Features

Compare Mission Broadcast

See how Mission Broadcast stacks up against several other communication options.

Feature	Mission email alone	Parent forwards each week	Social media group	Newsletter tool	Mission Broadcast
Live mission map subscribers can watch fill in The missionary drops a pin by email from the mission-issued device, and family managers at home can update it too. Pins stay on the map after homecoming, so the archive is easy to find later.	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓
Kept after homecoming When the mission ends, the archive site, every letter, and every photo stay put. A PDF version of the whole mission is available too, so you can save or print it as a keepsake.	Deleted in months	If you never lose the emails	While the platform allows	✓	✓
Every subscriber gets every letter Send once, without hand-typing every address and without wondering if you missed someone.	If you remember all of them	If you remember all of them	Only members who log in	✓	✓
Keep a real subscriber list Add a grandparent, a ward member, or a family friend in one click, or by email. Nobody has to remember an address to add someone, and nobody quietly falls off the list.	✕	✕	Members join themselves	✓	✓
Late subscribers can read old letters Someone who signs up mid-mission can go back and read every letter from the first week onward.	✕	✕	✓	Only with a public archive	✓
A private archive not indexed by search engines The archive sits behind a sign-in. Search engines and AI scrapers can't find the letters or the photos.	✕	✕	Depends on group privacy	Often a public archive URL	✓
Manage from email or from the web The missionary adds subscribers, requests the current list, or asks for help by email, right from the mission-issued device. Managers at home can sign in from a computer too.	Email only	Email only	Web only	Web only	✓
QR code so subscribers can add themselves Print it, tape it to the fridge, or show it at Sunday dinner. Anyone who scans can join the list in seconds.	✕	✕	✕	✕	✓
Your own URL Use the standard address we set up (like missionbroadcast.com/m/elderpehrson), bring a domain you already own, or let us register one for you.	✕	✕	✕	✓	✓
Optional app with on-device notifications Subscribers who want to know the second a letter lands can install the app on their phone. Everyone else reads the email.	✕	✕	App is for the whole platform	✕	✓
Download everything as a zip Every letter and every photo, in a single file you can save wherever you want.	✕	Search your inbox	✕	Some tools	✓
Subscribers' addresses stay private One accidental To instead of BCC and the whole list sees each other. Mission Broadcast never exposes one subscriber to another.	✓	If you use BCC correctly	Members are visible	✓	✓
Formatted letters with a chosen design Pick a theme that fits the season and the tone your family wants, and change it whenever you like. Every letter goes out in that design, with no extra work from your missionary.	✕	✕	✕	✓	✓
One-click unsubscribe	✕	Manual	Leave group	✓	✓
Ad-free reading No ads in the emails, no ads on the archive, no cross-promotion, and no selling of subscriber lists. What you send is what your subscribers see.	✓	✓	✕	Depends on tier	✓
Photos and attachments come through Photos are sized for email and shown inline. The archive holds the full set for each letter, browsable by date.	✓	✓	Photos, not files	✓	✓
One address for your missionary Your missionary uses one address that stays the same for the whole mission. Subscribers can reply directly, and the reply lands in the missionary's inbox as a normal email.	✓	✕	✕	✕	✓
Cost for a two-year mission	Free	Free	Free	Monthly subscription	One payment

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Privacy and security

Your missionary's letters stay in the family

The archive is behind a sign-in. Subscribers open it from the link in any letter. Nobody else gets in, and search engines and AI crawlers can't reach the letters or the photos.
Subscribers never see each other. Each letter goes out one copy per person, so no address ever sits in a To or CC list.
Only your missionary can send to the list. Mail to the list address from anyone else gets a bounce-back. Replies and reply-alls go to your missionary and nobody else.
Your card stays with Stripe. Payments run through Stripe, and we never see your card number.
Your letters are yours. Download every letter and photo as a single file whenever you like. A subscriber who wants out can ask to be forgotten and be removed in one step.
No advertising trackers. The only analytics run on our marketing pages, never on a missionary's site or in the archive.

The full details are in the Privacy Policy.

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