Questions churches ask

NaveLight is offline-first church presentation software with on-device AI scripture detection. It runs lyrics, scripture, media, countdowns and live captions across multiple screens from one operator console, and it listens to the sermon so the passage is on screen before anyone types it. It runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, and needs no internet connection.

NaveLight does, completely and indefinitely. The Bibles, hymns, songs and media are stored on the machine, the speech and search models run on the machine, and there is no account to sign into. Most presentation software works offline for the basics but checks a licence periodically, and cloud-based AI tools stop detecting scripture the moment the connection drops.

A mid-range machine your media team probably already has: 4 GB of RAM minimum, 8 GB recommended. During setup NaveLight checks the computer and recommends which speech model it can comfortably run, and the rest of the software works with no AI model installed at all.

NaveLight detects Bible verses live as they are spoken. A spoken reference like “turn to Romans chapter eight, verse twenty-eight” resolves in about two seconds, and if the preacher only tells the story without giving a reference, it finds the passage by meaning instead. Every suggestion shows how it was found and how confident it is, and nothing reaches the screen unless you have allowed it to.

Only if you tell it to, and you decide capability by capability. Six settings — explicit references, verse navigation, version switch, semantic matches, song cues and lyric follow — each run in Assist (suggest only), Smart Auto (project when at least 95% confident) or Full Auto. It ships cautious, with the guessier features on Assist, and one button returns everything to suggest-only mid-service.

Nowhere. Transcription and scripture search run on the church's own computer, so the audio and the transcript never leave the building. There is no account, no upload and no cloud processing, which is also why the AI features keep working when the internet doesn't.

Yes, from EasyWorship and ProPresenter, plus OpenLyrics XML and plain text. Both libraries are detected automatically during setup and bring across songs, media and presentations in one step. You can also paste lyrics directly, including from SongSelect with the CCLI details attached.

NaveLight runs on macOS, Windows and Linux. ProPresenter is macOS and Windows only, so for a church running Linux the realistic options are OpenLP or NaveLight. NaveLight imports an existing ProPresenter library, from ProPresenter 4 through 7 — though .pro files from version 7 come across as lyrics only, without their CCLI details.

Six translations come with the app and work offline from first launch: the King James Version, World English Bible, Berean Standard Bible, Reina-Valera 1909 (Spanish), Darby (French) and Bíblia Livre (Portuguese). Downloadable language packs add Yorùbá, Igbo, Hausa, Akuapem Twi, Asante Twi and Èʋe at no extra cost. A cross-reference index is included so related passages appear beside whatever is live.

Every install starts with 30 days of Pro, then settles into the Community edition, which is free with no time limit. Countdowns are Pro-only and a small NaveLight mark sits in the corner of the operator console, but nothing reaches the screens the congregation sees and nothing stops working. Pro is $240 a year per church, or $25 a month, which covers every computer in the building rather than charging per seat or per device, and includes AI Assist rather than selling it separately. There is also a one-off perpetual licence at $590. Final pricing is confirmed at launch.