# Sacred Music — Hymns, sheet music, and audio

> Digital hymnal and music player with sheet music and audio. (iPhone/iPad app by The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sacred-music/id463553380 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints](https://appshunter.io/developer/319828224)
- Category: Music, Reference
- Price: Free
- Rating: 4.13/5 from 1,070 App Store ratings · 324 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 57 MB
- Languages: Afrikaans, Albanian, Arabic, Armenian, Bulgarian, Khmer, Croatian, Czech, Danish, Dutch and 35 more
- Released: 2011-10-07
- Data updated: 2026-06-10
- Monetization: free
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sacred-music/id463553380/reviews.md

## What is Sacred Music?

Sacred Music is the official hymns and music app of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It serves as both a digital hymnal and music player, with sheet music and audio from the hymnbook, Children’s Songbook, annual youth album, and other collections.

If you have any questions or feedback about the app, you can open the app, go to Settings, and tap Send Feedback.

## Key features

- Digital hymnal
- Music player
- Sheet music access
- Audio playback
- Hymnbook content
- Children's Songbook content

## What do users think of Sacred Music?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- 💯 Excellent music selection
- 🎶 Ability to play music and view lyrics/sheet music
- 🔍 Useful search functionality
- 📚 Comprehensive hymn and song collection
- 🎛️ Customizable playback options (vocals, accompaniment)

**Cons**

- 🐛 Crashes and bugs after updates
- 🔍 Search function issues (crashes app)
- 📱 Suboptimal layout and UI design
- 🔇 Inability to continue playback when app is in background
- 🌐 Requires internet connection to access content

**Commonly reported bugs**

- App crashes when searching for songs
- Hymn/song pages not loading properly
- Playback issues when device is locked or app is in background
- Inconsistent behavior when switching between landscape and portrait modes

**Most requested features**

- Add ability to create and share playlists
- Implement dark mode and font size options
- Provide offline access to full hymn/song library
- Add support for individual voice parts (soprano, alto, etc.)
- Integrate with Apple Watch for remote playback control

## Recent user reviews (10 of 324)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sacred-music/id463553380/reviews.md

### 5/5 — Keep Search bar

*2025-11-26, version 2.5.10*

PLEASE , PLEASE, PLEASE keep the search bar in the new music portion when the app switches to the Gospel Library app. We can find songs from the Friend (and more) on the Sacred music app that the Library app doesn’t have. There are so many beautiful songs that will be lost bc we won’t be able to find them.

### 5/5 — Please Don’t take this away

*2025-11-03*

I love using this app separate from the gospel library and will miss it greatly if you go through with taking it away. I can see the condensates of seeing the list of the songs for sacrament meeting and being able to click on them and go right to the song. However the beauty of having this separate app I like and use nearly exclusively, and use the gospel library app for reading the scriptures and other church material. So if there is a way to change your mind, please leave this app which I will use to its last day. Please keep it. Thanks for your time.

### 5/5 — Playlists

*2025-10-24, version 2.5.8*

Please allow us to keep our playlists created on Sacred Music App.  Don’t see a way to create playlists in the other app.

### 3/5 — The coming consolidation is a letdown

*2025-10-20, version 2.5.8*

Please, PLEASE don't move this app into the Gospel Library. Opening the church music from there is very overstimulating for me—something many would never understand. Also, the hymns and songs are already in the GL (At least most of them). There's literally no need to consolidate them.

If you want everything in this app in the GL, just find a way to make it that way while leaving it possible to also have the music app separate from GL. That might help many on both sides feel accommodated.

### 1/5 — Black screen only

*2025-10-13, version 2.5.8*

Before and after last update app just opens shows a song then the screen goes black and nothing shows not even nav. You have a mast bug in your code. This is from iOS 12 pro max

### 5/5 — Great Selection and Format for German Hymns and Songs!

*2025-10-05*

I love this app, and use it at least every evening when I sing to my kids at bedtime. I use love the variety of German song collections (“Lieder für die Singzeit“, “Lieder für Kinder“, among others). These are currently available on the Church’s website, but they are NOT available in the Gospel Library app. It would be great if we could have those collections in the Gospel Library app, too, because the format makes it very easy to swipe between the songs, rather than hit the “Back” button on my phone’s browser, scroll down to find the next song, and open it. Maybe it’s just my lazy, millennial mindset, and I just need to get over it. I just think it would be nice to bring those over from Sacred Music to Gospel Library.

Thank you for blessing us with these great apps to keep us “always in remembrance of our God.”

### 5/5 — Awesome

*2025-10-01, version 2.5.8*

Thank you for all your work to make this app available as long as it was. Sad to see it retire, but looking forward to learning more about how to stream from the GL. Thanks again.

### 5/5 — I hate to see this app go

*2025-09-27*

I know the songs are available in the gospel library app, but I love having this separate app for doing the music and then doing the scriptures and our magazine article articles etc. separate. If at all that there’s an opportunity to reconsider removal of this app please reconsider I love it and I love the way it’s been for these years where it’s available both ways. My vote would be to keep the app and do it where the usage can come from either direction either out of the gospel library or this one but thank you for this app

### 2/5 — This app needs more UX testing and QCing

*2025-09-21*

I have been playing organ and piano for sacrament meeting and primary for years and find this app so frustrating to use sometimes that I’ve started downloading the PDFs so I can open them in ForScore instead… Here are my main issues:

When viewing sheet music, the black menu bar at the top is such a waste of space. You could put all of the buttons in that menu on a single row, and it needs to hide on scroll.

Sometimes when I try to scroll down quickly while I’m playing it registers a left/right swipe which takes me to the next song, which is the last thing I would want to do in the middle of a playing a song. You need to disable the left/right swipe entirely, no one navigates through the hymns like that one at a time, it makes way more sense to just go back to the main list.

The formatting needs to be QC’ed with a fine tooth comb. There’s multiple songs like 1009 where the coda is impossible to see because it’s hiding behind the treble clef. Other songs suffer from overlapping like 1030. 

Give us an option to hide the guitar chords.

The Download/Remove button is a very confusing name for a button, it should just be Download.

Put the song numbers on the sheet music.

Do regular and more stringent UX testing with the people who are playing the music every week in church.

### 3/5 — Missing Hymns

*2025-08-25, version 2.5.7*

The last batch of hymns, still has not bed added to this app. Those have been out for months, when will they be included?

## Frequently asked questions about Sacred Music

### What is Sacred Music app?

Sacred Music is the official app for hymns and music of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It functions as a digital hymnal and music player, providing access to sheet music and audio from various church collections.

### What kind of music is available on Sacred Music?

The app offers hymns and music from the hymnbook, the Children’s Songbook, the annual youth album, and other church publications. You can find both sheet music and audio recordings for these pieces.

### Is Sacred Music free to use?

Yes, Sacred Music is a free application. There are no in-app purchases or advertisements mentioned in its description, indicating it is provided at no cost.

### How can I provide feedback or ask questions about the app?

If you have questions or feedback, you can access the app's settings. Within the settings menu, there is an option to tap 'Send Feedback' to communicate with the developers.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2.5.10 — 2025-10-28

• Bug Fixes

### 2.5.8 — 2025-09-25

• Bug Fixes

### 2.5.7 — 2025-08-04

• Bug Fixes

### 2.5.6 — 2025-07-18

• Bug Fixes

### 2.5.5 — 2025-06-26

• Bug Fixes

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