Software for the local church.
Wroot Labs builds careful tools for the work of ministry — small, quiet software made by someone who has had to use it on a Sunday morning.
Mission
Give the local church back its time — and its authority.
The work of ministry — the gospel, healing, mercy, justice — keeps getting crowded out by the work of keeping the institution running: the admin, the reports, the rota, the opaque budgets. Our tools take that off a pastor’s desk, so the hours go back where the calling is.
And because so much of how a church’s money and authority actually work is kept out of sight of the people who fund it, our tools make it plain — what you give, where it goes, and the say you already have. Not so churches do more, but so they are never passive before the institution they hold up.
One aim under all of it: get the local church off the hamster wheel of institutional survival, and back to the work it was made for — making disciples, loving mercy, and walking humbly with God, together.
An invitation
Know a tool that would serve this?
If there’s a piece of software that would take busywork off your ministry, or make a church’s money and authority a little clearer — and no one has built it yet — we’d love to hear it. Write to wilson@wrootlabs.com and tell us the idea. If it serves the mission, we’ll do our best to build it.
Featured · something different
Kitchen Cabinet
A playable simulation of the one season in Methodist life that nobody outside the room ever sees: the bishop and cabinet matching pastors to churches, where filling one pulpit empties another. Fictional, but true to how the work actually feels — and the most inventive thing we’ve made.
Products
Lampstand
Live · $49 / $149
An editorial audit of your church's website, delivered as a designed PDF. Page-by-page Keep / Rewrite / Cut verdicts, plus a voice and audience read — pastoral judgment, not a rebuild.
Visit →Echo
Beta · from $90/yr
Social-media autopilot for small and mid-sized churches. Sunday's sermon and the week's photos become a consistent week of posts with one short Monday approval. Show, don't tell.
Visit →FairShare
Live · $24/yr
Two apportionment tools for connexional Methodist churches: predict how budget decisions change your conference share before you file, and show your congregation exactly where every apportioned dollar goes — traced from conference ministries down to the General Church agencies it funds, with a printable bulletin insert.
Visit →Chapel
Beta · free under 50 · $90/yr
Multi-tenant church management for small and mid-sized parishes — bulletins, services, contact lists, and the rota in one place. Built on the operational lessons of running a parish for ten years.
Visit →Book the Church
Beta · $90/yr
Venue booking for parishes that hire out their hall, sanctuary, or fellowship space. Calendar, deposits, rental hours, and the boring paperwork — handled.
Visit →Charles
Beta
Music arrangement for the local church — hymn settings, choir parts, accompaniment, tailored to the musicians you actually have on a given Sunday.
Visit →Clara
Beta
Music arrangement and orchestration for working musicians — variations, scoring, and parts generated around a tested arrangement engine.
Visit →nave.build
Live · $50 build, optional $10/mo hosting
Quiet, careful church websites for parishes. $50 to build, set up in a week. Yours to host, or ours to keep tended for $10 a month. A productized version of the church-website work we already do.
Visit →Cupboard
Beta · $99 one-time
Tools for small feeding ministries — pantry intake, household tracking, monthly stakeholder reports. Productized from the workflows of a working food pantry that's been running for years.
Visit →Plenary
Live
Annual conference companion for Methodist delegates — standing rules, agenda, committee motions, and Book of Discipline references in one place during session. Built for the floor, not the office.
Visit →Teller
Live
Phone-based shadow voting for annual conference sessions — a parallel tally that lets delegates and observers see how a vote would have gone, with lay and clergy preserved and anonymity protected.
Visit →Conference Field Guide
Live · Río Texas + North Georgia
Annual-conference orientation for the delegates who sit in session — what each agency does, how the agenda and motions work, and the Book of Discipline behind them, with room to ask questions, weigh perspectives, and propose corrections. Bilingual, with a site for each conference.
Visit →Discern
Live · free, no login
A guide for anyone sensing a call to ministry, meeting people where they actually are — youth, college, a second career, already in seminary — instead of flattening every path into one. The candidacy ladder, the orders, the seminaries, and the next concrete step, grounded in the Book of Discipline.
Visit →
What’s next
Rounding out the marks of ministry.
The tools above mostly serve the orderingof a church’s life. Next we’re building for two more of the things a pastor is ordained to — worship and the sacraments, and the work of justice. See what we’re building →