ChurchPress vs. Tithely Sites: Keep Your Giving, Compare the Website

Tithely Sites and ChurchPress both give a church a website, but they start from different places. Tithely Sites is one piece of a larger Tithely toolbox that includes online giving, a church app, church management and messaging. Your team picks a template and builds the site in Tithely's editor.

ChurchPress is only a website service. It studies your current website, drafts a new one in your church's look and voice, and then lets you ask for changes in plain language. If your church already runs giving or people management through Tithely, you can keep all of that and simply compare which website experience fits your team better.

Tithely's biggest strength is breadth. Its pricing page lists free online giving (with standard processing fees), a church management and engagement plan, a custom church app and a website builder, along with an All Access plan that bundles giving, people management, messaging, the app, the website, volunteer scheduling and service planning. Tithely says it is trusted by more than 53,000 churches.

Tithely Sites itself is built for churches. Tithely describes professionally designed, mobile-optimized templates made for ministries, built-in tools like a sermon library, events calendar, giving and prayer walls, a Plan Your Visit tool that lets guests schedule a visit, and live editing so updates publish right away. Hosting, maintenance and security are included.

For a church that wants one login for giving, members, messaging and the website, and has a staff member or volunteer who enjoys arranging pages in a visual editor, that combination is genuinely convenient.

ChurchPress focuses on one job: getting a polished church website built and kept current without anyone needing to learn a page editor. Instead of choosing a template, you start from what you already have. ChurchPress studies your existing website for your logo, colors, photos, ministries, service times and voice, and asks you to confirm the key facts before it drafts anything. If you have no website, it asks a few questions instead.

After about five minutes of questions, ChurchPress designs your homepage first, which usually takes 15 to 45 minutes. When you like it, one click builds the remaining pages to match, typically Plan a Visit, About and Beliefs, Ministries, Sermons, Events, Groups, Giving, Staff and Contact.

From then on, updates are a conversation. You type something like "move the Christmas Eve service to 5 p.m. and add a candlelight note," and the change appears in a private preview. Nothing goes live until you press Publish, every change can be undone with one click, and version history lets you restore an earlier published version.

Here is how the two compare on the website itself, based on what each company publishes.

When we checked Tithely's pricing page in October 2026, the Website plan was listed at $19 per month and the All Access plan at $119 per month, with a 30-day free trial and no contract. Please confirm current pricing on Tithely's site, since plans change.

ChurchPress is priced differently because it is doing different work. Building, building out the full site, previewing and revising are free with no time limit and no credit card. You only pay when you want to publish and connect your domain. The Founders offer is $97 per month or $997 per year, locked while your subscription stays active, with a 30-day money-back guarantee on the first payment, no long-term contract and cancel anytime.

That price includes managed hosting, SSL, custom-domain connection, unlimited plain-language chat updates and redesigns, all site tools and support from real people. In other words, Tithely Sites gives you a lower-cost builder your team operates, while ChurchPress charges for the building and ongoing updates being handled through conversation.

Many churches will not be choosing one company for everything. If Tithely already handles your giving, your app or your church management, ChurchPress is designed to sit alongside it. In Connections, you save the public links for your Tithely giving page, registration forms or other public pages, and ChurchPress uses them on the right buttons across your site.

There are no provider passwords or API keys to share. Your donors keep giving through Tithely exactly as they do today, and your website simply points them there.

Tithely Sites is likely the better fit if you want giving, app, church management and website under one Tithely plan, you want donations handled directly on the site, or you have someone who enjoys building pages in a visual editor. The All Access bundle is built for exactly that church.

ChurchPress may suit you better if your team is stretched thin, you want the first version built from what you already have, and you would rather describe a change in a sentence than open an editor. It also works well when you are happy with Tithely for giving and simply want a different website experience.

A practical next step: build a free ChurchPress preview from your current site, then put it side by side with a Tithely Sites template and decide which one your team would rather maintain for the next few years.