Pulsily
Pulsily does check-ins, the care wall, and the walk. That’s the whole product. You’ll set it up in under an hour and your staff will be using it within a week. It’s not trying to handle giving, attendance, registration, or events.
Pulsily vs. Realm
Built for the staff doing the caring,
not the office running the church.
Realm (and Realm Inform, its care module) is a mature, comprehensive ChMS with a real pastoral-care surface. If you’re evaluating Realm and Pulsily side-by-side, the honest read is they’re different sizes of bet.
Realm wants to be the church’s system of record. Pulsily wants to be the small, quiet tool a staff team opens on Tuesday morning to know who needs a touch this week.
The scope
One job, done deliberately.
Them
Realm spans member records, giving, groups, attendance, registrations, accounting, and care. Each module is well-built; together they're a serious implementation, often with a multi-week onboarding and a dedicated admin on staff to run it.
The price floor
A line item or a contract.
Pulsily
$19–$129/mo by weekly attendance. Self-serve. No contract. Most pastors expense it without a finance-committee conversation.
Them
Realm pricing is sales-led and typically starts in the low hundreds per month, scaling with church size and modules. It’s a real budget line that goes through committee.
The setup curve
An hour vs. a quarter.
Pulsily
Connect Planning Center or upload a CSV. Adopt the Pastoral Heart template. Send your first check-in. The first walk happens within two weeks. That’s the curve.
Them
A typical Realm onboarding includes a kickoff call, data migration from your existing system, staff training, and a phased rollout over weeks-to-months. Worth it if you’re replacing a ChMS. Heavy if you only need the care piece.
Honest about
For churches under 800 ATT who already have a ChMS they like (or just use Planning Center), Realm is more product than you need and Pulsily fits cleanly in the gap. For larger churches who want one vendor for everything and have the budget + admin bandwidth, Realm is a serious choice. Honestly evaluate which season you’re in.
Other comparisons
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Free up to 10 leaders. No credit card. You can run a real check-in cycle inside the trial and decide from your church’s actual data.