Features
Everything your church needs, in one app
From the first song on Sunday morning to the notes a member reads on Wednesday night, Candlestick carries your church’s whole week. Here is what it does.
Your own app
An app, without the app store
Your members open your church’s address once and tap “Add to Home Screen”. From then on it opens full-screen from its own icon, with your church’s name, logo and colours, just like any app. There’s nothing to download from a store, no account with Apple or Google, and it updates itself.
- Works on Android and iPhone, including older phones
- Your address, or your own domain on Standard and Full
- Light and dark themes
Offline
Works when the data runs out
Data is expensive, and the signal comes and goes. So members can save what matters onto their phone and use it with no connection at all:
- Sermon recordings and services
- Special songs and music videos
- The Holy Bible and the songbook
- The Spoken Word, for Message assemblies
- Pulpit slides, ready to present
Your church decides which content can be saved. Each download is checked once it’s saved, and saved files stay through app updates, even if an update goes wrong.
Sunday morning
One projector for songs and Scripture
Less Sunday-morning pressure for your AV team: the person running the screen uses one simple projector for everything. Put up a Bible passage in one version, or two side by side, such as English and Shona. Put up a song with its key, in its original language or a translation. The congregation reads; the operator stays calm.
- One Bible version, or two side by side
- Songs with their translations and the key always shown
- Message quotations too, in English or any supported language (with the Message Library)
Every package
Worship
The worship leader plans. The projector follows.
Song and worship leaders build a collection of the songs they’ll sing, in order. The person on the projector opens the collection and moves from one song to the next. No searching, no typing, no awkward pause between songs.
- Your church’s own songbook, with keys
- Translations of each song, shown when you want them
- Members can keep their own song collections too
Every package
Every language
Your songs in the languages your members speak
Each song can carry its translations, and the projector shows them when you want them. To get there faster, AI drafts a translation of a song and an editor in your church reviews it before anyone sees it. It’s free.
Message assemblies on Full go further: a full workflow to translate the Message books, with AI first drafts, review stages, a shared glossary so terms stay consistent, and a final check before anything is published.More about Message translations.
Preaching
Pulpit: sermon slides in minutes
Pulpit is a presentation app made for preachers. Pick a Bible verse or a quotation, and Pulpit places it on the slide and sizes it so it stays readable from the back row. No fiddling with text boxes, fonts or layouts: the preparation time goes into the sermon, not the slides.
- Verses from any of your Bible versions, side by side if you like
- Quotations, song lyrics, pictures and tables
- A presenter view for the preacher, the slides for the congregation
- Never loses a slide: a save that fails is kept and tried again, and the deck is copied before anything is removed
Standard and Full
Services
Every service, live and kept
Stream your service from YouTube or Vimeo straight into your app, and members get a notification when you go live. Afterwards it joins your services library, where members can find any sermon by minister, date or title. The Bible verses and notes from each service are captured with it, so members can follow the preaching again.
- Series that link services together
- The pastor’s own collections for the congregation, and members’ personal collections
- Stream to a group only, such as the men, the youth or the ministers, and no one else will know
Live: Every package Library: Standard and Full
Radio
Your church on the air, day and night
Your church gets its own named radio station that plays your sermon recordings around the clock. Members tune in at any hour, on the bus, at work or at home, and everyone hears the same sermon at the same time. Run one channel, or more than one. Radio is an optional add-on on Standard and Full.
Standard and Full Add-on, $10 a month
Study
iStudy: notes that never get lost
Members take their sermon notes in the app during the service, even in a hall with no network. Adding a Bible verse or a quotation takes a tap, not a page of typing. When the phone is back online, the notes sync and are there on any device.
Every package
Music
Your church’s music, kept safe
Special songs in audio and video are stored securely and play straight from the app. Members pick a song in a tap, make playlists, mark favourites and save their favourites for offline listening.
Standard and Full
The Word
The Holy Bible, read and heard
The Holy Bible in many languages, chosen by your church, with the King James Version read aloud by Alexander Scourby as an Audio Bible. Your pastor’s verse greets every member on their dashboard in Pastor’s Corner.
Every package
Sunday School
Sunday School that marks itself
Teachers set tests for each age group and send them to the right class. The children answer on a phone, the test marks itself, and the results are shared with them. Teachers still write the lessons and the tests, and see every result: the app only takes away the repetitive marking.
Full
Church life
A church family all week
Everything that keeps a congregation together between Sundays, in one place:
- Announcements and events
- A countdown to the next live service
- Marriage banns, with photos
- Who’s online right now, so the church feels close even when it’s apart
- An About page for your story, your leaders and your locations
Every package
Running your church
Tools for the church office, not only a member app
Everything the people who look after your church need, without a separate system.
Roles and permissions
Admins get permission for their own area, such as services, music or members. Helpers can be given one task, such as Pulpit or the songbook, without the admin area.
Every change recorded
A record of every change: who made it, when, and what it was before and after, with a History button on each item.
Sign-up your way
Choose the questions new members answer, and whether someone approves them before they see members-only content.
Devices per member
Decide how many phones each member can be signed in on: one, two, three, or no limit.
Reports
See your reach, member activity and the content members engage with most, and who’s online right now.
Who sees what
Every item is public, for your congregation or for members only, and you set the default.
For End Time Message assemblies
The Spoken Word, quotations, radio and Berean Search
Switch on the Message Library and the sermons are in every member’s pocket, on the projector and in your Pulpit slides. It’s free, and the sermons are never sold.
Everything, package by package
Each feature can be switched off if you don’t need it. Compare the packages.
Sunday and services
Projector
Songs and the Bible on the big screen: one Bible version or two side by side, song translations and the key.
Every package
Live services
Stream from YouTube or Vimeo into your app, with a notification when you go live, and live chat.
Every package
Services library
Every service kept, searchable by minister, date or title, with its verses and notes, grouped in series and collections.
Standard and Full
Special songs and music videos
Your church’s music in audio and video, with playlists, favourites and offline saving.
Standard and Full
Radio
Your church’s own station playing your sermons around the clock, on one or more channels.
Standard and FullAdd-on, $10 a month
Pulpit
Sermon slides in minutes: pick a verse or quotation, and Pulpit lays it out so it stays readable.
Standard and Full
The Word
Pastor’s Corner
A verse from your pastor, with an optional quotation, on every member’s dashboard.
Every package
Holy Bible and Audio Bible
The Bible in many languages, and the King James Bible read aloud.
Every package
iStudy
Sermon notes taken during the service, with verses and quotations added in a tap. Works without a network and syncs later.
Every package
Songbook
Your church’s songs with their keys and translations, and song collections for worship leaders.
Every package
Your members
Members
Sign-up with approval if you want it, profiles, roles, messages to members, and who’s online right now.
Every package
Home page and dashboard
A welcoming home page for visitors, and a dashboard that greets each member.
Every package
Announcements, events and schedule
Notices, events, service times and a countdown to the next live service.
Every package
Groups
Groups such as men, youth or ministers, who can be given streams, services and tests no one else sees.
Standard and Full
Your church’s story
About
Your history in words, pictures and video, your leaders and your locations.
Every package
Marriage banns
Published banns, with photos of the couple.
Every package
FAQ
Answers to your members’ common questions.
Every package
News (optional)
Simple posts about church life.
Every package
Social media links (optional)
Links to your church’s channels.
Every package
On any phone
Your church’s own app
Your name, logo, colours and address. Installs on any phone straight from the browser: no app store, no updates to chase.
Every package
Offline library
Save sermons, music, the Bible, the songbook and more, and use them with no data at all.
Every package
Teaching
Sunday School
Tests for each age group, marked automatically, with results shared with the children.
Full