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The Sermon Shots alternative for sermon clips (2026)
Sermon Shots is the fullest of the church tools: clips, quote images, thumbnails, discussion guides, devotionals, blog posts and dubbing, starting at $63 a month. Churches compare it with Slice when the clips are what they actually use, and the price is the question.
Our bias: we make Shorts by Slice. Compared from Sermon Shots's own pricing and product pages, checked 5 October 2026. We did not test Sermon Shots hands-on, and where it is the better choice we say so.
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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| Shorts by Slice | Sermon Shots | |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $14.99 a month or $149 a year; $6.99 a month in lower-income countries | $63 / $67 / $97 a month, or $53 / $57 / $87 billed yearly |
| Free to try | Your first clip free, no card; then a 3-day free trial, which takes a card | 2 free sermon clips, no card; a 14-day trial on paid plans |
| How the sermon gets in | A YouTube link, one video per link (YouTube sometimes blocks it; uploading the file works every time), or the file: 3 hours, 2GB | YouTube, a file or a livestream; Switcher, Resi and WordPress integrations; an API |
| Monthly limit | No cap on sermons; up to 1,000 exports a month | Unlimited clips within 10 upload hours a month; more hours can be added |
| Caption languages | The language preached, in Latin-alphabet languages and Hebrew; not yet Korean, Chinese, Arabic, Hindi or Thai | Not stated; dubbing into 33 languages on Gold |
| Beyond clips | With 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 page | Silver and up: discussion guides, 5-day devotionals, blog posts, summaries, quotes and verses, quote images, thumbnails |
| Posting | No: you download and post | Direct publishing to Facebook and Instagram on Silver and up |
Sermon Shots’s figures from its pricing page and its own site, 5 October 2026. Prices in US dollars.
Choose Sermon Shots if…
- You want one tool for the whole week's content, written and video, and about $60 a month is in the budget.
- You stream through Switcher or Resi and want the sermon to arrive without a download.
- You want it to publish to Facebook and Instagram for you.
- You want sermons dubbed into other languages.
Choose Slice if…
- The clips are what you use: $14.99 a month against $63 for Plus, or $149 a year against $636.
- You record more than 10 hours a month across services.
- You want to read the list of moments and choose each clip yourself.
Where Slice loses to Sermon Shots
- Sermon Shots writes discussion guides, devotionals, blog posts and summaries, and makes quote images and thumbnails; Slice does none of these.
- Sermon Shots publishes to Facebook and Instagram and dubs into other languages; Slice does neither.
- Sermon Shots connects to Switcher, Resi and WordPress; Slice takes a YouTube link or a file.
Sermon Shots, in short
Best for churches that want clips plus a week of written content from each sermon (discussion guides, devotionals, blog posts, quote images) and can budget about $60 a month.
Pricing, in plain words
- Free: 2 free sermon clips, no card required.
- Plus: $63 a month, or $53 a month billed yearly ($636 a year). Unlimited sermon clips, full sermon transcription, audio for a podcast, 10 hours of uploads a month, uploads from a livestream and integrations.
- Silver Suite: $67 a month, or $57 a month billed yearly ($684 a year). Adds shareable sermon pages, quote images, thumbnails, social carousels, discussion guides, blog posts, 5-day devotionals, quotes and verses, summaries, and direct publishing to Facebook and Instagram.
- Gold Suite: $97 a month, or $87 a month billed yearly ($1,044 a year). Adds AI video dubbing (33 languages, per its feature table) and more discussion guides.
- Paid plans start with a 14-day free trial, and the page offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
Reviews
We did not read Sermon Shots'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 Shots, 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.
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 Shots?
Yes: $14.99 a month against $63 for Plus, or $149 a year against $636. Sermon Shots includes transcription on Plus, and written content (guides, devotionals, blog posts) on Silver at $67; Slice's sermon notes need Transcribe hours ($4.99, $9.99, $24.99, paid once). Checked 5 October 2026.
How many hours can I upload to Sermon Shots?
Ten hours a month on every paid plan, per its pricing table; its page offers more hours as an add-on, with a calculator. Slice has no monthly cap on sermons, and each file can be up to 3 hours.
Does Sermon Shots have a free plan?
A free tier with 2 free sermon clips and no card, and a 14-day free trial on Plus, Silver and Gold. The page also offers a 30-day money-back guarantee.
How was this compared?
Compared from Sermon Shots'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 Shots hands-on. We make Slice.
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Try Shorts by Slice on your next sermon. If Sermon Shots fits you better, use it.