LightLoop
Upload, schedule & play media & curriculum on Apple TVs
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Josiah Oslund

LightLoop - Upload, schedule & play media & curriculum on Apple TVs

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Most digital signage costs $20–50/month per screen and still buffers. LightLoop is completely free, uses your Google Drive for storage, and caches everything locally on Apple TV so rooms never buffer — even if the internet drops mid-service. Built for churches: Planning Center Check-In triggers a full-screen Welcome Party the instant a child checks in. Pause Points let teachers hold a curriculum video mid-lesson and advance on cue. Every feature. Unlimited screens. $0.

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Josiah Oslund
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My wife serves as the children's director at our church in Phoenix. Modern kids church curriculum is digitally driven - and while there are some amazing and powerful tools out there to assist in displaying these important messages, many of these tools are expensive, over/under-kill for the job at hand, or lack specific features. I've often overheard comments like, "Too bad you can't import directly from Canva", or "I wish I could add a discussion timer", or "It would be nice if the video could automatically pause on the memory verse". Working in a budget-conscious context (a church) - I often look at how we can use what we already have to solve the problem at hand. So I built LightLoop for us first. Google Drive for storage because we already had 100TB free through Google Workspace for Nonprofits. Canva integration because we already had Canva Teams for Nonprofits. Apple TV for playback because it's silent, reliable, mounts behind any display, and boots back up automatically after a power outage. Offline caching because church Wi-Fi is famously unreliable at exactly the wrong moment. We use Planning Center tools for church management, so why not throw that in too? It's free because the cost of running it is low enough that charging felt wrong. Churches shouldn't have to budget for their room screens. Happy to answer anything — genuinely grateful to share it here.