- Starting price
- $25/mo · mobile app is in $185/mo Suite
- Free tier
- No
- Platforms
- Web · iPhone · iPad · Android
- Developer
- Sharefaith Inc. · Ministry Brands
- Launched
- 2017
- Updated
- Aug 3, 2026
The verdict
ShareFaith can make financial sense for a small or midsize church that will actively use the media library, kids curriculum, website, giving, and mobile app together. It is a poor purchase if the church mainly wants one of those jobs. The iOS shell’s 3.5 rating and 2022 update, undisclosed giving fees, quote-based ChMS and streaming add-ons, and a public pricing page that displays conflicting annual offers all require a written order form and a real pilot before commitment.
Try ShareFaith ↗Opens sharefaith.com
ShareFaith is a Ministry Brands church-content and software ecosystem. Its public catalog spans more than 100,000 church graphics and media assets, kids curriculum, an online graphics editor, worship-planning material, website hosting and templates, online giving, livestreaming, church management, and a mobile app. ShareFaith’s published beliefs are broadly evangelical and Protestant, including biblical authority, salvation through Christ, the church, and the Great Commission. That perspective shapes its curriculum and media even when the software features are denominationally reusable.
The exact faith.tools listing links to Apple ID 1321119324, “The Sharefaith App,” and Android package com.sharefaith.thesharefaithapp. That product is a congregant-facing shell for sermons, news, encouragement, directions, ministry activity, bulletins, calendar links, giving, and church content. It is not the full browser administration suite. ShareFaith Connect is a separate staff ChMS app for people, groups, attendance, notes, interactions, communication, check-in, and administration. A review that merges those app records would apply the wrong rating and maintenance history to the wrong job.
Public monthly list prices are $25 for Starter, $55 for Premium Kids, $85 for Ultimate Access, and $185 for ShareFaith Suite. The mobile app, website, and online giving appear on the $185 Suite card, not the $25 plan. Connect ChMS is described as an additional Suite add-on with price available by inquiry, and streaming also requires contact. Giving is promoted as having zero monthly fees, while the Suite card explicitly says transaction fees are charged without printing the rate. A church cannot calculate total cost from the headline alone.
This researched review uses ShareFaith’s current site, plan cards, ChMS and privacy material, its historical app announcement, the exact Apple and Google records, public reviews, and the faith.tools listing. We did not receive a quote, start a trial, create a church app, download media, migrate a website, process a donation, run check-in, stream a service, or test support. Because several public prices and plan labels conflict, only a signed current order form should govern a purchase.
✓ The good
- A genuinely broad bundle - media, kids curriculum, website, app, giving, and worship tools can replace several vendor relationships
- Large creative catalog - ShareFaith claims 100K+ graphics, mini-movies, worship backgrounds, print templates, and social assets
- Church-specific website tools - more than 250 designs, hosting, three subdomains, sermons, prayer requests, giving, and app publishing share one ecosystem
- Useful kids-ministry depth - downloadable videos, games, comics, activities, family devotionals, VBS, pre-K material, and scheduling are included on higher tiers
- Integrated congregation experience - a church can surface sermons, calendar, directions, news, notifications, giving, bulletins, and livestream links on mobile
- Phone and email support - all displayed plan cards state that support is included, which matters for a volunteer-led church
✗ Watch out
- The app is not standalone - the mobile experience is tied to the $185 monthly Suite rather than the $25 entry plan
- iOS is stale and modestly rated - the exact Apple app has not been updated since November 2022 and sits near 3.5 from 43 ratings
- Public pricing is internally inconsistent - one page repeats 10% and 20% annual offers with contradictory monthly and annual figures
- Giving cost is incomplete - zero monthly fee language coexists with unspecified transaction fees
- Core operations cost extra - Connect ChMS and streaming are additional quote-based products rather than included Suite features
- Vendor consolidation risk - website, app, content, giving, and communications become harder to move when one bundle owns the entire church front door
Best for
- Small and midsize evangelical churches that will use media, kids, website, app, and giving as one coordinated bundle
- Volunteer teams that value templates, downloadable curriculum, integrated publishing, and phone or email support
- Churches replacing several separate content and web subscriptions after a full cost comparison
- Congregations willing to pilot current iOS and Android behavior before promoting the app publicly
Avoid if
- You only need a church app, website, giving form, ChMS, streaming service, or media library rather than the full bundle
- You require current native iOS maintenance, strong accessibility documentation, or excellent public app ratings
- Your procurement policy requires public transaction rates, add-on prices, renewal terms, and a clean annual total
- You need easy data portability and low vendor lock-in across member records, content, website, giving, and communications
What ShareFaith is
ShareFaith is best understood as a content subscription with a church digital-presence bundle attached. The low tiers sell media credits, design tools, and curriculum. The top Suite adds the public-facing infrastructure: website, hosted templates, branded or selectable mobile church experience, and giving. Optional Ministry Brands products extend the stack into people management, check-in, communications, background checks, and streaming. The church buys the system; members download the consumer app or use the church’s public surfaces.
The Sharefaith App record therefore answers a narrower question than the ShareFaith brand. A congregant can listen to sermons, see news and documents, follow calendar links, get directions, give, and keep up with a ministry. Staff do not administer the entire bundle from that app. Procurement, design, media download, website editing, records, and advanced operations happen through other browser or Connect interfaces. The distinction should be explicit in every demo and rollout guide.
Why ShareFaith is attractive when a church needs content and infrastructure together
Most church software vendors begin with records, giving, services, or an app. ShareFaith begins with a creative library. A church that lacks a designer or curriculum team can download sermon graphics, worship backgrounds, print pieces, kids lessons, family devotionals, VBS material, and social media assets, then carry the same visual identity into a hosted site and member app. The combined value can be stronger than any single module.
Bundling becomes wasteful when each department already has a preferred specialist. A church paying $185 monthly for the app may actually be paying for media and curriculum it does not use; another paying for Ultimate may discover the website and app require the next tier. Count active downloads, lesson usage, design exports, website work, donations, and monthly mobile users by module. If two or three major components remain idle after a pilot, a narrower vendor will usually be cheaper and easier to govern.
The member app is a ministry-content doorway, not the admin platform
The exact consumer app promises sermons, current news, encouragement, directions, and ministry activity. ShareFaith’s broader app material also describes audio and video, livestreams, blogs, calendars, promotions, giving, bulletins, newsletters, Bible access, social links, service times, maps, and push notifications. Website content can feed the app, reducing duplicate publishing when the integration works.
Public reviews expose practical friction. iOS users report text-heavy design, limited image-led navigation, content stuck months behind the website, manual refresh, crashes after updating, and notifications that require resetting app data. Android reviewers describe forced church-icon selection, duplicate icons, or unexpected icon switching. These reports are not a complete performance test, but they justify a device matrix pilot with real sermons, documents, push, calendar, giving, links, and branding before a Sunday launch.
Media and kids curriculum supply most of the bundle’s everyday value
ShareFaith claims more than 100,000 church graphics, mini-movies, worship backgrounds, print templates, social assets, and seasonal resources. Higher tiers add downloadable children’s Bible videos, games, comics, activities, family devotionals, VBS, pre-K lessons, a scheduler, and kids worship material. Content is refreshed monthly, while plan credits determine how much can be acquired during a billing period or annual pool.
Credits do not carry over on monthly plans, according to the plan cards. Annual cards describe larger pools, but the same page repeats incompatible discount structures and totals. Churches should check what costs a credit, what remains licensed after cancellation, whether PSD or source files are included, whether volunteers can have separate seats, and whether music, fonts, photographs, video, streaming, social use, print quantities, and derivative works are covered. A download button is not a universal copyright license.
Website, giving, and optional operations can create one digital front door
The Suite card includes hosting, three subdomains, a drag-and-drop editor, unlimited templates, mobile app, and online giving. Public website material claims more than 250 designs and features for sermons, prayer requests, and engagement. Giving supports text, online, app, and kiosk channels with reporting and branded forms. Connect ChMS can add people, events, groups, interactions, mass communication, workflows, attendance, child check-in, and background-check connections.
Integration does not mean every component is included. Connect is explicitly an additional Suite add-on available by inquiry, streaming is quote-based, and giving transaction fees still apply despite zero monthly fee wording. Ask the vendor to diagram identity, permissions, duplicate records, donation settlement, refunds, chargebacks, donor-covered fees, tax receipts, check-in custody, background-check access, web forms, app publishing accounts, and data export. One login is helpful only when governance is equally unified.
Pricing
Starter Package
$25/month
Includes church media and graphics, a graphics editor, and 20 credits each month. The mobile app, website, kids curriculum, and giving are not shown on this entry card.
Premium Kids
$55/month
Adds kids curriculum, VBS and pre-K lessons, Sunday school scheduling, and 60 monthly credits to the media and editor foundation.
Ultimate Access
$85/month
Adds advanced editing, the kids features, Worship Planning Deluxe, and 120 monthly credits. It still does not show the church website, mobile app, or online giving bundle.
ShareFaith Suite
$185/month
Adds website hosting, three subdomains, unlimited templates, the mobile app, and online giving to Ultimate. Giving transaction fees, ChMS, streaming, and potentially other services remain separate or quote-based.
The clearest baseline on the current public page is monthly list pricing: Starter $25, Premium Kids $55, Ultimate $85, and Suite $185. Across twelve months that is $300, $660, $1,020, or $2,220 before giving fees, taxes, ChMS, streaming, implementation, migration, messaging, background checks, or other quoted services. The church app and website are displayed only on Suite.
The same page is titled as a Black Friday sale and contains multiple overlapping annual sections. One set shows effective monthly prices of $23, $50, $77, and $167 at 10% off. Another shows $20, $44, $68, and $148 at 20% off. Comments and displayed annual totals do not consistently match the arithmetic. A temporary or stale landing page is not a reliable renewal schedule; request the exact annual charge and renewal price in writing.
Monthly media credits are 20 on Starter, 60 on Premium Kids, and 120 on Ultimate and Suite. The page says unused monthly credits do not carry over. Annual versions describe up-front pools such as 240, 720, or 1,440, but a buyer should confirm current consumption rules, expiration, download retention, and what happens after downgrade or cancellation.
Giving is marketed with zero monthly fees, yet the Suite card says transaction fees will be charged and does not print the card or ACH percentages, fixed fee, international rate, chargeback cost, refund treatment, payout timing, or donor-covered-fee behavior. ChMS and streaming require quotes. Do not approve the bundle without a total-cost worksheet using the church’s real monthly donation mix, attendance, communication volume, users, background checks, and streaming needs.
A free trial is promoted, but the reviewed public page does not make every trial limit, card requirement, migration service, cancellation deadline, or data-retention consequence obvious. Use a nonproduction site, sample content, test donation, test family, and representative phones. Require export samples before importing real members or donors. The strongest bargaining moment is before content, records, domain, app audience, and recurring gifts depend on the vendor.
Where ShareFaith falls behind
Pricing reliability. The public plan page repeats baseline, 10%-off, 20%-off, and first-month-sale sections with conflicting figures and malformed footnotes. Some HTML comments contain annual totals that do not align cleanly with the displayed effective monthly price. A church-software vendor should maintain one dated matrix with monthly price, annual charge, renewal, credits, trial, taxes, add-ons, and cancellation—not require a buyer to reverse-engineer a promotion page.
Native iOS maintenance. Version 2.7.218 arrived in November 2022 and merely says “Updated icons.” Many preceding releases also list only icon updates. Apple’s 3.5 aggregate and reviews about stale documents, refresh, crashes, notifications, and design are old but unresolved by a newer visible iOS release. Android was updated in August 2025, which deepens rather than resolves the platform gap. Ask whether the iOS shell is supported, being replaced, or maintained only for existing churches.
Product identity. The Sharefaith App, individual church-branded experiences, website publishing, ShareFaith Connect, Connect Check-In, giving, and the emerging Ministry Brands Amplify branding are easy to conflate. The public site should publish a current architecture and lifecycle map with exact store links. A church needs to know what members install, what staff install, where administrators work, which icon appears, and whether today’s product will migrate to a different Ministry Brands shell.
Cost opacity. Giving transaction rates are absent from the plan card, while Connect ChMS and streaming are quote-based add-ons. The site does not let a buyer calculate a complete annual cost without sales contact. A quote should itemize card and ACH fees, donor-covered options, texting, users, records, storage, implementation, training, migration, app-store accounts, website changes, custom development, background checks, streaming, support tier, annual increases, and exit assistance.
Privacy and governance. ShareFaith’s policy says a client church generally controls member data and members should direct rights questions to that church. ShareFaith and Ministry Brands act as service providers for product data while also using analytics, affiliates, support, backups, and other processors. Apple lists unlinked product interaction; Google lists collection and sharing of app activity or performance and says data cannot be deleted. Churches must publish their own notice, roles, retention, permissions, minor safeguards, incident response, and deletion process.
ShareFaith vs. Subsplash vs. Tithe.ly
ShareFaith is strongest when media and kids curriculum are central to the buying decision. The $185 Suite adds website, mobile app, and giving to that content foundation. Subsplash is a deeper digital-engagement platform built around branded apps, media, messaging, websites, live streaming, and giving, with stronger current mobile infrastructure but typically a sales-led price and significant ecosystem commitment. Tithe.ly offers a broad church suite with especially accessible giving and app options, making it easier to begin with one operational need.
Planning Center is the stronger modular operations comparison for people, services, groups, registrations, check-ins, calendars, publishing, and giving. Breeze and CHMeetings target church management more directly and can be simpler for small churches that already have content and a website. ShareFaith Connect adds ChMS capability, but it is an extra quoted product rather than the natural reason to select the base subscription.
Choose ShareFaith when a usage audit proves the church will consume the graphics, curriculum, editor, website, app, and giving together. Choose Subsplash for an app-and-media-first digital platform, Tithe.ly for giving-led value and broad tools, or Planning Center for modular operations. Require live app demonstrations on iPhone and Android, a complete five-year cost, data export, licensing terms, accessibility, and a migration plan from every finalist.
The bottom line
ShareFaith’s value proposition remains understandable: a church with limited creative staff can buy a deep media and kids library, build a website, publish into a member app, and accept gifts through one vendor. That can be worth more than the $185 monthly Suite price when the components are genuinely used. The current buying experience undermines the promise. The exact iOS app is old and only moderately rated, the Android shell has icon-selection complaints, giving rates are not public, ChMS and streaming cost extra, and annual pricing sections disagree. Treat the consumer app as one surface inside a larger contract, not as the product itself. Pilot every workflow, obtain a clean written price and renewal schedule, verify content licenses and data export, and keep ownership of the church’s domain, store accounts, records, creative files, and member communication routes.
Alternatives to ShareFaith
SubsplashA mature app-first church engagement platform for branded mobile, media, messaging, websites, streaming, and giving.
Tithe.lyA giving-led church suite with apps, websites, ChMS, messaging, worship tools, and more accessible entry options.
Planning CenterA modular operations suite for people, services, groups, check-ins, registrations, calendars, publishing, and giving.
BreezeA simpler small-church management system for people, giving, events, forms, communications, and check-in.
CHMeetingsA church management platform with members, groups, attendance, events, accounting links, forms, and mobile access.Frequently asked questions
How much does ShareFaith cost?
Current baseline plan cards show Starter at $25 monthly, Premium Kids at $55, Ultimate at $85, and ShareFaith Suite at $185. The mobile app, website, and giving are on Suite. Giving transaction fees apply, while Connect ChMS and streaming are additional quote-based products.
Is The Sharefaith App free?
It is free for a congregant to download, but a church pays for the ShareFaith ecosystem that supplies its content. The current plan card places the mobile app inside the $185 monthly Suite. App Store “Free” does not mean a church can create and operate a ShareFaith app without a subscription.
Is The Sharefaith App the same as ShareFaith Connect?
No. The Sharefaith App is the member-facing shell for sermons, news, directions, documents, giving, calendar and ministry content. ShareFaith Connect is a separate staff-oriented ChMS app and browser system for people, groups, interactions, attendance, communication, events, check-in and related administration.
Does ShareFaith include church management software?
Connect ChMS is available as an additional add-on to the Suite, with price provided by inquiry. Do not assume people records, workflows, mass communication, child check-in, background checks, and administrative apps are included in the $185 Suite unless the written order form says so.
What are ShareFaith’s online giving fees?
The site promotes zero monthly fees for giving, but the Suite card says transaction fees are charged and does not display the rate. Ask for card and ACH percentages, fixed fees, donor-covered behavior, refunds, chargebacks, international cards, payout timing, contract minimums, and every platform fee in writing.
Why are ShareFaith’s annual prices confusing?
The current public Black Friday page contains baseline monthly cards plus overlapping 10% and 20% annual sections, with some displayed and commented totals that do not align. Treat them as promotional or stale until sales provides one exact annual charge, renewal price, discount term, and cancellation schedule in the contract.
Is ShareFaith a good church app in 2026?
It can be useful inside a church already buying the full media, kids, website and giving bundle. The exact iOS shell is a concern: about 3.5 from 43 ratings and no visible update since November 2022. Pilot current iOS and Android content refresh, push, media, calendar, documents, links, branding and giving before rollout.
Sources & further reading
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