Feature-by-feature deep dive
Where each product wins, where each one falls short.
Price and what "free" means
WorshipTools Charts: Free, with unlimited songs, musicians, and services. There's no paid tier to unlock the core chart features. This is a genuine advantage, and for many teams it's the whole decision.
Song7: Free for teams of up to 10 members, then paid plans (with a 30-day trial) once your team outgrows that. So Song7 isn't simply the paid option, but WorshipTools Charts is free for an unlimited team and library, which Song7's paid tiers don't try to undercut. If free with no limits is your only criterion, WorshipTools Charts wins outright.
Platform support
WorshipTools Charts: iOS, Android, and web. Like Song7, it runs on essentially any device with a browser, including Windows laptops and Surface tablets. On platform breadth, the two are evenly matched.
Song7: Any modern browser, installable as a Progressive Web App on iOS, Android, macOS, ChromeOS, and Windows. Neither tool locks you to one ecosystem the way an Apple-only app would, so this isn't a differentiator between these two.
Song and chord chart management
WorshipTools Charts: Deep here. A built-in ChordPro editor, direct PDF import, Nashville number charts, multiple view modes, and a large catalog sourced through SongSelect, PraiseCharts, and Loop Community. PDF import and the built-in catalog are real strengths Song7 doesn't match.
Song7: Built-in editing of your own charts via ChordPro or plain text with chord brackets, plus photo-to-chart OCR: snap a printed sheet and Song7 turns it into an editable, transposable chart, not just a stored PDF. For sheet music, a song can hold MusicXML scores (one per instrument if you like) rendered as staff notation you can transpose, and PDFs or images can be attached and viewed alongside the chart, though they stay stored files rather than editable charts. Song7 doesn't provide a public song catalog; you add and license your own content.
The editor, and getting your data out
WorshipTools Charts: Songs are edited in a built-in ChordPro editor, where chords are written inline in square brackets, like [C]Amazing [G]grace. ChordPro is the de-facto standard these tools are built on; it's compact and portable, and many people prefer it. We couldn't find a documented export feature, though, so in practice getting a song back out means copying it from the editor.
Song7: The editor uses a chords-above-lyrics layout, so you place a chord on its own line above the word rather than typing inline brackets. ChordPro is still supported as an import and export format, and Song7 can export any song, or your whole library, as ChordPro, plain text, or JSON. Which editing style you prefer is genuinely a matter of taste; what isn't a matter of taste is that Song7 lets you take your library with you.
Setlists and planning
WorshipTools Charts: Build a set by typing song names and it automatically locates the charts and transposes them, then shares the set with the band. The auto-find-and-transpose flow, backed by the catalog, is genuinely fast.
Song7: Drag-and-drop setlist builder. Pick songs from your library, reorder by dragging, set the key per song, publish, and the whole team sees it. Song7 works from your own library rather than a catalog, so there's no "type a name and it appears" magic, but you have full control of every chart.
Transposition and real-time sync
WorshipTools Charts: One-tap transposition, capo handling, and real-time sync so a leader's key change pushes to the team's devices. This is solid and on par with Song7.
Song7: The same essentials: one-tap transposition into any key, capo support, and real-time team sync of plan and chart changes. On this core worship-team workflow, the two products are closely matched.
Rehearse tools and backing tracks
WorshipTools Charts: A clear win. An integrated metronome, links to full songs via Spotify, Apple Music, and YouTube, and a Rehearse tool with up/down mixes, on-demand looping, and click and cue tracks, with mixes available from the Loop Community store. Its looping and store-bought mixes go further than Song7.
Song7: Each song can carry its own audio (a backing track, a click, a guide vocal, or a stem per instrument) uploaded by your team and played back in sync, with mute, solo, and a fader per track and a shared team mix. Reference recordings from Spotify, YouTube, and Apple Music attach to the song, and a built-in metronome and tuner sit alongside. You supply the tracks: Song7 doesn't sell them, and there's no section looping or tempo/pitch change. If you want to buy ready-made mixes and loop sections while you practice, WorshipTools Charts is the stronger fit.
Presentation
WorshipTools Charts: Congregation projection isn't in Charts itself. It's handled by Presenter, a separate (also free) app in the suite that Charts integrates with for automatic page advancement. Two apps, one ecosystem.
Song7: Has a congregation-facing presentation mode built into the same tool, with clean, full-screen lyrics on any screen with a browser. One product covers both the band's charts and the lyrics-projection job, where WorshipTools splits them across Charts and Presenter.
One focused tool or an ecosystem
WorshipTools Charts: Designed to connect to Presenter, to Planning, and to Loop Community's track store, all under one WorshipTools account. If you want a single ecosystem for presentation, scheduling, charts, and tracks, that breadth is the point.
Song7: Deliberately narrow. It does charts, setlists, transposition, sync, and presentation for a worship team and doesn't try to be a scheduling system or a music marketplace. Everything lives on one surface behind a single login. There's no separate app to open for planning and nothing to switch between. For teams that want one simple tool to learn rather than a suite to adopt, that focus is the appeal.
Language and localization
WorshipTools Charts: An English-first product built around a primarily English-language worship catalog and ecosystem.
Song7: The whole app interface is available in Danish, not just English. Switch language from the user menu. For Danish and Scandinavian worship teams who want their tooling in their own language, that's a concrete reason Song7 fits where an English-only app doesn't.