Free church directory maker
Enter your church families once — photos, birthdays, anniversaries, addresses — then share a private link and print a finished directory from the same information. It runs in your browser, and it's free.
What it does
- Holds your families, not just a page layout. Members and regular attendees, adults and children, with whatever details you know about each one.
- Lays out the printed directory for you: cover, welcome page, family cards at your chosen density, birthday and anniversary lists, back cover.
- Gives you a private web copy at a link you can hand out — searchable on any phone, password-protected if you want it.
- Imports your existing list from a spreadsheet, so you're not retyping four hundred people.
- Keeps it for next year. Update the families who moved, change the edition label, print again.
How it works
Sign in with your email — there's no password to remember and no card to enter. The app walks you through three steps in the order that actually works: church details first, then whether you're using photos, then your people.
Doing church details first matters more than it sounds. Your church name, address, service times, logo, and a note from the pastor are what turn a list of names into a directory, and they're the parts that get skipped when a tool drops you straight into a data-entry grid.
Then you add families — one at a time from a simple form, or all at once from a CSV. Anything you don't know, you leave blank; blank fields simply don't print, so there are no awkward gaps or empty labels on the page.
Both copies come from the same information
Churches usually end up maintaining two directories: a printed one that goes stale the week it's printed, and a contact list in the office that nobody else can see. Here they're the same record.
Fix a phone number once and the shared link is correct for everyone immediately. When it's time to print again, the print copy is already current. The switches for what's shown — addresses, phone numbers, email addresses, photos — apply to both, so if you hide emails on paper they're hidden on the link too.
What churches use it for
- A printed directory for the pew rack, the church office, and the refrigerator door.
- A phone directory the congregation can search on a Sunday afternoon when they've forgotten a name.
- The birthday and anniversary list for the card ministry, gathered by month automatically.
- A contact roster for deacons and small-group leaders, printed names-only with addresses and phone numbers.
- A new-member packet insert, reprinted whenever a few families join.
What it doesn't do
It isn't church management software. There's no giving, no attendance tracking, no check-in, and no accounting — those tools cost hundreds of dollars a year and most small churches don't need another one. This does the directory, and it does the whole directory.
It also doesn't ask your congregation to create accounts or install anything. One person builds the directory; everyone else either gets a link or gets a printed copy.
Questions churches ask
Is the church directory maker free?+
Yes. Building the directory and sharing the private link with your congregation are free — every family, every photo, no card required, nothing to install.
Do I need to be good with computers?+
If you can fill in a form and click Print, you can make the directory. There's no page setup, no margins to adjust, and no design decisions beyond picking a template you like.
Can someone else help me enter the families?+
Right now a directory belongs to the account that made it, so the usual approach is one person doing data entry — often the church secretary — with everyone else sending in their details. If you want a second person entering families, the fastest route is a shared spreadsheet that gets imported in one go.
Where is our members' information stored?+
In a private database for this app. The shared directory link is never indexed by search engines, you can put a password on it, and turning sharing off takes the page down immediately.
Can I use it for something other than a church?+
Nothing stops you — a school class list, a club roster, or a family reunion book all fit the same shape. The wording on the pages is church-shaped, though: families, members and attendees, service times, a verse on the cover.
What happens next year?+
Your directory stays in your account. Update the families who moved or joined, change the edition label to the new year, and print. You never start over.
Make your church's directory
Start with your church details and one family. You can have something worth printing inside an afternoon.
Start your free directory