# Sembrae — Keep what you hear on Sunday. > Keep what you hear on Sunday. (iPhone/iPad app by Joseph Torres.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sembrae/id6789236746 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Joseph Torres](https://appshunter.io/developer/6789236748) - Category: Lifestyle, Education - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 17.0 · 17 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-09-09 - Data updated: 2026-10-08 - User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sembrae/id6789236746/reviews.md ## What is Sembrae? Sembrae helps you keep what you hear. Most of what moves you on a Sunday is gone by Tuesday. You meant to write down the verse, look up the passage he read twice, ask someone what they made of it. Sembrae is built for that gap, the week between hearing something true and doing anything about it. Record a sermon, a teaching, or a group session, and get back the heart of it: the moments that landed, the themes running underneath, and the Scripture it rested on. Then go further, a study guide, a devotional a day at a time, a companion that shows the passages behind every answer, and the verses themselves, learned by heart. RECORD WHAT YOU HEAR Start recording when the message begins, then put your phone down. When something lands a line, a verse, a question you don't want to lose, mark it with one tap. The moment is waiting for you afterwards, in place, with the words around it. GET SOMETHING BACK Any message you keep can become more than a recording: • A study guide you could actually run on a Wednesday night • Next steps, a handful of concrete things to do with what you heard • A devotional that releases a day at a time, Scripture, a reflection, a prayer, something to act on • A short summary you can share with someone who wasn't there Scripture references are tappable throughout, in the Bible version you choose. LEARN IT BY HEART Start with a pack, Psalm 23, the Romans Road, the Beatitudes, verses for grief, verses for an anxious mind, or learn a verse straight from your journal. A session is about a minute a day: read it, fill in the gaps, work from first letters, then say it cold. Verses come back on their own schedule, so what you learned stays learned. Make a pack of your own and give your group a code to learn it with you. ASK, AND SEE WHERE IT CAME FROM The companion answers in plain language, grounded in the messages you've kept and in Scripture, and cites the passages it drew from. No answer arrives without its sources. ADD WHAT YOU DIDN'T RECORD Weren't in the room? Paste a link to a sermon video and Sembrae reads it for you, the title, the speaker, the message, and it lands in your library beside the ones you captured yourself. A PLACE TO TALK IT OVER Bring your small group in with one code. Ask the question you didn't want to ask out loud on Sunday, and keep the conversation next to the messages it's about. Groups are invite-only, and you can report a message or block someone. YOUR DAY, NOT A FEED Today opens on one passage: the day's Scripture, something to sit with, the next step you left unfinished, where you are in your devotional. Reminders are gentle and reversible, and nothing private ever shows on your lock screen. ALSO INSIDE • A journal that keeps your notes with the message that prompted them • Christian podcasts and radio, for the drive there and back • Churches you follow, so you hear when they publish • A Verse of the Day widget for your home screen ABOUT THE TRANSCRIPT Sembrae captures the heart of a message, the moments, the themes, the lines that mattered, not a word-for-word record. We'd rather tell you that here than let it surprise you later. What you get back is enough to study from, and honest about what it is. YOUR AUDIO, AND WHAT HAPPENS TO IT Recordings are transcribed by Apple's speech service and then deleted. Sembrae never receives or keeps your audio, only the text you choose to submit ever reaches us. PRIVACY Your journal is private. Your groups see only what you post to them. Nothing you record is shared until you decide to share it. Export everything you've saved, or delete your account and all of it with it, whenever you want — from inside the app, without asking anyone. BUILT TO BE USABLE Every screen honors your text size, all the way up. Dynamic Type, VoiceOver, and full keyboard access are part of how the app is built, not a setting we got to late. Sembrae is built by a nonprofit, for people who want Sunday to still be with them on Wednesday. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.3.2 — 2026-09-21 Highlight a verse — it's saved to your YouVersion account. HIGHLIGHT TO YOUVERSION Tap any verse in Sembrae and highlight it — the whole passage, or tap the verses you want and highlight just those. Sign in with YouVersion once and every highlight is saved to your YouVersion account, in the Bible version you've chosen here. bible.com shows it right away; the Bible app shows it after its next sync. Want more than the verse? "Read the chapter" opens it in the Bible app. JUST THE VERSE A Scripture reference now opens on the verse itself — no chapter to scroll through to find it. Highlight it, reflect on it, share it, or read on in the Bible app. MEMORY, IN A BETTER ORDER A verse you've just heard is easiest to work on while most of it is still on the page, so practice now runs: read it and listen, fill in the gaps, work from first letters, put the words in order, then say it cold. Same seven levels, same three cold recalls to make it yours. ALSO • Finished plans fold away under the ones you're on; one tap brings them back. • "See options" on a limit card opens the options every time. • If a sign-in needs a password reset first, the message says so — and how. • A message awaiting a church's or platform review says so on its card. ### 1.3.1 — 2026-09-20 Learn Scripture by heart. MEMORY A NEW TAB Start with a pack, Psalm 23, the Romans Road, the Beatitudes, the Armor of God, the Fruit of the Spirit, verses for grief, verses for an anxious mind, or 25 foundational verses, or learn a verse straight from your journal. A session takes about a minute a day: read it and listen, put the words in order, fill in the gaps, work from first letters, then say it cold. Say it cold three times in a row and the verse is yours, Retained, with its tile in your collection. Verses come back on their own schedule, so what you learned stays learned. Make a pack of your own and hand your group a code to learn it alongside you. PRACTICE THAT ISN'T OUT TO CATCH YOU Miss a word or two and you get a second try before it counts. Remember the order differently in the word bank? Drag the word where it belongs. Stuck on a gap? Check anyway and see the word. FIND THE MESSAGE OR ASK US TO Search your Library by title, church, speaker, or the city a message was recorded in. Can't find it and don't have the link? Tell us the church and a person will track it down for you. YOUR BIBLE VERSION, EVERYWHERE Pick a version once, NIV, NASB, the Berean Standard Bible, and more all verses in the app reads in it: the day's Scripture, the passages behind a message, the verses you're learning. "Open in app" now goes straight to the YouVersion Bible app. ONE CODE FOR THE WHOLE GROUP Invite people with a single code that keeps working, and share it from the app, the code sits on its own line, so it's easy to copy out of a text. ALSO • Record moved onto Today, beside the day's Scripture; five tabs instead of six. • Memory opens on today's session every time you come back to it. • Your account is in the same corner on every screen. • Recording starts more smoothly. • Apple Music is asked for nothing until you connect it. ### 1.3 — 2026-09-17 Learn Scripture by heart. MEMORY — A NEW TAB Start with a pack, Psalm 23, the Romans Road, the Beatitudes, the Armor of God, the Fruit of the Spirit, verses for grief, verses for an anxious mind, or 25 foundational verses, or learn a verse straight from your journal. A session takes about a minute a day: read it and listen, fill in the gaps, work from first letters, then say it cold. Verses come back on their own schedule, so what you learned stays learned. Make a pack of your own and hand your group a code to learn it alongside you. YOUR BIBLE VERSION, EVERYWHERE Pick a version once — NIV, NASB, the Berean Standard Bible, and more, and every verse in the app reads in it: the day's Scripture, the passages behind a message, the verses you're learning. "Open in app" now goes straight to the Bible app. ONE CODE FOR THE WHOLE GROUP Invite people with a single code that keeps working, and share it from the app, the code sits on its own line, so it's easy to copy out of a text. ALSO • Record moved onto Today, beside the day's Scripture; five tabs instead of six. • Your account is in the same corner on every screen. • Recording starts more smoothly. • Apple Music is asked for nothing until you connect it. ### 1.2 — 2026-09-14 VERSES, CHAPTERS, AND SPANS When you capture Scripture during a recording or add it to a reflection, you can now name a whole chapter (Matthew 1), a single verse (Matthew 1:1), or a span (Matthew 1:1–5). Type it, or browse: pick a chapter and take the whole thing, or pick a starting verse and tap a later one. Tap any verse on your reflection to read it right there. A TIDIER LIBRARY A finished devotional moves to Completed the moment you mark its last day. Put any plan away with a long-press and find it again under Archived — nothing is deleted, and a plan you've put away stops nudging you from Today. Your group's shared plans get the same shelf. MESSAGES, WITHOUT THE SCROLL Messages you've saved in the last thirty days stay in the open; everything older folds under one heading, one tap away. Search still looks through all of it. ALSO • Read the full chapter in the Bible version you chose, not a fallback. • Share a verse card straight to Instagram, sized for the feed — and come back to Sembrae afterwards. • Apple Music radio and song search now ask you to connect Apple Music instead of quietly coming up empty. • Recording and playback start more smoothly. ### 1.1 — 2026-09-12 Scripture, inside Sembrae. Version 1.1 brings the Bible into the app. Until now, tapping a verse reference sent you out to bible.com. Now the passage opens right where you are, in the version you choose, provided by YouVersion. READ ANY PASSAGE IN PLACE Tap a Scripture reference anywhere in Sembrae — in a companion answer, a message summary, a study guide, a devotional, a next step, or the Today card and a passage sheet opens with the verse on a gold wash and the whole chapter around it, so you can read up and down from the verse. "Read full chapter" opens a chapter reader with previous and next chapter in the same version. "Open in app" still takes you to the YouVersion Bible app whenever you want it. CHOOSE YOUR BIBLE VERSION Account → Bible version. Pick NIV (the default), NASB 2020, EasyEnglish Bible 2024, ASV, or the World English Bible, and every verse in the app follows: the passage sheet, the chapter reader, the Today verse, devotional days, next steps, and the verses you capture. NKJV is on the way and will light up the day its publisher approves it. An "About this version" card shows each version's full name and its publisher's notice. FIND A VERSE FAST A new verse picker: type "john 3 16", or just start narrowing by book, then tap a chapter and a verse. Recent verses are one tap away. It only offers verses that exist if a chapter has 36 verses, it tells you so. CAPTURE VERSES WHILE YOU RECORD The recording screen now has two buttons: Capture a verse and Continue reflection. Capture a verse opens the picker, previews the passage in your version, and pins it to the recording at the moment you reached for it. From the Lock Screen, Capture a verse stamps the time the instant you tap, so the capture lands where you meant it even if Face ID takes a second; Mark this moment stays for when you'd rather not unlock. When you submit, the message shows "Verses you captured," each one tappable. ONE REFLECTION PER RECORDING Write a reflection as the message unfolds. It's saved to your Journal as you go, takes the message's title when you submit, and links back to the message it's about. Add a verse from inside the reflection, and it lands as a gold chip on the entry. JOURNAL ENTRIES THAT CARRY THEIR VERSES Journal entries can now hold verses and link to the message they came from. Cards show verse chips and a linked-message chip; open an entry and tap a chip to read the passage. Link a message to any entry, from wherever you opened it. Reflections opened from a sheet now have a Cancel button leaving is just leaving; nothing is saved until you tap Save. SHARE A VERSE Share the verse text with its reference and version, or share a verse card sized for Instagram's 4:5 portrait. Long verses fit the card instead of getting cropped, and backing out of Instagram no longer leaves an error behind. HONEST WHEN THINGS GO WRONG If YouVersion can't be reached, the passage sheet says so in plain words and offers the Bible app. Chapters you've read recently still open offline. A version that isn't available says "Choose another version" rather than failing quietly. ALSO IN THIS RELEASE • Companion citations are now gold verse chips that open the passage in your version. A small note under the sources says the companion quotes the World English Bible, which may differ from the version you read in. • Each licensed version's publisher notice appears beside its text and in Account → Bible version. • Under-the-hood fixes to sharing, sheets, and sign-in. Scripture provided by YouVersion. Licensed versions are shown with their publishers' notices; ASV and WEB are public domain. Thank you for reading, recording, and reflecting with Sembrae. 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