, annual) | $600/yr (Unlimited, annual) | $600/yr (Unlimited, annual) |
| Servant Keeper | $879.89/yr (Core, annual) | $879.89/yr | $879.89/yr | $879.89/yr, or $1,759.89/yr on Complete |
Which Church Metrics alternative is right for you?
Start with the question Church Metrics could not answer for you. If it was “who is missing?”, you need full congregational management with per-person attendance. Planning Center lets you start that for free with its People database and add Check-Ins and Groups as you grow. Breeze does it all for one flat $72 a month with a phone line. Churchteams is the pick if follow-up through small groups is the priority, because its workflows flag people who drift.
If you are a small church that also keeps a separate spreadsheet for giving and the books, ChurchTrac replaces both in one bundle from $29 a month. If your budget is close to zero, ChMeetings is free to 50 people. If you want a vendor with 30 years behind it and someone to move your data, Servant Keeper. If you have a developer and want reports with no limits, Rock RMS.
If what you need is a record for every person, events with check-in, email and donations, but not the church-specific workflows of a ChMS, that is Raklet. It is also the fit for ministries and faith-based nonprofits that are not congregations at all. It does not do fund accounting or child check-in, so it is the right answer for a specific kind of organization rather than every church.
Raklet’s permanent free plan covers 100 contacts with no credit card, so testing individual records costs nothing. You can compare Raklet plans and fees or start a free Raklet account and see whether it answers the questions Church Metrics could not.
One honest note to finish. If weekly totals are all your leadership asks for, Church Metrics is still a good free tool, and you do not have to give it up to add a people system.
Frequently asked questions about Church Metrics alternatives
What is the best Church Metrics alternative?
It depends on what you need next. For full church management with individual records, giving and check-in, Breeze at a flat $72 per month or Planning Center, whose People database is free, are the usual picks. For a small church that wants everything bundled, ChurchTrac. For member records, events and communication without a full church management system, Raklet.
Is Church Metrics really free?
Yes. Church Metrics states on its FAQ page that accounts are 100% free, not a trial, and no paid tier exists today. It is now owned by Gloo, a Nasdaq-listed company, which has not announced any pricing changes. As with any free product from a commercial owner, export your data regularly so you are never dependent on a single tool.
Can Church Metrics track individual people?
No. Church Metrics says on its own FAQ that it was built to track overall data in your church, not individuals. It records totals such as attendance by service, salvations and baptisms. If you need to know who attended, who is missing, or who gave, you need a people database such as Planning Center, Breeze, ChMeetings or Raklet.
Does Church Metrics integrate with Planning Center?
Not natively. Reviewers say Church Metrics does not talk to their Planning Center products, so moving data means exporting and importing CSV files. Church Metrics does publish an API on GitHub, so a developer could build a bridge. Many churches simply keep Church Metrics for weekly totals and run individual records in a separate system.
What is the cheapest Church Metrics alternative?
Church Metrics itself is free, so every alternative costs more. Among platforms that track individuals, Planning Center’s People database is free at any size, ChMeetings is free to 50 people and $60 per month unlimited, and Raklet has a permanent free plan for 100 contacts with no credit card. Breeze is a flat $72 per month regardless of size.
Who owns Church Metrics?
Church Metrics was created by Life.Church, the Oklahoma church behind the YouVersion Bible App. It is now owned and operated by Gloo, a faith technology company based in Colorado that listed on Nasdaq under the ticker GLOO. Church Metrics has no standalone chief executive; it is one product inside Gloo’s wider platform.
The bottom line on Church Metrics alternatives
Church Metrics counts people well and cannot tell you who they are, and it will not talk to the system that can. Planning Center is the easiest step up, because its people database costs nothing, and Breeze is the simplest all-in-one at a flat price. Raklet fits churches and ministries that need member records, events and communication rather than a full ChMS. For related decisions, the comparisons below cover the platforms churches most often shortlist next.
Compare to other church and membership software alternatives
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