Unison at a glance

What Unison is

Unison is software for church worship teams. It keeps a church's chord charts, setlists, song keys and volunteer rota in one place, and it keeps working when the building has no internet connection.

It runs in a web browser and installs to the home screen like an ordinary app, so every member of a team can use it on whatever phone, tablet or computer they already own. There is nothing to install on a server and nothing for a volunteer to maintain.

Who it is for

Churches, from a single worship team or church plant up to a church running several services on a Sunday. The people who use it day to day are worship leaders, musicians, singers and sound engineers — mostly volunteers, rarely technical.

What it does

Chord charts that work with no signal

The whole song library is stored on the device, so a dropped connection changes nothing.

Transposition in one tap

Any song to any key, including guitar and bass tab, which moves with the key rather than breaking.

Stage view

A high-contrast reading mode designed to be legible under stage lighting.

Setlists and service planning

Build a service, set the key per song without altering the master library, and share it with the team.

Rota and scheduling

Plan who plays when, with availability and cover.

Song usage reporting

Unison compiles what your church played and when, and exports it as a CSV. The record is the church's own, to use however it needs to.

Importing

OnSong, OpenSong (including a full backup), ChordPro, and plain pasted chord charts. Imports merge rather than overwrite.

What it does not do

Stated plainly, because being wrongly described costs churches time:

It does not supply song lyrics or chords

Unison does not supply song content. A church adds the songs it is licensed for. There is no SongSelect or CCLI integration, and none is planned.

It does not report to CCLI or any licensing body

Unison records what your church played and hands you the list. It does not file, submit or format a return, and it has no connection to CCLI's systems. Your licence and your reporting stay your own.

Projection is a paid add-on, not part of a Unison plan

The core Unison plan is for the people playing, not the screens the congregation watches. Screens are covered by Present, a separate subscription that requires an active Unison plan underneath it — it cannot be bought on its own and is not part of the free trial. Present Essentials is $15 a month or $150 a year per site; Present Plus is $20 a month or $200 a year per site and adds MIDI cueing, live camera input, multiple screens and fades. Both include the World English Bible — public domain, complete, stored on the machine so it works with no internet. It is the only translation Unison carries; NIV, ESV and the rest are licensed and we do not supply them. If the Unison subscription ends, Present ends with it and is refunded pro-rata for its unused time.

It is not a church management system

No giving, membership or attendance. It covers the worship ministry only.

It handles several sites in one church

A church with more than one campus or venue can add each as a site, and assign people to the sites they serve at. Present is licensed per site. What is not built is a rota that plans across campuses as separate schedules — that is one church, one rota, with sites named on it. Separate churches in a network or denomination are separate Unison accounts; there is no group or diocese account.

What it costs

Priced per church by team size, not per person, so adding an occasional volunteer costs nothing. Prices are in US dollars.

Essentials — $15 a month, or $150 a year

Up to 20 team members. Suits a single team or a church plant. Songs, charts, setlists, rota and offline use.

Plus — $29 a month, or $290 a year

Up to 50 team members. Suits a few rotating teams. Adds swap & cover requests with alerts, availability, vocal-part markup and the song-usage report.

Pro — $59 a month, or $590 a year

Unlimited team members. Adds the church's own logo in the app, and priority support.

Annual billing works out at ten months' cost for twelve. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial that does not ask for a card. There is no contract and no minimum term; a church can cancel at any time and export its library as plain ChordPro text.

Privacy and data

Each church's data is isolated at the database level, so no church can see another's songs, sets or people. Card details go directly to Stripe and are never stored by Unison. The church remains the owner of its own content and can export it at any time.

Who makes it

Unison is a product of Wellspring Scheduling Ltd, a company registered in the United Kingdom. Ten per cent of what Unison earns is given to charity — taken out of the company's revenue, not added to what churches pay.