Kairos vs. Proclaim: Which Church Presentation Software Fits Your Team?

Proclaim and Kairos solve the same underlying problem — getting scripture, lyrics, and media on screen without a dedicated production team — from two different directions. Proclaim's strength is what happens before the service: cloud sync across every device, a shared library, and scheduling built for teams working apart during the week. Kairos's strength is what happens during it: less manual searching once the service is actually live.

Proclaim: Cloud-First Scheduling for Distributed Teams

Proclaim, built by Faithlife, is designed around always-on cloud sync — build a service plan on one laptop, and it's instantly available on the church iPad running the actual presentation Sunday morning. For churches with a media team that plans throughout the week from different locations, this is Proclaim's clearest advantage.

Proclaim also benefits from Faithlife's broader ecosystem — Logos Bible study integration, a large shared media library, and a free tier that covers a meaningful set of core features without a subscription.

Where Proclaim is less suited: it leans on a live connection for its cloud-sync workflow, and verse and lyric display during the service is still operator-driven — someone has to find and advance to the right slide when a preacher goes off script.

Kairos: AI Detection Built for the Live Moment

Kairos starts from a different assumption: the plan you built Tuesday night rarely survives contact with an actual sermon. When a preacher quotes a verse without naming it, paraphrases a passage, or jumps to a chapter nobody scheduled, Kairos's AI scripture detection catches it from what's actually being said and puts the right verse on screen automatically.

That detection, along with live transcription and manual slide control, is built to keep working with no internet connection at all — not degraded, not cached, fully functional — which matters most exactly when a venue's Wi-Fi is least reliable: mid-service, with a room full of people.

Where Kairos is less suited: it doesn't yet have Proclaim's depth of cross-device cloud scheduling for teams building a service plan collaboratively days in advance — that workflow exists, but Proclaim's is more mature.

Side-by-Side: What Each One Is Actually Optimizing For

• Planning workflow: Proclaim wins for teams collaborating on a service plan across multiple devices throughout the week.
• Live-service agility: Kairos wins when the sermon doesn't follow the plan — unscripted quotes and paraphrases get detected and displayed without an operator searching.
• Offline reliability: Kairos is built to keep core features running with zero connection; Proclaim's cloud-sync model assumes connectivity.
• Ecosystem fit: Proclaim is the natural choice for a church already using Logos or other Faithlife products.

Which One Should Your Church Use?

Choose Proclaim if your team plans services collaboratively across multiple devices during the week and you're already invested in the Faithlife ecosystem.

Choose Kairos if your bigger pain point isn't building the plan — it's what happens the moment a preacher goes off it, and you want the software to catch that instead of a volunteer scrambling to keep up.