Grow vs Sermon Notes PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Grow
Access thousands of biblical and theological resources for daily discipleship. Read, watch, and listen to teachings from pastors and authors, including Dr. R.C. Sproul. Enjoy free content and offline playback.
- Daily teaching videos and devotionals
- Podcast library
- Sermons and conference messages
- Thousands of biblical articles
- Free teaching series
- Offline playback
- Search by topic, teacher, or Scripture
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Discover the joy of knowing God with the Grow app from Ligonier Ministries. Whether you’re a new Christian or have been one for years, find trusted Bible teaching to read, watch, or listen to each day and grow in your faith. Put down roots in God’s Word and find unchanging truth in an ever-changing world. Quickly access: • Renewing Your Mind and Ligonier’s podcast library • Daily teaching videos and devotional readings • Hundreds of audio and video teaching series • Messages and seminars from Ligonier conferences • Thousands of biblical and theological articles • Curated resource collections to help you grow • And more The Ligonier app lets you: • Read or listen to the Bible right in the app • Stream all of R.C. Sproul’s 170+ teaching series for free • Get answers to your theological questions with the Ask Ligonier intelligent assistant • Discover new teaching from Ligonier Ministries • Search thousands of free articles, devotionals, conference messages, and more • Browse teaching by topic, teacher, or Scripture passage • Sign in to access your purchased teaching series, study guides, and ebooks • Download your favorite messages for offline playback • Receive notifications about the latest teaching and ministry updates • Cast messages to a connected device
Sermon Notes PRO
Capture sermon or lecture insights with an intuitive interface. Record audio simultaneously with notes, automatically time-tagging them for easy recall. Organize your recordings by various criteria and export them for further study.
- Simultaneous audio recording and note-taking
- Automatic time-tagging of notes
- Export notes and audio
- Organize by date, category, speaker, location
- iCloud database transfer
- Dark mode support
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Sermon Notes is an application to help you get the most out of a sermon or lecture. Featuring a user intuitive interface and audio recording sizes optimized for the mobile platform. Highlights • Simultaneously record audio while taking notes • Automatic time tag aligns notes with audio track • Export to iTunes App File Sharing and/or e-mail • Simple, clean design • Database transfer between iOS devices via iCloud • Easily organize by date, category, speaker, or location • Dark mode support (iOS 13 and newer) • Default font size support based on iOS settings John 3:16
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Grow at Free against Sermon Notes PRO's $19.99. Grow also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 3 months). Sermon Notes PRO's advantage is rating (4.8 vs 4.4) and review sentiment (85% vs 68%). On ratings volume, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Grow is free to download; Sermon Notes PRO costs $19.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Sermon Notes PRO holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.4. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 582 and 253 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 68% of Grow's written reviews are positive against 85% of Sermon Notes PRO's.
Grow ships an update fortnightly, Sermon Notes PRO every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 21, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Grow | Sermon Notes PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (582 ratings) | 4.8 (253 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 67.7% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 582 — better | 253 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Best chart rank | — | #191 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ligonier | ChuChu Train Productions |
Customer experience
Grow
Sermon Notes PRO
User reviews
Grow
From 582 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 🚀 Easy to use
- 📚 Vast library of resources
- 🙏 Excellent biblical teaching
- 💯 Helpful for spiritual growth
- 🕰️ Convenient for on-the-go access
Room to improve
- 🐛 Frequent crashes and bugs
- 🔍 Difficult to navigate and find content
- 🔒 Unreliable login/sign-in process
- 🔋 Audio playback issues when device is locked
- 🚫 Removal of key features like Bible access
Sermon Notes PRO
From 253 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great for organizing sermons
- 👍 Easy to use and write
- 👍 Helps track routines and improve
- 👍 Convenient for spiritual writing
- 👍 Allows adding subcategories
Room to improve
- 👎 Design/graphics could be better
- 👎 Not necessary, waste of money
- 👎 Needs more update features (editing, font size, bold, underline)
- 👎 Frustrating to close keyboard to save
- 👎 Grotesque look on iPhone 6/6 Plus
Bugs and requests
Grow
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes when scrolling through downloads
- Inability to access purchased content offline
- Compatibility issues with newer iOS versions
- Inconsistent behavior when switching networks
Requested features
5 requests- Add search functionality
- Implement resume playback feature
- Introduce dark mode and widgets
- Allow speed control for audio/video
- Integrate with Apple Vision Pro
Sermon Notes PRO
Reported bugs
4 issues- App crashes every time trying to open a note
- Crashing
- Having trouble with recording, needs practice
- Multiple copies of the same category
Requested features
6 requests- Upload own screenshots or pictures
- Add a feature to upload own screenshots or pictures
- More update features: deleting or editing speakers, editing sermons, font size, bold, underlining
- Access scripture within the app
- Add an option to take a photo or video in app
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- Update for iPhone 6 Plus display
In-app purchases
Grow
No in-app purchases
Sermon Notes PRO
No in-app purchases
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