Keep the simplicity. Gain the platform.
Breeze made church software simple, and churches love it for that. GLAD keeps the set-up-in-an-afternoon simplicity — then adds the presentation suite, the real accounting, the live worship screens, and the AI that Breeze doesn't publish at any price.
Why churches switch from Breeze
Breeze's pitch is honest: $72 a month, unlimited people, unlimited users. The catch isn't the price — it's what never shows up on the feature list. Worship and presentation tools are a separate $29/mo add-on, the branded app and website are separate Tithe.ly products, texting is metered after 250 messages a month, and accounting simply isn't there.
GLAD's answer is one subscription where the projector, the confidence monitor, the books, payroll, the member app, and congregation texting are the same product as your people database — nothing to bolt on, nothing to sync.
To their credit: the $72 base is genuinely flat — unlimited people, unlimited admin users, free data move-in. Prices shown are Breeze's published pricing, July 2026.
People, presentation, giving with real accounting and payroll, check-in, your website, the member app, compliant texting, AI — every module on every tier, working from the same data.
Plans from $59/mo billed annually — see pricingWhat simple can't do on Sunday
The concrete jobs a simple database can't pick up — and GLAD does out of the box.
Presentation software is built in
Song lyrics, scripture, custom slides, image and video backgrounds, a pre-service countdown, and a sanctuary projector display — auto-built from the service plan you already made, with a private confidence monitor for the speaker.
On Breeze's published pricing, worship tools are a separate $29/mo add-on.
Real books, not just a giving report
A true double-entry ledger with journal entries, bank statement import with auto-matching, budgets with run-rate forecasts, payroll runs with PDF pay stubs, and annual giving statements and tax receipts your members download themselves.
Breeze publishes no accounting or payroll features at any price.
Every screen advances together
One tap on "next" moves the projector, the confidence monitor, the worship team's stage tablets, and the congregation's phones in real time. Blackout, jump, drag-reorder, undo — all from one operator panel.
Live multi-screen sync isn't on Breeze's published feature list.
AI in the workflow, not on a roadmap
AI scripture detection listens to the sermon and queues the verse for the operator to approve. Volunteer burnout early-warning flags over-scheduled people before they quietly disappear — with AI-powered prediction on top.
AI credits are included in every tier.
GLAD vs. Breeze, feature by feature
Where a row says "not published," that feature doesn't appear on Breeze's published pricing or feature pages (July 2026).
Counts are tallied from the 13 rows below — same list, both columns.
| Feature | Breeze | GLAD |
|---|---|---|
| People & ministry | ||
| People & families database | Included — unlimited people & users | |
| Kids check-in & name tags | Included | |
| Volunteer tracking & scheduling | Included | |
| Worship & presentation | ||
| Presentation suite — lyrics, scripture, slides, countdowns, projector | Worship tools — separate $29/mo add-on | |
| Confidence monitor with private speaker notes | Not published | |
| Real-time sync across projector, prompter, tablets & phones | Not published | |
| Worship-leader stage tablet (Stage Deck) | Not published | |
| Money | ||
| Double-entry ledger — journals, reconciliation, budgets | No accounting features published | |
| Payroll runs & PDF pay stubs | Not published | |
| Online & text giving | Free plan — per-transaction fees apply | |
| Communication, app & AI | ||
| Congregation texting with STOP/HELP compliance built in | 250 texts/mo, then $10 per 500 | |
| Installable member app — giving, RSVP, chat, check-in | Breeze app included; branded app is a separate Tithe.ly product | |
| AI — scripture detection, burnout prediction | No AI features published |
Verified against Breeze's published pricing and feature pages (breezechms.com, July 2026). Every GLAD tier includes every row.
An honest word about Breeze
Breeze earned its reputation: famously simple, famously affordable at a flat $72/month for unlimited people, with support that gets praised in nearly every review. If a clean database with check-in, giving, and email is genuinely all your church needs, Breeze does that job well.
GLAD's bet is that Sunday needs more than a database — the projector, the books, the stage, and the member app belong in the same product as your people. If that's where your church is headed, that's the difference.
Who owns Breeze? A fair question to ask
Breeze has been owned by Tithe.ly since an acquisition announced on September 10, 2021, and Tithe.ly now markets it as Tithely Church Management.
That isn't a knock — it's a diligence question. When a product joins a portfolio, ask what its roadmap looks like inside that portfolio, and whether "the simple one" stays the priority. Ask the same hard question of GLAD, and of everyone else on your shortlist.
Switching from Breeze is easier than you think
Most churches are fully migrated and live on GLAD in under a day.
- Export your people, families, tags, and giving history from Breeze — its free data export is genuinely good.
- Import them into GLAD in a few clicks; families and groups come across intact.
- Rebuild your service plan once — from then on, slides, schedules, and the bulletin generate themselves.
Questions about migrating? [email protected] — we respond within 24 hours.
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