Best Church Livestreaming Solutions | Reach Online

Resi Livestreaming by PushPay

Resi is a church livestreaming and on-demand video platform built around a Resilient Streaming Protocol that keeps Sunday services online when the internet wobbles. Churches can schedule one event to their site and socials, host an ad-free Media Site, and use Studio AI to turn a sermon into clips and transcripts.

Donkey Mobile

Donkey Mobile is a Dutch platform that publishes a branded iOS, Android, and web app for each congregation, with group and one-to-one messaging, subscription-based church tools, giving with no donation commission, Inspire devotionals, and AI sermon summaries via Donkey Echo. Henrik Wienen's team also runs Kerkdienstgemist livestreaming alongside the apps.

Cowntdown

Cowntdown is an auto-resetting, embeddable countdown widget for church live streams. Set your weekly service schedule once and it counts down to each service automatically — no manual resets. Works on any website platform. Created by David Crowson (Churchly/Ministry Pass).

Playlister

Playlister is a cloud-based Kids Ministry presentation app that streams curriculum and media to Apple TVs, replacing USB drives and ProPresenter in classrooms. Trusted by 10,000+ churches in 53 countries with direct Orange curriculum integration and the Church-to-Church content sharing feature (launched May 2026 with the free CKids Curriculum, now ranked among Playlister's top five recommended curricula). The Apple TV app remains under active development, shipping new releases through August 2026 (v7.18 era). Recent multi-campus case studies include The Church of Eleven22 (13 campuses) and Red Rocks Church.

LiveSunday

A web-based platform providing AI-powered real-time captions and translation in 100+ languages for church services and live events, accessible to attendees via QR code with no app download required; also serves conferences, corporate, and education settings.

Kaleo AI

Kaleo AI translates and captions church services in real time into 150+ languages, custom-trained on theological terminology so multilingual and hard-of-hearing attendees can follow along from their own devices. Built by Aidan Britnell after a need in his Oakville church, it serves hundreds of congregations worldwide with free attendee apps and a subscription-based church service.

Church Online Platform

Free Life.Church platform that helps churches host livestreamed or prerecorded services with chat, live prayer, volunteer host tools, and Moments for next steps. Completely free with no limits, 60+ language chat translation, and analytics.

CP Sermons

A modern, feature-rich WordPress sermon management plugin with a persistent app-like player, SermonAudio integration (including WP-CLI), transcript support, podcast feed generation, and built-in analytics. Currently at v1.6.2. Built by Tanner Moushey of Church Plugins.

Subsplash

Subsplash One is an all-in-one church platform for branded apps, websites, giving, media, livestreaming, groups, and church management, including Pulpit AI tools that turn sermons into shareable discipleship content. Tim and Kristy Turner built it so local churches can share the gospel without juggling disconnected products.

SolaSites

SolaSites is a boutique, Reformed church website platform offering handcrafted designs, sermon streaming, online giving, events calendar, and ongoing support — founded by missionary Kyle Sheridan and built by a team that includes missionaries serving in Patagonia, Chile, with an active blog covering church website trends, AI/SEO discovery, and Reformed ministry resources.

Sermon Live

Sermon Live provides AI-powered real-time text and audio sermon translations in 30+ languages with 99% accuracy, letting multilingual congregations follow along live with just a shareable link — no app or special hardware needed. New for 2026: AI lip-dubbed video replays in the pastor's own voice. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite trusted by 8,000+ churches, with integration partners including Switcher Studio and Resi.io.

Voco

Voco streams live speech-to-text sermon translation into 157+ languages via a QR code, letting multilingual congregations follow along on their own phones without an app or hardware.

SermonAudio

SermonAudio is a free library of audio and video sermons from conservative Christian churches, with live webcasting, searchable Vault AI transcripts, and apps for phones and TV. Churches can upload without limits and use in-house Vault tools such as translation, Ask! answers grounded in sermons, and servers that preserve the archive.

Hai-End-Streaming

Open source Raspberry Pi livestreaming server that volunteer developers built so congregations can send RTMP and receive HLS worship streams, with a simple web console and fleet tools for larger church rollouts.

The Church Co

The Church Co is a subscription-based church website and app platform started by Paul Cox in 2015, with giving, sermons, groups, prayer, livestreaming, and a designer-built site on a yearly plan. It connects to Planning Center, PushPay, Tithely, and ChurchSuite, and also offers managed church marketing.

StreamYard

Browser-based live streaming and recording studio trusted by 12M+ creators, popular with churches for its volunteer-friendly interface, multistreaming to YouTube/Facebook/LinkedIn/TikTok/Vimeo, podcast recording, AI-powered clips, teleprompter, and Scenes for pre-planned broadcasts. Parent company Bending Spoons IPO'd on Nasdaq in July 2026 (~$18.4B valuation) and agreed to acquire Airtable for $1.285B in August 2026; 55 improvements shipped in 2025 plus new 2026 features including slide controls for guest presenters, smoother overlay transitions, YouTube Jewels reactions, in-studio Vimeo chat, and auto-fill previous stream details.

Altar Live

Altar Live is an interactive online church platform combining livestreaming with virtual tables, lobby rooms, messaging, and analytics. Acquired by JX3 Digital in March 2026, it's now led by co-founders Joe Aleshire (CEO), Boyd Landis (CXO), Jason Gleim (CTO), and Joshua Aleshire (COO) — all Nazarene church ministry leaders who were customers before becoming owners. The Android app is now published under the JX3 Digital developer account (updated Jun 2026); however, the iOS app remains on version 1.0.53 (Nov 2023), now ~2.75 years without a new build. Serving 1,300+ churches worldwide.

CaptionKit

CaptionKit streams live captions and translations to phones and sanctuary screens so multilingual and hard-of-hearing congregations can follow a church service in real time. Churches run sessions from the web or a Mac app, and people join through a link, QR code, or the free iOS and Android apps.

Pushpay

The complete church engagement platform trusted by 14,000+ churches, unifying digital giving, ChMS with AI-powered people search, custom mobile apps, livestreaming via Resi, and pastoral care via Nurture.io — now in the Staq Transformation, with Groups and Single Staq Giving delivered and AI Involvement Summary, Staq Data Lake, and Process Queues on the roadmap through September 2026.

OneAccord

Real-time AI translation platform built by church interpreters, delivering text and audio translation in 50+ languages during services — no app download needed. Custom-trained on biblical terminology with ProPresenter/OBS integration, moderation mode for accuracy, Streamdeck/Companion API for remote control, broadcast and conversation modes, and dedicated sound technician support.

EasyWorship

Church presentation software for lyrics, scripture, media, and livestreaming — designed so any volunteer can run a smooth service. Over 25 years serving churches with CCLI integration (500,000+ licensed songs), 90+ Bible translations, NDI output, MIDI sync, and 47,800+ Premium media assets. EasyWorship 8 runs natively on Mac and Windows with full feature parity, receiving regular bug-fix updates.

Hope Translator: live sermon translation

Hope Translator is a live sermon and event translation app from Hope Harbor. Speakers broadcast from a phone or laptop, and the audience scans a QR code to read or listen in one of 44 languages without installing an app.

Glossa

Glossa gives churches real-time AI sermon translation in 100+ languages: connect audio, share a QR code, and people hear or read the message on a phone, including a voice modelled on the speaker. iOS and Android apps are available; a browser works too.

Streamlingo

Streamlingo is a Karlsruhe-built live AI translation tool for churches, events, and lectures: guests scan a QR code and hear or read the talk in 80+ languages with no app. A Christian glossary, human interpreter channels, and a free two-hour plan sit alongside subscription plans for regular services.

Vimond VIA

Vimond VIA is a cloud-based video CMS and OTT streaming platform from Bergen, Norway, offering two tiers — Essentials (pre-configured, fast launch) and Unlimited (enterprise, modular). Churches and broadcasters build branded streaming apps across web, mobile, and smart TV with AWS-certified infrastructure, 99.999% uptime, and flexible monetization.