Churza vs SermonAudio Church App

Churza is a free mobile app for Pentecostal and charismatic churches, combining giving, attendance, cell groups, sermons, community activity, and member administration. Members can give tithes, offerings, and seeds through Stripe, while churches can record cash offerings with an audit trail. UK churches receive HMRC Gift Aid reports, and members can receive personal giving statements. Pastors open service check-in, members check in through the app, and counts update in real time. Cell groups provide chat, voice messages, file sharing, and prayer requests. Churches can stream through YouTube inside the app and maintain searchable audio and video sermon libraries. Administration includes a searchable member directory, role filters, approvals, group assignments, giving reports, and attendance history. Community tools support prayer requests, anonymous requests, answered-prayer markers, testimonies, and event RSVPs. It supports iPhone, iPad, and Android; the iOS listing requires version 15.7 or later. During beta there is no monthly subscription, while online giving costs approximately 3% per transaction.

SermonAudio Church App, also called ChurchOne, gives a church’s members access to that church’s sermons through Android, iOS, and web apps. Members can browse and sort the library by date, series, year, Scripture, speaker, or category, and download audio or video for offline use. The app also carries live audio and video webcasts. Members can opt in to alerts for live broadcasts and new sermons; broadcasters can send push notices from the Dashboard. ChurchOne is activated for SermonAudio broadcasters and requires no setup or maintenance work. The ChurchOne App plan is free for eligible broadcasters. A SermonAudio Broadcaster account costs $59.95 a month, plus a one-time signup fee of $150.00; it includes ChurchOne, while some optional broadcaster features may cost extra. SermonAudio’s broadcaster platform supports cross-publishing sermons to Facebook and YouTube. The company describes its audience as theologically conservative churches and ministries.