Tithe.ly runs giving, sites, and ChMS. AskMyChurch answers congregants' questions from your own site and sermons. Different jobs — most churches keep both.
Tithe.ly and AskMyChurch get cross-shopped because both come up when a pastor searches for church software, but they do different jobs. Tithe.ly runs the money and the infrastructure — giving, church management, websites, apps — while AskMyChurch does one thing: it sits on the website you already have and answers congregants' questions from your own published content. If you give through Tithe.ly today, this page is not going to tell you to leave.
As of this writing, Tithe.ly's published lineup includes Giving (with text-to-give), Church Management, Church Apps, Sites, and Worship Team Tools. Giving is $0 per month with no contracts — you pay per transaction (2.9% + $0.30 on credit and debit, 1% + $0.30 on ACH in the US). The other tools are priced individually — Church Management at $72/month, a custom Church App at $89/month, Sites at $19/month — or bundled as All Access at $119/month. Their site says more than 53,000 churches use the platform.
Credit where it's due: Tithe.ly made online giving free to start, and they publish their prices — still uncommon in church software, where "book a demo for a quote" is the norm. A small church can take its first online gift the same week it signs up, with no contract and no monthly fee on the free Giving plan. If your church needs digital giving and doesn't have it, Tithe.ly is one of the easiest on-ramps there is, and 53,000 churches is real scale.
AskMyChurch is not a giving platform, doesn't build websites, and has no church-management features. It answers questions on your church's website, from exactly two sources: your website and your sermons. Ask when the Christmas Eve services are, and it answers from your site. Ask what your pastor teaches about forgiveness, and it cites the sermon and links to the minute in the video — that's the Canon layer. It works in English and Spanish, hands the conversation to a real person on your staff when a human should take over, and when it doesn't know, it says so and points to a person instead of inventing an answer. One more thing that isn't optional: anyone who writes about self-harm sees 988 and the Crisis Text Line — in English and Spanish — before any AI responds. That routing is hard-coded, not left to a model's judgment. We call it the front door of your church, always open.
AskMyChurch is $99, $249, or $500 per month by weekend attendance: Base under 500, Growth for 500–2,000, Premium for 2,000+ or multi-campus. Every plan starts with a 30-day free trial, carries a money-back guarantee, and you can cancel anytime. Tithe.ly's numbers above are per product or $119/month for the bundle, as of this writing. Note that the two price different things: Tithe.ly's cost scales with how many tools you add, AskMyChurch's with the size of your congregation. A church running free Tithe.ly Giving plus AskMyChurch Base pays $99/month total plus giving transaction fees.
The closest touchpoint is the website. Tithe.ly Sites builds you one for $19/month; AskMyChurch assumes you already have one and lives on it — including a site built with Tithe.ly Sites. As of this writing, Tithe.ly's published product lineup does not list a congregant-facing AI assistant grounded in a church's own site and sermons. That's the lane AskMyChurch occupies, and it's the whole product.
Pick Tithe.ly if the problem is money and plumbing: you need online giving, member records, or a church app, and you want published prices and a free way to start. Pick AskMyChurch if the problem is the front door: people land on your website at 11pm with a question the site technically answers on page four, and nobody is there to say so. Run both if both problems are real — they don't compete for the same job or the same budget line. And if your church is in Atlanta, Nashville, Charlotte, Columbia, Charleston, or Knoxville, a working preview may already exist: we've built 84, 79, 63, 60, 53, and 38 in those metros, each waiting for its church to claim it.
No. Tithe.ly handles digital giving, church management, websites, and apps; AskMyChurch does none of those. It answers congregants' questions on your existing website from your own site and sermons, so churches on Tithe.ly keep it and add AskMyChurch alongside.
As of this writing, Tithe.ly's published lineup includes Giving, Church Management, Church Apps, Sites, and Worship Team Tools — no congregant-facing AI assistant grounded in a church's own site and sermons is listed. That grounded Q&A lane is what AskMyChurch is built for.
Tithe.ly publishes per-product pricing: Giving is $0/month plus transaction fees (2.9% + $0.30 credit/debit in the US), and the All Access bundle is $119/month as of this writing. AskMyChurch is $99, $249, or $500 per month by weekend attendance (Base under 500, Growth 500–2,000, Premium 2,000+ or multi-campus), with a 30-day free trial, a money-back guarantee, and cancel-anytime terms.
They see 988 and the Crisis Text Line, in English and Spanish, before any AI response. That crisis routing is hard-coded into every AskMyChurch plan rather than left to the model's judgment.
Updated 2026-06-26 · AskMyChurch by Vision Genesis · Knoxville, TN
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