Sardius Apps
Native apps for the screens your audience already owns
The Audience Shift
Your audience moved to the living room. Be there when they arrive.
Weekly viewers don’t open a browser on Sunday afternoon. They open Roku, Apple TV, or the app on their phone. “Are we on Roku?” deserves an answer with your brand on it, not someone else’s.
2 in 3
Off pay TV
Nearly two in three U.S. adults don’t subscribe to cable or satellite TV.
1 in 4
Worship on screens
About one in four U.S. adults regularly watch religious services online or on TV.
~50%
On Roku or Samsung
Roku and Samsung are the main TV platform in about half of U.S. broadband homes.
One Library. Every Screen.
The apps your platform already knows how to build.
Your Sardius apps aren’t a second system. They pull from the same library, feeds, and calendar that already power your website, so nothing is uploaded or tagged twice.
1. You publish in Sardius
Upload or stream once, then add titles, series, categories, speakers, and artwork in the Control Panel.
2. Your apps update automatically
New titles appear the moment you publish, and live events go live when your calendar says so. Catalog updates never wait on an app-store review.
3. Viewers watch anywhere
The same multi-CDN, adaptive-bitrate delivery as your web player means the same quality on every screen.
TV Everywhere
Start on the TV. Finish on the phone. Never lose your place.
A viewer starts a message on the web during their lunch break. That evening they open your TV app at home, and it picks up exactly where they left off. Whatever they save on one device shows up on the next.
TV Everywhere is Sardius’s cross-device viewing experience: resume, watch list, and history that follow a signed-in viewer across web, TV, and mobile. It is not a cable-provider login.
Visual: one progress bar traveling laptop → TV → phone (animated code component later)
Continue Watching
Resume on any screen. A progress bar shows how far they got, and a “Continue Watching” row waits on the home screen.
Watch List
Save it on one device and find it waiting on every other one. Adding and removing takes one button on a TV remote.
Watch History
Every message they’ve watched, on every screen. Viewers can clear it whenever they want.
Recommended for You
A row of related content based on categories, series, and what they’ve already watched.
Enhanced Search
Find a message by title, description, or the names of the people in it, with the same results on web and TV.
Syncs in seconds
Progress follows them across devices in seconds, with no manual refresh.
⚑ Confirm timing with engineering
Viewer Authentication
Know who’s watching. Decide what they see.
Keep your apps open to everyone, or ask viewers to sign in for the full experience. Use your existing identity system or ours, and control access down to the individual message.
Signing in on a TV, without the remote keyboard
1
Your TV app shows a QR code and a short activation code.
2
The viewer scans it with their phone or visits your activation page.
3
They sign in or create an account, branded as yours.
4
The TV unlocks in seconds and loads their Continue Watching, Watch List, and recommendations.
⚑ Coming Q4 2026 (confirm before launch): email + password and one-time-code sign-in on TV, longer sessions, and Face ID on iPhone.
TV activation screen mock: QR code + 6-digit code, with a phone completing sign-in
Login options that fit how you already work
Viewer accounts
Free registered accounts with email and password that unlock personalized features.
Email code & magic links
Passwordless sign-in, plus instant-access links your team can send to any viewer.
Shared password
Simple gated access for a group, your staff, or a private event.
Single sign-on (SAML 2.0)
Google Workspace, Microsoft Entra, Okta, Auth0, Salesforce, and more. No duplicate accounts.
⚑ Confirm SSO inside TV apps
Rock RMS
Members sign in with their church login through OpenID Connect.
Ticketing & registration
Brushfire, Eventbrite, Cvent, Stripe subscriptions, Sardius Registration, or your own system.
Access control and entitlement
Viewer Segments. Group viewers by campus, membership tier, partner level, event, or staff, and give each its own content and layout.
Automatic entitlement. Map identity-provider groups or ticket purchases straight to segments, with real-time status checks.
Tiered libraries. Recent messages and live for everyone, the full archive for partners. Change the limits without an app rebuild.
Optional or required login. Let anyone browse and invite them to sign in for the extras, or require login from the first screen.
Concurrent-session limits. Cap how many screens one account can watch on at once.
Protected delivery. Signed URLs and token authentication guard private streams and feeds.
What login gives you
A record for every viewer. What they watched, where, when, and on which device. Export it as CSV for your CRM.
Real reporting. Authenticated and new viewers on your Usage dashboard.
The foundation for TV Everywhere. Resume, Watch List, and recommendations follow signed-in viewers everywhere.
Everything in the Box
Built like the apps your audience already loves.
A ten-foot TV experience and a native phone experience, both carrying your brand and both fed by your library.
Your brand
Fully branded apps
Your icon, colors, typography, splash screen, and store listing.
Your store listings
Published under your own developer accounts.
Flexible home layouts
Hero banners, sliders, poster rows, grids, and featured sections.
Changes without a store release
We update your home screen in minutes.
Live
Live when your calendar says live
LIVE badges on the hero, thumbnails, and detail screens.
Countdown to live
Pre-service countdowns and a “Watch Now” screen.
Live DVR
Scrub back, then jump back to live.
Simulated live & multiple channels
Every channel on your account flows into the apps.
On demand
Series and categories
Organized just like your website.
Audio and podcasts
Audio-only messages with square album art.
Long descriptions and resources
Full descriptions, plus linked resources on mobile.
Smart, auto-updating rows
Feed-driven rows that refill themselves.
Discovery
Search
By title, topic, description, or speaker.
Recommended for You
Related-content rows from metadata and history.
AI-enhanced metadata
AI summaries, captions, and cue points make your library easier to find.
Playback
Adaptive streaming
Multi-CDN, adaptive-bitrate HLS, matching your web player.
Captions
Including AI-generated captions.
Multi-language audio
One stream serves English, Spanish, and Portuguese.
Cast, AirPlay, PiP, offline
⚑ Confirm which have shipped in the native apps.
Insights & care
Playback analytics
Plays, viewers, watch time, top content, device, and geography.
Viewer-level data
Watch history for signed-in viewers, exportable to your CRM.
Always current
Quarterly updates plus OS, SDK, and store-policy compliance.
Real people
Support and account managers who know your apps.
White-Glove Launch
No in-house dev team required.
From design to app-store submission to every OS update after launch, Sardius runs your apps so your team can focus on ministry.
STEP 01
Kickoff
We gather your brand assets, content plan, and platform list.
STEP 02
Design
We lay out your apps on our proven TV and mobile templates, styled to your brand. You approve before we build.
STEP 03
Store accounts
You create business developer accounts and add Sardius as an admin. We give you a step-by-step guide.
STEP 04
Build & test
We configure your apps against your live account and QA them on real devices.
STEP 05
Your review
Test early builds through TestFlight, a Roku beta channel, and Fire TV and Android TV test links.
STEP 06
Store submission
We handle submission and review for every platform.
STEP 07
Launch
You announce it to your audience. We’ll help with the launch.
STEP 08
Ongoing care
Quarterly updates, OS and SDK updates, and store-policy compliance, all handled by us.
Your launch date is set at kickoff. It depends on how quickly brand assets are ready and on each store’s review process.
Built for Broadcasters
Their brand. Their library. The screens their people already own.
Communications lead
Answer “Are we on Roku?” with your brand. One place to publish, every screen updated, with no second CMS and no double uploads.
Media & broadcast director
Broadcast-grade, end to end: the same encoding, multi-CDN delivery, and 24/7 monitoring behind your live stream, now on every TV and phone.
Senior or campus pastor
Reach people beyond Sunday morning, with your messages in the living room, on the commute, and anywhere your people are.
Moving off a legacy app vendor
Weekly replay viewers
Multi-language, multi-region ministries
Partner and member content
Why Sardius Apps
One platform. Every screen. No second app vendor.
Most app vendors sell an isolated product you have to feed by hand and pay separately to update. Sardius Apps are a native extension of the platform already running your video.
We don’t name names here. Ask us how Sardius compares to the app provider you use today.
On Screens Everywhere
Trusted by ministries on every major screen.
Native Sardius apps are live today for some of the largest ministries in the country.
John Hagee Ministries (logo needed)
Redemption Church (logo needed)
Your ministry
⚑ Logo placeholders: confirm permission with each client before launch.
Joyce Meyer Ministries TV app screenshot
Case study · Joyce Meyer Ministries
“Now we handle everything: live events, on-demand video, and TV apps across their entire digital presence.” Paul Huse, CMO & Chief of Staff, JMM
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