Ekkli: The All-in-One Platform for Running Your Church

Ekkli is an all-in-one church platform that puts your worship presentation, church website, member database, rota, and events behind a single login — built for the volunteer-run, budget-conscious churches that usually end up stitching together five different tools just to get through a Sunday. If you've ever tried to remember which app has the song lyrics, which spreadsheet has the rota, and which login runs the website, Ekkli is what happens when all of that lives in one place instead.

It starts free — free for a full six months — for up to 50 people, no card required.

What Ekkli actually is

Ekkli isn't a bundle of separate products with a shared billing page. It's one platform, one login, and one database behind everything your church runs week to week:

• Worship presentation and live display — song lyrics, Bible verses (KJV and WEB), sermon and teaching slides, announcement slides, a stage view, and remote control from a phone. Browser-based, nothing to install, and it exports to a self-contained offline file for the Sundays your Wi-Fi has other plans.
• A real church website — pages, a blog, image galleries, a public events calendar with iCal export, embeds for Maps/YouTube/Vimeo, social feed widgets, a contact form, and an SEO layer set up correctly from the start.
• A member database — self-service joining by link or QR code, invitations, CSV import, and a GDPR-compliant double opt-in consent flow, with each member managing their own profile. Built for your admin team to run membership properly, not a directory people browse.
• Rota and volunteer scheduling — recurring rotas, confirm/decline/swap requests, reminders, service plans, plus volunteer availability and blockout dates.
• Small groups, and events — group chat and staff-managed forum boards, and event registration with capacity limits, a waitlist, and headcount attendance.
• Sermon audio and CCLI reporting — audio hosting with a rolling window of your most recent messages on the six-month free trial, and a Copy Activity reporting aid that reads your display history to help a CCLI-licensed church self-report at reporting.ccli.com faster.

Every one of those is real, working software today, not a roadmap slide — you can read exactly how each piece works on our full features overview.

Built for how small churches actually run

Most church software gets designed for the church that already has a paid media team. Ekkli is designed for the church that doesn't — where "the tech person" also does the coffee rota, and the pastor troubleshoots the projector on a Sunday morning. That shaped three decisions:

• One login, not five. Presentation, website, member records, and rota all pull from the same underlying data, so adding a member once means they're in your records and eligible for the rota — no re-entering elsewhere.
• Nothing paywalled that a volunteer-run church actually needs. Event registration, rota scheduling and small groups are included throughout, not held back to force an upgrade.
• Runs on whatever device shows up. A borrowed laptop, a personal Chromebook, or a phone in a pinch all work the same way — no installer, no license key tied to one machine.

Free for real, with room to grow

The Ekkli free trial isn't a stripped-down demo — it's the same software, capped at 50 people, with no card required. When your church outgrows 50 people, or wants a custom domain without the "Powered by Ekkli" footer, email campaigns, a podcast RSS feed, or more long-term audio storage, four paid plans scale from a small congregation up to a large one. Pricing also adjusts by country, so a church in a lower-cost market pays less than the standard rate — see exact figures and regional bands on the pricing page.

Every new church gets the whole platform free for six months, no card required — long enough to run two full seasons before deciding what your church actually needs long-term. After that, you choose whichever paid plan fits.

Why churches trust Ekkli with their data

Handing over your membership records, giving history, and Sunday operations to a new platform is not a small decision. Ekkli's GDPR consent flow is built into member sign-up from day one, not bolted on afterward. Giving runs through payment providers your own church configures and controls, so funds go directly to your church rather than sitting with a third party. And support isn't limited to a chatbot: every church gets a self-serve knowledge base, a community forum, and an AI assistant that answers strictly from that knowledge base — and says so honestly when a question is outside what it knows, rather than guessing. Paid plans add faster email support on top. Read more about who builds Ekkli and why on our about page.

Go deeper on any piece

This page is a wide-angle view — breadth, not depth. For full detail on any one part, we've written complete guides:

• Church presentation software — the complete guide to worship display, stage view, and offline projection.
• Church management software — how the member database, rota, and admin tools fit together.
• Church website builder — building and running your church's public website on Ekkli.

Or start with the features overview for a page-by-page tour of everything included, free and paid.

Frequently asked questions

Is Ekkli really free, or is that a trial?

The free trial runs six months for up to 50 people, with no card required. It's the full platform rather than a cut-down demo, with media storage capped at 2 GB and no bulk email. After six months you choose a paid plan.

What's included on the free trial?

Worship presentation, a church website on an Ekkli subdomain, a member database with GDPR consent, rota and volunteer scheduling, small groups, event registration with a waitlist, push notifications, and sermon audio with a rolling recent-audio window — all free for up to 50 people. Full breakdown on our features page.

Does Ekkli replace our separate presentation software, website, and rota tools?

That's the point — one login covers all three, plus member records, and events, instead of separate tools with no shared data. You can migrate one piece at a time.

Is Ekkli only for a specific denomination?

No. Ekkli is built for evangelical, Pentecostal, charismatic, non-denominational, Baptist, Brethren, and similar congregations, from a house church up to a few hundred people — the tools are generic to running a Sunday service, not tied to one tradition's liturgy.

What happens if our church grows past 50 people?

You move to a paid plan sized to your church — paid tiers raise the people cap and add a custom domain, email campaigns, podcast hosting, and more audio storage. Pricing is shown by region on the pricing page, since the same plan costs less in some countries than others.

This page is maintained by the Ekkli team. Have a question about whether Ekkli fits your church that isn't answered here? Reach out — we're happy to talk it through honestly, even if the answer is "not yet."