Church streaming comparison
BoxCast vs Resi
A straight answer to the question you actually searched for — then the thing that surprises most churches once they have picked one.
The short answer
Pick BoxCast if you want dependable church streaming a volunteer can run, at the lower price point. Pick Resi if your building’s internet is genuinely unreliable or you are sending services to multiple campuses — that is what it is built for, and it is worth the premium when you need it.
| Resi | PealCast | |
|---|---|---|
| Best known for | Church-native streaming that is simple to run, with its own encoder and scheduling. | Surviving bad venue internet — its resilient delivery is the reason most churches buy it. |
| Hardware | Its own encoder is central to the product. | Its own hardware decoders and encoders, aimed at multi-site. |
| Multi-site | Supported, but not the main design goal. | A core strength — sending a service reliably to several campuses. |
| Cost shape | Tiered streaming plans, generally the lower entry point. | Higher, and priced for reliability and multi-site rather than the smallest church. |
| Who it suits | A single church that wants dependable streaming without a broadcast engineer. | Multi-site churches, or anywhere the building’s internet is genuinely unreliable. |
Left column is BoxCast, right is Resi. Compiled from each vendor’s public positioning — check current pricing with them directly, as plans change.
The question neither one answers
Whichever you choose, Sunday will end the same way. The stream will have worked, the dashboard will say a few hundred people watched, and you will not be able to name a single one of them.
That is not a flaw in either product — they are video platforms, and they deliver video well. But it means the family who watched for the first time last week, and the couple who used to watch every Sunday and have not appeared in a month, both pass through completely unseen.
That is the gap PealCast fills. We host the stream from the encoder you already own, and each person watching connects once with a verified mobile number — the online equivalent of a connect card. Every week your team gets two short lists: who is new, and who has drifted. Names and numbers, not a chart.
Already using one of them?
Coming from BoxCast
Add PealCast as an extra destination and keep your production exactly as it is — or see the full side-by-side comparison.
Coming from Resi
Add PealCast as a custom RTMP destination in your Resi event. Nothing about your Sunday workflow changes.
BoxCast vs Resi questions
Pick either one. Then find out who watched.
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