Sermon Live is great at one thing: real-time multilingual interpretation during the Sunday service. But the moment the service ends, the translation evaporates. Sermon Clips picks up where Sermon Live stops — turning Sunday's sermon into vertical clips with word-timed captions, in the language it was preached, that your audience can share all week.
These tools solve different problems. Choosing right comes down to what your congregation actually does after the service ends.
Real-time interpretation. A Spanish-speaking attendee puts on headphones (or watches captions on a screen) and hears the sermon translated as it happens.
Post-production clips. After Sunday, upload the sermon (or paste the YouTube link). The same day, you have vertical clips with burned-in word-timed captions ready for every social platform.
| Feature | Sermon Clips | Sermon Live |
|---|---|---|
| Live in-service translation | Not the focus | Yes (primary product) |
| Post-production sermon clips | Yes — full pipeline | No |
| Voice cloning into Spanish | No | No (live interpreter or TTS) |
| Native Spanish captions burned in | Yes, if preached in Spanish | Live captions only |
| Auto-posting to socials | No — download & post | No |
| Theology-aware translation | — | Generic ASR/MT |
| Works on uploaded video files | Yes (or a YouTube link) | Live audio stream only |
| Per-language pricing | N/A — no language fees | Per-event/seat licensing |
| Free trial / free tier | Yes — free signup | Demo / paid pilot |
| Best for | Social-first ministry | In-room multi-language services |
Honest take: many bilingual churches use both. Sermon Live for the live moment, Sermon Clips for the social tail.
Adjacent, not direct. Sermon Live solves the live in-service translation problem (think headphones / live captions on a screen). Sermon Clips solves the post-production problem — turning Sunday's sermon into vertical clips with word-timed captions for social media. Many churches benefit from both.
Yes, and many bilingual churches do. Sermon Live handles the Sunday-morning live experience. Sermon Clips handles everything that happens afterward — the clips and captions your members share with family all week.
No — we don't translate at all, live or otherwise. Our pipeline is post-production: upload after Sunday, get captioned clips back the same day. If you need real-time translation during the service itself, use Sermon Live, Wordly, or OneAccord for that and pair them with Sermon Clips for the social side.
Sermon Clips starts at $9.99/week — or $23.99/month locked for life on the Founding Pastor plan — clips, captions, and reframing all included. Sermon Live's pricing is event/seat-based and varies — they typically quote per service or per congregation size. For a typical 500-attendance church doing weekly clips, Sermon Clips is dramatically cheaper than even a single Sermon Live service licensed across a year.
No — we don't do voice cloning or dubbing. Clips keep your pastor's real voice exactly as preached, with word-timed captions burned in. If the sermon was preached in Spanish, the captions are Spanish automatically — no setup.
Caption language is auto-detected to match how the sermon was preached — Spanish, Portuguese, Korean, French, Swahili, and most major languages work out of the box. We don't translate between languages; the captions honestly reflect what was said.
How Sermon Clips serves Spanish-language churches.
Serving congregations that preach in any language.
When you need each — and why most churches need both.
Another live-translation comparison.
Enterprise live-translation comparison.
Persona page for bilingual congregations.
First 2 sermons free, no card required. Clips back the same day.
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