Subsplash

What Subsplash is

Subsplash is an app and website builder made for churches. Its site describes a single platform, Subsplash One, that covers custom church apps, a drag-and-drop website builder, media hosting and live streaming, digital giving, church management, and groups and messaging. The reader it serves is a church staff team or a volunteer communications lead who wants an app in the Apple and Google stores without writing code, and who would rather run the app, website, sermons and giving from one dashboard than from four vendors. The home page says the platform is "Trusted by 20,000 churches & ministries of all sizes", and the company's blog says Subsplash "created the very first church app in 2009".

What you build and how

The product's own blog defines the category plainly: "An app builder for churches is an online platform that allows you to easily build a mobile app with little to no coding experience." The same post says a good builder walks you through each step with a simple dashboard where you choose your design and add media and other content. Subsplash lists mobile and TV apps as the first product on its platform, described as a "distraction-free space for discipleship."

The app feature list on the company's blog is long. It names customizable layouts and an unlimited page builder, a native media player, on-demand media, live streaming with giving prompts, push notifications, sermon notes, an in-app Bible and reading plans, group messaging, volunteer schedules, blog and news feed integrations, Google Cast and AirPlay, and a dashboard for engagement insights. Beyond phones, the same list includes TV apps and Apple CarPlay and Android Auto apps. Members get a personalized experience with access to their volunteer schedules, giving data, group messaging and media watch history. The blog also says discipleship resources from The Chosen, Ligonier Ministries, Bible Project and Wild at Heart are provided in the app at no extra cost.

A church can publish in 2 ways. A standalone app is your own branded listing in the Apple, Google and Amazon stores, which the blog says keeps your church's brand "front and center". A container app is a lightweight version of a church app held inside a larger app run by the provider. Members download the provider's app, search for their church by name or location, pick the church's name or logo and launch it. Subsplash's own container app is called The Church App, and it is available to churches on the platform as an option next to the standalone app.

The website side is the reason the product also sits in the websites category. The home page calls it "your church's digital doorstep, powered by the drag-and-drop builder anyone can use," integrated with the app, media, events and giving. The point the site keeps returning to is entering things once. In its words, when you add a sermon, update an event or post a resource, "it flows to your app, your website, and your emails without touching each one separately." Events and content stay in sync across channels, and emails, push notifications and in-app messages come from a single inbox, with audience segments so the right people get the right message.

Media is a product of its own. Subsplash calls itself "The original media hosting and sermon player for churches," with "No ads or distractions, just your content." Live streaming, trimming and distribution happen in one place, and the blog describes one-click publishing that updates the website, apps (mobile, TV, car) and podcast from a single upload. A feature called Pulpit AI generates clips, graphics and discussion questions from a sermon automatically, and the home page adds social posts and discipleship material to that list.

Giving is offered as digital giving on any device for $0/month, with rates the company says are negotiated automatically through GrowCurve. The blog calls it "the free Subsplash Giving" and the home page says giving fees drop when a church moves off a standalone giving platform.

Management covers the operating side of a church: child check-in, an email builder, volunteers and service planning. A newer release, Subsplash Workflows, organizes processes such as following up with new visitors, connect cards, room reservations and announcement requests, with built-in automations. Groups and Messaging live inside the church's app and website as a place for people to connect. Subsplash Trends AI offers unlimited, automated dashboards so a team can consolidate and clarify its ministry data. For larger organizations, the site lists enterprise solutions with "Powerful integrations, API access, and more", and the blog's feature list includes software integrations and calendar sync.

Subsplash frames all of this as consolidation. Its pitch is one invoice, one vendor and one renewal conversation a year, and staff hours spent maintaining tools going back to ministry. The home page says replacing the stack is "typically saving churches thousands of dollars a month." It also offers a free Church Workflows Toolkit with 9 practical blueprints and an interactive worksheet for replacing patchwork tools with repeatable workflows, plus "Hundreds of customizable templates for churches and ministries" in its resource library.

Plans, support and results

The site publishes no prices for the app or website products; demos are booked through a form or by calling the sales team, and a self-guided product tour lets a church look around first. The one number tied to a product is the giving offer, "$0/month" for Subsplash Giving.

Support is spelled out. The home page lists a dedicated Client Success Manager, an AI assistant available anytime, and live webinars and on-demand classes, and the blog adds an onboarding team that gets the app live. Separate help links cover technical and admin questions and donor account questions, and a system status page is linked from the footer.

On results, the home page quotes a customer: "We saved over $30,000 by switching to Subsplash." Other testimonials come from named churches. Levi Lusko of Fresh Life Church says the switch to Subsplash Giving is "a lot more simple and streamlined", and Matt Chandler of The Village Church says the app "provides one more medium to extend our messages about the gospel out to the world." The blog adds that "churches using the platform often see significant increases in engagement, media consumption, and giving", which is the company reporting on its own customers.

Who it suits and who it does not

Subsplash suits a church that streams sermons or plans to, wants its own branded app in the stores, and is tired of reconciling several systems. The create-once, publish-everywhere model matters most for a small staff updating Sunday content across an app, a website and an email list, and the success manager and onboarding team help a church without technical staff.

It is not a general-purpose app builder. Everything on the pages is framed around sermons, events, giving, volunteers and congregations, so a school, a club or a nonprofit without that structure would be working against the grain. Pricing comes through a sales conversation, so plans cannot be compared up front. And because the pitch is a whole platform, a church that only wants a simple app may be buying more than it needs.