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With so many church app and giving providers on the market claiming to offer the best product, it can be hard to know which platform is the right fit for your ministry. There are essential questions to ask as you set out to find a solution that fits the needs of your church.

Portable music began in the 1950s with handheld devices that simply received and broadcast radio signals. Radio was the first portable musical medium that could be taken with you anywhere. Technically, portable radios were not personal music devices because they only broadcast content that was produced and selected by radio stations. As time and technology evolved, portable musical devices were developed that gave music lovers choice, flexibility, and freedom. 

Faithlife recently released a major overhaul of their mobile suite of Logos Bible apps. The designers and developers redesigned the apps with "tabbed browsing" and new features like "reference scanner." The update simplified the reader view of books. How does this major update serve the users of their Logos Bible app on the iPhone, iPad, Android phones and on Chrome OS devices supporting the Google Play Store? We will take a look, focusing in mostly on the Logos Bible app.

The hugely popular YouVersion Bible app was created to put the Bible in everyone’s hands via their smartphones and handheld devices. Today, the app has multiple features that make engaging and interacting with church members during services easy and fun. This free app is the #1 downloaded Bible app online and has been installed on over 300 million devices. People love it and use it daily because it easily keeps the Bible in the palm of their hands, is available in thousands of languages, and offers many valuable ways to connect with the Word of God on a daily basis.

Pastors, church communicators, and nearly everyone on the planet rely on their smartphones for their list of contacts. In our mobile world and busy on-the-go lifestyle, it’s convenient and necessary for church leaders to have contacts quickly accessible on their phones.

ACS Technologies ranks high in the church management systems market, also called ChMS. With decades of service to the local church, they're trusted by many. Now, ACS Technologies brings us Realm, a web-based church management system for helping churches manage administration, accounting, and community in one place.

As 2017 comes to a close, the YouVersion Bible App is closing in on a milestone: 300 million downloads. The Bible App was one of the first 200 free apps in the debut of Apple’s App Store nine years ago. Since then, it has been downloaded in every country of the world.

Church management software is a valuable tool for effectively organizing and overseeing operational and institutional projects, including registration for special events, camps, conferences, and classes. There are full-service full church management software solutions like ACS Technologies' Realm and Church Community Builder that offer robust solutions that can handle all church management needs, yet online church registration tends to be one of the more popular standalone areas that many churches need help with.