How Preachly fits into your prep.

  • Screenshot of the Sermon Assistant page on the Preachly platform, showing tools for sermon preparation such as Word Study, Biblical Research, Brainstorm, Summarize Sermon, and Summarize for Social Media, with sidebar menu including Dashboard, Discipleship, Elders, Sermon Feed, Sermon Search, Research, Study Materials, Discussion Guides, Sermons, and Analytics.

    Sermon Assistant

    Easy-to-use AI workflows to support weekly sermon prep. Brainstorming tools, automated Greek and Hebrew word studies, and biblical and theological research briefs.

  • Screenshot of a webpage titled 'Discussion Questions' for a church study on 'Understanding the Trinity.' The page contains numbered discussion questions divided into sections about the Trinity, the Father, and the Son, with links for each question.

    Discipleship

    Preachly helps you repurpose sermons into new artifacts you can use for discipleship: Discussion questions, study guides, sermon notes, and more coming soon. Get more value out of your sermons.

  • Screenshot of a website titled 'Elders: Theologian Emulator' showing a list of theologians, including Athanasius, Augustine of Hippo, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer, with categories and filters on the left sidebar.

    Theological Inquiry

    Explore Christian theology in a new way with Preachly’s library of AI chatbots. Our “Council of Elders” includes dozens of historical theologians plus secular thinkers to help sharpen your thinking.

ChatGPT vs. Preachly

What’s the difference?

Purpose

  • ChatGPT is a general multipurpose AI assistant for broad userbase.

  • Preachly is a set of AI tools & workflows purpose-built for pastors & church leaders

User Interface & Experience

  • Users “talk” to ChatGPT through chatboxes, dialogue is often anthropomorphized

  • Users engage with Preachly through easy to use workflows, sometimes chatboxes. Generally we aim to avoid anthropomorphizing AI interactions.

Sermon Outsourcing

  • ChatGPT will write an entire sermon for you with no hesitation.

  • Preachly won’t write your sermon and is designed to prevent abuse of AI & LLMs

Ethics

  • ChatGPT: OpenAI takes a secular-libertarian approach to “responsible AI development”

  • Preachly: Christian approach informed by multiple streams of Christian ethics

Who

  • ChatGPT is developed by OpenAI.

  • Preachly is developed by Pneuma Labs Corporation, a team of Christian technologists & church leaders.