Account & Billing
Sign-in options, subscription plans, device limits, usage tracking, and ChurchCast bundles.
RheoCast offers direct subscriptions and access through ChurchCast ministry bundles. This page explains how accounts, licensing, and usage work.
Sign-In Options
Google Sign-In
The recommended way to activate RheoCast. Your account syncs subscription status, usage, and church profile across devices.
Important: Your device's date and time must be correct for sign-in and all features to work properly. If you see 403 errors or an "Incorrect Date & Time" screen, enable automatic time sync in your system settings. See Troubleshooting for details.
License Key
Organizations with a pre-issued license key (common with ChurchCast bundles) can activate without Google sign-in:
- Click I have a license key on the welcome screen.
- Enter your key and verify.
- Complete church profile setup if prompted.
RheoCast Plans
Visit the Pricing page for current regional pricing.
| Plan | Transcription | AI Credits | Devices | Key features |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Free | 100 min (14-day trial) | — | 1 | Full Broadcast console, songs, notes, manual search, 8 offline translations, windowed output |
| Pro | 300 min/device/month | 100/month (shared) | 2 | Everything in Free, plus always-on verse detection, Creator Studio, imported Bibles, fullscreen output, the Present tab's NDI Source and web overlay, display customization |
| Ministry | 300 min/device/month | 200/month (shared) | 4 | Everything in Pro with more devices and credits |
Plan notes
The Broadcast tab is free. Cameras, scenes, transitions, audio mixing, local recording and live streaming to YouTube, Facebook or custom RTMP are included on every plan, including Free. Paid plans are about live transcription, automatic verse detection, Creator Studio, imported Bibles and the Present tab's NDI / browser-source outputs. Broadcast's External Output, also NDI, is free like the rest of the Broadcast tab, so a Free-plan church can be the camera and microphone in a meeting app.
- Minute pooling. Pro and Ministry plans allow using all device minutes on a single machine if preferred.
- AI credits. Shared across all devices on the subscription; reset monthly.
- No rollover. Unused transcription minutes and AI credits do not carry to the next month.
- Annual billing. Available with discount; usage still resets monthly.
ChurchCast Bundle Access
Churches subscribed to eligible ChurchCast plans receive RheoCast access as part of their ministry toolkit, with no separate RheoCast subscription needed.
| ChurchCast tier | Transcription | AI Credits | Creator Studio features |
|---|---|---|---|
| CC Pro | 180 min/month | 30/month | Transcript, summary, sermon notes, church profile |
| CC Pro Plus | 240 min/month | 50/month | + Devotionals |
| CC Enterprise | 300 min/month | 80/month | + Social media export |
Activate with the license key ChurchCast issued to your church. It is emailed to the church admin and shown in the ChurchCast admin app. A bundled subscription lives on its own RheoCast account and is managed in ChurchCast: renewals, plan changes and device management happen there, and RheoCast shows no plan controls for it. Signing in with Google, even with the same email, opens a separate personal account. To run a personal RheoCast plan on a device, sign out and use, or create, that personal account.
Connecting RheoCast to ChurchCast also lets it read the services your church plans there, on ChurchCast Professional plans and above: see Service Plans.
Learn more about ChurchCast at churchcast.io.
Device Limits
Each plan allows a maximum number of registered devices. When you sign in on a new computer, it counts toward your device limit.
License keys are device-bound: one activation per key unless your plan specifies otherwise.
Manage devices through your account dashboard or contact support if you need to deactivate an old machine.
Usage Tracking
RheoCast tracks two usage types:
Transcription minutes
Time spent with live listening active. Displayed in Settings → Subscription.
- Counts only while transcription is active (Start is pressed below Live Transcript)
- Checkpoints during long sessions
- Syncs to your account when online
AI credits
Consumed when generating content in Creator Studio or using related verses during live sessions. Each generation uses a portion of your monthly credit pool.
Upgrading
Click Upgrade in the app or visit Pricing to move from Free to Pro or Ministry. Existing sessions and church profile data are preserved.
Subscription Management
View your current plan, usage, and billing details in Settings → Subscription inside the app.
For billing questions, payment issues, or plan changes, contact:
Working offline
Your plan is checked against the server when the app starts. If the server cannot be reached, a device that has signed in before launches anyway, on the last plan it saw, with an OFFLINE badge in the header — Sunday does not wait for the Wi-Fi. That grace lasts 7 days; after it, the app still launches with Free-plan features until it can reach the server again. Transcription always needs a live connection, so offline use can never spend your minutes or credits.
The 14-day trial
The trial belongs to the Free plan, not to Pro. There is no separate paid trial to start. A new account gets 14 days of AI verse detection, the feature that otherwise needs Pro, on top of everything Free already includes. A badge appears in the app header while it is running.
When it ends, verse detection and transcription stop — those are what the trial covers. Everything else continues on Free, indefinitely: the Broadcast console, songs, notes, manual scripture search and the offline Bibles.