Pulsily
Unlimited staff users on every tier. Worship leader, kids director, small group coordinator, exec pastor — they all log in, see their people, run their walks. The product expands with your staff at no extra cost.
Pulsily vs. Notebird
Care for every volunteer,
not just the ones you can afford a seat for.
Notebird is a real, well-built care tool. We’ve recommended it to churches before Pulsily existed. The honest difference between us is structural — they price per care-team user, we price per church.
That changes who can use the product, which changes what the product is.
Who gets to use it
Every staff member, or just the care team?
Them
Per-user pricing ($4–$12/user/mo). Most churches end up with one or two paid seats — usually the care pastor and an assistant. The rest of the staff doesn’t have access, so the rest of the staff doesn’t use it.
The rhythm
A monthly check-in, not a casework tool.
Pulsily
Pulsily is built around a monthly question that goes to every leader, and a weekly walk that surfaces the names most worth a touch. It runs quietly in the background of a healthy staff team’s month.
Them
Notebird leans toward casework — tracking specific pastoral situations from intake to resolution. Excellent for that. Less suited to the “everyone steady, everyone seen” rhythm that Pulsily is built for.
The mission alignment
Per-leader pricing fights the mission.
Pulsily
We price by weekly attendance, not by leader. The bigger the roster you enroll, the more Pulsily is working — pricing should celebrate that, not punish it. Add every volunteer.
Them
Per-user pricing scales with your staff seats, not your roster. The unit cost of caring for one more volunteer is the same as caring for ten more. Most churches will hit a seat budget before they hit the limit of the people they want to care for.
Honest about
Notebird is a more mature product with more pastoral-care features specifically — case management, prayer request workflows, document attachments. If you do heavy casework, they may be the better fit. We do monthly rhythm well; they do active casework well. Some churches need both.
Other comparisons
Set the rhythm of your church.
Free up to 10 leaders. No credit card. You can run a real check-in cycle inside the trial and decide from your church’s actual data.