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DeveloperChuChu Train Productions
CategoryLifestyle
PriceFree
Released
Rating★ 4.6 (1k)
Version3.1.0
Age rating4+
First seen by us
23 Oct 2026
Sermon Notes & Bible Journal update history & changes
Last change · 12 events since 11 Sep 2013Full timeline ↓📦Updated to version 3.1.0📦Updated to version 3.0.0🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Its developer released another app: Fortune Cookie Cards & Wishes
Full timeline · 11 events in the last 12 months
- 📦Sermon Notes & Bible Journal updated to version 3.1.0Recording is smoother on iPhone and Apple Watch:
• While a sermon records, the Lock Screen shows only the recording's Live Activity, without an empty media player above it.
• On Apple Watch, the recording remote now fits on one screen, so Bookmark and Stop are always in reach.
• The watch's view of a recording shows the sermon's title, series and speaker.
A change to the free plan: your newest sermons stay fully editable, and older ones open read-only. Watch a short video to edit one, or go Premium to edit them all. Every sermon is still yours to read, play, search and export, and nothing is ever deleted.
Thank you for taking notes with Sermon Notes! If the app helps you, a rating or review means a lot.… more - ✏️Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: devices changed+ Watch
- ✏️Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: app got bigger17 MB → 83 MB (+403%)
- ✏️Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: needs a newer iOSiOS 9.0 → iOS 17.0
- 📦Sermon Notes & Bible Journal updated to version 3.0.0Sermon 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.… more - 📦Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: first update in 2035 days
- 🆕Sermon Notes & Bible Journal first spotted by AppInsiderUnited States (found via developer)
- 🆕Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: its developer released another app: Fortune Cookie Cards & Wishes
- 🆕Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: its developer released another app: Truth Or Dare Game For Kids
- 🆕Sermon Notes & Bible Journal: its developer released another app: Would You Rather Kids
- 🆕Sermon Notes & Bible Journal released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.6 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Sermon Notes & Bible Journal on the App Store
App details
App ID
683912245
Publisher
Michael Chu
On the store since
Sep 2013
13 years on the store
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad · Watch
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
1
EN
Size
83 MB
Also listed in
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Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
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Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.6 ★
1k ratings
Measured
Ratings
1k
Measured
About Sermon Notes & Bible Journal
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 complic
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 complic
Latest updates
3.1.0
Recording is smoother on iPhone and Apple Watch:
• While a sermon records, the Lock Screen shows only the recording's Live Activity, without an empty media player above it.
• On Apple Watch, the recording remote now fits on one screen, so Bookmark and Stop are always in reach.
• The watch's view of a recording shows the sermon's title, series and speaker.
A change to the free plan: your newest sermons stay fully editable, and older ones open read-only. Watch a short video to edit one, or go Premium to edit them all. Every sermon is still yours to read, play, search and export, and nothing is ever deleted.
Thank you for taking notes with Sermon Notes! If the app helps you, a rating or review means a lot.
3.0.0
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.
2.2.0
Fixed a bug that would cause audio to be lost if user hits the tab button to pop to the top menu instead of using the back button.
Store changes
What Sermon Notes & Bible Journal changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Devices changed
+ Watch
App got bigger
17 MB → 83 MB (+403%)
Needs a newer iOS
iOS 9.0 → iOS 17.0