Givebear vs Tithe.ly. Kiosks, fees and funds, side by side.

Compare Tithe.ly with Givebear for church giving, tap-to-give, recurring donations, events, receipts, and donor records. See the side-by-side comparison, where Tithe.ly still fits, and how to migrate to Givebear without breaking donation links.

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Side by side.

Capability	Givebear	Tithe.ly
Hardware Donation Kiosks	Yes	BYO iPad software mode
Church Management Software (ChMS)	No	Yes
Tap-to-Donate Kiosks	Native Stripe Terminal	Requires proprietary hardware
Automated donor receipts	Yes	Yes
Event Registration & Ticketing	Yes	Basic

When Tithe.ly is the better fit

Tithe.ly fits churches that want giving inside a broader church management suite, with member, ministry, and giving tools from one vendor.

Run your own numbers

The kiosk cost calculator and the platform fee calculator work from your device count and giving volume.

After the gift. Where each one lands.

Tithely homepage headline about overpaying for church management software, with a product dashboard — Tithely's public homepage, captured August 2026, positioning a broad church management suite around giving. View the public source

Givebear transactions: each gift with its donor, fund, amount and source, kiosk or web — The Givebear ledger: kiosk and online gifts in one list, each with its donor and fund.

The full comparison.

Last updated June 2026

Tithe.ly is a church management suite with giving built in; its kiosk mode is the web giving page looped on an iPad you supply. Givebear does not offer church management software. It sells a dedicated kiosk with a built-in Stripe Terminal reader and has fuller event registration and ticketing. Churches that want member and ministry management in one system fit Tithe.ly; churches that mainly want a lobby kiosk and simpler giving tools fit Givebear.

Key takeaways

Tithe.ly does not publish its kiosk hardware price; a third-party review cites a $299 reader.
Both platforms automate receipts and support recurring gifts.
Before migrating, review giving links, text-to-give numbers, fund names, ChMS dependencies, and year-end receipts.

Who this is for: Churches comparing giving platforms; Church treasurers, executive pastors, and finance volunteers who reconcile weekly offerings, building funds, and year-end giving statements, weighing Tithe.ly against Givebear

Tithe.ly is church giving software. In the comparison below, Tithe.ly has the edge on church management software (ChMS), and the rest comes down to cost and how in-person giving is handled.

Where Tithe.ly is the better choice

Tithe.ly offers church management software (ChMS), and Givebear does not. If staff use that every week, leaving Tithe.ly means replacing it with another tool or going without.

Where Givebear is different

Givebear fits churches that want giving without a full church management system: a dedicated lobby kiosk, online giving pages, campaigns, events, and receipts, with donor records filled in by the giving itself.

Compared with Tithe.ly, Givebear's kiosk for the church foyer is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

What to test before you decide

Score both platforms on church giving workflow fit, tap-to-give and kiosk support, recurring gift management, event registration support, and reporting across online and in-person gifts. Use last Easter or an ordinary Sunday as the test case: set up the same funds and receipt wording in a free Givebear account and check whether it produces the report your board asked for from Tithe.ly.

How do you switch from Tithe.ly to Givebear?

Review current giving links, text-to-give numbers, recurring donors, fund names, ChMS dependencies, and year-end receipt workflows before migrating.

Givebear imports contacts and past gifts from a CSV, so the Tithe.ly export is the first step. Create your funds in Givebear before importing the Tithe.ly file, since fund names in it do not create funds on their own. Saved cards move only if Tithe.ly and Stripe support a transfer; otherwise recurring donors restart their gift on your new page, so announce the change a few weeks ahead.

Before cutover, list every place a donor can reach Tithe.ly: website buttons, email footers, printed QR codes, and event pages. Repoint the ones you control; a printed code that sends donors to Tithe.ly keeps working only as long as Tithe.ly keeps that page up.

Practical use cases

Stay with Tithe.ly if your team depends on church management software (ChMS).
Keep Tithe.ly for online giving and add a Givebear kiosk for walk-up gifts, then decide after a season of both.

Common questions

Does Tithe.ly support donation kiosks?

Partly. The comparison above lists Tithe.ly's kiosk support as "BYO iPad software mode". Compared with Tithe.ly, Givebear's kiosk for the church foyer is a 21.5-inch touchscreen with a built-in Stripe card reader, sold once at $999 to $1,099 (wall mount or battery floor stand) with no per-kiosk software subscription.

What is the best Tithe.ly alternative?

It depends on what Tithe.ly is not doing for you. If you need a walk-up donation kiosk, which Tithe.ly lacks, Givebear has it in the same account as online giving. If your team relies on church management software (ChMS), pick an alternative that also has it, or keep Tithe.ly for that job.

Can I import my donors from Tithe.ly?

Yes. Export contacts and gift history from Tithe.ly as a CSV and import both into Givebear. Recurring gifts are separate: saved payment methods transfer only when Tithe.ly and Stripe support it, so check that before you set a cutover date.

What does switching from Tithe.ly to Givebear cost?

Givebear charges a flat platform fee from 1.9% to 5.9% depending on plan (one rate online, at kiosks, and on memberships), plus Stripe card processing at cost, with no setup fee and no monthly minimum. To compare with Tithe.ly, run last year's gifts through both fee schedules and add any per-device or add-on fees each side charges; a Givebear kiosk is optional and only needed for walk-up giving.

Givebear covers donation portal, donation kiosks, campaign pages, event registration, automated receipts, donor records.

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Where a kiosk would go, and what it costs
The reports your board will actually see

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