A Wordly Alternative Built for Churches

Wordly is a live translation platform for conferences, businesses and events, and many churches use it. Sermon Translate is built only for Christian services. Here is an honest comparison on price, features and fit.

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Published price

Wordly's own pricing page lists a Starter package of $1,500 for 10 hours, used within 12 months, which is $150 an hour (checked September 17, 2026). Sermon Translate Standard is $34 a month for 30 hours, about $1.13 an hour, and Basic is $19.99 a month for 12 hours. In Sermon Translate each reading language shown at the same time uses its own plan time.

Built for the service

Sermon Translate is designed around preaching: Bible verse popups in each listener's Bible edition when a passage is named, Bible book names and church vocabulary built in for many languages, a church glossary for names and terms, a subtitle screen for the sanctuary and an OBS overlay for the livestream, transcripts and AI sermon notes after the service.

Feature by feature

What a church gets from Sermon Translate, in the order most churches ask about it.

  • Live captions in 123 reading languages, with 61 languages that can be preached into the app
  • Up to 5 languages side by side in Multiple mode, up to 5 on the Subtitles screen
  • Bible verse popups in each listener's chosen Bible edition when a passage is named
  • QR Code Join: listeners scan and read in the browser with no account, $10.00 a month
  • Projector subtitles and a transparent OBS overlay for the livestream
  • Saved transcripts, AI sermon notes and a church glossary on the Standard plan
  • Conversation mode on one phone for pastoral visits
  • Self serve sign up with a published monthly price and no sales call

When Wordly may be the better choice

Wordly offers spoken audio translation for listeners, and it is built for conferences and organisations with event teams. If your members need to hear the translation rather than read it, or you run large multi session conferences with many rooms, compare Wordly's features for those needs directly on its site.

Switching

There is nothing to install. Sign in on the device at the front, choose the spoken and reading languages and put the captions on the screen. Every account gets 1 free hour every month, so a church can run one full service side by side before deciding.

Is there a cheaper alternative to Wordly for churches?

Sermon Translate publishes its prices: $19.99 a month for 12 hours or $34 a month for 30 hours, with 1 free hour every month. Wordly's published Starter package is $1,500 for 10 hours.

Does Sermon Translate speak the translation aloud like Wordly?

No. Sermon Translate shows the translation as captions on the screen, the livestream and phones. It does not produce spoken audio.

Can Sermon Translate show several languages at once?

Yes. Multiple mode shows up to 5 languages side by side and the Subtitles screen up to 5. Each reading language uses its own plan time.