Free church management software. For your whole Krew.
Manage church members, households, giving, worship services, volunteers, your website and communications in one place. Church Krew’s core tools are free for life, with no member cap and no required contribution.
No demo call. No credit card. No catch.
How Church Krew works
Bring your church’s people, giving, service plans and communications into one church management system. Start with a small group of staff and a reviewed set of records, then expand when your team is comfortable.
- Set up your people. Add members and households, review imported contact details, and give staff the permissions they need.
- Prepare the week. Create events, plan a service, assign volunteers and prepare the messages your congregation needs.
- Connect your church. Preview and publish your website, configure giving, and rehearse check-in before a live service.
The core software is free for life. Payment processing, communication usage and optional add-ons have their own terms. Review pricing and fees before enabling paid activity.
Explore the church management featuresRunning a church shouldn't mean five subscriptions.
One platform. Zero duct tape.
Everything shares one brain
Every module reads and writes the same people, the same giving, the same calendar. A gift updates a profile. A sermon becomes a website update, a week of social posts, and a set of video clips. No exports, no syncing, no duct tape.
One platform · one loginThe Huddle
Your team's live home base — connected tasks, chat, and the numbers that matter, wired to the same data. Staff log in and already know the day.
Free modulePeople Hub
Directory, households, groups, attendance, and visitor follow-up that runs itself.
Free moduleGiving Engine
Card, ACH, text & NFC giving, booked to the right fund automatically.
Free moduleServices & Worship
Plan the order of service, schedule the team, and run it live — song library and transposition included.
Free moduleAI Website Builder
A church site that updates itself from your data.
Free moduleSocial Planner
Sermon to a week of platform-native posts, scheduled and published in your voice.
Add-on · $19/moVideo Studio
AI finds your best sermon moments and renders captioned vertical clips for Reels, Shorts & TikTok.
Add-on · $29/moCommunications
Email and SMS to the right group — no Mailchimp.
Free moduleFund Accounting
True FASB fund accounting your bookkeeper recognizes — restricted funds, clergy housing, audit-ready statements, all in one ledger.
Add-on · $29/moWhat does free church management software include?
Church Krew Core includes a member directory, households, groups, attendance, service planning, volunteer scheduling, a church website, giving tools and communications. A shared database helps staff work from the same church records instead of maintaining separate lists.
There is no monthly subscription for the core, no trial clock and no member cap. Online gifts still have transaction fees. Texting, email and AI features have usage limits or credits; free access to the tool does not mean unlimited provider usage. Optional products, such as fund accounting and a custom domain, are priced separately.
Start with the church membership tools, plan your week with worship planning, or review church check-in. Before switching systems, use our church data migration checklist.
Read what is free and what may cost extra, or use our guide to choosing free church management software to evaluate the fit for your congregation.
Questions about Church Krew’s free core
Is Church Krew really free?
Yes. Core church management software is free for life, with no member cap, trial clock or required contribution. Payment processing and provider usage still have charges or limits. Optional add-ons are priced separately.
What are donations to Church Krew for?
Contributions are optional and support hosting, maintenance, support and development. Giving to Church Krew does not unlock core features or change your account access.
Compare church management software. Know what is included.
| Feature | Planning Center | Church Krew |
|---|---|---|
| Member database | Free People database | Free core, no member cap |
| Worship planning | Services; usage-based plans | Included in core |
| Online and text giving | Giving; donation tiers and transaction fees | Included; transaction and usage fees apply |
| Church web pages | Publishing and Church Center | Core site included; custom domain is optional |
| Email and texting | People; texting credits are separate | Core tools; usage limits and credits apply |
| Subscription model | Free options and paid plans by product | Free core; optional monthly add-ons |
Core software is free. Optional add-ons start at $9/mo. Compare the subscription and usage costs for your own church.
Every core module. Free for life.
No tiers. No member caps. No trial. Add extras only when your ministry needs them.
- The Huddle
- People Hub
- Giving Engine (card, ACH, text & NFC)
- Services & Worship
- AI Website Builder
- Communications (email & SMS)
A small platform fee applies to online gifts, covered by the donor by default, so your church pays $0. Optional add-ons are priced separately.
Church Krew's core is free for life because every church should have great tools. Support helps fund hosting, maintenance, support, and continued development. Nothing about your account changes either way — no contribution unlocks a feature or raises a limit.
From $5/month, or support once. Change or stop it any time. Church Krew. This is a voluntary contribution to support Church Krew. It is not a payment for software, it is not required to use Church Krew, and no goods or services are provided in return.
Add or drop any of these at any time. Nothing here is required to run your church.
Custom domain + remove branding
Your domain, your brand, no Church Krew badge.
Add Custom domain + remove brandingSermon Studio
Ranked clips with word-by-word captions, edited by editing the transcript.
Add Sermon StudioGraphics Studio
Series artwork, then every slide, story and countdown derived from it.
Add Graphics StudioWhy free?
Church Krew exists to help the local church spread the Gospel. Software should never be the reason a church plant can't launch, a small congregation can't take online gifts, or a pastor spends Saturday night wrestling with five logins instead of Sunday's message. So the tools every church needs are free — for the 20-member house church and the 2,000-member campus alike. If Church Krew helps your ministry, you can support the mission with an optional contribution. If it doesn't fit your budget, use it anyway. That's the point.
Church Krew's core tools are free for life.
Support helps fund hosting, maintenance, support, and continued development.
A small platform fee applies to online gifts, covered by the donor by default, so your church pays $0. Optional add-ons are priced separately.
Tell your pastor: Church Krew is free.
Most churches are paying for four or five tools that Church Krew's core replaces for nothing. The quickest way to change that is one message to whoever signs the invoices.
Our First Fruit offering
I’m TR Burns. I built Church Krew, and I want to tell you plainly why the core is free.
In Scripture the firstfruits were never what was left over at the end of the harvest. They were the first and the best, set apart and given before anyone knew how the rest of the year would turn out. You gave first. You trusted God with what came after.
This is our First Fruit offering.
The free core isn’t a stripped-down sample built to get you through the door. It’s the whole thing — your people, your giving, your services, your website, your communications, your team’s home base. The best work we have, given to the local church first, before this company is established and before I know how our own harvest turns out.
I could have built the funnel instead. Free up to a hundred members, then a bill. Put fund accounting behind the highest tier, because once a church’s books are in your software it can’t leave. That is the going model and it works. It just isn’t what I wanted to have built.
So there is no member cap, no trial clock and no card required — not for the twenty-member house church, not for the two-thousand-member campus. If Church Krew serves your ministry and you’re able to give something back, there’s a contribution link and it keeps the lights on for the next church plant. If you can’t, use it anyway. That isn’t a loophole we tolerate. That is the offering.
The Gospel was never put behind a paywall. Neither are the tools for spreading it.
TR Burns
Founder, Church Krew
“Honour the LORD with your wealth, with the firstfruits of all your crops.” · Proverbs 3:9