Church Directory
The facts below are what the maker publishes about Church Directory, checked and dated. Our editors have not written about it yet.
Plans and prices
From Church Directory's own pricing page, checked 7 Oct 2026.
| Plan | Price | What it gives you |
|---|---|---|
| Monthly | $39 a month | One church · unlimited members · no per-member fees · $39/month |
| Annual | $400 a year | One church · unlimited members · no per-member fees · $400/year · about $33/month · billed annually |
The facts
Each one read from Church Directory's own pages, with the date it was checked.
What it does
- Directory
- Members can browse and search a private church roster with photos, family relationships, contact details, prayer requests, and interests when available.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Eligibility limit
- Self-serve signup requires Planning Center People and an administrator who can authorize the OAuth connection; people without an email on their Planning Center profile usually cannot sign in.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Integration
- Planning Center People is the only CRM connection currently supported for self-serve signup; it syncs roster information through Planning Center’s API.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Name learning
- The photo-based name-learning game offers personal best scores and a new-members practice mode when join-date data is available.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Offline access
- The iPhone and Android apps keep a local directory copy for offline use, while the web app needs a network connection to load the roster and save edits.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Prayer
- Members can work through a personalized prayer list over about 14, 30, or 60 days and keep private prayer notes.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Prayer-note security
- Private prayer note text is encrypted on the member’s device before storage, and the shared database stores ciphertext rather than readable notes.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Privacy
- The maker says it does not sell personal data or share it with third parties for marketing, and the directory has no public profiles or ads.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Purpose
- Church Directory helps congregations pray through their membership and learn members’ names and faces using a private directory.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Service providers
- The privacy policy identifies Supabase for backend database and authentication, Stripe for subscription payments, Planning Center for roster sync, Sentry for error monitoring, and Expo EAS Observe for native-app performance metrics.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Sign-in
- Members sign in using a one-time code sent to the email address on their Planning Center profile, without a password.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Support
- The maker lists [email protected] for questions and support.checked 7 Oct 2026
- Sync
- Automatic roster sync runs about every four hours, and church admins can also run Sync now; the FAQ says there is no specific freshness SLA beyond that schedule.checked 7 Oct 2026
The company
- Maker
- The site says Mark Kinney built Church Directory at Capitol Hill Baptist Church so members could pray for one another by name.checked 7 Oct 2026
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