Sermon Notes & Study Planner
Bible Journal, Verses & Audio
Free · In-App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Sermon Notes is the place to keep every sermon you hear: your notes, the scripture, the recording, and what you want to do about it. Write while you listen, record the message, and come back to it any time. Sermon Notes keeps your notes private on your device and in your own iCloud, with no account to create.
TAKE NOTES AS YOU LISTEN
Start a sermon and write. Add the speaker, church, series and main passage, then add notes, scripture and photos of the slides as the message goes. Notes can be bold, italic, in lists, or highlighted in nine colors, and every note can be folded, locked or moved. Suggestions fill in the speakers, churches and series you've used before, so a new sermon takes seconds.
RECORD THE MESSAGE
Tap Record and Sermon Notes captures the sermon while you keep writing. Tap Bookmark the moment something stands out, from the app, the Lock Screen or your Apple Watch, and a note is dropped in at that exact time. Later, tap any time tag to hear that part again, or skip back and forward 15 seconds. Recordings are saved as you go, so a call or a dead battery won't lose them.
TRANSCRIPTS AND SERMON RECAPS
Turn a recording into a transcript, made on your iPhone, with the scripture it mentions picked out. Sermon Recap writes a summary of the message, its main points, discussion questions for a small group, and steps to live it out, from your notes, the transcript or both. It all runs on your device on supported models, nothing is sent to a server, and every verse it shows comes from the Bible in the app.
THE BIBLE BUILT IN
Read six translations right in the app, with no connection needed: KJV, WEB, ASV, BBE, Darby and Young's Literal. Select verses and add them to a sermon, highlight words in a passage, and search for any word or reference. Verses you've used in sermons are marked in gold, so you can find every message on a passage.
LIVE IT OUT
A sermon is meant to change the week after it. Add the steps you want to take, alone or from a recap's suggestions, set a reminder, and check them off on your iPhone or your wrist. The Live It Out tab shows what's left this week and how far you've come.
YOUR LIBRARY, BEAUTIFULLY KEPT
See your sermons by month, series, speaker, church or book of the Bible, as photo cards or compact colored bars. Every series, speaker and church gets its own cover. Search everything you've written, mark favorites, and drag sermons into your own order. A Series Recap brings a whole series together, week by week.
SHARE WHAT STAYED WITH YOU
Send a sermon as a PDF, plain text or Markdown, make a share card from a takeaway, or share a sermon with family and friends to read.
SERMON FOCUS
Turn on Sermon Focus to set aside the apps that pull at you while a sermon records. It uses Screen Time, lifts on its own when the sermon is over, and is free for everyone.
APPLE WATCH, IPAD AND MORE
Bookmark from your wrist with a tap or a Double Tap, start and stop recordings, check off steps and carry a verse with you on a complication. On iPad the app spreads out into wide columns, and it works on iPhone Duo folded or open.
COMING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION
Your sermons, notes and recordings come over the first time you open the app, and the features you bought before are still yours.
AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS
Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Privacy Policy: https://www.chuchutrain.com/privacy-policy.html
Sermon Notes 3.0 is a complete rewrite, rebuilt from the ground up for today's iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch.
YOUR SERMONS COME WITH YOU
Everything you've written in Sermon Notes comes over the first time you open 3.0: every sermon, note and recording, with your old categories as Series and locations as Churches. The features you bought before are still yours, and nothing on your old database is changed.
NEW IN 3.0
Record a sermon while you write, and bookmark moments from the app, the Lock Screen or your Apple Watch. Turn recordings into transcripts and Sermon Recaps made on your device: a summary, main points, discussion questions and steps to live it out. Read and search six Bible translations built into the app and add verses with a tap. Keep the steps you want to take in the new Live It Out tab, with reminders. Group your library by series, speaker, church or book with photo covers, write with bold, lists and highlights, share sermons as PDFs and share cards, sync through iCloud, and use Sermon Focus to set aside distracting apps while the sermon plays.
THANK YOU
Thank you for keeping your sermons with us for so many years. If something doesn't look right after the update, tap Settings, then Contact Support, and we'll help.
The developer, ChuChu Train Productions, 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 Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Data Linked to You
The following data may be collected and linked to your identity:
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Michael Chu
- Size
- 83.2 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Unlimited Entries $12.99
- Remove Ads $12.99
- All Features $129.99
- Database Transfer $6.99
- Premium Features $12.99
- Premium Features $69.99
- Copyright
- © 2013 Michael Chu