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Your curriculum, but guests actually finish it.

If your growth track is currently a PDF or Google Doc people print and bring back, you know the problem: half of them don't bring it back. Here's what changes when guests can finish on their own time.

From our 2026 survey

6 of 23 churches we surveyed came to OnArk straight from PDF or Google Doc based pathways. Their #1 reason: no way to track who finished, much less who started.

Side by side

What you get with each option.

What you needGoogle Docs / PDFsOnArk
Free to start
Free until you publish
Guest finishes self-paced
If they bring it back
Resumable across visits
Track who started vs finished
Real progress tracking
DISC / Spiritual Gifts assessments
Manual paper scoring
Auto-scored, results emailed
Video content with questions
YouTube / direct upload with prompts
Branching conversations (if/then)
Branch sections
Planning Center sync
Workflows + custom fields
Mobile-friendly
PDFs zoom on phones
Built mobile-first
Print-friendly archival copy
Built for screens, not paper

We had more people finishing our next steps class because they could do it whenever it suited their schedule.

CoreyLead Pastor · Palms Church
Honest take

When each one's actually right.

Stick with PDFs if

Your curriculum is heavily formatted for a print booklet, your church culture really values handing physical materials to guests, or you have no internet expectations of your congregation. PDFs are timeless.

Switch to OnArk if

You want to know who actually finished. You want guests to be able to start at home, finish on Sunday between services, and resume the following week. You want results that flow into Planning Center automatically instead of someone transcribing them.

Try it free

See what changes in 30 minutes.

Free until you publish to your church. No credit card. Same playbook your sister churches used.