WorshipTechU vs MxU.

The short answer: In WorshipTechU vs MxU, the difference is the job each one does. MxU is a platform for running a whole worship and production team: training, team messaging and checklists, and live Sunday dashboards tied into Planning Center, ProPresenter and your measurement gear. WorshipTechU helps leaders equip their teams for sound and the band. Its new app has courses on mixing, tone, miking and theory, training games that drill your ears and your hands, and phone tools like a tuner and an SPL meter, and WorshipTechU also comes to your room for weekend intensives, six week training, mentorship and consulting. If your biggest problem is running Sunday, look hard at MxU. If your biggest problem is that the mix and the band don't sound right yet, WorshipTechU was built for you.

Last checked: 16 October 2026. Every MxU fact below is what MxU says on its own pages, which are listed with this post.

ch 01What MxU is

From MxU's own site, MxU calls itself a software platform built for church worship and production teams. It has three parts, and it also offers 1:1 coaching.

Training. MxU says it has 1,000+ lessons in audio, video, lighting and worship, automated pathways that hand each volunteer their next step, course quizzes, progress tracking, and a customizable curriculum where you can mix MxU lessons with your own uploaded videos and embedded YouTube videos. (training)

teamOS. Messaging (direct messages, group chats and channels that follow your Planning Center schedule), tasks and checklists with owners and due dates, and a shared home for setup guides, stage plots and SOPs. (teamOS)

Dashboards. Live service plans and timers that follow your Planning Center service order, ProPresenter slide control, mic and gear assignments, live SPL and RTA monitoring, and automatic service analytics like timing, sound levels and livestream viewers. Dashboards can run on TVs, tablets, desktops and phones, and across campuses. MxU also says you can bring live video in with NDI and RTMP, and trigger cues with MIDI and OSC. (dashboards, home page)

Slides. MxU also shows MxU Slides, a Mac presentation app for lyrics, video, live effects and streaming. Its page lists PowerPoint and ProPresenter import and two way Planning Center sync, and says some features are coming with the public release. It is in free early access for Apple Silicon Macs on macOS 14 or later. (slides)

Coaching. MxU also offers 1:1 coaching with a seasoned church leader: monthly one on one coaching calls, on demand messaging with your coach, and guidance tailored to your team. (coaching)

MxU lists integrations with Planning Center, ProPresenter, YouTube, Facebook, Resi, Smaart, ProdCom, Shure, Sennheiser, Rock RMS and Zapier (integrations), and says its app is on iOS and Android (home page FAQ).

ch 02What WorshipTechU is

WorshipTechU helps church leaders equip their worship and production teams. It was founded by Canyon Lewis, and it treats the tech team and the band as one team that needs a shared language for good sound. The app is the big new focus: iPhone and Android run the same app, and both are in beta (Android on Google Play), with a companion Apple Watch app, and on the web at app.worshiptechu.ca, where the bigger desk tools live.

• The library. Over 80 courses and over 1,200 lessons across its series, plus two courses on their own. The series are the what is? series (one idea per course, from gain and EQ to RF, networks and DMX), the how to series (one job per course, like miking a drum kit or building a stage plot), the tone series (each instrument, plus the philosophy behind it all), the mix series (sound check, gain, each instrument, then the whole mix), the theory series (the number system, keys, chords, charts), vintage audio hardware, the ultimate guide to ProPresenter (a path that starts with your first Sunday), and the ultimate guide to Ableton Live and the ultimate guide to running tracks live (nine courses each). Most modules end in a five question quiz. WorshipTechU teaches ProPresenter; it does not control it.
• Training games. More than ten training games, plus arcade games, including Ring It Out (hear which frequency is ringing and kill it before the room feeds back), Frequency Finder, Soundcheck Simulator, Monitor Mayhem, Dante Doctor, Mic Locker, Ear Training, Number Cruncher and more. Only some games let your team challenge each other head to head, like Number Cruncher, Mic Locker and Ear Training. Soundcheck Simulator, Monitor Mayhem and Dante Doctor are desktop. Ring It Out and Frequency Finder work on a phone.
• Tools. A tuner, an SPL meter, EQ and compression cheat sheets, an EQ lab and a compression lab, a stage plot and patch designer, a lighting designer and DMX planner, a wireless frequency planner, a chord book, and a downloads shelf with console show files.
• For a church. One church account with a join code, member progress, assignments, announcements and leaderboards, plus team tools: playbooks, a gear locker, an incident log and the chart-free challenge for leaders.

Outside the app, WorshipTechU still works with churches directly (training, mentorship):

• Weekend intensives. Two or three days in your room with your band: listen and audit on Friday, hands on training on your own console Saturday, launch on Sunday with a final mix review and a snapshot hand-off pack.
• Six week training, online or on site, ending in a full service mix with shadow coaching.
• Consulting. Custom console templates, Sunday and livestream mixing, audio for events and worship nights, livestream mix audits, gear reviews and scheduled check-ins.
• Mentorship. A year of weekly 1:1s, a monthly cohort, two retreats and shadow days for worship leaders and techs who lead.

ch 03Where MxU is stronger

We'd rather you pick the right tool than the wrong one, so here it is plainly.

• Sunday dashboards. WorshipTechU has nothing like MxU's live service view: Planning Center plans and timers, the current slide, mic assignments and service analytics on one screen (per MxU).
• ProPresenter control. MxU says it can follow and trigger ProPresenter slides from its dashboard. WorshipTechU does not control ProPresenter; it teaches it.
• Slides as a product. MxU Slides is a presentation app of its own (early access, per MxU). WorshipTechU teaches ProPresenter rather than replacing it.
• Team operations. Messaging, tasks, checklists and SOPs are a core part of MxU. WorshipTechU has announcements, assignments and team playbooks, but it isn't built to be your team's chat or task manager.
• Your own content. MxU says you can upload your own videos and build your own courses. WorshipTechU's library is its own.
• Live measurement. MxU says it connects to an audio interface or network audio source for live SPL and RTA. WorshipTechU's SPL meter runs on the phone in your pocket.
• Breadth past audio. MxU says its training covers audio, video, lighting and worship. WorshipTechU teaches lighting and video as fundamentals only for now (what is a light?, what is DMX?, what is a camera?, what is streaming?), with no how to courses for them yet.

ch 04Who WorshipTechU fits better

Teams whose real challenge is the sound. If the vocals are buried, the low end is mud and every Sunday sounds different, a dashboard won't fix that. Neither will the console alone. WorshipTechU teaches source first: drums tuned, mics placed, tones right on the stage, then the mix. As the founder, Canyon Lewis, puts it in the course: "You can't fix it in the mix." The mixing course isn't a tour of where the buttons are on your console. It teaches you to hear what you're listening for, and it was shot on the consoles a lot of churches actually have: X32, Qu, SQ and Avantis. WorshipTechU's mix series walks a volunteer from sound check and gain through mixing vocals and putting it together, in the order you'd actually do it.

Churches that want the band and the booth learning together. The tone series teaches each instrument (drums, bass, electric, acoustic, keys, vocals) from the same philosophy the mix series uses, so the guitar player and the person at the console are chasing the same sound. The theory series and chart-free worship cover the musician side most tech training skips.

Leaders whose volunteers learn by doing. Reading about feedback is one thing. Playing Ring It Out on your phone or building monitor mixes for a band in Monitor Mayhem on a computer is another. Training games, scores, leaderboards and head to head challenges in games that support duels, like Number Cruncher, give volunteers a reason to open the app between Sundays.

Churches that want someone in the room. If your team learns best with a coach beside them at the console, WorshipTechU does weekend intensives, six week training and a year long mentorship. MxU offers 1:1 coaching through monthly calls and messaging with a coach (coaching), but in person training in your room isn't mentioned on the MxU pages we read.

Smaller teams that want a place to start. The tuner, the SPL meter, the EQ and compression cheat sheets, the string tracker, every training game, the "what is worshiptechu?" course and the number system course are free. A leader can hand those to the team today.

Anyone who'd rather learn from one voice. The whole library sits inside one way of thinking about Sunday: the people we're serving are the congregation, so the vocal has to be clear and nobody should have to work to sing along.

ch 05The quick version

Pricing changes, so we don't quote it here. See WorshipTechU pricing and MxU pricing.

ch 06Where to start in WorshipTechU

If the sound is the problem, here is the order we'd open things in:

1. Your volunteer at the console: start the mix series with the sound check course, then gain. That is the order you'd actually do it on a Sunday.
2. Your whole team, between Sundays: hand them Ring It Out on their phones so they learn to hear a ring before the room does.
3. Your band: point each player at the tone series course for their instrument, so the stage and the booth are chasing the same sound.

Open WorshipTechU at app.worshiptechu.ca, or in the app on iPhone or Android (the same app, both in beta). If you'd rather have someone in the room with your team, look at training and mentorship.

ch 07Keep reading

• What WorshipTechU is (and isn't)