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Igniter Media

Igniter Media is a pioneering church media platform offering 800,000+ curated creative assets across 16 types — from sermon graphics and worship backgrounds to mini movies and stock music — trusted by 145,000+ churches since 2003. Now part of publicly traded Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO). Creator AI, an AI-powered graphic design tool included in every membership, lets churches generate custom graphics from natural language prompts.

ChurchSocial (formerly Discipls)

ChurchSocial is an AI-powered social media management platform built for churches, featuring Sermon Studio for automated sermon clip creation with speaker tracking, subtitles, and team collaboration, Graphics Studio with customizable templates and AI image generation, and multi-platform scheduling across Instagram, Facebook, X, TikTok, YouTube, and Google Business — with Planning Center, Pushpay/CCB, and Tithely/Breeze integrations.

Church Visuals by Ministry Designs

Free library of 80,000+ church media assets — sermon bundles, motion backgrounds, social graphics, countdown timers — with new content added regularly. No subscription or credit card required. From Ministry Designs, co-owned by Tyler and Vinnie Rominger and serving 67,000+ churches since 2012.

Reach The Lost

Reach The Lost is a Colorado Springs church marketing agency that helps churches win Google and AI search through Google Ad Grant management, local SEO, paid ads, AEO, Meta Ads, and YouTube Ads — serving 55+ churches across 24 states, plus a Promoting Pastor service for individual pastors' platforms.

Flow Forth

Flowforth is a church email marketing platform built around Planning Center, offering three email editors (drag-and-drop, simple rich text, and HTML), mobile-specific email design controls, Canva and Unsplash integrations, branching automations with If/Else conditions and Church Center push notifications, richer Planning Center-powered signup forms (Address/Household/Phone), a public email archive index, QR codes, link-in-bio pages, and deliverability metrics — with pricing based on send volume, not contacts. Founded by Thomas Harmond (formerly Hillsong Church) and shipping near-daily updates since its May 2025 launch. The brand now consistently stylizes as 'Flowforth' (one word).

eChurch ChurchRaise

A free, all-in-one church management platform with 80+ tools and 9 AI specialist assistants — covering people, giving, communications, website building, worship planning, small groups, signups, polls, Quick Tap QR/NFC smart links, donor analytics, and sermon-to-content pipelines, built by Faith Systems as an independent, non-VC-backed company serving churches.

Lome

Lome is an ad-free sign-up and community coordination platform — offering shared calendars, volunteer scheduling, meal trains, AI-powered form creation, and event RSVPs — built for churches, schools, and community groups by a faith-driven founder through the Praxis venture community.

Gloo Communications

Church text messaging platform with automated workflows, prayer inbox, broadcast messaging, and an Explorer program for community outreach — built by Gloo (Nasdaq: GLOO), a publicly traded faith-tech company serving approximately 140,000 churches. Revenue grew 238% YoY to $41.5M in Q1 2026 (FY guidance raised to $195M), but the company carries a $438M accumulated deficit and a July 2026 SEC 'going concern' warning. A secondary offering raised $22.75M with $6M in insider purchases by Beck, Gelsinger, and board members.

Sunday Best

Custom church website design agency specializing in Webflow sites for medium and large churches. Over a decade of experience, now with a portfolio of twenty featured church and ministry projects (New Life Church, Menlo Church, Breakaway Ministries, Reach Church, and more) built with strategy-driven, SEO-optimized, mobile-responsive design. Offers three transparent pricing tiers, a template option for smaller budgets, payment plans, and WCAG-aligned accessibility. Also runs Jesus Things, a curated directory of Christian resources, and publishes a growing library of church communications guides including AEO (Answer Engine Optimization) for the AI search era.

SundayU

An online training platform and resource hub for church communications leaders, offering 300+ video classes, certification courses, done-for-you design resources, and an annual planning system. Founded by Justin Dean in 2017 and acquired by Sylva, Inc. in 2021; Dean has since launched a newer companion platform, SaltyChurches.com.

Clearstream

Bootstrapped church texting, email, and voice platform trusted by 10,000+ congregations — offering mass texting, automated workflows, unlimited email with analytics, NFC tap tags, QR codes, voicemail/call forwarding, a congregant companion app (Clearstream Tap), and deep integrations with Planning Center, Rock RMS, and other major church management systems. Ranked first in Rock RMS's 2026 customer survey.

Sermon Shots

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into clips, quote images, carousels, devotionals, discussion guides, and social content in minutes. Founded by Corey Alderin (2x $1M+ ARR SaaS founder — also built Book Brush and ChristianQuotes.info) and Josh Wiley. Latest updates: July 2026 mobile experience rebuild and music sidebar redesign, Discussion Guides 2.0 with denomination/Bible version settings (April 2026), Social Sharing to Facebook/Instagram (March 2026), full platform rebuild (January 2026). Named to the Inc. 5000, trusted by 8,000+ churches with a team of 25+. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

HarvestSites

All-in-one church platform with seven integrated products — AI-built websites, church management (CRM), email/SMS communication, volunteer scheduling, social media management, free online giving, and AI design tools — serving 500+ congregations. Founded by a team of church-tech veterans including former Tithe.ly marketing leader Justin Dean.

StraightText - Church Texting

A desktop app for Mac and Windows that lets churches send personalized bulk iMessages and SMS from their own phone number — no new number, no per-message fees, and replies land right in the pastor's Messages app. Can also send iMessages directly to email addresses without phone numbers.

CRTVCHURCH

The largest job board for church creatives, connecting designers, videographers, worship leaders, and production techs with churches and mission-based organizations. Part of a 100K+ global community founded by Nik Goodner in 2015, with a free CRTVMEMBERSHIP offering devotionals, career guides, discoverable profiles, and early job alerts. Published the first comprehensive salary report for church creatives in 2026 (458 surveyed, 1,700+ listings) and continues to expand a Toolkits suite for hiring and career development.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI creative team for church ministry — describe the graphic you need in plain language and get professional sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more in seconds. Used by 11,000+ churches and ministries worldwide, with seven AI models including Nano Banana 2 Lite and Nano Banana Pro.

Church.tech

An AI-powered platform that turns sermons into social clips, devotionals, discussion guides, and transcripts — now part of Gloo Workspace as Content Studio alongside Ministry Chat, Communications, and Insights. Founded by a former church planter to help pastors spend less time creating content and more time leading people. Features faith-safe AI guardrails, an AI Camera Crew for auto-tracking video, kids/youth content generation, team collaboration, and engagement analytics.

Sermon Title AI

A free web tool by Cody Cook (church-tech, MinistryHelper.ai) that turns a pastor's own sermon or transcript into three SEO-ready title options, each tagged with its hook strategy. Web-only; still in free beta.

Cathopic

The world's largest Catholic stock media platform with 48,000+ royalty-free photos, artworks, and AI-generated images plus 5,400+ videos and 1,000+ vectors by 2,300+ Catholic creators across 160 countries, serving 104,000+ users including 174+ dioceses worldwide. Features API access, a public domain historical Christian art library, bilingual (English/Spanish) search, and is part of the Dimconex Media family alongside Holydemia, Mater Coeli, Tolkian, and Christicons.

Social Bucket

A subscription service providing churches with a full month of professionally designed social media graphics, two caption options per post, an extensive content library, themed Design Packs, and on-demand video training — helping church staff save time and grow their online reach without a designer.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send transforms each sermon into a branded, shareable page with clips, devotionals, summaries, and reflections — all in one link, powered by AI through its Sermon Shots Suite integration. Part of a suite trusted by 9,000+ churches since 2022.

Church Motion Graphics

A ministry-focused design studio offering 14,000+ worship backgrounds, 30,000+ slide templates, social graphics, and creative tools like TempoMatch, Designer, Pro Builder, and Remix — serving over 20,000 churches in 90+ countries since 2010. Now includes a full children's ministry curriculum (elementary + preschool) through its Premium + Kids tier, as part of the Ministry Brands family.

Two Ten Creatives

A done-for-you church website design and management service built on Webflow by founder Evan Smith in Richmond, VA. An official Tithely partner offering discounted all-in-one church management tools, plus premium Framer templates and local SEO services for churches looking to grow their online presence.

Clearchat

A done-for-you AI chatbot for websites — trained on your info, greets visitors 24/7, answers questions, and captures leads. Created by an Executive Pastor with 20+ years of ministry experience. Two tiers: Essential and Plus (with ClearFlows guided conversations).

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).

FrontDoor

A free church outreach platform from Stackhouse Ventures that provides Bible-based resources, landing pages, embeddable widgets, and automated email follow-up to help churches connect with their community. Co-founded by Michael Lukaszewski (ex-Church Fuel) and Kenny Jahng (AI for Church Leaders); completely free with all features included.

Doctrinally.AI

Doctrinally.AI gives each church its own AI assistant trained on its pastor's sermons and documents. A Website Chat widget captures visitor leads on the church site, while a member-facing chat hub answers congregation questions with citations — all from the same content library.

Ministry Pass

Ministry Pass is an all-in-one sermon resource library for pastors, offering 25,000+ resources including 2,000+ sermon series with graphics, videos, illustrations, talking points, and small group questions — plus Sermonary (with Sermonary Plus) for sermon writing, Churchly for church websites, My Devotionals for branded daily discipleship content with reading plans and family devotionals, a drag-and-drop Series Planner, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year. The Ministry Minute podcast (now at Episode 52), Hello Church!, and Preaching Through round out a growing media ecosystem.

VisitorReach

VisitorReach is an AI-powered conversational outreach platform built by pastors that helps churches connect with local seekers through digital optimization across 72+ directories, personalized ad campaigns, 1:1 SMS conversations assisted by a Gloo AI Conversational Assistant that writes like a pastor, tap technology, and a Digital Health Analytics dashboard with a Local SEO Grid — turning online interest into in-person visitors and engaged church members.

The Church Co

The Church Co is a complete digital platform for churches founded by Paul Cox in Sydney, offering drag-and-drop website building (free build included), custom branded mobile apps, online giving, sermon libraries, livestreaming, prayer requests, small groups, members portal, and integrations with Planning Center, PushPay, Tithely, and ChurchSuite. Trusted by 5,000+ churches worldwide. Beyond the core platform, they now offer managed church marketing services including Google Ads Grant management, Local SEO, and Answer Engine Optimization (AEO) for AI search models. The platform is fully multi-language (English, Spanish, Brazilian Portuguese) with denomination-specific builders and dedicated site types for Christian schools and pastors.

Pulpit AI

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into 20+ content pieces — video clips, devotionals, group guides, newsletters, and more — now integrated into the Subsplash Dashboard with enhanced clip creation and branding tools. Founded by pastor Michael Whittle, backed by Roper Technologies, partnered with Southeastern University, and trusted by thousands of churches worldwide.

Church Media Squad

Unlimited custom graphic design, video editing, branding, websites, and sermon-based social media management for churches — delivered by a remote team of 70+ ministry-minded creatives across 9 countries with a 14-day free trial. Three-time Inc. 5000 honoree (2023-2025) serving 2,500+ churches.

Text in Church

An all-in-one church communication platform (texting, email, calling) co-founded by Tyler Smith and trusted by 38,000+ church leaders, now featuring Calling as a full standalone phone system and expanded integrations with Planning Center, Tithely, Elvanto, and MinistrySafe.

Sites by Ministry Designs

A church-specific website builder and management platform trusted by 67,000+ churches worldwide, featuring drag-and-drop design kits, built-in online giving and SEO, a free library of 80,000+ church graphics plus a premium graphics storefront, a Small Groups Manager, and an optional fully managed website service — founded by Tyler and Vincent Rominger in Battle Creek, MI (2013).

Lightstock

The largest faith-based stock media marketplace — 350K+ photos, videos, and design elements curated for Christian creatives by almost 2,000 contributors. Founded by twin brothers Jon and Josh Bailey (creators of the Dwell app), now part of publicly traded Gloo via The Igniter Company. Trusted by Christianity Today, LifeWay, The Gospel Coalition, GuideStone, Outreach, Relevant, and thousands of churches worldwide.

SermonSeeds

AI-powered sermon content repurposing tool that turns one sermon into a full week of ministry content — social posts, devotionals, video clips with a sentence-based editor, sermon slides, reels, and discussion guides — in under five minutes. Built by founder Levi Morales, a full-stack developer in Poway, California.