How is LiveSunday different from Wordly for church translation?
Wordly and LiveSunday both deliver live captions and translation to phones via a QR code or link. Wordly sells that as an events product — meetings, conferences, hybrid sessions — with a house-of-worship package on a 12-month hour term. LiveSunday is built for a repeating Sunday service.
The products overlap on the basics (captions, audio, transcripts). They differ on price, how you buy hours, language count, and whether you can start without talking to sales. This page puts those differences side by side.
How does LiveSunday compare to Wordly?
| Feature | LiveSunday | Wordly |
|---|---|---|
| Languages | 100+ | 60+ / 3,000+ language pairs |
| Starting price | Pay-as-you-go ($5/hr) or $59/mo (Pro) | About $1,500 for a 10-hour annual package |
| Included hours (entry plan) | 12 hrs/mo on Pro ($59) | 10 hours over 12 months (Starter) |
| How hours are billed | Session hours (monthly or pay-as-you-go) | 12-month hour bundles; unused hours may roll over |
| Listeners | Unlimited | Unlimited (no published per-seat cap) |
| Self-serve signup | Yes | Online store available; demo recommended |
| Spoken translation (TTS) | Yes on Advanced ($99/mo) | Included (audio + captions) |
| Transcripts / summaries | Transcripts included | Transcripts and AI summaries included |
| Integrations | OBS, ProPresenter, vMix, EasyWorship | Zoom, Teams, Cvent; room monitors |
| Custom vocabulary | Church-specific vocabulary + profanity filter | Custom glossaries and blocklists |
Why do teams choose LiveSunday over Wordly?
1.Pricing: weekly worship vs an annual event package
Wordly's public pricing starts at about $1,500 for a 10-hour package used over 12 months. Church bundles are listed as 5, 10, or 25 hours per month for a year, without a published dollar amount — you typically get a quote or buy after a demo. LiveSunday is $5/hour pay-as-you-go, Pro at $59/month with 12 hours included, and Advanced at $99/month with 25 hours. A church running two 75-minute services per week (~10 hours/month) is covered by LiveSunday Pro. On Wordly, 10 hours/month is a mid-tier church bundle, and the public 10-hour Starter SKU covers occasional use, not a weekly calendar.
2.Built for Sunday, not the conference floor
Wordly is sold as an events product. Public pages emphasize Zoom, Teams, and Cvent, optional onsite support, and a 12-month hour commitment. LiveSunday is built around a repeating church service: a browser dashboard, a QR code for attendees, and overlays for OBS, ProPresenter, vMix, and EasyWorship. If the job is captions and translation every Sunday, those event-platform extras are not required.
3.Self-serve vs sales-led onboarding
You can create a LiveSunday account and stream a service without a sales call. Wordly has an online store, but new customers are directed to a representative, a 30-minute demo, and customer-success onboarding. That adds steps before a first service. For a congregation that wants to try AI translation this weekend, LiveSunday is the shorter path.
4.Language catalog for diverse congregations
LiveSunday translates into 100+ languages, with 60+ source languages. Wordly publishes 60+ languages and 3,000+ language pairs, with the full set included in the package price. For congregations that need less common languages, LiveSunday's wider catalog is the difference. For Spanish, Mandarin, Arabic, Portuguese, and Korean, both cover the usual options.
Should you choose LiveSunday or Wordly?
Choose LiveSunday if
- You want a worship-specific tool with self-serve signup and no annual hour commitment.
- You need a lower entry price — $5/hour, or Pro at $59/month with 12 hours included.
- Your operator workflow is a laptop at the sound desk plus OBS, ProPresenter, vMix, or EasyWorship.
- You need 100+ languages for a diverse congregation, not an event-platform feature set.
Choose Wordly only if
- You already run Wordly for conferences or hybrid meetings and need to keep Zoom, Teams, or Cvent as the listener path.
- A 12-month hour package starting around $1,500 is acceptable, and you specifically need Wordly's bundled AI summaries.
- You need spoken translation on the entry package. LiveSunday includes captions on every plan and spoken translation on Advanced ($99/month).
Learn more
- LiveSunday vs Palabra — a voice-to-voice engine and $500 Events plan vs a worship product
- LiveSunday vs Glossa — how $5/hour is billed — per session vs per language
- AI live translation for churches — the full product walkthrough for real-time sermon translation
- Real-time captions for churches — live captions on phones, screens, and livestreams
- Pricing — pay-as-you-go, Pro, and Advanced plans
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