And we know that all things work together for good to them that love God. Romans 8:28
Aria is presentation software for churches. It listens to whoever is speaking and puts the verse, the song lyrics, the translation and the sermon notes on the screen by itself — while they are still talking. It runs every screen in the building, and the Bibles live on your own computer, so it keeps working when the internet doesn’t.
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The speaker says “turn with me to Romans 8”. What happens next is a volunteer at the back finding it, typing it and clicking it — and the screen is blank until they do. If the passage gets retold instead of quoted, it never goes up at all.
Not a smaller team — an empty booth. Eight things normally need a person on a Sunday morning, and two of them need a person who is not even in the booth: someone who speaks both languages, and whoever made the artwork on Saturday night. Aria does all eight on its own — and anyone who wants to step in still can, from a phone, from anywhere in the room.
Nobody told the speaker Aria was running. He turned round mid-service, saw the passages he had been quoting already on the screens, and said this — on somebody else’s livestream, with the camera still rolling.
“You’ve been having the word up there the whole time. You are amazing. … Here I’ve been preaching and I haven’t even seen it. You got the word up there the whole time. Oh, I love it.”
Todd White, mid-service, reacting to Aria without knowing it was software — 1:49:53 into the service livestream.
He was not asked to say it and has not endorsed anything — that is the point. The photograph here is from that same service — what was on the screens behind him while he spoke, in two languages, with nobody driving it.
Watch the moment on YouTube — 1:49:53
This is Aria running a service. The numbers point at what each part of it is doing — one person, one laptop, no second program open.
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Aria does something that did not exist before, so nothing below is a list of adjectives — each one is the thing itself, in a real service, with the technical detail folded away underneath for whoever wants it.
Somebody says “Genesis one two” out loud.
Any of the 66 books, spoken the way people actually say them — “first John four eight”, “Psalm twenty three” — and the passage is on the screen before an operator could have found it, let alone typed it.
Aria listens on one microphone — the one the speaking already goes through — and matches what it hears against the Bibles stored on the machine. The operator sees every match before the congregation does and can refuse any of it.
Nobody has to know the reference. Not even the speaker.
Preach from memory, retell the passage, quote it loosely — Aria matches the meaning rather than the words, and the right verse still lands. This is the part that did not exist before Aria, and the part people ask about afterwards.
The meaning-matching runs entirely on the church’s machine, so it keeps working with the building offline. It is the same engine whether a reference was spoken or not — there is nothing to switch on.
Not a summary afterwards. During.
Aria works out what the message is about and titles it, then catches each point as it is made — including the ones that arrive without “my first point is…” in front of them — and puts them on the screen while the sentence is still going. Nothing has to be prepared or uploaded first, and a pastor who leaves the plan is the ordinary case rather than a problem.
The verse in English. The verse in Spanish. Both, together.
28 translations across 14 languages ship inside Aria and work with the internet down. It understands nine spoken languages and translates live between four of them, either direction — preach in Spanish with English on the screen, or the other way round.
Two things, not one: it finds the words, then it builds the deck.
Aria fetches the complete lyric — every verse, the chorus, the bridge, the tags, not a fragment you finish by hand — then cuts it into slides by itself, at however many lines you want on a screen, with each section labelled. A song your team has never used is ready in about the time it takes to say its name.
You review the words and approve them before anything reaches a screen. Both halves are free on every plan.
The order you built on Tuesday, on the screen on Sunday.
Aria reads an upcoming plan straight out of Planning Center Online and turns it into its own sections and slides — the same order, the same songs, nothing retyped. The songs come from CCLI SongSelect the same way, with their numbers attached so the reporting fills itself in. Two places most churches already keep Sunday, and neither of them has to be copied out by hand the night before.
Both are your own accounts. Aria connects to them; it does not resell them.
Not a stock photo of a sunset. The thing the passage describes.
Say the verse and the background becomes the scene it is describing, in the look your church picked once — so every verse for the rest of the service matches. These six are Genesis 6, made by Aria, in six of them.
Audience, stage, lobby, stream — each showing what that audience needs.
Not one picture mirrored four times. The stage sees what the speaker needs, the lobby sees something else, and what goes out to your stream matches the wall without anyone pointing a camera at it.
Aria publishes its screens over the network to your streaming software, so the stream takes a clean feed rather than a filmed one.
Aria is church presentation software — the verse, the songs, the notes and the announcements, on every screen in the building. Everything a verse detector does, and then the rest of the service.
And you decide how much it does on its own. Every feature is off, ask me first, or automatic — chosen separately, so one church approves every slide and another leaves it to run. It ships asking.
The eight above are the ones worth watching. This is the rest — and the whole presentation side is free on every plan, forever: every screen, every layout, all 28 Bibles, the songs and the verse detection. You are paying for the thinking, not the projecting.
Every plan has all of Aria in it. What changes is how much it listens and how many images it makes — so a church meeting twice a week pays for that, and a church meeting once does not.
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When the trial ends, this is what you keep. No card, no expiry.
Aria stops listening, and the artwork generator stops — you drive it. Everything else on this list is yours to keep.
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Several gatherings a week, or more than one campus.
Everything in Pro and everything in Free is included.
You don’t have to decide now.
Download it, run a service on it, and see whether it holds up in your building on your microphone. There is no card to enter and nothing to cancel if you walk away. The listening allowance is checked before a service begins, never during one.
No. The 28 Bibles, the verse detection, the paraphrase matching and the offline translation all run on your own computer. If the building loses its connection mid-service, scripture, lyrics and every screen carry on. Only the parts that genuinely need the internet — sermon notes and making new images — pause, and those are the parts you can lose for an hour without anyone in the room noticing.
The operator sees everything before the congregation does and can override any of it. Aria proposes; the person at the desk decides. You can also turn its independence down to an approval queue, where nothing goes out until someone says yes.
Only if you want one there. Every feature has three settings — off, ask me first, or automatic — so a church with nobody free on a Sunday can set the lot to automatic and let it run, and a church that would rather approve each slide can have that instead, on the same software. Aria ships asking, because that should be your decision rather than ours. And whoever is watching can step in from a phone, from any seat in the room.
Your recording is never sent to us. Aria can share what it decided during a service — which verse it showed, which song line it matched and what it heard — so we can see why it got something wrong. That is optional and you can switch it off at any time.
Yes. 28 translations across 14 languages ship inside Aria, every one either public domain or properly licensed for church use, so there is nothing for you to arrange. If your church holds a licence for a different one, import it — Aria reads the same files ProPresenter and EasyWorship use, so you are not retyping anything.
If it runs 64-bit Windows 10 or 11, it will run Aria. The download is large because everything ships inside it, including the Bibles — a church computer in a back room should not have to fetch anything on a Sunday morning. It is about 20 minutes, once.
As many as your computer has outputs for. Audience, stage, lobby and stream are ready made, plus captions-only, lyrics-only and verses-only outputs, and you can create your own on top of those. There is no cap inside Aria. Unplug a TV and plug it back in and the right output returns to the right screen, matched by name.
Aria tells you before it happens, and the allowance is checked before a service starts rather than during one, so it cannot cut out partway through. If you don't subscribe, the parts that cost us money stop. Everything that lives on your machine — the Bibles, the screens, the songs, the verse detection — keeps working.
1.45 GB Windows 10 and 11 · 64-bit Installs in about 20 minutes, once