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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.

Igniter Media

Igniter Media is a church media library of graphics, videos, and worship assets, with Creator AI for custom sermon and social graphics. Founded in 2003 by Rob Thomas and now part of Gloo, it serves churches through membership or a la carte downloads.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is an AI design studio for church ministry. Describe the graphic you need in plain language and get sermon slides, social posts, event banners, and more — built by pastors so teams can spend less time designing and more time with people.

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.

Sermon Send

Sermon Send turns each sermon into one branded, shareable page with clips, a five-day devotional, and reflections, with optional AI drafts through Sermon Shots. It is a web tool in the Sermon Shots Suite for churches.

Lightstock

Lightstock is a subscription marketplace of faith-focused stock photos, 4K video, and design elements for churches and Christian creatives. Founded by Jon and Josh Bailey, it is now part of Gloo through The Igniter Company.

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).

Flow Forth

Flowforth is a church email platform that keeps Planning Center as the people database, with several editors, automations, signup forms, link pages, and QR codes. Thomas Harmond built it as a freemium, subscription-based product priced by send volume rather than contacts.

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.

Two Ten Creatives

Two Ten Creatives is a done-for-you church website design and management studio in Richmond, Virginia, building custom Webflow sites so ministry teams can stay focused on people. Founder Evan Smith also offers Framer templates, local SEO help, and Tithely All Access as an official partner.

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.

Gloo Communications

Church text messaging inside Gloo Workspace, with broadcasts, keyword workflows, a prayer inbox, and visitor follow-up. The Gloo Messaging app is on iOS and Android; Gloo+ adds video messages and polls.

Church Media Squad

Church Media Squad is a subscription creative team for churches. A remote roster of church creatives handles graphics, video, branding, social, and websites so staff can stay with people instead of a design queue.

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.

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.

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).

Text in Church

Text In Church is a subscription church communication platform for texting, email, and calling, with automated guest follow-up, Connect Cards, and a ministry phone system that keeps personal numbers private. It connects to church databases including Planning Center and is available on the web, iOS, and Android.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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 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.

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).

StraightText - Church Texting

A Mac and Windows desktop app that lets churches send personalized bulk iMessages and SMS from a pastor's own phone number, with replies landing in the regular Messages app.

Cathopic

Cathopic is a subscription-based Catholic stock-media library of photos, videos, vectors, artwork, and AI-generated images for parish and ministry communications. Dimitri Conejo Sanz founded it, and Dimconex Media also runs Holydemia, Mater Coeli, and Tolkian.

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.

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.

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.