A ProPresenter alternative that keeps working when the internet doesn't
NaveLight is offline-first church presentation software with on-device AI scripture detection. It does what ProPresenter does — lyrics, scripture, media and multi-screen output from one console — and adds an assistant that listens to the sermon and finds the passage before your operator can type it. It runs on Linux as well as Mac and Windows, and it is licensed per church rather than per seat.
First, fairly
What ProPresenter is good at
Plenty of churches run beautiful services on ProPresenter every week. If it is working for you, there is no reason to move — and this page is not going to pretend otherwise.
It is the industry standard
ProPresenter has been the default in large churches for years. Your next volunteer has probably used it, and there is a tutorial for everything.
A deep production toolset
Mature multi-screen handling, broadcast integrations and a large ecosystem of templates, themes and media built up over a long time.
Proven at scale
Multi-campus churches with complex production have run on it for years. That is a track record NaveLight does not have yet.
The difference
Where NaveLight does something else
| Capability | NaveLight | ProPresenter |
|---|---|---|
| Live scripture detection | ● Built in, on device | — Operator types the reference |
| Works offline | ● Indefinitely, no account | ◐ Mostly, with periodic licence checks |
| Runs on Linux | ● Yes | — macOS and Windows only |
| Licence covers | ● Every computer in the building | ◐ Per seat; 20 seats on Campus |
| Price | ● $240/year per church, every machine | ◐ $289/year per seat, $649 Campus |
| Free tier | ● Never expires, unmarked output | — 14-day trial |
| Live sermon captions | ● Built in | ◐ Usually a third-party tool |
| African-language Bibles | ● Six packs, no charge | ◐ Import your own |
Checked against ProPresenter's published documentation and pricing on 27 July 2026. Product names and trademarks belong to their respective owners; no affiliation or endorsement is implied. If something here is wrong, tell us and we'll correct it.
Honestly
Where ProPresenter is still ahead of us
We would rather you read this here than find it out three weeks in. NaveLight is new, and new means smaller — fewer users, fewer tutorials, fewer people who can help at 9am on a Sunday when something is behaving oddly.
- A far larger community. When something goes wrong at 9am, someone has already posted the answer for ProPresenter. For NaveLight, that someone is currently us.
- Years of tutorials, courses and templates. New volunteers can teach themselves from YouTube.
- Broadcast and streaming output ships today. NaveLight's NDI and RTMP support is part-built and not in the current binary.
- A deeper media and template ecosystem, and more third-party integrations with the rest of a production stack.
- A long track record in large multi-campus churches. We are asking you to be early.
Moving over
Your library comes across in one step
NaveLight finds your ProPresenter library and brings it across — songs, slide decks and media, from ProPresenter 4, 5, 6 and 7. Import first and check it against a midweek rehearsal before you trust it on a Sunday. That is the honest way to move any church off software that already works.
ProPresenter 7 .pro files come across as text only. RenewedVision publishes no format specification, so those files are read by inspection — the lyrics arrive, the CCLI details do not, and section labels sometimes don't either. A .pro6 export from ProPresenter gets you the full import if your library matters that much.
Straight answers
ProPresenter and NaveLight, side by side
Is there a ProPresenter alternative that runs on Linux?
NaveLight runs on macOS, Windows and Linux, where ProPresenter is macOS and Windows only. For a church on Linux the realistic options are OpenLP, which is free but basic, and NaveLight.
Can I import my ProPresenter songs into NaveLight?
Yes. NaveLight detects an existing ProPresenter library and reads both storage eras. ProPresenter 4, 5 and 6 documents come across in full — the words, the CCLI title, author and number, and the real section labels, so a song arrives as Verse 1 and Chorus rather than a stack of unnamed slides. ProPresenter 7 .pro files import too, but text only: RenewedVision publishes no format specification, so NaveLight reads those files by inspecting them directly, which recovers the lyrics but not the CCLI details, and sometimes not the section labels. Nothing in your ProPresenter library is modified.
How much cheaper is NaveLight than ProPresenter?
NaveLight Pro is $240 a year for the whole church; ProPresenter is $289 a year per seat, or $649 a year for a 20-seat campus licence. The bigger difference is what a licence covers: NaveLight is priced per church and covers every computer in the building, so a booth machine, a laptop and a spare cost the same as one machine. Three machines is $240 a year on NaveLight and $867 on ProPresenter.
Does ProPresenter detect Bible verses automatically?
No. ProPresenter has a Bible module for looking passages up, but an operator has to type or select the reference. NaveLight listens to the sermon and has the passage ready in about two seconds, whether the reference is spoken aloud or the preacher simply tells the story.
Still have a question?
Ask us anything, including the awkward ones. A real person answers, and if NaveLight isn't right for your church we'll say so.
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