Taking everything with you
One button in your dashboard makes a single file with your whole archive in it, whenever you want one, whether you’re leaving or not.
Making one
An owner presses Export your library
Choose whether to include the audio, and we email you when the file’s ready. There’s no ticket, no notice period, and nobody to talk to first. On Platform and Pro, your own tooling can start the same export with one call to the management API, using a key scoped to exports.
| Requested | Contents | Size | Available until | Status |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| September 21, 2026 | Library and audio | 4.21 GB | September 28, 2026 | Ready |
| June 29, 2026 | Library, no audio | 212.6 MB | – | Expired |
The export table in the dashboard, with example exports.
The contents
Every file we hold for you
If it’s yours and we hold it, it’s in the file, as JSON, PDF, XML, and your own audio, which someone who’s never heard of us can open.
The one thing left out is the search index. It’s built from the documents, so importing them builds it again, and the manifest inside the file says so.
Take a copy whenever you like. A church that keeps one on its own drive every quarter spends nothing on it.
Inside the file
- canonical/
- One JSON document per sermon: its transcript segments with their timings, passages, tags, summary, and video.
- published/
- Each record and transcript as the API serves it, and your podcast feed as XML.
- pdf/
- Every printable transcript, on your church’s letterhead.
- raw/
- What the transcription service returned, untouched, before anything of ours ran, so any published transcript can be checked against what it heard.
- Your shelves
- A JSON file each for your sermons, series, speakers, and tags (with each tag’s approval state), and one for your settings.
- images/
- Your logo and podcast artwork.
- audio/
- Your published audio, when you tick the box for it.
- manifest.json
- Counts by kind and by status, when the file was made, and what isn’t in it.
The format
An ordinary .tar.gz
- Opens with
- What your computer already has: macOS Archive Utility, Windows Explorer, 7-Zip, tar and gzip, Python and Node. A README inside lists every folder. There’s no viewer to install.
- Kept for
- Seven days after it’s made. Each download link is minted fresh when you ask for it and lasts an hour, so no permanent link to your whole archive ever exists.
- Tested by
- Restoring an export into an empty account and checking that every file comes back and the new account’s API gives the same answers as the old one.
If you leave
Thirty days to take a copy, then closed
When an account closes, your library goes offline at once and uploads and changes stop. For thirty days you can still sign in and download a copy of everything, and we email you that date on the first day, the fourteenth, and the twenty-seventh. Change your mind inside the thirty days and the account opens again as it was, with your library back online. After that, the account is closed.
A sermon you delete yourself can be restored for fourteen days, then it’s gone for good.
Tell us about your church
Once your account is open, the export is in Settings from the first day, before you’ve published a sermon.