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 individuals on its Personal tier, then paid plans (with a free trial) once you need team features like multiple spaces and members. So Song7 isn't simply the paid option — but WorshipTools Charts is free for an entire team, which Song7's paid tiers don't try to undercut. If free for a whole team 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 — 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. Song7 doesn't import PDFs directly and 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 — [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. For practice and playback, WorshipTools goes well beyond Song7.
Song7: Includes a built-in metronome and a built-in tuner, but not backing-track playback, stems, or click-and-cue tracks. If rehearsal audio and playback are central to how your team prepares, 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 — 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: Fully localized in Danish at song7.dk alongside the English song7.io. 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.