ChurchPlan vs Tithely Custom Church App

ChurchPlan combines giving, events, member records, education, liturgies, calendars, and communications in a church member app and admin portal. Churches can accept online and recurring donations, keep a searchable ledger, and issue tax receipts automatically. Event tools handle publication, registration, payments, QR tickets, and QR check-in. Member profiles can include family relationships, engagement details, and emergency or health information. Education features cover ministries, Sunday school, curriculum, attendance tracking, and parent follow-up. Essentials is free and includes unlimited members, online giving, tax receipts, a personalized mobile app, and donation links and QR. Engagement costs $99 a month, billed yearly at $1,188; Education costs $199 a month, billed yearly at $2,388. Enterprise also adds multi-church administration and API access. Stripe processes card payments; ChurchPlan says it does not retain full card credentials. The service states a 99.5% uptime SLA, breach notification within 72 hours, and a 90-day data export window after termination.

Tithely Custom Church App gives churches a branded mobile app for sharing messages, events, sermons, groups, and giving with members. Churches can shape layouts with templates or a drag-and-drop editor, update branding and content in real time, and manage the app from one dashboard. Members can respond to two-way push notifications, stream live sermons, access past messages, use a prayer wall and small-group messaging, and make one-tap gifts. The app can also carry audio and video sermons, blogs, devotionals, events, bulletins, newsletters, maps, and directions; users can download sermons and other media for offline playback. It syncs with Tithely Giving, a church website, and church management tools. The Automatic App Builder uses a church website URL, logo, and selected layout; the FAQ says launch generally takes 30–60 days. It runs on Android, iOS, and web, and the page offers a free 30-day trial. The listed Custom Church App plan is $89 a month, with cancellation at any time without penalty and no lengthy contracts or long-term commitments.