Your members, your giving, your groups, your children’s details — today they sit on platforms that charge for the tools, mine the data, and can change the rules overnight. TrinityOne is the alternative, built for churches: the whole life of your church on infrastructure you hold the keys to. No company in the middle. Nothing mined.
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A platform is something you join — a company owns the servers, holds your data, sets the rules, and can lock you out tomorrow. A protocol is something you run, like email or the web. TrinityOne is a protocol: you hold your own keys, you can host it yourself, and there's no "in" for anyone to shut you out of.
You don't have to flip a switch and hope. Start with one group, keep your current tools running alongside, and bring people across when they're ready — and because it's self-custodial, your data is always yours to take.
Your leadership, or a single life group. Prove it with a small win before moving anyone else.
Keep WhatsApp and your old software going. No cut-over cliff, no deadline, no pressure.
Your church is a key you hold — not an account a company holds. Export anytime; no one can lock you out.
No subscription after setup, no per-member fee, no tier to upgrade to. Free now, free at any size — there's no company in the middle to bill you.
Run a copy of your church's data on hardware you control, and hand your people a code to join. Both are optional — TrinityOne works out of the box on shared relays.
Your church runs on TrinityOne’s shared relays out of the box — nothing to set up. Want a copy of every event on hardware you control? Order a managed relay in a click, or run the free TrinityOne Relay app on any Mac, Windows, or Linux machine. The Steward console just points your church at it — your key signs each change, and never leaves your device.
Paste this on any Debian/Ubuntu/Raspberry Pi box (a Pi, mini-PC, old laptop or VPS). It installs the relay as a boot service, then prints a dashboard link — open it and click Connect → Make it public for a secure public address. No GitHub account, and no more terminal after this line.
curl -fsSL https://app.trinityone.church/relay-app/install.sh | sudo bash
Every church gets a friendly code and a matching QR. It carries your npub and relay hints — so one scan follows your church and pulls in your groups.
Because the church knows its people, protection is anchored in your leaders — not a meaningless tick-box. These tools support your safeguarding policy and background checks; they don't replace them.
Your leaders mark who's a young person and which adults are cleared to work with them. Young people only see what's meant for them, and a message between a child and an adult goes through a guardian unless that adult is cleared.
A parent sets up and holds their child's account from their own phone, and can always reach their own child. You confirm every link, so no one can attach themselves to a child who isn't theirs.
Keep it open — anyone with your code or QR joins instantly — or switch on approval, and new people wait in a simple requests list until a steward lets them in.
Turn whole features on or off for your congregation, highlight what matters, and step in to remove a message or a member when you need to.
The quiet work that keeps a church going — sharing the load, caring for one another, keeping a contact list, serving rotas, events and giving records — all in the same place your people already are, on ground you hold yourself.
You don't have to carry it alone. Invite trusted helpers as stewards to share the running of the church — each acting in their own name, never holding your keys — and add or step anyone back whenever you need to.
A quiet treasurer's helper: keep tidy giving records, group gifts by fund, and produce the year-end statements your givers need — kept private to your church. (Record-keeping for now; giving from your own wallet comes later.)
Keep services and gatherings in one shared calendar, and book the hall, rooms and spaces without two things landing in the same place at once. Everyone sees what's on, at a glance.
Build the teams that make a Sunday happen, set who's on when, and let people know — so everyone can see where they're needed and step in with a tap.
When someone needs a hand for a season — a new baby, an illness, a hard stretch — rally the church around them. Coordinate meals, lifts, errands and visits so the help is shared and nothing falls through the cracks.
A members' contact list your stewards keep up to date — names and ways to reach one another, shared only within the church and held on your own ground, never sold or mined.