Can anyone make a comparison to ProPresenter5

[Tennedean]

I'm shopping for presentation software for a live music show. So far I've found two.

ProPresenter5 by Renewed Vision is a presentation program that functions similarly to QLab imo. Is anyone familiar with both? If so, can you explain some differences? 

A few I know of:  live Twitter feed on Pro5 is not in QLab. Also effects and text are standard in Pro5. Both can run by ipad remotes. 

[Joshua Langman]

As far as its projection capabilities, QLab is primarily meant for playing videos rather than slides. If what you want is a way to easily display lyrics to a song, then ProPresenter seems to be better suited to your niche. QLab would be a better choice if you needed to play videos, and of course, if you needed any audio playback. ProPresenter would seem to be more straightforward in terms of functioning like PowerPoint — you're either on one slide or another. QLab allows for a lot more flexibility because you could be playing several different pieces of media simultaneously. While wonderful for "theatrical" sound and video work, it doesn't really lend itself to making slide shows if that's essentially what you're after.

All this is just based on my impressions from the ProPresenter site; I haven't used the program, only QLab.

[Joshua Langman]

Sorry for the second post. Just thought I could point out that if your audio people are running QLab for playback, that could definitely be a reason to go with QLab for projections, as it would make it very easy to fire projection cues at certain points in the music.

[Kelly Schmidt]

I've used both extensively.

QLab is made for Live Reproduction. Create a show and know it's going to be reproduced correctly every single performance.
ProPresenter is made for Live Production with on the fly changes. Create the elements for a show and present which one seems appropriate in the moment.

QLab was birthed out of the theatre. So it's systematic tool for Audio and Video with room for improvisation. (And you could easily do video / slides with it)
ProPresenter was birthed out of the church. It was created to present lyrics on top of images and background videos as well as present powerpoint slides, special videos, and special images. As you've noticed, it's able to do odd ball things like twitter with ease (by the way, you can manage the feed, approving the ones that get posted)

I've used both for non-theatre and non-church live events.
If I have all video/image media to show and have time to prepare ahead of time; QLab, every time.
If I know I'll have to do text overlays (i.e. Emcee says, "What's the score of the Cubs game" ... I can post 7-4 in 10 seconds), I'll use ProPresenter. Or if I might jump around between videos/images (it has an auto transition feature). Using ProPresenter like this is really backwards from its purpose, but it works.

Hope that helps.