Refrain turns your years of recorded services into a library you can actually search — then cut for social. On your Mac.
See how it works · On-device · Nothing uploaded
The guest speaker from two Easters ago. The worship set where you sang that song. The testimony everyone still talks about. It’s all there — buried in a folder of files nobody can search, scrubbed for by hand when someone needs a clip.
Transcription tools can find what was said. Refrain also finds who’s on screen and what’s on screen — the parts a transcript can’t.
Tag your regular speakers and worship leaders once. Refrain then finds every clip they appear in.
It reads the text in your lower-thirds — song titles, guest names, scripture references — and makes it searchable.
Full local transcription of every service, so you can find a testimony or a line by the words alone.
Find the moment, jump straight to it, and cut a clip for the recap reel or your socials — all in one place.
Refrain runs entirely on your Mac. Nothing is uploaded, no account is required, and there’s no per-clip cloud bill. Unreleased sermons, pastoral moments, and members’ faces stay yours.
We’d rather you trust it than be surprised by it.
It transcribes the full audio, so word search covers the entire service. For the visual search (faces, on-screen text), it focuses on the most active portion by default — ideal for clips and highlights. Working from your existing clip library gives the sharpest results; you can widen the visual coverage in settings when you need it.
No — just the handful of people you actually search for (your pastors, worship leaders, recurring guests). Tag each once, and Refrain finds them from then on.
Never. Refrain runs on your Mac, indexes your files in place, and requires no account or internet connection.
A Mac and your service recordings in a folder (or on a drive it can reach). That’s it.
We’re onboarding church media teams now. Leave your email and we’ll send it the moment it’s ready.
One-time $149 at launch · On-device · Nothing uploaded