Faithlife Proclaim Reviews

The ability to use the software collaboratively with all contributors of our Sunday worship service, automatic podcasting of sermon audio, and importing of a wide range of media types/sources.

Live streaming functionality is limited and is still better through the use of something like OBS.

Proclaim allows us our congregation to divvy up the responsibility of preparing our Sunday morning service presentation materials. Instead of the entire work being on an individual, we have an entire team of volunteers able to collaborate.

Proclaim works well with other desktop presentation software, which means building presentations in familiar software like Keynote or Powerpoint is possible while also adopting the larger feature set of Proclaim.

I'm not too fond of the variety of transitions built into the software or the lack of ability to edit presentations in the iOS app.

We work on a weekly collaborative presentation involving multiple volunteers and paid staff. These presentations incorporate presentation files from Keynote and Powerpoint, audio, video, and other multimedia. Proclaim allows our entire team to add their elements remotely and for us to use a single piece of software rather than jumping through multiple hoops to make our Sunday morning service "seamless". It also records our service and uploads it to an RSS feed for later listening via any Podcast app.

I love that everything syncs in the cloud for multiple users to work from anywhere. The interface is very intuitive and most items, videos, etc. are drag and droppable. Can't say enough!

The only downside is that items are limited 600mb in size to upload to the cloud.

I can work with team members in different locations to build and communicate about services throughout the week. It saves a ton of time by remembering preferences, lyric changes, and smart media.

I thoroughly enjoy Proclaim because it enables me to display helpful slides that correspond to my sermon points every week. It helps me reach my students and convey information to them. I also like how it easily integrates the presentations I make in Apple Keynote into our Sunday and Wednesday services. Finally, I appreciate that this program is very intuitive and easy to learn - many of our volunteer high school students are able to quickly learn the program and operate it with relative ease and expediency.

I honestly cannot think of a single thing that I disliked about Proclaim... other than the fact that, if I have a presentation that has a ton of animation, Proclaim will "split" all of the slides with animation into separate different slides. This can make for a rather large and unwieldy "final" product. Besides that one small issue, I genuinely do not have any significant disappointments with Proclaim.

Proclaim has helped me effectively communicate the major points of my sermons on both Sunday mornings and Wednesday evenings (2x a week) every week for the past three years! It's been an easy program for many of our student volunteers to learn, and it has been a great tool for me. Additionally, this program helps us show our lyrics for our worship songs that we sing on Sunday mornings.

Proclaim's cloud-based collaborative strategy allows several contributors to work on a presentation at the same time. Slides are easy to create and edit, and they look very professional.

Sometimes searching the various slide options can be less than helpful. I feel as though I'm searching and just hoping something good happens to come up. Also, there are times that I'd like to build a more complex slide (a couple of accent photos, or such), and Proclaim doesn't make that an easy process.

Take lots of time to watch videos and explore the depth of all that proclaim can do. It's an expansive piece of software. Rather than being frustrated by trying to figure things out when you're already up and running, it can be a very enjoyable thing to become increasing familiar with the software and improve your skills until you're very well adept. Also, if you are the one implementing Proclaim in your ministry, your confidence with the software will help other members be enthusiastic about using the software themselves.

Proclaim helps us use one computer to project to all of our various screens rather than needing one for the congregation and one for a confidence monitor.

I love how user friendly it is. I love the customer support that you get and the free training.

I ;love everything about it but you do have to pay a pretty penny.

ITs the best product out there for presentation!

We had to buy the CSB version of the Bible on all the accounts instead of just one for our church to use.

The ability to just send a presentation from Logos straight to Proclaim. All the slide backgrounds you can think of are most likely there with pre-filled Bible verses, announcements, slides options. Since it is a subcription based software it is never outdated. Every upgrade is included. Their customer service team is always willing to help in learning new things. The Faithlife community app also provides many ideas and helps for those seeking to improve their use of the software.

It’s so different than other presentation softwares that it has a longer learning curve. It’s not a stand alone, buy-it-and-keep-it software. It’s subscription based so if you don’t like having to pay for it indefinitely you may find this a turn off.

Proclaim makes sense for a church that would like to use the complete Faithlife platform. Logos Bible Software, Online Giving, Church Website, the Faithlife app, can all work together to create a seamless, organized communication flow with teams and individual members and friends of a congregation.

Having to come in and transfer a presentation using Dropbox, a USB drive or other drives.

The number of users is unlimited too. Under our current subscription you can have multiple users using Proclaim. For example, with ProPresenter you would have to purchase a different level license, but with Proclaim its part of the price. You can have different groups customize the software for its particular needs within the church campus.

Proclaim is easy to use and can be used from multiple locations

It can be clunky at times. I’ve noticed that most things can be done with proclaim but unless you’re willing to dig on forums it’s hard to discover.

Proclaim is best for collaboration among ministry leaders. However, don’t spend the money if you haven’t done the research.

The benefits of proclaim is obvious. We can all edit and add content to the presentation from anywhere through the cloud.

We like that we can provide a good presentation experience to our audience without having to invest too much money in media assets purchases

The stability of the software itself can sometimes be an issue sometimes. The presentation sometimes can lag a little bit.

Definitely Proclaim is a software to consider. As with any other software, testing is key and not all software is meant to be used by all people so finding a software that you can use and can provide a good return on investment is key. Proclaim when it comes to audience presentation is at the top of the list.

Primarily we are able to solve not having to invest a lot of capital in the design of media assets which Proclaim provides within their subscription service

I like how easy it is. The user interface is very nice as well, but they make it really easy to operate.

It updates almost every time I open it.

Find out what all it can do so that you can use it to its' full potential.

Projection needs