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Tithely or PraisePad?
For a church of 150 that started with giving and wants the rest.
Tithely is a giving company grown into a suite: free online giving, church management from Elvanto, a website builder, a branded church app, texting, events and forms, priced per product or $119 a month for all of it. PraisePad is one product by team size: giving on the church’s own Stripe account, people, Kids, Serve, Events, the church site with its chat, and the worship team’s tools beside them. Here’s what each does better, what each costs, and whether to stay or switch.
From $14 a month for a team of 10. Free for invited churches during the beta.
What Tithely does better
- Giving with no monthly fee and its donor app
- A custom church app in your own look and colors, $89 a month, found inside Tithely’s app in the stores (your own listing needs your own developer accounts)
- One vendor for giving, people, site and app, with texting built in
- Imports from all major church management systems
- Groups, which PraisePad doesn’t have yet
Not in PraisePad yet: an app in the stores, Groups.
What PraisePad does better
- One price: Team 10 is $14 a month for the whole church: Giving and the site in it; Kids, Events and Present in beta, free by request In the help: Your plan, the 14-day trial, and the AI allowance
- Giving on the church’s own Stripe account at Stripe’s rate, 0.5% to PraisePad, no monthly fee In the help: Take gifts online with PraisePad Giving
- The worship team’s tools are the real thing: the stage in any key, playing together, Present In the help: Change the key, or play with a capo
- A church site in English and Spanish with its own chat In the help: Your church's own chat on your site
- AI that does work: the set builder, Change with words, the sermon builder, pictures In the help: Get song suggestions for a theme or sermon
What matters to a church of 150
Swipe sideways to see Tithely’s column.
| What matters | PraisePad | Tithely |
|---|---|---|
| Songs in every key, on stage, offline | Yes typed charts, capo, numbers, offline | Partly a worship app with a SongSelect link |
| Scheduling every team | Yes Serve, every team, rules in your words | Yes volunteer scheduling, service planning |
| Slides and the booth | Yes Present: in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Not listed |
| Kids check-in | Yes in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Yes Kids & Events Check-In |
| Giving on your own Stripe account | Yes your own Stripe; 0.5% to PraisePad | Partly Tithely Giving: 2.9% + 30¢ cards, no monthly fee |
| Events, tickets, rooms | Yes in beta, free by request; $9 a month at launch | Yes events, forms, a calendar |
| Your church’s site with its own chat | Yes English and Spanish, with its own chat | Partly Website, $19 a month |
| Texts to the team | Yes on every paid plan | Yes 100 texts a month on All-Access |
| Spanish | Partly church sites, statements, captions | Not listed |
| AI that does work | Yes set builder, Change with words, sermon builder | Not listed |
| Imports in a day | Yes PDFs, photos, Word, OnSong, ProPresenter | Yes from all major church management systems |
| People and households | Yes Everyone: families, children, guests | Yes Church Management, $72 a month |
| Groups | Not yet on the list | Yes Tithely Groups |
| An app in the stores | Not yet installs from the browser; the iPhone app is with Apple | Yes a custom app inside Tithely’s, $89 a month |
| A free plan | Yes 5 team members, 150 songs; Solo free | Yes Free Giving: $0 a month plus processing |
| Price | $14 a month for a team of 10. Present is in beta: free, by request; founding churches pay $9 a month at launch | $119 a month for All-Access; or Giving free plus Church Management $72 a month, Website $19 a month and the Mobile Church App $89 a month |
Every PraisePad Yes opens the help article that shows it. Tithely’s column is from tithe.ly, read October 31, 2026. See a mistake? Tell us.
What it costs
PraisePad Team 10
$14 a month for a team of 10. Present is in beta: free, by request; founding churches pay $9 a month at launch
Tithely, a team of 10
$119 a month for All-Access
Priced per product, not by team size. Giving is $0 a month plus processing (cards 2.9% + 30¢, ACH 1% + 30¢, Amex 3.5% + 30¢); text-to-give is $19 a month more on the free plan. The page gives two text allowances for All-Access (100 and 250 a month), and its plan cards give the figures above; its FAQ also names a Giving and Church Management plan at $119 a month.
From get.tithe.ly, read October 31, 2026. See a mistake? Tell us.
Bringing your songs over
- Bring your people in from a spreadsheet: columns matched, families found, a review before anything is written, and undo
- Giving records: export from Tithe.ly, drop the file in, check the total, bring it in; your monthly givers get a link with their gift filled in
- Keep taking gifts through Tithely if you like: PraisePad keeps the records either way
In the help: Import your church from a spreadsheet
Stay or switch?
Stay with Tithely if free giving with its donor app is all you need, or a custom church app in the stores matters most.
Move to PraisePad if you want giving on your own Stripe account, one plan by team size, a site with its own chat, and the worship team’s tools in the same product.
Questions
Is there a Tithely alternative with no monthly fee for giving?
PraisePad Giving has no monthly charge either: the church connects its own Stripe account, pays Stripe’s rate (2.9% + 30¢, or the nonprofit rate once Stripe approves it) and 0.5% to PraisePad, and givers can cover the fee. The plan, from $14 a month, is for the whole product.
From the help: Take gifts online with PraisePad Giving
Tithely church management: what does PraisePad do instead?
People and households, Kids & Check-In, Serve for every team, Events with tickets and rooms, statements and the giving reports, and the church site with its own chat, in one plan by team size. No Groups yet.
From the help: Everyone in your church: families, children and guests
Tithely vs Planning Center vs PraisePad: how do the prices compare?
Tithely is $119 a month for All-Access, or free giving plus $72, $19 and $89 a month for the products you add. Planning Center prices nine products apart. PraisePad is $14 a month for a team of 10, with Present, Kids and Events free in the beta. From get.tithe.ly, read October 31, 2026.
From the help: Your plan, the 14-day trial, and the AI allowance
Can I keep Tithely Giving and use PraisePad for the rest?
Yes. Choose Tithe.ly as your provider in Giving settings, export its file and bring the gifts in; your give link stays the one people use, on Present’s Give slides too. Switch to PraisePad Giving later, and the monthly givers get a link with their gift filled in.
From the help: Bringing gifts in from your giving provider's file
Something else? Search the help centre, or ask Pad, PraisePad’s assistant, with the button at the corner of the page.
More comparisons
- Planning Center or PraisePad? Services, People, Check-Ins, Giving and Registrations, each priced apart, against one plan for the church.
- ChurchTrac or PraisePad? The office in one price, with accounting. Nothing for the booth, and a song library for the stage.
- OnSong or PraisePad? One musician’s charts on an iPad, against a free Solo library and a church library the whole team shares.
- ProPresenter or PraisePad Present? $29 a month a seat, against Present for the whole church: free in the beta, $9 a month at launch for founding churches.
- Proclaim or PraisePad Present? Cloud slides with Logos, against slides built from the service and the sermon’s notes.
- Every comparison PraisePad against Planning Center, ChurchTrac, OnSong and more, with the ones coming.
Try it with your own church.
Every new church starts with 14 days of Team 10’s features for up to 5 people, no card needed.