# GiftWell compared

> GiftWell 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: GiftWell beside Lifeway, Team Ministry, SHAPE and the free inventories](https://giftwell.app/compare/spiritual-gifts-tests.md): GiftWell is a spiritual gifts test of about 60 statements that takes about ten 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 five 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: GiftWell beside SpiritualGiftsTest.com, ServeWire, Spiritual Gifts Plus, Pastor Center and Ministry Way](https://giftwell.app/compare/church-spiritual-gifts-tools.md): GiftWell is the newest tool on this page and the one built around what happens after the test: a ten-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, an AI assistant that works your list on your behalf, and a published list of things it will never do are on every plan, including the free one for your first 50 people. 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

- [GiftWell vs SpiritualGiftsTest.com Church Dashboard](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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. GiftWell 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 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 GiftWell if the point of the test is that someone gets placed. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs ServeWire VES](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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. GiftWell is the tool to follow up with: a ten-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 $100 a year for 150. Pick ServeWire for SHAPE and an editable gift list at a flat price; pick GiftWell for a short honest test and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs Spiritual Gifts Plus](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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 customised gifts, AI team matching and analytics on Advanced and Planning Center and PDF export on Premium. GiftWell is free for 50 people and $100 a year for 150, takes ten 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 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 GiftWell for a short honest test and everything that happens after it. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs Pastor Center spiritual gifts test](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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. GiftWell is free for 50 people and $100 a year for 150, takes ten 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 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 GiftWell for a short honest test and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs Ministry Way](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-vs-ministry-way.md): Ministry Way's free plan allows one CSV upload of up to 10 responses, 10 AI analyses, 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. GiftWell is free for 50 people and $100 a year for 150, measures the same nine gifts with five statements each, written against the published research, shows bands with the margin drawn, syncs Planning Center both ways on every 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. GiftWell'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 GiftWell for an honest test, a human conversation and an assistant that does the clerical work. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs the Lifeway Spiritual Gifts Survey](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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, five 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. GiftWell is about 60 statements across nine gifts, about ten 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 plan and an AI assistant for the team. Pick Lifeway for paper and 16 gifts; pick GiftWell for a phone, honest results and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs the Team Ministry Spiritual Gifts Survey](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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. GiftWell covers the same nine gifts in about 60 statements and about ten 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 plan and an AI assistant for the team. Pick Team Ministry for a long free survey with a well-known name; pick GiftWell for a shorter test, honest results and the conversation after. (checked 2026-10-20)
- [GiftWell vs SHAPE](https://giftwell.app/compare/giftwell-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". GiftWell measures nine gifts in about 60 behaviour statements and ten 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 plan and an AI assistant for the team. It imports SHAPE results on the Growing plan. Pick SHAPE to teach a whole-person framework in a class; pick GiftWell to measure gifts quickly and honestly and follow up. Many churches do both. (checked 2026-10-20)

## Also

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