# EmmauOS compared

> EmmauOS is a spiritual gifts assessment churches put on their website, with a follow-up list for the team who place people on serving teams. These pages set it beside other spiritual gifts tests and church gift tools. Prices and features were read from each vendor's own pages on the date each page names. Each page has a Markdown version at the same address with .md on the end.

## The test

- [Spiritual gifts tests compared: EmmauOS beside Lifeway, Team Ministry, SHAPE and the free inventories](https://emmauos.com/compare/spiritual-gifts-tests.md): EmmauOS is a spiritual gifts test of about 60 statements that takes 10 to 15 minutes on a phone, with no account and no app. It was written against the published research on gifts inventories rather than copied from an older worksheet: it asks what has actually happened in the past year instead of how you see yourself, measures nine gifts with 5 statements each, and shows the result as bands with the margin of error drawn instead of a ranked list. And it is built around what happens after: the result reaches the church's follow-up list the moment it is finished, with the person's consent. Most of the others are longer, measure 16 to 26 gifts, descend from inventories written decades ago, and end with a ranked list, a bar graph or an email. (checked 2026-10-20)

## The service

- [Church spiritual gifts tools compared: EmmauOS beside SpiritualGiftsTest.com, ServeWire, Spiritual Gifts Plus, Pastor Center and Ministry Way](https://emmauos.com/compare/church-spiritual-gifts-tools.md): EmmauOS is the newest tool on this page and the one built around what happens after the test: a 10–15 minute phone assessment on your own website, results shown as bands with the margin drawn, and every result in your team's follow-up list the same day, with the person's own words, their consent, the serving teams that need them, and a check 90 days later on whether the placement took. Planning Center sync and an AI assistant that works your list on your behalf are on every paid plan, from $40 a month; the assessment, its results and People are free for your first 50 people, and a published list of things EmmauOS will never do covers every plan. The other paid tools, from $99 a year to $100 a month, mostly describe a test, a ranked or scored result, a dashboard and an export. Where one of them fits a church better, this page says so. (checked 2026-10-20)

## Head to head

- [EmmauOS vs SpiritualGiftsTest.com Church Dashboard](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-spiritualgiftstest-com.md): SpiritualGiftsTest.com's Church Dashboard is $99 a year for unlimited tests, with an embed, search by gift, CSV export and completion tracking, and its site says 1,000-plus churches use it. It is a record of who has which gifts, and a good one for the price. EmmauOS is built for the week after: each result lands in your team's follow-up list with the person's own words and consent, next to the serving teams that need those gifts, moves through statuses as the conversation happens, and gets a 90-day check on whether the placement took. It shows bands with the margin drawn rather than a ranked chart, syncs Planning Center both ways on every paid plan, connects an AI assistant that can work your list, and is free for your first 50 people. Pick SpiritualGiftsTest.com for the lowest flat price at scale; pick EmmauOS if the point of the test is that someone gets placed. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs ServeWire VES](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-servewire-ves.md): ServeWire VES, from Ministry Vitals, costs $20 a month or $147 a year for unlimited members and assessments, offers a customisable spiritual gifts test or the full SHAPE, emails each result as a PDF, can show a "% Fit" for positions, and pushes results into Planning Center profile tabs; its site says 750-plus churches since 2017. It is the tool to edit. EmmauOS is the tool to follow up with: a 10–15 minute phone test written against the published research, bands with the margin drawn and no fit score, a follow-up list with the person's words and consent, a 90-day check that looks at Planning Center scheduling, and an AI assistant that works the list for your team. It is free for 50 people and $40 a month for 150. Pick ServeWire for SHAPE and an editable gift list at a flat price; pick EmmauOS for a short honest test and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs Spiritual Gifts Plus](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-spiritual-gifts-plus.md): Spiritual Gifts Plus costs $299.99 a year (Basic), $499.99 (Advanced) or $599.99 (Premium), or $49.99 to $99.99 a month, with a 7-day trial; members take 112 questions across 26 gifts plus DISC and get a "top spiritual gifts" report; the church gets a dashboard and team recommendations, with customized gifts, AI team matching and analytics on Advanced and Planning Center and PDF export on Premium. EmmauOS is free for 50 people and $40 a month for 150, takes 10 to 15 minutes on a phone with no account, is written against the published research, shows bands with the margin drawn, syncs Planning Center both ways on every paid plan, and runs the follow-up as a list with the person's own words, consent and a 90-day check. Its AI works your list and reads your website; it never scores a person. Pick Spiritual Gifts Plus for a long test with DISC and AI matching; pick EmmauOS for a short honest test and everything that happens after it. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs Pastor Center spiritual gifts test](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-pastor-center.md): Pastor Center's spiritual gifts test is 112 questions, 74 of them across 24 gifts and 38 for DISC, and reports a person's "top five gifts" with Scripture references plus a DISC breakdown; churches pay from $49.99 a month (Basic) to $79.99 (Advanced, with AI matching) and $99.99 (Premium, with Planning Center), with a 7-day trial, and can turn gifts off and edit definitions. EmmauOS is free for 50 people and $40 a month for 150, takes 10 to 15 minutes on a phone with no account, is written against the published research, shows bands with the margin drawn, syncs Planning Center both ways on every paid plan, and runs the follow-up as a list with the person's words, consent and a 90-day check, with an AI assistant that works the list and never scores anyone. Pick Pastor Center for a long editable test with DISC; pick EmmauOS for a short honest test and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs Ministry Way](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-ministry-way.md): Ministry Way's free plan allows one CSV upload of up to 10 responses, 10 AI analyzes, unlimited ministries and a form builder; Pro is $100 a month for unlimited responses, QR codes, emailed results, email and SMS follow-up, a kanban pipeline and team access. Its AI scores each person against every ministry and ranks them Excellent, Strong or Good fit; its free gifts test is 27 questions over 9 gifts and reports "top gifts"; Planning Center is in beta and Breeze is coming. EmmauOS is free for 50 people and $40 a month for 150, measures the same nine gifts with 5 statements each, written against the published research, shows bands with the margin drawn, syncs Planning Center both ways on every paid plan, and gives the team a follow-up list with the person's words, consent and a 90-day check. Both use AI; they point it at different things. Ministry Way's AI rates people. EmmauOS's works your list, reads your website and briefs your staff, and never rates anyone. Pick Ministry Way for AI matching and SMS pipelines; pick EmmauOS for an honest test, a human conversation and an assistant that does the clerical work. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs the Lifeway Spiritual Gifts Survey](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-lifeway-spiritual-gifts-survey.md): The Lifeway Spiritual Gifts Survey is a free printable PDF (© 2003, revised 2022) of 80 statements on a 1 to 5 scale across 16 gifts, 5 statements each, which a person scores by hand out of 25 and draws as a bar graph; the church gets nothing unless the person hands over the sheet. EmmauOS is about 60 statements across nine gifts, 10 to 15 minutes on a phone with no account, scored the same way out of 25 but shown as bands with the margin drawn, written against the published research on self-report, and the result reaches the church's follow-up list with the person's consent, next to the serving teams that need those gifts, with Planning Center on every paid plan and an AI assistant for the team. Pick Lifeway for paper and 16 gifts; pick EmmauOS for a phone, honest results and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs the Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts Survey](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-team-ministry.md): The Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts Survey, from ChurchGrowth.org, is free for an individual, 108 questions over nine gifts, and shows a bar graph of scores with the dominant gifts named; a Group Edition for churches exists, with a price not shown on the page we read; the site says millions of people have taken it. EmmauOS covers the same nine gifts in about 60 statements and 10 to 15 minutes on a phone with no account, written against the published research on self-report and short scales, shows bands with the margin drawn instead of a bar graph with a dominant gift, and sends the result to the church's follow-up list with consent, next to the serving teams that need those gifts, with Planning Center both ways on every paid plan and an AI assistant for the team. Pick Team Ministry for a long free survey with a well-known name; pick EmmauOS for a shorter test, honest results and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [EmmauOS vs SHAPE](https://emmauos.com/compare/emmauos-vs-shape.md): SHAPE is a framework, not a single test: Spiritual gifts, Heart, Abilities, Personality and Experiences, from Saddleback Church, taught in a 2006 book and run by churches in many versions, from a 20-minute class handout to online tests of 30 to 60 minutes with 72 gift statements that report a "Top 3 Spiritual Gifts". EmmauOS measures nine gifts in about 60 behavior statements and 10 to 15 minutes on a phone, written against the published research, shows bands with the margin drawn, and reaches the church's follow-up list with the person's words and consent, next to the serving teams that need those gifts, with Planning Center both ways on every paid plan and an AI assistant for the team. Earlier SHAPE scores import on every paid plan, and people can take SHAPE inside EmmauOS. Pick SHAPE to teach a whole-person framework in a class; pick EmmauOS to measure gifts quickly and honestly and follow up. Many churches do both. (checked 2026-10-20)

## Also

- [Site overview](https://emmauos.com/llms.txt)
- [Documentation](https://emmauos.com/docs/llms.txt)
- [Pricing](https://emmauos.com/pricing.md)
- [Start a church](https://emmauos.com/register)