Himnova Live puts hymns, songs, the Bible, slides and videos up on the screen at church. Everything lands in preview first and only goes live when you say so.
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See how it works in a minute
A typical order of service, and what you do in Himnova Live at each point.
1–2
While people come in, put up a countdown to the start of the service, a clock or a stopwatch. On top of whatever's on screen you can add overlays, like the preacher's name or the church logo. You'll find both in the Functions tab.
3
Open the PowerPoint hymnal you've always used, even on a computer without PowerPoint, and it looks the way you built it. The .pps files that advance on their own keep each slide's timing and play their music.
Paste a song's lyrics and the app builds the slides, with the words the same size on every one. If the band goes back to the chorus, press C and you're there. A song can also carry its translation under the lyrics.
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Type “John 3:16” or search for a phrase (accents optional) and pick the verse. For a bilingual service, two versions can sit side by side.
The ones in the app's language come installed, and you add the rest with one click, no internet needed. If you use another version and have it as a file (a MySword or MyBible module, say), you can import it.
5–6
You'll find the announcements video, this week's photos and the offering music in the library, which already includes the computer's Videos, Pictures and Music folders. Any video or audio file plays just as you got it, and you check each one in preview before it goes live.
In Settings you choose, once, what happens when something ends. When the announcements video is over, the projector can show the logo, go black, loop the video, hold the last frame or move on to the next item in the schedule. The offering music stops, loops or plays the next audio in the schedule.
The projector for the congregation, a stage screen for the musicians and, over the network, the livestream.
What the congregation sees.
What's live, what's next, the time, and the song's chords, which never show on the projector.
Your livestream gets the lyrics and slides, with the sound of the videos and hymns. Turn it on in Settings › Projection with Send over NDI®.
To stream, you'll need NDI installed (it's free).
The picture comes back by itself when it reconnects.
You don't have to remember to save it.
They cover the screen; the video pauses and, when you come back, picks up where it was.
Close the app by mistake and it asks first. So does an update that needs a restart while something is on the projector.
If the internet drops mid-service, nothing changes: everything is on the computer.
The notice about a new version shows up only in the control window, and nothing downloads until you say so.
Windows 10 or 11, 64-bit
.exe, 251 MB
DownloadmacOS 13 or later on Apple silicon (M1 or later)
.dmg, 254 MB
DownloadUbuntu, Debian or Linux Mint, 64-bit
.deb, 206 MB
DownloadOther Linux distributions, 64-bitThe AppImage needs libmpv for some videos: see the guide.
.AppImage, 256 MB
DownloadThe installers aren't signed yet, so Windows or macOS ask you to confirm the first time.
How to install it, step by stepNew to Himnova Live? The guide shows you how to install it and get your first service ready.
Nothing. Himnova Live is free software, and you can install it on every computer at your church. There are no licenses or subscriptions to pay for, and no account to create.
Yes, in the way it works. As in EasyWorship, you pick something, check it in preview and only then send it live. You can also import your songs from EasyWorship 6's database.
Because it's free software. Its license, the GPL-3.0, lets anyone use it, study it, change it and share it. It has no ads and no accounts, and it sends nothing about you or your church. If it's useful to you, you can support it with a donation.
No. PowerPoint (.ppt, .pptx, .pps, .ppsx), Impress (.odp) and PDF files, hymnals included, open in Himnova Live even if the computer has no PowerPoint or any other program.
Yes, and there's no account to create. If the connection drops mid-service, nothing happens. When it's online, it checks for a new version as it opens, without sending anything about you, and you can turn that off in Settings › About.
Nine, all public domain or freely licensed: the King James Version, the American Standard Version and the World English Bible in English, and six more in Spanish, Italian and Portuguese. A new install comes with the ones in the app's language, and the rest install with one click, no internet needed. You can import any other version from a file (JSON, Zefania, USFX, OSIS, or a MyBible or MySword module) in a moment.
Yes. Over the church network, OBS, vMix or any program that receives NDI® gets what the congregation sees, with no capture card. That's the lyrics, the slides and the sound of the videos and hymns, and you can turn the sound off if your stream takes it from the soundboard. Install NDI (it's free) and turn it on in Settings › Projection.
Yes. Windows says so because the installers aren't signed yet; the code is public for anyone to review. On Windows: “More info” › “Run anyway”. On macOS: System Settings › Privacy & Security › “Open Anyway”.
Spanish, English, Italian and Portuguese. It starts in your computer's language the first time, and you can switch any time in Settings › System. Translations into other languages are welcome.
On GitHub. Tell us what you did, what you expected and what happened, or, if a word is mistranslated, what it should say. Both forms are at the bottom of this page, and if you code, the contributing guide is in the repository.
Himnova Live is free and has no ads. If your church gets good use out of it, a donation helps keep it going and getting better.
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