Feature tour
Song Tracking
Every song sung, remembered for you.
Record the songs at each service with the song leader and the verses you sang. Lightpost keeps the history, points out a song you've already sung more than once in the past month, and shows which songs your congregation sings most.
- Several songs per service
- Verses sung
- Song leaders
- Service types
- Shared hymnals
- Your own song books
- Searchable history
- Most-sung charts
- Plan ahead
- CSV import
- In the mobile app
01Choose your books
Choose your books
Pick the hymnals your church sings from, or add a song book of your own.
02Record
Record
Add each service's songs, verses and song leader, on the web or in the app.
03Look back
Look back
Search what you've sung, and see your most-sung songs before you plan the next service.
Recording
The whole service, in under a minute.
Add every song from one form, in the order you sang them. Whoever keeps the record can do it from a computer or from the Lightpost app.
- Several songs at once
- Add each song to the service and drag them into the order you sang them.
- Find songs fast
- Search by title, song number, page number, author or CCLI number.
- Verses sung
- Tap the verses you sang, or All, and add a note to any song.
- Song leaders
- Pick yourself or any member, or type in the name of a visiting song leader.
- Service types
- Mark songs as Sunday morning, evening or Wednesday, using your own service types.
- A gentle heads-up
- See when a song has already been sung more than once in the past month, right as you add it.
- Plan ahead
- Enter songs for a future date, and they wait in an Upcoming list.
- In the mobile app
- Record songs, look up a song's words and check the history from your phone.
Song books
Your hymnals are already here.
Choose the shared hymnals you sing from, with their songs and numbers already entered. Sing from something else too? Add a book of your own.
- Shared hymnals
- Select any of the shared catalogs, and their songs are ready to record.
- A primary book
- Star the book you use most. When a song is in more than one of your books, it's recorded under that one.
- Your own song books
- Create a book for songs that aren't in a hymnal, like a supplement your church prints.
- Everything about a song
- Keep the authors, tune, meter, key, CCLI number, copyright and verses for songs in your own books.
- Import a whole book
- Bring in a custom song book of up to 5,000 songs from a CSV file.
History
"When did we last sing that?" Now you'll know.
Every service you record builds a history your song leaders can search, so nobody has to rely on memory or an old binder.
- Search by song
- Look up a song by its title or number and see every time it was sung.
- Search by leader
- See what a song leader has led, whether they're a member or a visitor.
- Dates and services
- Narrow the history to a date range or a single service type.
- Grouped by service
- Songs are listed by day and service, in the order they were sung, with verses and leader.
- Comments
- Leave a comment on a song from a service, like how it went or what to try next time.
- Each song's story
- Open any song to see when it was sung, who led it and which verses.
Most sung
Sing the whole book, not the same ten songs.
See your top 25 songs at a glance, so it's easy to notice the favorites you lean on and the ones you haven't sung in a while.
- Your top 25 songs, with how often each was sung
- The last month, 3 months, 6 months, year or all time
- Counts only services that have already happened
Charts
See how your worship adds up.
Two charts show how many songs and how many verses you sang on each day you met, over the past few weeks.
- Songs per day, over the last 4, 8 or 12 weeks
- Total verses sung on each day
- On the web and in the mobile app
Your settings
Make a shared hymnal feel like yours.
Shared hymnals stay the same for every church, but you can keep your congregation's own notes on any song.
- Preferred key
- Save the key your congregation sings a song in, and see it in your song list.
- Private notes
- Leave a note for your song leaders, like where to start or how to pace it.
- Favorites
- Star the songs your church loves, and filter a book down to just those.
- Hide songs
- Tuck away songs you never sing so a book's song list is easier to browse.
- Who can record
- Choose who can add and change songs, and who can only look at the history.
Import
Years of spreadsheets, in one afternoon.
If you've kept song records in a spreadsheet, save it as a CSV file and bring the whole history over. You check every match before anything is saved.
- Your layout
- One song per row, or one service per row with songs across the columns.
- Messy dates welcome
- Dates are read in many common formats, and verses like "1-3" or "1, 2, 4" are understood.
- Matched by number
- Song numbers are matched in the hymnal you choose, and close title matches are suggestions for you to accept.
- Review everything
- Check songs, dates, leaders and services, and fix or leave out anything that looks wrong.
- No double entries
- Songs you've already recorded for the same date and service are left out.
- New songs on the way
- A song that isn't in any book can be added as a new song as part of the import.
Rather have us do it? Our one-time Data Import service can help move your records.
Yes. Song Tracking comes with every Lightpost plan. It's turned on for new churches, and you can switch it off in your settings if you don't use it.
Several popular hymnals are already entered as shared song books you can select. If yours isn't one of them, add it as your own song book, or ask us about it.
Yes. Create your church's own song book and add the songs to it, one at a time or all at once from a CSV file.
Yes. Save your spreadsheet as a CSV file and import it. You review every song, date and leader before anything is saved, and songs you've already recorded are left out.
You decide. Give your song leaders, or whoever keeps the record, permission to add and change songs, and let others view the history.
Yes. Songs entered for a future date show in an Upcoming list, then move into the history once the day has passed.
Type their name when you record the songs. Their name is saved with the service even though they aren't a member.
Yes. With permission, members can record songs, look up a song and check the history and charts in the Lightpost app.