Build your order of service as timed segments: pre-service, worship, announcements, sermon, response. NextTime computes every start and end time, shows a countdown on any screen in the building, and lets a volunteer run the whole thing from a phone at the sound booth.
The sermon is where services stretch, and where signaling is most awkward. Put a quiet countdown where the preacher can see it: green through the body of the message, yellow as the landing approaches, red at time, counting up past zero so the overrun is a number instead of a guess. It says everything a hand signal says, without anyone in the room noticing.
Set the service start time and give each element a length. The worship set gets 22 minutes, announcements get 4, the sermon gets 35. When the sermon runs long, one edit moves everything after it, and the time updates on every screen at once. Lock the hard moments, like a broadcast window or the end of first service, and the schedule flexes around them. Auto-advance rolls transitions on its own, and you can hold any segment for the moments that should not be rushed.
Point a display link at the confidence monitor, the sound booth, the lobby TV, the green room, and the worship leader's music stand. Links are unlimited on every plan, including Free, so a second or fifth screen never costs anything. Text auto-scales from a phone on a music stand to a projection wall, and every screen ticks in perfect sync.
Send "2 minutes" or "land the plane" from the console to the screens you choose. Flash it for attention or keep it up until it is acknowledged. No one walks the aisle, no one waves from the front row, and the congregation never knows.
Volunteers, the pre-service countdown, ProPresenter, and the second service. Covered.
The person running the timer changes every week, so the console has to be learnable in one service. Play, pause, next, and add-a-minute are the whole job. It is a web page, so there is nothing to install on the booth computer and nothing to break before first service. If the volunteer has run a browser, they can run this.
If you searched for a church countdown timer looking for the animated videos that play before service, that is not what NextTime is. NextTime is a live service timer. That said, it handles the pre-service moment well: run a segment that ends exactly at service start, in countdown or time-of-day mode, on any screen in the room, and let auto-advance roll straight into your first element.
Keep ProPresenter on lyrics and media. NextTime runs in a browser on any spare screen, independent of the presentation computer and its outputs, and any volunteer can control it from a phone. No new outputs to configure, nothing new installed on the ProPresenter machine, and no risk to the machine that is driving your screens.
Reuse the same rundown for the 9:00 and the 11:00, with the start time moved and every segment recomputed. A campus across town syncs to the same timer through the browser, with nothing to install. If you livestream, the same timer drops into OBS as a transparent overlay for your stream operator.
Free to start, nothing to install in the booth. Build the order of service in minutes and put a quiet countdown where the platform can see it.
No. The confidence monitor is a browser link on any screen or device.
Yes. The console is a web page; run it from the booth computer, a tablet, or a volunteer's phone.
Free covers unlimited screens with segments up to 10 minutes each. Pro is $129 per year for everything, including full-length sermon segments.
Yes. Any screen can run time-of-day mode, and you can switch modes per screen.
Only if you put it on a screen they can see. The timer appears only where you open a display link.
No. NextTime is a live timer, not a video player. For the pre-service moment, run a segment that counts down to service start on any screen.
No integrations today. NextTime runs alongside them in a browser: build the rundown from your service plan in a couple of minutes, and nothing touches your ProPresenter machine or your Planning Center account.
Yes. Every timer includes a transparent OBS-ready view your stream operator can drop into a browser source.
