One platform. Not a bundle of six.
Tithe.ly's giving product is genuinely good — and genuinely free to start. But the full church stack is six separately priced products. GLAD is one product: giving, people, presentation, accounting, texting, member app, and AI, on the same data from day one.
Why churches switch from Tithe.ly
Tithe.ly is a giving company first, and it shows: the giving plan is free with per-transaction fees, and everything else is its own product — Church Management at $72/mo, Text Giving at $19/mo, Worship Team Tools at $29/mo, a website at $19/mo, a custom app at $89/mo, or the All-Access bundle at $119/mo (all published prices, July 2026).
A bundle discounts the bill, not the seams. GLAD was built as one product, so your giving records, people, service plans, slides, and books are one dataset — nothing to sync, no per-product settings, one login for everyone.
To their credit: the giving product has no monthly fee — you pay published per-transaction fees (2.9% + 30¢ card, 1% + 30¢ ACH) — and the $119/mo All-Access bundle beats buying the pieces separately. Prices shown are Tithe.ly's published pricing, July 2026.
Giving, people, presentation, real accounting with 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 one product does that six can't
Not a feature-count contest — the concrete jobs one dataset does that a bundle can't.
One dataset, zero seams
A first-time giver becomes a follow-up task. An event registration becomes a check-in list. A service plan becomes tonight's slides. When people, giving, worship, and communication are one product, those handoffs happen by themselves — they aren't integrations to configure.
A bundle discounts the bill, not the seams.
Presentation software, not just team tools
Lyrics, scripture, custom slides, image and video backgrounds, countdowns, a sanctuary projector display, and a private confidence monitor — auto-built from your service plan and advancing together on every screen in real time.
Included on every GLAD tier — not a separate worship product.
Real books behind the giving
Giving is where the money enters — GLAD also keeps the books: double-entry journal entries, bank statement import with auto-matching, budgets vs. actuals with forecasts, payroll runs with PDF pay stubs, and annual giving statements and tax receipts members download themselves.
Tithe.ly publishes no accounting ledger or payroll features.
AI in the workflow, not on a roadmap
AI scripture detection queues the verse the moment it's spoken, pending operator approval. Volunteer burnout early-warning flags over-scheduled people — with AI-powered prediction on top. The bulletin drafts itself from the service plan.
AI credits are included in every tier.
GLAD vs. Tithe.ly, feature by feature
Where a row says "not published," that feature doesn't appear on Tithe.ly's published pricing or feature pages (July 2026).
Counts are tallied from the 13 rows below — same list, both columns.
| Feature | Tithe.ly | GLAD |
|---|---|---|
| The bundle math | ||
| People & church management | Separate product — $72/mo published | |
| Text giving | $19/mo published (or All-Access, $119/mo) | |
| Church website builder | $19/mo published (or All-Access) | |
| Member app — giving, RSVP, chat, check-in | Custom app — $89/mo published (or All-Access) | |
| Worship & presentation | ||
| Presentation suite — lyrics, scripture, slides, projector | Separate worship-tools product — $29/mo published | |
| Confidence monitor + congregation phone follow-along | Not published | |
| Real-time sync across projector, prompter, tablets & phones | Not published | |
| Money | ||
| Online giving | Free plan — 2.9% + 30¢ card, 1% + 30¢ ACH (published) | |
| Donor statements & tax receipts | Included in all plans | |
| Double-entry ledger — journals, reconciliation, budgets | Not published | |
| Payroll runs & PDF pay stubs | Not published | |
| Communication & AI | ||
| Congregation texting with STOP/HELP compliance built in | Email/text messaging listed under All-Access | |
| AI — scripture detection, burnout prediction | No AI features published |
Verified against Tithe.ly's published pricing and feature pages (get.tithe.ly, July 2026). Every GLAD tier includes every row.
An honest word about Tithe.ly
Tithe.ly's giving product deserves its reputation: no monthly fee, unlimited donations, text-to-give, donor receipts and tax statements included, with clearly published transaction fees. If online giving is the only thing your church needs to fix this year, Tithe.ly is a credible way to fix it.
GLAD's bet is about the other five products: when the projector, the books, the app, and the people database are one product instead of a bundle, the work between them disappears. That's the difference you'd be buying.
Which Tithe.ly ChMS are you actually buying?
Tithe.ly's church management product is Breeze — Tithe.ly announced the acquisition on September 10, 2021, and now markets it as Tithely Church Management.
A neutral fact worth knowing: if you're comparing "Breeze vs. Tithe.ly," you're comparing one company with itself. The diligence question for any portfolio — GLAD's included — is which product gets the roadmap's attention.
Switching from Tithe.ly is easier than you think
Most churches are fully migrated and live on GLAD in under a day.
- Export your people and giving history from the Tithe.ly dashboard (CSV).
- Import into GLAD in a few clicks — donor histories and funds come across intact.
- Set up GLAD giving in an afternoon, announce it once, and retire the per-product logins one by one.
Questions about migrating? [email protected] — we respond within 24 hours.
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