— Honest comparison · updated 2025
Pastor Center vs. Sermon Shots.
Sermon Shots was one of the first to ship "send a sermon, get clips back." Good idea, narrow product. Here's where they're sharp, where we're sharper, and what your church will actually pay either way.
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Pick Sermon Shots if
You only need clips, you have a separate budget line for it, and the rest of your sermon stack already works.
Pick Pastor Center if
You want clips bundled with sermon prep, voice rehearsal, gifts assessments, and follow-up — for less than Sermon Shots costs alone.
Reality
Sermon Shots solves one slice of Sunday. Pastor Center solves the week.
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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
✓ ~10–15 clips
✓ 20 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
23,000-word AI research per passage
✗ Not their product
✓ 23 specialized agents
Sermon writing & outline tool
✗
✓ 12 outline templates + voice mode
Talk to your past sermons
✗
✓ Conversational archive
Voice rehearsal & delivery feedback
✗
✓
Stage view / teleprompter
✗
✓ iPad-first
Spiritual gifts assessments
✗
✓
Ministry / volunteer follow-up
✗
✓ Barnabas + Ministry AMS
Plan structure
~ Per-seat pricing
✓ Tiered by sermon uploads
Typical monthly cost
$99–$149/mo for clips alone
From $49.99/mo · Church Media Basic
What Sermon Shots does better
- Single-purpose product — onboarding is fast and the team gets results in week one.
- Their clip-detection model is genuinely good. They were early, they iterated.
- If you already love your sermon prep stack, you can drop Sermon Shots in without disturbing it.
- Their support team is responsive and pastoral — credit where due.
What Pastor Center does better
- Sermon Shots starts after Sunday. Pastor Center starts Monday morning when you open the passage.
- 20 clips per sermon vs. 10–15 — and ours include B-roll cuts, ASL tracks, and per-platform optimal posting times.
- One subscription replaces clips + research + writing + gifts + ministry follow-up.
- Cheaper. Church Media Basic at $49.99/mo is less than Sermon Shots' single-pastor plan.
- Multi-campus brand kits — Sermon Shots' single-brand model breaks for multi-site churches.
What you'll really pay.
Sermon Shots · Pro
$99/mo
Pro is the working baseline; Plus runs $149/mo.
You'll still need: Logos or BibleHub ($50+/mo), a writing tool, separate gifts vendor, separate follow-up.
Single-brand limit means multi-campus churches need multiple seats.
You'll still need: Logos or BibleHub ($50+/mo), a writing tool, separate gifts vendor, separate follow-up.
Single-brand limit means multi-campus churches need multiple seats.
All-in stack · ~$2,400/yr
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 AMS modules sold separately — pick only what you need.
Sermons, Gifts, and Ministry AMS modules sold separately — pick only what you need.
3 tiers · $49.99 / $79.99 / $99.99 · 7-day free trial
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One subscription. The whole week.
Send us your last sermon. We'll send back 20 clips.
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