Live worship, sermon archives and series you already stream — on Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV, with no in-house developer and nothing to maintain.
No dev team required.
Listings in your church’s name.
Live the moment you go live.
A warm, simple app your whole congregation can use — from the tech team to the member who just got a new TV.
When the service starts, it’s right there on the home screen — no link to text around.
Series, messages and past services, organized so members can keep going all week.
Simple enough for any member, however comfortable they are with technology.
We build, brand and sign it; you do the quick final submit — your team focuses on ministry, not maintenance.
The same simple path, whatever you broadcast: connect what you already run, brand it, and submit under your own accounts.
See the full walkthroughVimeo, BoxCast, Resi, an HLS stream or a JSON feed — whatever carries your video today.
Your colors and logo, previewed on a real device before launch.
We build, sign and package all three; the quick final submit goes through your own accounts (for Fire TV you publish to the Amazon Appstore under a free Amazon account, and we deliver the app in your Tappla dashboard). You own every listing.
Your streaming provider (Resi, BoxCast, StreamSpot, Living As One or any other) already produces a live HLS stream. Tappla puts that stream into a native Roku channel under your church's name, with your sermon archive below it. You publish the channel through your own free Roku developer account, and members find it by searching your church's name on their Roku. The same stream goes into your Apple TV, Fire TV and Android TV apps.
Yes, on every TV that runs Roku, Fire TV, Android TV / Google TV or Apple TV. Your logo, colors, app icon and church name go into each app, and the store listing is published under your own developer account. That covers Roku TVs (TCL, Hisense), Fire TV editions (Insignia, Toshiba) and Android TV / Google TV sets (Sony, TCL, Hisense, Philips). Samsung (Tizen) and LG (webOS) sets are not supported.
No. Tappla does not sell ads or put ads into your apps. Ads only play if your church enters its own ad tag in the dashboard, so by default your live service and sermons play without interruption.
Reliability and buffering are decided by your streaming provider and by your members' internet connection, not by the TV app. Tappla is the app layer: it plays the stream your provider sends. Ask your provider for an adaptive HLS stream, which lets the TV switch to a lower quality on weak WiFi instead of stopping. Our comparison of Resi, BoxCast and StreamSpot is at tappla.com/blog/church-streaming-platforms-compared/.
It depends on whether your members watch on the TV. A website link reaches phones and laptops; an app on Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV puts your church one click from the remote, under your own name. With Tappla there is no setup fee and no annual contract: the cost is the monthly plan, from $49 for one Roku, Fire TV or Android TV app to $149 for all platforms, plus Apple's $99 a year. A custom agency build adds a development budget up front and upkeep every time Apple or Roku changes a requirement. Each store's console shows installs, so after a few months you can see whether members use it.
Yes. Resi and BoxCast connect directly: add your account once in Tappla and your recorded services sync into the Apple TV / Roku / Fire TV app on their own. For the live stream, and for StreamSpot, Living As One, ChurchStreaming.tv or a custom CDN, paste the public HLS stream URL once during setup. You don't need to be on Vimeo to use Tappla.
Roku discontinued Direct Publisher in January 2024. Your existing feed URL still works — Tappla's Roku SDK builder takes that same feed and generates a native SDK channel. No videos to re-upload, no new Roku account, no audience to rebuild — your subscribers stay with you through the migration.
No. Apple periodically requires re-uploads for new privacy manifests, age-rating questionnaires, or SDK compatibility — those are part of your monthly plan, no extra fee. Your monthly plan covers ongoing compliance with Apple's and Roku's evolving requirements, not just the initial launch.
Yes — Apple charges $99/year for one. Roku Developer is free. Tappla builds and signs the apps; you submit them through your own developer accounts, so you own the App Store and Channel Store listings forever — even if you ever leave Tappla. Many churches discover their IT department or a partner ministry already has an Apple Developer account; that one can usually be reused.
For most churches, Organization is the right choice — your church name appears on the App Store listing as the publisher instead of an individual's name, which is a big credibility signal for visitors. You'll need a DUNS number tied to your 501(c)(3); your treasurer or admin team likely already has the EIN/DUNS info on file. The full DUNS process usually takes a few days, not weeks.
Tappla's part of the build is under a week. The bottleneck is usually Apple Developer enrollment (DUNS verification + agreement signing) — budget 2-4 extra weeks if your church doesn't already have an Apple Developer account. Roku ships faster (free dev account, same-day approval). Most churches go from "we want a TV app" to "app is live" in 3-6 weeks total.
Yes. The All platforms plan supports manually adding HLS live stream URLs alongside your Vimeo (or other) archive. Your Sunday livestream takes home-screen prominence during service hours; your archive sits below for any-time browsing.
They don't. Volunteers upload the new sermon to Vimeo (or your CDN) — exactly what they're already doing. Tappla syncs on its own, usually within 36 hours, and the app updates itself. No re-submission to Apple or Roku needed when content changes.
Yes. You can give a volunteer their own dashboard login scoped to upload-only or content-management roles, without giving them billing or account-deletion access. If your volunteer leaves, you keep ownership — accounts are tied to your church domain, transferable any time.
Most churches start on the All platforms plan ($149/month) — that's the plan that includes Apple TV, Roku SDK, and live HLS stream support. No setup fees, no annual contract, ongoing Apple/Roku compliance updates included. Many churches budget for it under their tech or outreach line item.
Tappla isn't a live streaming platform — it's the app layer on top of one. You keep the streaming provider you already trust (Resi, Boxcast, StreamSpot, Living As One, ChurchStreaming.tv or your own HLS), and Tappla turns it into native Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV apps so members watch your live service on the TV instead of a browser link.
Connect your existing live stream and sermon archive to Tappla, add your church's branding, and we generate native apps for all four TV platforms that you submit under your own developer accounts. Your Sunday livestream takes the home screen when you go live; your archive sits below for any-time viewing.
Yes. There's no agency build and no developer to hire — pricing starts at $24/month for the managed feed, $49/month for a single Roku, Fire TV or Android TV app, $129/month for Apple TV and iPhone, and $149/month for all platforms, iPhone included. Small congregations run the same native apps as large multi-site ministries, on the streaming setup they already pay for.
All three. One feed from your video source generates native apps for Apple TV, Roku and Fire TV, so your congregation can watch on whatever device is connected to their TV — and you maintain a single library.
Resi, BoxCast, StreamSpot, Vimeo or something else? See every video source and what each one needs.
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