About — Ensayo

The problem we couldn't ignore

Most worship apps weren't built for churches. They were built for general musicians, then squeezed into churches as an afterthought. Filled with songs that don't belong in a sanctuary. Ad-supported in ways that interrupt rehearsal. English-first, with Spanish bolted on if at all.

At the same time, real worship teams kept running into the same Sunday-morning chaos. The chord chart was outdated. Half the band didn't know who was leading the bridge. The set list lived in a group text from Friday and someone's already lost it. Rehearsal that was supposed to start at 9 actually starts at 9:20 because we're still figuring out what we're singing.

"A tool specifically made for Christian churches. A place where only Christian songs live, and no ads."

Built where the problem lives

Ensayo was started by John Soto, a worship leader and music director at his local church. After years of cobbling together PDFs, group chats, and last-minute phone calls every Saturday night, he decided to build the tool he wished existed.

Ensayo isn't built in a vacuum. It's built and tested every week with a real worship team — at services, in rehearsals, on Sunday mornings. If a feature doesn't help on Sunday, it doesn't ship.

Bilingual from day one

In the U.S., a huge portion of the church speaks Spanish, English, or moves between both depending on the moment. Some team members are most comfortable in Spanish. Others in English. Many in either. Worship teams should not have to pick a language and force everyone to live there.

"They don't have to adjust to Ensayo — we adjust to them."

That's why Ensayo is bilingual at the foundation. Every screen, every button, every notification, every help article — built English-first AND Spanish-first at the same time. Pick your language; it follows you across iOS, Android, and the web dashboard. Switch anytime.

Christian songs only

Ensayo's library is curated for the church. No genres that don't belong, no awkward filtering — just worship music for worship teams.

No ads. Ever.

Rehearsal is sacred space. We don't want a video ad interrupting your team mid-bridge — and you don't want it either.

Bilingual at the foundation

English and Spanish, every screen, every help article. Your team doesn't have to adjust to Ensayo — Ensayo adjusts to them.

Made for Sunday

Every feature is tested against one question: does this make Sunday morning better? If not, it doesn't ship.

Built with worship leaders

Real worship teams test Ensayo every week. Bug reports come from the platform on Sunday morning, fixes ship by Wednesday.

To serve, better

At the end of the day, organization isn't the goal. The goal is freeing up worship teams to focus on what they're really there to do — lead people in worship.

Founder & Music Director

John Soto

John serves as music director at his church and has spent 17+ years working with church audio — designing, installing, and training sound systems for small-to-medium congregations across the Southeast U.S. He runs a bilingual YouTube channel teaching church audio fundamentals, and is the founder of John Soto Music — a church audio dealer specializing in helping smaller churches sound great without a megachurch budget.

He started building Ensayo because he kept hitting the same Sunday-morning problems his customers were hitting, and nobody else was solving them — especially for bilingual ministries.

John Soto Music YouTube

Where we're going

Becoming the number-one resource for churches.

The vision is simple: fulfill every need a music team encounters. Whatever a worship team has to wrestle with on a Sunday morning — chord charts, set lists, attendance, leadership, communication, audio gear — Ensayo wants to be the place that solves it. Not just one more app on your phone. The one that makes Sunday work.

Join us.

Two months free. No card required to start. See if Ensayo makes your team's Sunday a little easier.

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