Subsplash is a full church suite: giving, a mobile app, a website and church management, with TV apps as one part. If the only piece you actually need is the Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps, that is a lot of platform to buy. Tappla does just the app layer, from the stream you already run, on a flat monthly fee.
Most confusion here comes from comparing a whole platform to a single feature. Name the job you are hiring for, and the choice gets simple.
One vendor for giving, a mobile app, a website, church management and TV apps. The right call if you want your whole digital operation, donations included, under a single roof and a single bill.
Just the native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps, built from the source you already stream and published under your own accounts. No giving, no mobile app, no website. One job, done well and cheaply.
| Subsplash | Tappla | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | All-in-one church platform | App layer only (native TV apps) |
| Giving & donations | Yes, built in | No, by design |
| Mobile app + website + ChMS | Yes, bundled | No, TV apps only |
| Uses the source you already stream | Hosts your media on their platform | Yes: Vimeo, Resi, BoxCast, HLS, JSON |
| Apple TV, Roku & Fire TV | Yes | Yes, from one feed |
| Who owns the developer account | Ask before you sign | You do, published under your accounts |
| Pricing shape | Custom quote, larger commitment | Flat $24 / $49 / $149 per month |
Platform features and pricing change. Treat this as positioning and confirm current details with each vendor before you decide.
We would rather point you to the right fit than sell you the wrong one. If any of these is true, an all-in-one platform earns its price and Tappla is not what you need.
Donations, pledges and recurring gifts built into the experience. Tappla does not do this, on purpose.
Website, mobile app, church management and TV under one login and one bill.
If you are starting from zero, a platform that hosts your media too can be simpler than assembling parts.
With any platform, ask whose developer account your app is published under, because that decides whether you can ever leave without rebuilding. With Tappla, we build and sign the apps and you submit them under your own Apple, Roku and Fire TV accounts. The listings, reviews and audience stay yours, permanently, even if you switch tools later.
Tappla is $24/month for the managed feed, $49/month for a single Roku or Fire TV app, and $149/month for native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV together. Apple charges $99/year for a developer account, Roku is free, and the Amazon developer account for Fire TV is free. No setup project, no quote, no revenue share.
If you only need the TV app part, yes. Subsplash bundles giving, a mobile app, a website and church management with the TV apps, so you pay for the whole suite. Tappla does only the app layer: it turns the video you already stream into native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps for a flat $24 to $149 per month. If you want the full engagement suite, Subsplash is priced for that job; if you only want to own the TV apps, an app-layer tool is far less.
Subsplash is an all-in-one church platform: giving, a branded mobile app, a website builder, church management, and TV apps as one feature. Tappla is only the app layer. It reads the stream you already run and publishes native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps under your own developer accounts. It does not do giving, membership or a mobile app, and it says so plainly.
No, and that is deliberate. Tappla is not a donation or membership platform. Most churches keep giving where members already use it, on their website or an all-in-one suite, and use Tappla purely to own their TV apps. If giving inside the app is essential to you, an all-in-one like Subsplash fits better.
Yes. That is the main reason churches move the TV-app part to Tappla. It connects to the source you already run, an HLS live URL from a provider like Resi or BoxCast, or a Vimeo archive, without migrating your video anywhere. You keep your streaming setup and only change how the TV apps are made.
Yes. Tappla builds and signs the apps, and you submit them under your own Apple, Roku and Fire TV accounts, so the listings, reviews and audience stay yours permanently. With any all-in-one platform, confirm exactly whose developer account the listing lives under before you commit, because that determines whether you can leave without rebuilding.
Some do. A church might keep its website and giving on one platform and use Tappla only for the native TV apps on Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV. The two are not mutually exclusive, because Tappla deliberately covers only the app layer.
For the TV app specifically, yes. Roku is free, Apple is $99/year, the Amazon developer account for Fire TV is free, and Tappla starts at $24/month for the managed feed and $49/month for a single app. A small church can run the same native apps as a large ministry without buying a full platform it will not use.
Keep your stream and your giving where they are. Add native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps under your own name.