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The Sermon Clips alternative for churches (2026)

Sermon Clips is built for one job: paste Sunday's sermon, and about five minutes later up to five finished vertical clips arrive by email. Churches look further when five clips of up to a minute is not enough, when they want to choose the moments themselves, or when they want a square or wide clip too.

Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from Sermon Clips's own pricing and product pages, checked 5 October 2026. We did not test Sermon Clips hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.

By the Slice teamChecked 5 October 2026

Shorts by Slice turns Sunday’s sermon into captioned vertical clips. $14.99 a month. Your first clip is free, no card. Then a 3-day free trial for the rest.

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Slice vs Sermon Clips

Shorts by SliceSermon Clips
Price$14.99 a month or $149 a year; $6.99 a month in lower-income countries$23.99 a month, or $9.99 a week
Free to tryYour first clip free, no card; then a 3-day free trial, which takes a card2 sermons, no card; free clips end on a 1.5-second sermon-clips.com card
How the sermon gets inA YouTube link, one video per link (YouTube sometimes blocks it; uploading the file works every time), or the file: 3 hours, 2GBA YouTube link, or an MP4 or MOV; services up to 4 hours
Clips per sermonAs many as it finds that stand on their own, plus any stretch you pick from the transcriptUp to 5, 30 to 60 seconds each; up to 3 more of your own picks
ShapesVertical, square or wideVertical only
EditingA full editor: fix any word, trim, join, restyleMove the start or end up to 15 seconds, framing, captions, audio; 3 re-renders per clip
Caption languagesThe language preached, in Latin-alphabet languages and Hebrew; not yet Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi or ThaiThe language preached; names English, Spanish, Swahili, Korean and Afrikaans "and most others"
Beyond clipsWith Transcribe hours ($4.99, $9.99, $24.99, paid once): every Bible passage named with its time, the sermon in parts, starred quotes, an AI outline and small-group questions labelled as AI, Word notes and a print pageA Sermon Packet with every sermon: transcript, notes, a five-day devotional, key quotes, a discussion guide
PostingNo: you download and postNo: you download and post

Sermon Clips’s figures from its pricing page and its own site, 5 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.

Choose Sermon Clips if…

  • You want finished clips by email and no editing at all.
  • Five clips a week is plenty for your church.
  • Your sermon is preached in Korean, or another language Slice's caption fonts do not cover yet.
  • You want notes, a devotional and a discussion guide included in the price, with no extra purchase.

Choose Slice if…

  • You want to read the list of moments and choose the ones that say what your pastor meant.
  • You want more than five clips from a sermon, or a clip longer than a minute when the point needs it.
  • You pay $14.99 a month against $23.99, or $149 a year.
  • You post the same clip vertical for Reels and square or wide elsewhere.

Where Slice loses to Sermon Clips

  • Sermon Clips does the whole job and emails you the result; on Slice someone still picks the clips and downloads them.
  • Its captions cover Korean and other languages in scripts Slice's fonts do not yet.
  • Its Sermon Packet (notes, devotional, discussion guide) comes with every sermon; Slice's sermon notes need Transcribe hours bought separately, and Slice writes no devotional.
  • Its free trial is two whole sermons; on Slice the first clip is free, then a card for the trial.

Sermon Clips, in short

Best for a church that wants up to five finished clips from every Sunday with nothing to edit, captioned in the language the sermon was preached in.

Pricing, in plain words

  • Free: your first 2 sermons, no card. Every feature, but each free clip ends with a 1.5-second sermon-clips.com card.
  • Weekly Pass: $9.99 a week, cancel any week.
  • Founding Pastor: $23.99 a month, which the page says is "grandfathered for life as long as your subscription stays active".
  • Every plan gets the same features; the plans differ in how many Sundays and the end card.
Sermon Clips's pricing page as it appeared on 5 October 2026
Sermon Clips's pricing page, 5 October 2026 (its plan table) Tap to enlarge.

Reviews

We did not read Sermon Clips's reviews for this page, so there are no ratings, praise or complaints here: its own site is the only source above.

Slice, in short

Best for a church that wants to choose its own moments from every sermon, at a flat price, with as many clips as it likes.

$14.99 a month or $149 a year. Your first clip is free, no card, then a 3-day free trial for the rest. Paste the YouTube link to the sermon, or upload the file: YouTube sometimes blocks a link, and uploading works every time.

What it does not do yet, plainly: there are no team accounts, so each volunteer has their own; it does not post or schedule; it does not check the worship music for you; and it writes no devotionals or blog posts. More on the page for churches.

Slice on a real sermon

We did not run Sermon Clips, so we will not guess how it does. Here is what Slice did with a real one: Tim Keller’s “Let the Psalms Teach You to Pray”, a 40-minute message published on The Gospel Coalition’s YouTube channel, brought in by its link on 5 October 2026.

  • About two and a half minutes from the link to the list: the transcript took under two minutes, and finding the moments 49 seconds.
  • It listed 4 moments, already cut, captioned and vertical, running 1:09, 1:07, 0:27 and 1:32.
  • The one built from the most pieces, “My self-image looked like a Frankenstein monster”, joins 13 passages from 36:33 to 38:48. That is the kind of clip to read before posting, to be sure it still says what the preacher said.
The Slice clips page for the sermon, headed "4 clips from this episode": four vertical previews of Tim Keller preaching, each with a white title box and a caption on the picture. Under them, the titles "Spiritual but not religious" means I want to live however I want (1m 9s), Aristotle said you can’t be friends with God — then look at the cross (1m 7s), Nobody dying ever says "I wish I’d made more money" (27s) and My self-image looked like a Frankenstein monster (1m 32s), each with an Export button. Above them, the Caption style row (Clean, Bold, Pop, Minimal, No captions), Bigger text and Hook title On or Off.
What Slice gave back for the sermon: four clips, already vertical and captioned, with Slice’s suggested title on each. Press play to watch one, or Export to download it. Tap to enlarge.

Nothing was posted. The titles are Slice’s suggestions, not the preacher’s words. The whole run, step by step, is in how to turn a sermon into short clips.

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Questions

Is Slice cheaper than Sermon Clips?

Yes, month to month: $14.99 against $23.99, or $149 a year against $287.88 at the monthly rate. Sermon Clips includes its Sermon Packet; Slice's sermon notes need Transcribe hours ($4.99, $9.99, $24.99, paid once). Checked 5 October 2026.

Is sermon-clips.com the "SermonClips" people compare with OpusClip?

Probably, though we cannot be sure. An r/churchtech thread from January 2026 is titled "SermonClips Vs OpusClip, any preference?", and sermon-clips.com is the sermon clip tool by that name we could find on 5 October 2026; sermonclips.com did not load.

How many clips does Sermon Clips make?

Up to five per sermon, 30 to 60 seconds each, chosen from the whole message. If fewer come back than you asked for, its pricing page says the credit for that sermon goes back on your account. You can pick up to three more moments yourself from the transcript while the recording is kept, which is 30 days.

How was this compared?

Compared from Sermon Clips's own pricing and product pages, read in a browser on 5 October 2026, not signed in. We did not read its reviews and did not test Sermon Clips hands-on. We make Slice.

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Try Shorts by Slice on your next sermon. If Sermon Clips fits you better, use it.

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Your first clip is free, no card. Then a 3-day free trial for the rest; cancel before it ends and you pay nothing.