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GiftWell vs SpiritualGiftsTest.com Church Dashboard
SpiritualGiftsTest.com sells churches a $99-a-year dashboard with unlimited tests, a website embed and CSV export. GiftWell is free for 50 people, shows bands with the margin drawn instead of a ranked chart, and runs the follow-up in your serving teams. Which fits your church.
Checked 20 October 2026. Prices and features are from SpiritualGiftsTest.com's own pages on that date. Where a page does not mention something, this says so rather than guessing.
At a glance
As of 20 October 2026, from each vendor's own pages.
| SpiritualGiftsTest.com Church Dashboard | GiftWell | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $99/yr, unlimited tests | free for 50 people; $100/yr for 150; $500/yr for 500; custom above |
| Priced on | flat | people assessed; leaders free |
| The test | their gifts test, plus ten free personality assessments | about 60 behaviour statements, 9 gifts, about 10 minutes, no account |
| How a result is shown | a chart in four colour-coded categories | bands with a ±2 margin drawn, Romans 12 order, never ranked |
| Gift list | hide or show gifts | fixed nine on Free and Small; builder and imports on Growing |
| For the team | search and filter by gift, personality or name; CSV export; completion tracking; email when someone finishes; manual entry of printed results | follow-up list with statuses, the person's words and consent; serving teams; placements with a 90-day check; weekly digest; leaders see only their ministries |
| Planning Center | not shown on their church page | every plan: band names, Ephesians 4 leanings and quick picks to fields you choose |
| AI | not shown | never scores; optional staff-only brief on the church's own key |
| Your website | embed on your own site | hosted page, one-line script, or your own subdomain (Small and above) |
| Proof | "Trusted by 1000+ Churches" on their page | a young product; take it and judge the result |
The test itself
SpiritualGiftsTest.com's church page describes the test by its dashboard rather than its questions, so this page does not state a question count or a time. Its results group gifts into four colour-coded categories, and a church can hide gifts it does not teach. Ten personality assessments come free with the dashboard.
GiftWell's test is about 60 statements about what has actually happened, mostly in the past year, across nine gifts (Romans 12 plus administration and hospitality). It takes about ten minutes on a phone, saves progress on the device, and needs no account. A church that wants its own statements, or to import SHAPE and homegrown results, has the builder on the Growing plan.
How results are shown
A gift score built from a handful of statements is honest to about two points either way. SpiritualGiftsTest.com, as its page describes it, shows a chart. GiftWell shows bands: every gift within three points of the highest is in the lead band, the next gift within two points is "at the edge", and inside a band gifts sit in Romans 12 order so no ranking can be recovered. A pastor talks about two or three gifts, not about which one came third. The reasoning is on why we ask what we ask.
What the team gets after
SpiritualGiftsTest.com's dashboard is a record: who has finished, searchable by gift, personality or name, with an email on completion and a CSV to take elsewhere. A church can also type in results from printed tests. That covers a lot for $99.
GiftWell treats the result as the start of a conversation. It lands in a follow-up list with the person's own words and consent, next to the serving teams that need those gifts. A leader logs the conversation, places the person, and gets a check-in 90 days later on whether it took. Leaders see only their own ministries, and a weekly digest lists who is waiting on whom. Band names sync to Planning Center on every plan.
Price
For a church that will assess everyone and has more than 500 people, SpiritualGiftsTest.com's $99 flat rate is the cheaper line. For a church of 50 or fewer, GiftWell is free. Between those, GiftWell's $100 a year for 150 people is a dollar more than SpiritualGiftsTest.com and includes your own subdomain; leaders and pastors are never charged for.
Who should choose SpiritualGiftsTest.com
- A large church that wants unlimited tests for the lowest flat price.
- A church that wants a personality assessment bundled in.
- A church that mostly wants a searchable record of who has which gifts, with a CSV to export.
- A church that values a long track record: their page says 1,000-plus churches.
Who should choose GiftWell
- A church that wants results shown honestly, as bands with the margin drawn.
- A church that wants the result in a leader's hands the same day, with the person's words, consent and serving teams, and a check on whether the placement took.
- A church on Planning Center that wants band names in its people records on any plan.
- A church that wants the assessment on its own subdomain in its own colours.
- A church of 50 or fewer that wants to start free with no card.
Switching
SpiritualGiftsTest.com lists a CSV export, which gives you the names to invite. Old results from printed tests or another inventory can be imported on GiftWell's Growing plan. Most churches simply run GiftWell for new people and leave old results where they were.
Questions people ask
Is GiftWell cheaper than SpiritualGiftsTest.com?
For up to 50 people, yes: GiftWell is free and SpiritualGiftsTest.com is $99 a year. For 51 to 150 people they cost within a dollar of each other ($100 against $99 a year). For a large church assessing everyone, SpiritualGiftsTest.com's flat $99 is cheaper than GiftWell's Growing plan at $500 for 500 people. All as of October 2026.
What does GiftWell have that SpiritualGiftsTest.com does not show on its page?
Bands with the margin drawn instead of a chart, a follow-up list with statuses and the person's own words, serving teams with a 90-day check on placements, Planning Center sync on every plan, a rule that AI never scores anyone, and your own subdomain. SpiritualGiftsTest.com's page may offer more than it lists; this page only reports what it says.
What does SpiritualGiftsTest.com have that GiftWell does not?
Unlimited tests for a flat $99 a year, ten personality assessments, manual entry of printed results, and a claim of 1,000-plus churches. GiftWell has no personality test and is priced per person.
Can we try GiftWell before leaving SpiritualGiftsTest.com?
Yes. Take the assessment at giftwell.app/try and open the pastor's view of your own result in a demo church. Creating your church is free for the first 50 people, with no card to enter, so the two can run side by side.
See the result for yourself
Ten minutes on your phone, then the pastor's view of your own result in a demo church. If it fits, your first 50 people are free and there is no card to enter.
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