We have been using EasyWorship for 4 years now. We started with powerpoint like a lot of churches do. What we found was editing songs, adding new songs and putting together the playlist for the services was difficult for the "slide guys" and on-the-fly editing nearly impossible without freezing the projector image via the remote(and hoping it was frozen before editing), making the fix and unfreezing the projector all before the next slide was to be put up. I helped evaluate EW and Media Shout and maybe another package, and we went with EW for the ease of use and the price.
The pro's of EasyWorship we found are:
* VERY easy to use (as mentioned by others)
* allows you to easily edit the song on-the-fly without interupting the screen
* All the text is uniform in font and color
* The song copyright and CCLI # is stored once and displayed on every screen
* importing Powerpoint's and video (MPEG)
* VERY easy to use
* Adding songs by copy and pasting text from other sources
* large public domain list
* saving song lists
* VERY easy to use (did I mention that already
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We evaluated MediaShout and found it more difficult to learn and setup, although I know people who say Media Shout was easy for them to use and setup. With our teams and having 2-4 "slide guys" rotating weeks, ease of use was key to the choice. At the time, we also found the licensing was budget friendly as only one license was needed and we could install on multiple computers if needed. So if your song leader had it installed, they could import a song list, export it and then import it on the main HOW computer without re-keying new songs.