Text In Church vs Subsplash

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Tithely Church Management

ChurchTrac

Two-way enabled mass texting, integrations with popular ChMS and other 3rd party apps, multi-management capabilities, text-to-join keywords, automated workflows with conditional logic, native apps, live polls, and dedicated short codes.



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ChurchTrac is a church management software with features for membership management, donation tracking, accounting, reporting and attendance management

Specifically for communication via email and text messaging for churches.

Member Communication

Member Directory

Event Management

Volunteer Management

Small Group Management

Online Giving

Text In Church

Web-based

Android

iPad

iPhone

PastorsLine

ChurchStaq

Realm

Elvanto

Subsplash

CharityTracker

WildApricot

Basic

Premium

Director of IT

They offer a complete set of features, local numbers, keywords, groups and more.

IT Lead

We use it to send out announcements, to communicate within groups, and to process information requests for new visitors, guests, and special topics.

Founding Pastor

The pay structure in relation to the features I do and do not use makes it so that I pay a lot for the few services I use, but then have to pay more if I want to use the features I do use to their full capacity.

We get a lot of phrases that don't end up triggering a workflow.

Lead Pastor

We experienced a great system that was serving our needs for a period of time but found that we could use another system that was more cost effective for us.

Admin Asst

The ease of connecting with all our congregants at once yet msgs appeared to recipient as individualized.

Founder and Senior Pastor

How easy it is to use and how I was able to create a QR code and now visitors can scan and enter their info instead of using paper cards.

The size of the packages and the need to always buy extra minutes.

Senior Pastor

The templates are great and help to save a lot of time trying to do it yourself.

Pastor

Owner

Lovely product, easy to use and installation had no issues.

Communications Assistant

Overall it has been a very positive experience with a good platform and good customer service.

Connection Coordinator

I am very good at ideas and implementation... not so much maintaining long term... so to have an automated system that feels personal has been amazing!!

Executive Director 

Putting out information to a chosen group, individuals, or the mass.

only thing I have is about setting specific dates for txts to go out, which they listen to our feed back and are working on this.

Attendant

I don't like that some tools are difficult to use and are not optimizated to use and it's really hard to learn about them.

Pastir

What I like most is the ability to send out mass texts to our congregation and their ability to respond.

It is simple to use as a tool to communicate with our congregation. Once you load all your people and numbers into TIC, you can put them into groups and categories to message for different reasons and events.

Owner, Educator 

The only thing I'd like to see improved is the # of characters allowed for a text to be sent in one message but I'm not sure TIC has any control over that.

so then we continue messaging a new stranger ☺️ I think it can sometimes be confusing when TIC has to use different numbers to ensure the message sends out.

This software has been a game changer for our guest follow-up!

Youth / Connections Pastor

The functionality, consistent desire of staff to improve what is offered, and community between members is perfect.

AV Team

Text In Church is a great way for us to stay in contact with people who sign up.

Text In Church has literally added at least a day to my ministry per week.

It’s confusing to our members seeing different numbers they don’t recognize.

I was spending hours texting and emailing people that visit our church.

I love Text in Church for many reasons but specifically its simplicity to set up and use

The one challenge to Text In Church is the learning curve.

Creates a connection with those we are reaching.

Family Pastor

honestly, I'm forgetful most days and will remember to send someone a message at 10pm and that's not appropriate so I love that I can type it out and schedule it to send at a more appropriate time!

Office Administrator

the ability snooze a person within a group when they aren't available that month but may be in the future.

Not just send out a message but to have a conversation.

LEAD PASTOR

Text in church has helped us to remain in contact with new visitors, our congregation, leadership, other church groups.  

Instead of making hundreds of phone calls to get information out we can easily connect with everyone with the click of the mouse.

Business admin 

Our whole team is very pleased with the program and we have been using it for all of our events and notifications that need to go out.

Communications

It's easy to use, has built in templates to help you get started and they are completely customization to fit the needs of your church or group!

Overall Text in Church has drastically improved our ability to keep in contact with our teams and congregants!

It's the best investment we've made for our church and it continues to grow and improve providing the best features you could ask for!

I would like separate inboxes for different phone numbers.  

It was the best investment we made in engaging with guests and communicating with our congregation.

Connections Director

Inability to use short code when choosing sending number

Assistant Pastor

What you don't understand they provide quick and easy support with an amazing team that replies extremely fast to messages.

I loved how easy it was to set up and to get started.

I love that I can schedule things things to go out and not have to worry about it again.

It makes keeping up with my team easy and communication with the entire church a breeze!

co-pastor

This software is very user friendly and doesn't take a lot of time to be able to incorporate into your follow up strategy.

Church Communication

Message Sending

Pricing

Group Messaging

Message Scheduling

Features

Automation

Digital Connection Cards

Visitor Reports

Text and Email Communication

Freelancers

Large Enterprises

Small Business

Mid-size Business

Subsplash Church Management equips you to plan services, schedule volunteers, check in kids, and communicate with your congregation. Plus, your volunteers can accept or decline volunteer requests, and set their availability right inside your church's app.

Worship Planning

Online Calendar

Windows

Linux

Planning Center

Aplos

ShelbyNext Membership

Tithe.ly

I LOVE the ability to store, manage and present my weekly messages, and the engagement options they provide through my church App.  

Pastor of Digital Discipleship

The host media very well, and provide great features for categorizing what we store on their platform.

The SnapPages web builder is not as intuitive and effective as their other products.

The customer service is incredibly difficult to reach, which has also caused major issues.

Helping to spread the great news of the gospel to all ages.

Creative and Communications Director

We found that their app and giving platforms are comprehensive and easy to implement.

All and I believe that Subsplash has helped connect with members.

They also have very responsive customer support.

Tech Director

User info can’t be linked to any external database (i.e. giving, account info, user notes, etc), so you have to run everything through them (which currently is not robust enough of a ChMS).

I know that there are many companies that do that and we are technically paying more now than we were with Subsplash. With Subsplash though there was no trial periods or no option to drop a service if you found you weren't using it. If you signed up for it you were stuck with it whether or not it fit your ministry.

the price was a bit steep for smaller organizations

Director of Finance & Office Support

The transaction fees are still higher than competitors even with their GrowCurve option.  

Communications Director

Subsplash comes with a hefty price tag that is a large investment for churches. And while most of the features are what churches need, some will find limitations on the platform such as tweaking the app and website to look exactly like you want.

One of the main things I did not like about Subsplash was their tendency to charge for every small add on.

Subsplash is very easy to implement and train the users on basic operations, whether for one-time giving or recurring.  

Owner 

This include donor data fields, exporting capabilities and third party app integrations.

However we are constantly told to take pictures and record the glitches.  

Overall, we liked working with Subsplash and we are still using it for our website and media management.

Music Director

The app is simple, and perhaps isn't completely necessary for every church.  

No login is required to use the app, and I find this very freeing.

Uploading media and information is simple, and it's seamlessly added throughout the platform, from the app to the website.

We have yet to see a decrease in our fees after years of use.

Dispatcher

I love receiving notifications of my anticipated giving so that I can make sure the funds have been properly deposited before withdrawal.  

Worship Leader

They have consistently been adding new features as well which make video tagging, etc. more accessible to the user.

I love the recurring payment option and the drop down for multiple categories for giving.  

User

This allows you to go back months later and still have the connection between the notes you took and the sermon, even allowing you to easily watch the sermon again.

Your videos are searchable, archived with great organization, and playable on any device.

Building an app can be complicated and they really help you through the process all the way to getting your app approved to launch.

The video post-processing after a video upload can take a long time.

This was especially true during the beginning of COVID when churches were switching to using more online video.

The way videos are sorted is also a bit strange (It doesn’t seem to be by time.).

Director of Administration

The ease of the backend interface for the website platform and the mobile app version is superb.

Minister

I love the flexibility to customize and send push notifications on the go where things seemlesly share between the app and the website portal.

I would like the header bar to be horizontal versus vertical - like reading a book left to right.

The features are limited and I would say it is only useful for actual churches.

Once you are emailed the link, it is easy to set up to have your giving go directly to the organization(s) of your choice.  

Usually I end up having to retype every single line of the Notes I took during the sermon and hope that it synchronizes at some point.

It is mainly informational content that you can add.

Finance & Operations Manager

Our communications team has been thrilled with the ease of building and modifying our church app and the functionality the Subsplash app has provided.

It’s been very easy for our church to use the app builder to publish events, media, and notifications.

Director of Student Ministries

The development and launching went flawlessly for us and while we're pretty competent with tech, I really attribute it to their intuitive and simple software and interface.

There are more affordable options out there that essentially do the same thing and cost way less per year but they aren't as beautifully designed.

The hardest part is the initial setup and roll out of the product but the team will walk you through step by step instructions.

Creative Arts Pastor

However, it also allows web embeds, which makes it easy to integrate into your website as well.

It also integrates with online giving platforms and a personalized app.

Subsplash has developed one of the most user-friendly and affordable app interfaces for churches.

Text In Church vs Subsplash Comparison (2026)

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