Tithely vs Givelify: Which Church Giving App Fits Yours?

What Is the Real Difference Between Tithely and Givelify?

Givelify is a giving app. Tithely is a giving app inside a larger church-technology suite. That one sentence explains most of the decision.

Givelify built its whole product around one job: make it fast for a person to find a church or nonprofit and give. Millions of people already have the Givelify app on their phone, and your church shows up as a searchable, mappable listing inside it. There is nothing else to learn, because there is nothing else in the box.

Tithely (written as Tithe.ly) starts with giving too, but it sits next to a church app builder, websites, messaging, media hosting, and church management tools. If you want one company for your giving page, your app, and your directory, that breadth is the point. If you only want to accept gifts, most of it is weight you will not use.

How Much Does Each One Cost a Church?

Both platforms let a church start accepting online gifts with no required monthly fee, and both take a percentage of each gift to cover card processing. Their published card rates are close to each other and close to the industry norm of 2.9% plus $0.30 per transaction. Rates change, so treat the table below as a starting point and confirm the current numbers on each platform's own pricing page, linked underneath.

Here is why the per-gift rate matters more than a monthly fee. A church receiving $100,000 a year in card gifts at 2.9% plus $0.30 pays roughly $2,900 in percentage plus $0.30 for every gift, which lands in the low thousands per year on either platform. That processing cost is ongoing, it scales with your giving, and it is largely the same whichever of these two you pick. The lever you actually control is nudging givers toward bank transfer where the rate is lower, and not paying for suite features you will not open.

For the full method behind numbers like these, and where the hidden line items usually hide, see our breakdown of the real cost of church giving platforms. Primary sources for the rates above: Givelify pricing and Tithely pricing.

What Does the Giver Actually Experience?

The two platforms feel different in the pew, and that difference matters more than the fee sheet for first-time givers.

Both are solid products, and neither is a payment terminal you can hand a guest in the room. That gap, the person sitting in the third row who wants to give right now, is where a physical prompt during the offering earns its place, which is the next section.

Which Church Does Each One Fit?

Choose Givelify when giving is the only job you want to solve, you like that people can find you inside an app they already trust, and you want the shortest possible setup. It suits smaller churches and plants that want to be collecting gifts this week without standing up a whole tech stack.

Choose Tithely when you want one vendor for giving plus a church app, a website, and member management, and you have someone who will actually run those tools. The breadth pays off for churches consolidating three or four subscriptions into one, and it is overkill for a church that just wants to take a gift.

If the decision still feels like a coin flip, it is because for pure giving these two are genuinely close. Let the tie-breaker be the rest of your stack: pick the one that removes a subscription you already pay for, or the one your volunteers will not need training to run.

Where Tap-to-Give Fits With Either Platform

Whichever you choose, you still have to answer one question the app cannot: how does someone give in the room, during the offering, without hunting for a link? That is the gap Tap.Giving fills, and it works on top of both.

A Tap.Giving plate is a custom 4-inch NFC plate you mount on a pew back or chair. A giver holds their phone near it and their existing Tithely or Givelify giving page opens in the browser, with no app to download in that moment. We sell the plates. You keep the platform you already chose, and we never touch the donation or its data.

New churches often set up Givelify or Tithely first, then add plates so the giving they announce from stage actually happens before people leave. See how tap-to-give works end to end, or the platform-specific steps for Givelify and Tithely.

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