Open Worship

What Open Worship is

Open Worship is free, open-source church presentation software for displaying worship lyrics on screens and livestreams. Its song library can organize, search, and tag songs, which users can import from text files or enter manually. Setlists can be prepared ahead of time or assembled during a service, reordered, and saved for later. The software projects lyrics to connected screens or projectors and supports scripture display. For livestream overlays, it provides NDI output for OBS, vMix, Wirecast, and other NDI-compatible software. Layout options include a 1920×360 lower third, a 1920×1080 full screen, and chroma key support for transparent backgrounds. The site describes local-network NDI streaming as zero-latency and requiring no extra hardware. Users can customize fonts, colors, backgrounds, and text shadows, navigate with Space or the arrow keys, and black out the output with B. Open Worship runs on Windows, macOS, and Linux. Its MIT license permits personal and commercial use; the Free plan is described as free forever with no subscriptions or ads. The download page warns that Windows may show a SmartScreen security notice and gives instructions for continuing.