Pew: Sermon Notes, Bible Study
Offline recorder for church
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Record the sermon. Read it later.
Put the phone face down on the pew and lock the screen. It keeps recording. When you get home there's the audio, a transcript you can search, and somewhere to write down what you actually thought about it.
A WHOLE SERVICE
An hour. Two hours. Screen off, in a pocket, at the bottom of a bag. The recording doesn't care.
TRANSCRIPTS, WITHOUT THE UPLOAD
Speech becomes text on the phone itself, in 11 languages. The audio never gets uploaded anywhere, including to us.
SCRIPTURE
When someone quotes a verse, Pew catches the reference and shows you the passage. Public domain translations for 21 languages are already on the device, so this works with no signal at all. A few translations are still under copyright and we can't include them; those open in bible.com instead.
NOTES
Yours go right next to the transcript, not in some other app you have to remember to open.
SEARCH
Everything you've ever recorded. By word, by who was preaching, by church.
AI NOTES, IF YOU WANT THEM
A summary, an outline, and the lines worth keeping.
This is the only part that sends anything off your phone, and what it sends is the transcript text. Not the audio. It stays off until you turn it on, and you get told exactly what happens before you agree to it. Three of these are free. After that it's part of the subscription.
FOR PASTORS
A second mode for planning ahead: series, passages, and the notes that go with them.
WHAT ISN'T IN HERE
No account, nothing to sign up for, no ads, nobody else's trackers. We do count which screens get used, with no name on it. That switch is in Settings.
The interface is in 35 languages and follows whatever your phone is set to. You can also just pick one in Settings.
Terms of Use
https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
Pew now tells you when it has stopped hearing you. A call comes in, or another app grabs the microphone, and the timer used to carry on as if nothing had happened. Now the screen says so, and Pew keeps trying to get the microphone back.
There's a new switch in Settings for anonymous usage data. We count which screens get used so we know what to fix. Your recordings, transcripts and notes are never part of it. Switch it off and nothing goes at all.
Settings also has a link to the privacy policy, and somewhere to rate the app.
Sending feedback used to do nothing on a phone with no mail account set up. And VoiceOver was reading out an icon name instead of the button that saves a note. Both fixed.
The developer, 岚烜 吴, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- 岚烜 吴
- Size
- 36.6 MB
- Category
- Reference
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 18.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 18.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 18.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 15.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 2.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
English and 33 more
- English, Arabic, Catalan, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch, Finnish, French, German, Greek, Hebrew, Hindi, Hungarian, Indonesian, Italian, Japanese, Korean, Malay, Norwegian Bokmål, Polish, Portuguese, Romanian, Russian, Simplified Chinese, Slovak, Slovenian, Spanish, Swedish, Thai, Traditional Chinese, Turkish, Ukrainian, Vietnamese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Pew Pro Yearly $29.99
- Pew Pro Monthly $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Lanxuan Wu