The 9 best church giving software in 2026

Tithe.ly's bet on free giving was the right one, and it's how they got footholds in tens of thousands of churches. The harder bet is whether they can stitch Breeze, Elvanto, Sites, and the original Giving app into something that feels like one product. Right now it doesn't — it feels like a holding company. For a 150-person church just trying to take their first online gift, that doesn't matter and you should sign up today. For a 600-person church evaluating an all-in-one, the seams are visible enough that we'd seriously look at Planning Center plus a separate website tool instead.

Pushpay is the enterprise pick. If you're a 5,000-person multi-site church, you almost certainly already use it or have considered it, and the reasons are real: the donor app converts, the CSM relationship matters when you're processing seven figures of giving annually, and the CCB pairing covers most of what you need. The catch is that you pay for that polish, and the contract structure makes it hard to leave. We'd push back hard on any church under 500 people who's been pitched this — you're paying for a tier of service you won't use.

Planning Center has earned its reputation. Services in particular is the kind of product that ruins you for competitors — once a worship pastor has scheduled bands, sent rehearsal mp3s, and tracked declines from a phone, going back to spreadsheets feels archaic. The trade-off is that PCO has stayed deliberately narrow: no accounting, no website builder, no live streaming. That focus is the reason each module is so good, but it also means you'll be writing checks to two or three other vendors. For churches over ~150 people with a real worship rotation, this is the safe pick. Smaller churches should look at Breeze first.

Givelify is one of the few church tools whose primary moat is consumer-side network effects. In specific denominational communities — particularly Black churches — the app is already on members' phones, and that genuinely matters. The giving experience is excellent for one-time gifts. Where it falls short is anything beyond giving: there's no ChMS, reporting is thin, and the 2.9% fee at higher volumes adds up versus Stripe-direct competitors. Use it as a giving rail, not a platform.

Continue To Give is a thoughtful platform that's quietly built one of the broadest giving-channel feature sets in the category. If you have donors asking about stock or crypto giving, this is one of the only platforms that handles it without making you call a sales rep. The trade-off is brand and ecosystem: there's no installed donor base, no ChMS underneath, no growing app footprint. We see it as a specialist giving tool — pick it for the channel breadth, pair it with a real ChMS, and don't expect it to be a platform play.

Subsplash is what you buy when you want your church to feel like a media company. The app is excellent and it's the reason most customers stay. The rest of the suite ranges from competent to noticeably weaker than category leaders, and the pricing model is firmly enterprise — expect a sales call, expect a contract, and expect renewal bumps. We'd recommend it without reservation to churches whose digital strategy is media-heavy. For churches whose primary problem is 'we need a database that works,' there are better and cheaper answers.

Breeze is what most small-church administrators actually want: a flat $72/month bill, a database that doesn't fight them, and check-in that works on Sunday morning. It's not the most powerful ChMS — Planning Center will out-feature it on every comparison sheet — but it's the one we'd recommend to a 200-person church without hesitation. The post-acquisition slowdown is the asterisk. Tithe.ly clearly bought Breeze for the customer base, and the product hasn't made a major leap in two years. If you sign up now, you're betting it stays this good rather than gets meaningfully better.

EasyTithe is, frankly, in maintenance mode. It does what it's done for years — process online and text giving, generate tax statements, integrate with Servant Keeper — and it does it competently. But the energy in the giving-platform category is clearly elsewhere: Tithe.ly's pricing, Givelify's donor network, Planning Center's reporting. We'd only recommend EasyTithe to existing customers in the Ministry Brands orbit who would feel the cost of switching. For everyone else, this is a category where the leaders have meaningfully pulled ahead, and there's no reason to choose the laggard.

Aplos is one of the few products that takes fund accounting seriously without requiring a CPA to operate it, and that's a real and underserved niche. For a church treasurer drowning in QuickBooks workarounds and a separate giving platform, consolidating onto Aplos genuinely simplifies the back office. The trade-off is that Aplos is a finance system with a donor database bolted on, not a church management system, so anyone expecting check-in, scheduling, or congregant-facing apps will be disappointed. Pricing is also drifting upward faster than the feature set is, which makes the value calculus tighter than it was three years ago. Recommended for finance-first churches; pair it with a real ChMS rather than expecting it to replace one.