Everything churches ask before their first Sunday on Scribedeck. Still stuck? Try a demo — it answers most of these in a minute.
No. Scribedeck runs entirely in your browser — on the office laptop, the booth computer, a phone, or an iPad. There's nothing to download and nothing to update.
Yes. Pick either demo on the home page — sermon notes into slides, or lyrics into worship slides — and you'll build a real deck with no account. Creating a free workspace only matters when you want to save your work and invite your team.
A Word document (.docx) works best because we can read your highlights, bold, and underlines to know which lines matter. PDFs and phone photos of printed notes work too. Already have slides? Drop in a PowerPoint (or a Keynote exported to PowerPoint) and present it. Or drop a batch of photos and videos to build a rolling slideshow. Or start blank and type.
You create a workspace and get a 6-letter invite code. Anyone who enters it joins the same space — same songs, same saved decks, same order of service. No per-seat fees.
During the beta it's free for everyone. After that, one simple flat price — $9.99/month, or $100/year (two months free) — for your whole team, unlimited services, every feature. Just-getting-started church plants and very small congregations can write to us.
Never. Nothing is charged today, and when billing begins you'll be told clearly and asked first — we won't put a card on file without you knowing.
Yes. One click gives you a file ProPresenter 7 imports directly — a slide per line, verse references in the footer, your fonts and highlights intact, and every slide fully editable afterward. Your operator doesn't rebuild anything.
Yes — the background comes in as its own layer in ProPresenter's editor, separate from the text, so your operator can swap or clear it and drop in their own media. It's embedded in the PowerPoint export too, and photos on individual slides come through as well.
Yes. When you download for ProPresenter you can choose the background: as-shown, plain black, or fully transparent (text only) — so your words drop straight onto whatever motion or media ProPresenter is already playing. You can pick a transparent style right on the style screen, too.
Then you never have to. Scribedeck Live presents the whole service full-screen from a browser tab, with a projector window for the second screen — no other software needed.
Open your service or deck link on the computer that's plugged into the projector. The Projector Window button opens a clean output — and if you have a second display connected (extended, not mirrored), it opens right on that screen automatically. Your phone or iPad becomes the remote.
Yes — that's Voice follow. Turn it on and Scribedeck listens as you speak and moves to the next slide when you reach its words, hands-free. It works in Safari and Chrome, your taps and arrows always override it, and a little panel shows you it's hearing you.
Yes. Put the follow-along QR on screen and anyone can scan it to read every slide on their phone. They can pick their language, and every slide shows up translated for them — with real Bible translations for the verses where we have them (not machine-translated scripture).
Yes. Your whole uploaded document rides along with the deck. Open the Notes panel and it sits beside the slides, the lines for the current slide light up, and you can drag it anywhere and resize it. You can even edit it right there. It's optional — off unless you turn it on.
Yes. Add a background video to any slide and a soundtrack to the deck — during Present live you get play/pause, volume, a seek bar, and can switch between songs. Video plays and stays in sync on every screen; music plays from the presenter's device so the room doesn't echo.
Yes. Draw right on the slide with a finger or Apple Pencil and the ink appears on the projector and every phone live. By default it clears when you move on — or turn on Keep markings and each slide remembers what you drew for the rest of the service.
Yes. Save the links you use — event registration, giving, announcements — and tap Show on the one you need. It appears on every screen: a big QR on the projector and a tap-to-open button on phones.
No. The presenter has a guarded Exit, tap-to-advance pauses while you're drawing, and leaving never blanks the screen — it stays on the current slide until you come back.
No. They scan the QR on screen and it opens in their phone's browser — nothing to install. They see every slide, can pick their language, and it stays on the right slide automatically.
Yes, and it's free. Anyone following along can tap My notes to jot down what stands out, and create a free personal account to keep them. Their notes are private — the church never sees them.
Yes. When your church allows it, a follower can save that day's presentation to their free account and page through it any time from their personal My Scribedeck page, alongside their notes.
Public-domain translations in 15 languages, filled in automatically from a reference — English (KJV, WEB, ASV and more), plus Spanish, Hindi, Tamil, Telugu, Portuguese, French, Chinese, Korean, Arabic, and others. Licensed translations like NIV and ESV are coming as we add publisher licenses.
Yes. Type slides in any script — Tamil, Hindi, Chinese, Korean, Arabic and more — and the right fonts are used automatically, in the app and in your exports.
Yes. If your notes already contain the verse text, flip off “look up Bible verses” and Scribedeck leaves every line exactly as you wrote it.
You do. Your song library is private to your church. Scribedeck never hosts copyrighted lyrics or non-public-domain translations for you — you add your own songs, which stay yours.
Saved decks and dropped files are kept for 30 days by default, then cleaned up automatically, so download anything you want to keep long-term. Your song library and background designs don't expire.
No. Scribedeck is independent and not affiliated with Renewed Vision. We simply export a file their software can open.