— Honest comparison · updated 2026
Pastor Center vs. Sermon Shots.
Sermon Shots was one of the first to ship "send a sermon, get clips back," and they've grown it into a full repurposing suite — unlimited clips, transcripts, devotionals, and social content. It's good, and it's cheap. The real question isn't who's cheaper on clips. It's whether you want the post-Sunday repurposing tool, or the whole preaching week.
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Pick Sermon Shots if
You want to turn finished sermons into clips, transcripts, devotionals, and social posts — fast, cheap, and the rest of your prep stack already works.
Pick Pastor Center if
You want the whole week — research, writing, voice rehearsal, gifts, and follow-up — with sermon clips built into one subscription, not just post-production on Sunday's video.
Reality
Sermon Shots repurposes the sermon you've already preached. Pastor Center runs the week that produces it. Different jobs — and Sermon Shots is the cheaper pick if clips are all you need.
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Feature by feature.
Both turn one sermon into many clips. Only one runs the rest of your preaching week.
Sermon Shots
Pastor Center
Auto-clips per sermon
✓ Unlimited clips
✓ 20 curated clips, all platforms
Vertical reframe (9:16)
✓ Auto speaker-tracking
✓ Auto + face-locked + B-roll cuts
Captions / subtitles
✓ Standard styles
✓ 6 brand-matched styles + ASL track
Branded templates per church
~ One brand kit
✓ Multi-campus brand kits
Direct publish to YT / IG / TikTok
✓ Scheduler included
✓ Plus optimal-time engine
Transcripts & podcast audio
✓ Included on all paid plans
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Discussion guides, summaries, devotionals
✓ Silver Suite & up
✓ From the sermon you wrote in-app
Text translations
✓ Gold Suite
~ On the roadmap
23,000-word AI research per passage
✗ Starts after the sermon, not before
✓ 23 specialized agents
Sermon writing & outline tool
✗
✓ 12 outline templates + voice mode
Talk to your past sermons
✗
✓ Conversational archive
Voice rehearsal & delivery feedback
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✓
Stage view / teleprompter
✗
✓ iPad-first
Spiritual gifts assessments
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✓
Ministry / volunteer follow-up
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✓ Barnabas + Ministry Chat
Plan structure
✓ Free + 3 tiered suites
✓ Tiered by sermon uploads
Typical monthly cost
$39.99–$87/mo (billed annually)
From $49.99/mo · Church Media Basic
What Sermon Shots does better
- Cheaper for clips. Plus is $39.99/mo billed annually, below our Church Media Basic — and clips are unlimited, not capped.
- Focused product — onboarding is fast and the team gets results in week one.
- Their clip-detection model is genuinely good. They were early, they iterated.
- Strong repurposing suite — transcripts, podcast audio, discussion guides, devotionals, and translations on the higher tiers.
- If you already love your sermon prep stack, you can drop Sermon Shots in without disturbing it.
What Pastor Center does better
- Sermon Shots starts after Sunday. Pastor Center starts Monday morning when you open the passage.
- Our clips are curated, not unlimited — 20 per sermon, with B-roll cuts, ASL tracks, and per-platform optimal posting times.
- One subscription spans clips + research + writing + voice rehearsal + gifts + ministry follow-up. Sermon Shots stops at repurposing.
- Voice rehearsal, delivery feedback, and an iPad stage view — none of which Sermon Shots touches.
- Multi-campus brand kits for multi-site churches.
What you'll really pay.
Sermon Shots · Plus
$39.99/mo billed annually
Plus is the clips baseline ($49.99/mo monthly). Silver Suite $57/mo adds sermon pages, discussion guides, and devotionals; Gold Suite $87/mo adds translations.
For sermon prep you'll still want: study tools, a writing app, a gifts vendor, and your own follow-up.
For sermon prep you'll still want: study tools, a writing app, a gifts vendor, and your own follow-up.
Free plan (2 clips) · 14-day trial
Pastor Center · Church Media
$49.99/mo Basic tier
20 clips per sermon — always. Pick the tier by sermon uploads per month: Basic 5, Advanced 10, Premium 26.
Sermons, Gifts, and Ministry Chat modules sold separately — pick only what you need.
Sermons, Gifts, and Ministry Chat modules sold separately — pick only what you need.
3 tiers · $49.99 / $79.99 / $99.99 · 7-day free trial
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