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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.

Sermon Shots

AI-powered sermon repurposing platform that turns one sermon into clips, quote images, carousels, devotionals, discussion guides, and social content in minutes. June 2026 editor overhaul upgraded AI Camera Crew tracking, rebuilt layer editing, and added custom template building. Founded by Corey Alderin (2x $1M+ ARR SaaS founder), named to the Inc. 5000, trusted by 8,000+ churches. Part of the Sermon Shots Suite with SermonSend and SermonLive.

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 60+ ministry-minded creatives across 9 countries with a 14-day free trial. Three-time Inc. 5000 honoree with a growing partner ecosystem including Switcher Studio, Radiant Printing, and the SALT Conference.

Cathopic

The world's largest Catholic stock media platform with 52,700+ royalty-free photos, videos, vectors, artwork, and AI-generated images by 2,300+ Catholic creators across 160 countries, serving parishes, dioceses, and ministries worldwide. Now with API access and a public domain historical Christian art library.

Reach The Lost

Reach The Lost is a church marketing agency based in Colorado Springs that helps churches win Google searches through Google Ad Grant management, local SEO, paid ads, AI search optimization, and Meta Ads — serving 55+ churches across 24 states.

Text in Church

All-in-one church communication platform for texting, email, and phone calls — trusted by 38,000+ church leaders weekly. Automated workflows, native Planning Center integration, Calling Plus phone system, and guest follow-up tools. Co-founded by Tyler Smith, author of Boomerang.

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.

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, and tap technology — turning online interest into in-person visitors and engaged church members.

Church Canvas

Church Canvas is the first AI design tool built 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 nearly 11,000 churches worldwide.

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.

Sunday Best

Custom church website design agency specializing in Webflow sites for medium and large churches. Over a decade of experience serving congregations like Menlo Church, The Austin Stone, Breakaway Ministries, and Reach Church with strategy-driven, SEO-optimized, mobile-responsive sites. Offers three pricing tiers, a template option for smaller budgets, payment plans, and WCAG-aligned accessibility. Also runs Jesus Things, a curated directory of Christian resources.

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 and subtitles, 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.

Tapos

AI-powered discipleship platform that transforms your church's sermons and teachings into searchable, interactive resources — study guides, devotionals, and Q&A — all drawn exclusively from your trusted theological sources. Published Statement of Faith guards against false teaching. Free for churches forever with an Enterprise upgrade for advanced features.

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, volunteer scheduling, donor analytics, and sermon-to-content pipelines, built by Faith Systems LLC with over 20 years of experience serving churches.

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).

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 over 450,000 churches. Completed 20+ acquisitions including Westfall Group, EMD, and Carey Nieuwhof Communications; raised FY2026 revenue guidance to $190M.

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.

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.

Flow Forth

Flow Forth is a church email marketing platform built around Planning Center, now offering three email editors (drag-and-drop, simple rich text, and HTML), Canva integration, automated sequences, QR codes with Planning Center link types, link-in-bio pages, and a GIF generator — 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.

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.

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 needed. Works on any website platform. Created by David Crowson (Churchly/Ministry Pass).

Clearstream

Bootstrapped church texting, email, and voice platform trusted by 10,000+ congregations — offering mass texting, automated workflows, unlimited email, 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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, a drag-and-drop Series Planner, and strategic preaching calendars to plan your year.

Church.tech

An AI-powered platform that turns sermons into social clips, devotionals, discussion guides, and transcripts — now part of Gloo as Content Studio. Founded by a former church planter to help pastors spend less time creating content and more time leading people. Features faith-safe AI guardrails, team collaboration, and engagement analytics.

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.

FrontDoor

A done-for-you digital outreach platform that helps churches share Bible-based resources, build landing pages, and automate email follow-up to connect with community members before they ever visit.

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 and Lydia Goodner in 2015, with a free CRTVMEMBERSHIP offering devotionals, career guides, discoverable profiles, and early job alerts. Now operated under Nik Goodner LLC.

HarvestSites

All-in-one church platform with seven integrated products — websites, social media, people CRM, email/SMS, giving, volunteer scheduling, and AI design tools — built on enterprise WordPress infrastructure and trusted by 500+ congregations. Founded by a team of ministry leaders and tech experts with a church-first mission.

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 — used by over 20,000 churches in 90+ countries since 2010.

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), with Creator AI (AI-powered graphic design tool) included in every membership and a growing AI ecosystem through Gloo AI Studio.