Services
Review plans, teams, volunteers, needed positions, songs, files, and service orders in one planning workspace.
Ministry Margin for Mac
Your ministry week, on your Mac.
Planning Center holds the information. Ministry Margin helps you work with it in a native workspace built for preparing services, understanding the week, following up with people, and staying connected to prayer.
Get Ministry Margin on the Mac App Store
Eligible new subscribers receive 7 days free.
Then $9.99/month or $99.99/year in the US.
A companion for churches that already use Planning Center, not another system to maintain.
The week at your desk
Sunday is always coming.
Plans need attention. Volunteers are still deciding. Blockouts affect the schedule. A person needs follow-up. The calendar keeps moving, and the next service is already getting closer.
That information already lives in Planning Center. Ministry Margin brings the parts of the week you are responsible for into a focused Mac workspace, so you can see what needs attention and move into the work without rebuilding your church's systems.
Start in Today
See the week before you enter the details.
Today gathers upcoming plans, open positions, blockouts, people signals, events, and the details that may need attention. Each card is a way into the appropriate workspace, not a second place to manage the data.
Upcoming plansOpen positionsBlockoutsPeople signalsEventsPlanning details
Focused workspaces
Move from the overview into the work.
Each area keeps the relevant Planning Center information and native Mac actions close at hand.
People
Work with contact details, addresses, serving context, blockouts, People lists, Apple apps, and person-linked prayer.
Calendar
See Planning Center Calendar events and Registrations together in a color-coded view of your church's rhythms.
Reports
Review serving schedules, volunteer availability, song usage, and practical directory and planning reports.
Prayer
Create and review private prayer requests, connect them to people, mark answered prayers, and pray through the requests you carry.
People behind the work
Keep planning connected to care.
People profiles bring contact details, serving context, blockouts, and prayer into the same working view. Click a phone number, email address, or street address to continue in Messages, Mail, or Maps.
Prayer requests stay in Ministry Margin rather than becoming Planning Center records. Keep them on the Mac or choose private iCloud sync with Ministry Margin Directory.
Careful by default
Work with the access you already have.
Ministry Margin connects directly to Planning Center with your account and stores the data it needs on your Mac. Planning Center and prayer data are not sent to a Ministry Margin server.
OAuth sign-in
Sign in through Planning Center. Your Planning Center password is not entered into Ministry Margin.
Your permissions
What appears depends on the permissions and Planning Center products already available to your account.
No ads or behavioral tracking
The apps do not include advertising SDKs and do not track you across apps or websites.
Mac questions
The important things, plainly.
Does Ministry Margin replace Planning Center?
No. Your church keeps using Planning Center. Ministry Margin is a native Mac companion for working with information your church already keeps there.
What can I see in Ministry Margin?
The app respects your Planning Center account permissions. Features also depend on the Planning Center products your church uses.
Can I try it first?
Eligible new subscribers receive an Apple-managed seven-day introductory trial. The App Store confirms eligibility and shows the renewal price and billing period before purchase.
Where do prayer requests go?
Prayer requests are private Ministry Margin data. They stay local unless you enable private iCloud sync, and they are not written back to Planning Center.
Is Ministry Margin made by Planning Center?
No. Ministry Margin is independent and is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Planning Center.
Available now for Mac
Bring the ministry week into focus.
Get Ministry Margin on the Mac App Store
Eligible new subscribers receive 7 days free.
Then $9.99/month or $99.99/year in the US.