Church Plant Media Live Streaming vs WorshipMetrics

Church Plant Media Live Streaming is a paid service for broadcasting church services. Streams can go simultaneously to a church website, mobile app, Facebook, YouTube, Vimeo, OTT apps, and other RTMP destinations. It supports 720p and 1080p HD and distributes broadcasts in multiple qualities. Viewers can rewind during a live event; users can trim video while preserving the original and add chapter markers. Streams can also be converted to embeddable audio or MP3 files for podcasts, RSS, or download.

Archives can be sent automatically to Vimeo, YouTube, Amazon S3, or FTP. The service includes 300 GB of storage, allows indefinite archive retention, and sells extra storage in 100 GB blocks for $10. Private players can be restricted to allowed viewers and embedded on a website or password-protected page. Listed encoder options include OBS Studio, ProPresenter, Wirecast, Zoom, and vMix. The channel view includes encoder status, viewer totals, real-time viewer maps, disk usage, and support queue status. Plans start at $89 a month, and a 14-day trial is available; there is no free plan.

WorshipMetrics is a church AV and worship platform for planning services, operating production, streaming, and monitoring equipment. Present provides a slide editor, lyrics, scripture, playlists, media, and stage display; the maker describes it as free forever. Tech Manager is a Windows desktop app for the production booth, with dashboards, switcher and camera controls, stream health, and booth telemetry. The platform describes local control for OBS, vMix, and Blackmagic ATEM, plus NDI and PTZ camera support. Streaming can send one feed to YouTube, Facebook, a church website player, and other destinations; Stream allows up to ten simultaneous destinations. The song library records CCLI numbers, keys, arrangements, chord charts, and scheduling history, and can import from Planning Center. Pulse monitors machines, connected devices, and streams around the clock, providing alerts and AV health information. The free plan costs nothing, with no credit card or expiration, and includes unlimited users with practical limits on cloud storage and clips. Assist costs $49 a month; Stream costs $99 a month. The platform is described as built for church production teams, including volunteer-run and multi-site teams.