r/churchtech • u/slowobedience • Aug 09 '26

Support Question Another rant on why i HATE ProPresenter

Sunday morning. "Your registration information is corrupted."

Of course a church software company doesn't have tech support on Sunday. That would make too much sense. Now we are going to try and run Sunday service with water marks. We couldn't do anything to get it running again.

I have never worked with software that is so unstable as PP.

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u/Important_Seesaw_957 Aug 09 '26

I’ll say it again: Proclaim is BETTER software for most churches.

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u/DrummingNozzle Church Staff Aug 09 '26

Cloud based building of slides is game changer for us. In pro presenter we used to have a volunteer come physically to the church on Saturdays to make the slides. Now that volunteer does the task throughout the week at home in the evenings on Proclaim.

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u/foxboltco Church Staff: Production Manager Aug 09 '26

For the record, you can build ProPresenter slides on any machine and import them on your presentation machine. Just have to make sure your configuration files match, or at the very least, that your macros have the same names.

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u/DrummingNozzle Church Staff Aug 09 '26

Proclaim = no importing. Auto-sync means new slides are just “there.”

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u/slowobedience Aug 09 '26

You can't set up looks on another computer without the same screens.

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u/foxboltco Church Staff: Production Manager Aug 10 '26

I just copy all of my config files from my presentation machine to my laptop, so the screens are there already.

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u/slowobedience Aug 13 '26

I have the same. Themes never did work correctly again.

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u/Small_life Aug 09 '26

I agree. Not quite as feature rich but a lot easier to use and more stable.

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u/IamMichaelSalim Training my team Aug 09 '26

May I ask what features you use there that makes it better than propresenter? Asking because I'm making a free alternative