The message you preached Sunday should reach further than the room.
Steeple turns your service recording into the whole Sunday set: the sermon by itself, six captioned clips, both thumbnails, chapters and titles, all checked against the Word. You approve it on one page on your phone, and nothing posts until you do.
The numbers behind a week of clips.
The people your church will reach this year are on a phone, and they will meet you in a clip. The stream is not the ministry. The message is. What the stream does is carry it. These are the numbers, from sources you can check, and the one measurement nobody else has made.
of American adults regularly watch religious services online or on TV. One in ten only watch.
Pew Research Center, June 2023, n=11,377of Protestant churchgoers watched a livestream instead of going in person more than five times in a year. Among 18 to 34s, 87% had watched one.
Lifeway Research, June 2023, n=1,002of all YouTube views in 2025 were on videos under one minute. Videos over twenty minutes were 4% of views.
Tubular Labs, 2025Short videos on a 200-person church's channel averaged 388 views against 164 for the full-service replay. Same church, same weeks, same pastor.
Steeple's first church, Georgia coast, August 2026 auditSundays the 9am replay beat the 11am replay on that channel. The replay audience is people who missed that morning, not people browsing later. The clip is what browsing people find.
Same audit, 14 months"of the best-performing videos have custom thumbnails."
YouTube Help, Thumbnail and title tipsNobody has published a head-to-head of the sermon alone against the full service. We looked. So we measured it on our own church, and we will measure it on yours.
Three things happen. You do one of them.
Most church video tools hand you an editor and wish you luck. Steeple hides the editor behind the one workflow every church already has: Sunday.
Drop in the recording
Paste your Subsplash, Resi or Vimeo link, or upload the file from your switcher. Steeple checks the footage first and tells you plainly what it can do with it. Two feeds? Send both. Steeple lines them up by sound so the sermon cut keeps your titles and verses and the clips stay clean.
Approve on your phone
Every clip renders on its own machine at the same time: the first one is ready about five minutes after the plan is set, and all six in ten. One page: where the message starts and ends, the chapters, the titles, six clips with their hook lines. Trim a clip, fix a word, swap a thumbnail. Nothing posts until you tap Approve.
It goes out, calmly
The replay is trimmed and chaptered by Sunday evening. The sermon cut and the first clip follow. The rest of the clips are spaced through the week so your feed stays alive without anyone staying up.
The whole Sunday set. Every plan, every week.
Other tools sell clips. A Sunday is more than clips. Everything below is included on every plan, including the free one, and every piece passes through Berean before it reaches you.
The sermon cut
The message by itself, trimmed to the second, leveled, with chapters that follow the preacher's own outline and a reviewed captions file.
MP4 · SRT · VTT · chaptersSix vertical clips
The lines that stand on their own, each with a hook, Steadfast framing and word-by-word captions, sized for Reels, Shorts, TikTok and Facebook.
6 × 1080×1920 · SRT eachBoth thumbnails
A sermon thumbnail with our headline and your speaker, and a full-service thumbnail with the title your church announced, the date and time, on a different frame so nobody confuses the two. Your colors, your type, every week.
2560×1440 · JPGTitles and descriptions
A YouTube title with alternates, a description that leads with the hook and the scripture, and a caption with hashtags for each clip, written in your church's voice.
YouTube text · 6 social postsThe replay, trimmed
Your full service with the dead air before and after gone, chaptered, captioned, ready to replace the raw stream by Sunday evening.
Full service · chapters · SRTOne page to approve
Watch each piece, trim, fix a word, pick a style, tap Approve. Steeple applies your notes and re-renders. Works on a phone in the parking lot.
Review page · re-render on notesOne page. Watch, trim, fix a word, tap Approve.
Every clip comes back on a page that works in the parking lot. Drag a handle to trim, tap a word to fix it, swap the thumbnail, read Berean’s note. Steeple applies your notes and re-renders. Nothing posts until you tap Approve.
- TrimDrag the end back to the landing line.
- Fix a wordTap it, type it, done. The caption re-renders.
- Swap the thumbnailPick the frame. Your colors, your type.
- ApproveIt goes out on the schedule you set.
Connect your channels once. Approve, and it posts.
On Church Plus, you connect your church's YouTube channel, Facebook Page, Instagram account and TikTok account in Steeple's settings. When you tap Approve, Steeple uploads the sermon video to YouTube with its title, description, chapters, captions, thumbnail and the visibility you picked, and posts each clip to the accounts you chose, at the time you set.
- Steeple uses each platform's permissions only to post what you approve and to manage what it posted. It never reads, changes or deletes your other videos, messages, followers or analytics.
- Nothing posts until a person at your church approves that item. You can change or cancel anything scheduled.
- Disconnect any account at any time, in Steeple or on the platform. See our Privacy Policy, Terms and data deletion page.
Posting is in early access; until it opens for your church, we hand you the finished set to post.
What it was. What it could be.
The same Sunday, the way most churches post it and the way Steeple hands it back: two videos instead of one, each with its own thumbnail, title, description and chapters. Real outputs from one real service.
1:35:00Sunday 11am Service | 08-23-2026 | Community Church
▹ Stay Connected with Us: Website · Facebook · Instagram · YouTube
- No chaptersThe message starts 24 minutes in, unmarked
A frame YouTube chose, a date for a title, the same boilerplate description every week, and ninety-five minutes with nothing to jump to. Nobody outside the church will search for this, and nobody inside it will find the part they came for.
50:42The Safest Road to Hell Is the Gradual One | Judges 6
Jesus isn't looking at you through your sins. Adam Wainwright on Gideon, the gradual road, and Romans 8:1.
- 00:00Welcome and the broadcast open
- 06:06Prayer
- 07:37Three failures: Team USA, the trade, sent home
- 14:13The rowboat: from now on
- 16:55Performance as an act of worship
- 19:28Who you're called to be: Gideon, Judges 6
- 30:04300 men and 12 ordinary men, Judges 7
- 33:06Know your opponent: Genesis 3 and The Screwtape Letters
- 39:43Walking with Wayno: the small steps
- 43:26Should following Jesus look different?
- 44:33Who Jesus thinks you are: Romans 8:1
- 47:30He's on the couch beside you
- 48:25What are you not doing, and why?
1:22:10How the Devil Always Schemes | Full Service | Aug 23, 2026
- 00:00Welcome
- 06:20Worship
- 24:31Message: The Safest Road to Hell Is the Gradual One
- 1:13:30Prayer and close
Why the message gets its own video
The sermon is the part people search for, share and come back to years later. Alone, it can be titled by what was said, thumbnailed with the speaker and the line, and chaptered by the preacher's own outline. That is the video that finds people who have never walked in your door.
Why the full service still matters
Your congregation watches the whole morning: the welcome, the worship, the prayer. Steeple trims the dead air, marks where each part starts, and gives it a thumbnail with the date so the replay is for the people who were there, or wish they had been.
Every caption and every clip is checked against Scripture before anyone else sees it.
Berean is our Scripture check, software we built and named after the church in Acts that “examined the Scriptures daily to see if these things were so.” It is not a person. It is a check built from the Bible text and the written statements of faith of four churches, and it runs on every subscriber’s Sunday, doing two jobs.
The captions get the names right
God, Lord and LORD are not interchangeable. Berean knows which translation your church preaches from and sets God, the Lord, the Holy Spirit, Scripture, the books of the Bible and the pronouns for God the way that translation prints them. When the pastor quotes a verse, Berean matches it against the text itself, so “the Lord was with him” is set in small capitals exactly where Genesis 39 reads it, and never where it does not. Every change is written down with the rule that made it.
The clips are chosen for teaching, not for clicks
Berean grades every candidate clip: a solid teaching point that stands on its own, fine but thin, a stretch, or out. It leans away from the line that only sounds good and toward the line that teaches something true. On one real Sunday it caught a clip that opened mid-quotation of C. S. Lewis with no attribution, so a scroller would have heard Screwtape’s words as the pastor’s own doctrine, and it offered a line from the same sermon in his own voice instead. It tells you why on the review page.
What it is not
It is not a pastor, and it is not a doctrine police. Baptist and Reformed churches read some things differently, and that is inside the lines. A pastor will not nail every verse, and that is not what we are after. Your church answers to God for what it posts. We answer for what we hand you, and we will not hand you a mistake when a sound clip was there. On the Sunday, Done plan a person also reviews the picks and the words before they go out.
Nobody should lose Sunday afternoon to a timeline.
Under 250 people, the video job belongs to the pastor or whoever said yes in the lobby. They burn out in six to twelve weeks. Steeple asks eleven plain questions once, then asks one question a week: does this look right?
The edits are calm by design. No jump cuts every two seconds, no hype captions, nothing that makes a sermon look like an ad. It should feel like your church, only finished.
A camera operator who never gets tired.
This is one real Sunday. Left, your wide camera; the gold window is where Steadfast is looking. Right, the clip it makes: the speaker held center as he walks, captions word by word, the hook clear of his face. Same moment, same second. Steadfast is our own tracker, built for stages: it follows one person, holds still when they do, and never chases a gesture.
- Follows one person and holds still when they do
- A smoothed camera path: no shake, no hunting, no chasing a hand
- Word-by-word captions in your church's colors, kept clear of the face
- Made for stages, LED walls and a walking preacher, not for selfies
Your 360p stream, restored.
Many churches only have the Facebook stream, and Facebook keeps 768 by 432 pixels of it. A vertical clip cut from that reads as a blur. Uplift is our AI upscale: it rebuilds the picture for the crop it is about to make, so a small-room camera looks like it was shot for a phone. Drag the line. That is a real Sunday in a real sanctuary.
- Turns on by itself when the footage is under 1080p
- Face-safe: a lighter setting for when a face starts to look painted
- Runs on our GPUs, never on your laptop
The voice, clear and unchanged.
Same picture, same seconds. Switch while it plays.
Broadcast audio from a good board is already right; the mistake is "cleaning" it. Clarion measures your feed, brings it to the level phones expect, and holds a true-peak ceiling so nothing clips. Nothing is AI-processed, nothing is smeared. When a room needs help, the dials are there, each one small, each one set once and kept every week.
- Leveled to broadcast standard with a true-peak limiter
- Left alone by default: no denoise, no "enhancement"
- Ten small dials, set once in Your church, kept every week
Watch a service become a week of posts.
The 57-second walkthrough: the link going in, the message found, six clips, both thumbnails, Berean’s read and the review page. Captions only, no sound needed.
Priced per Sunday, not per feature.
Every plan gets the whole set. The plans differ by how many services you run and whether we post it for you. Unused Sundays roll over.
Early access. These are the prices we open with. Right now every church starts with a free Sunday we run with you, and we bring churches on a few at a time.
Free first Sunday
See your own church come back finished before you decide anything.
- The whole Sunday set
- Both thumbnails
- No watermark
- The review page
Church
One service a week and a volunteer or pastor who taps Approve.
- Sermon cut, chapters, captions
- Six clips with social posts
- Both thumbnails
- YouTube title and description
- One brand kit
Church Plus
Two services, a midweek, or more than one campus, and a comms person on staff.
- Everything in Church
- Posts and schedules to YouTube, Instagram, Facebook, TikTok Coming soon
- Multi-campus
- Series artwork
- Podcast feed
Sunday, Done
Send the link by 12:30. Everything is published by Monday noon. A person checked it.
- Everything in Church Plus
- A human reviews the picks and the words
- Thumbnails art-directed, not templated
- Published for you, on schedule
- A Sunday log every week
The ones every church asks.
Can we sign up today?
How long does it really take?
Our stream is only 360p. Is that a problem?
What about the worship music?
Will it pick the wrong clips?
Does it work with our switcher?
Who owns the video?
What about faces in the congregation?
Do we have to use every clip?
Who makes this?
Request a spot. Your first Sunday is free.
We are opening to a small first group of churches. No card, no watermark, no sales call unless you ask for one. Here is what happens:
“And I heard the voice of the Lord saying, ‘Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?’ Then I said, ‘Here I am! Send me.’”
Isaiah 6:8 (ESV)
- Tell us about your church, and paste a link to a recent service if you have one.
- We write back personally to set up your free Sunday.
- We run it, and a person looks at the picks before you do.
- You decide if you want next Sunday done too.