Live streaming for churches, from the phones you already own
Steeple Cast turns a few iPhones and an iPad into a multi-camera production system. Volunteers point the phones. One person runs the service from the iPad. It mixes the audio from your sound board and streams to YouTube.
Built for a real church, every Sunday, before we offered it to anyone else!
Set it up once, in roughly fifteen minutes. After that, a service is one tap on the iPad.
What it does
Multi-camera, without a camera budget
iPhones become wireless cameras over your own Wi-Fi. The iPad switches between them, with tally lights so operators know when they are live.
Audio from the desk, mixed for the stream
The room mix is tuned for the room, not for headphones at home. Steeple Cast takes the raw channels off a Behringer X32 and builds a separate broadcast mix, with per-channel processing suited to voices and instruments.
Straight to YouTube
Connect your channel once on the web dashboard. Pressing Go Live creates that week's broadcast with the right title, privacy and thumbnail, and streams to it. No stream keys to copy on a Sunday morning.
It tells you when the Wi-Fi can't cope
It measures what actually reaches the network, warns before YouTube starts buffering, and lets you ease the bitrate down mid-service without stopping the stream. There is also a check you can run before the service starts.
What you need
- An iPad running iPadOS 17 or later, as the director.
- One or more iPhones as cameras. Older models are fine.
- A Wi-Fi network you control, ideally with the iPad on Ethernet.
- A YouTube channel enabled for live streaming.
- Optional: a Behringer X32 or compatible desk for multitrack audio, and an Apple TV to show the feed on a screen elsewhere in the building.
Getting started
Create your church's account here
Sign in with Google on the dashboard. That account manages your church's settings and is the only place your YouTube connection lives.
Connect YouTube
One click on the dashboard. Steeple Cast can then create each service's broadcast for you, with your title pattern, privacy setting and thumbnail.
Pair your iPad
The dashboard shows a QR code. Scan it once from the app and the iPad knows where to stream, for good.
Step-by-step, with what to expect along the way: the setup guide.
About the app
Steeple Cast is made by our team at Peace Builders. It has no ads and doesn't sell data. Read the privacy policy and the terms of service, or get in touch if something isn't working.