How to pick a sermon clip maker worth paying for.
There are a lot of sermon clip tools now, and most of the demos look the same. These are the five questions that actually separate them, written so you can judge any of them yourself. We build one of these tools, so read this as informed rather than neutral, and check the answers for yourself before you pay anyone.
Everything we make is yours to post, send, and keep.
1. Does it cover the week, or only the clips?
This is the biggest difference between tools, and it rarely shows up on a pricing page. Some tools cut clips and stop. A church week needs more than clips: the email to your list, something for small-group leaders before they meet, graphics for the feed, a written piece for the people who read instead of watch.
If a tool only does clips, price it honestly against what you still have to build afterward. Two hours of clips saved is real, but if the other four hours of the week stay on your desk, the week is still on your desk.
For reference: Extend the Sermon returns 14 to 18 finished pieces per sermon. 3 to 7 captioned vertical clips, 7 branded social graphics, and 4 written pieces (blog post, weekly email, discussion guide, kids sheet). The how it works page breaks each group down.
2. How good are the captions, really?
Every tool claims captions. The test is proper nouns. Run a sermon with a few scripture references, a book of the Bible that is easy to mangle, and your church’s name, then read the captions back word for word.
Auto-captioning gets ordinary speech right and fails exactly where a sermon lives. A caption that says the wrong thing reads as carelessness on your pastor’s behalf, and fixing them by hand is where the promised time savings quietly go.
3. Are the clips actually postable, or just cut?
Ask to see raw output, not a highlight reel of the tool’s best day. Then check four things on each clip: does it start on the hook instead of the windup, does it contain one complete thought a stranger could follow, does it end on the payoff rather than trailing off, and is the speaker centered and large enough to read on a phone.
Length matters too. Thirty to sixty seconds is the lane. A tool that hands back three-minute clips has moved the editing work to you while calling it done.
Our own criteria for this are written out in what makes a sermon clip worth posting. Use them on any tool you are evaluating, including ours.
4. Does it look like your church or like a template?
Graphics are where generic shows up fastest. If every church using the tool gets the same layout with a different photo, your feed starts looking like everyone else’s.
Ask whether it uses your actual brand: your colors, your fonts, your logo, applied consistently across the set. And ask where the quotes come from. A quote pulled from the real transcript says something your pastor said. A quote a model invented to fit a layout does not, and that is a problem no design can fix.
5. What does it cost when you scale, and what do you get to keep?
Two questions people ask too late. First, pricing: check what happens at two or three sermons a week, at multiple campuses, and whether the plan is per seat or per church. Some pricing looks fine for one sermon and gets steep fast.
Second, and more important: read what you are allowed to do with what comes back. Can you post it, send it, and keep using it after you cancel? Who holds the rights to the finished clips and graphics? That should be written down somewhere you can find it, not implied.
Ours: $97 a month for one sermon a week, cancel anytime, first sermon free without a card. Each additional weekly sermon adds $40, so four sermons a week runs $217 a month, which works out to about $14 a sermon instead of about $24. And everything we make is yours to post, send, and keep.
The fastest way to compare any of them
Take one real sermon, ideally an ordinary week rather than your best-recorded Easter service, and run it through every tool on your shortlist. Then lay the outputs side by side and ask the question that matters: how much of my week is actually done?
Most of these tools, including this one, will run a sermon free. A demo video tells you what the tool does on its best day. Your own sermon tells you what it does on yours.
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