Harvest+ vs Sermon Notes PRO
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Harvest+
Access faith-based inspiration and teachings from Pastor Greg Laurie. Explore sermons, films, interviews, and community insights to deepen your spiritual journey. Stay updated with weekly content and powerful storytelling.
- Sermons and teachings
- Live events and feature films
- Interviews with Christian personalities
- Weekly online church community insights
- Greg Laurie's television program
- Inspirational film library
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Harvest Ministries was founded with the mission of knowing God and making Him known. Since 1973, and under the leadership of pastor and evangelist Greg Laurie, Harvest has fulfilled this mission through large-scale evangelism and media. Harvest+ is your platform to advance in your faith through compelling, practical insights from Pastor Greg Laurie, through sermons, live events, feature films, interviews and more. Access premier content from Harvest’s over 50 years of ministry, explore interviews with top-Christian personalities and get weekly insights through our online church community. In addition, get the latest from Greg Laurie’s weekly television program, Harvest + Greg Laurie, experience feature films with powerful storytelling, including Lost Boy: The Next Chapter, Hope for Hurting Hearts, Steve McQueen: American Icon, the cinematic crusade A Rush of Hope, and Johnny Cash: The Redemption of an American Icon. Privacy Policy: https://harvest.org/privacy-policy T&Cs: https://harvest.org/terms-and-conditions
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: Harvest+ at Free against Sermon Notes PRO's $19.99. Sermon Notes PRO's advantage is ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.4). On ratings volume, update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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
Harvest+ 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 — 146 and 253 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 71% of Harvest+'s written reviews are positive against 85% of Sermon Notes PRO's.
Harvest+ ships an update every 2 months, Sermon Notes PRO every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Harvest+ | Sermon Notes PRO |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $19.99 |
| Rating | 4.4 (146 ratings) | 4.8 (253 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.5% of reviews | 84.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 146 | 253 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months — better | Every 3 months |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Best chart rank | — | #191 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Apple TV — better | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.0 | 9.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 9 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harvest Ministries: Greg Laurie | ChuChu Train Productions |
Customer experience
Harvest+
Sermon Notes PRO
User reviews
Harvest+
From 146 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Inspirational and life-changing content from Pastor Greg Laurie
- 📱 Easy-to-navigate user interface
- 🎥 Access to extensive library of sermons and videos
- 📖 Daily devotional content available
- 🎧 Ability to listen in background while multitasking
Room to improve
- 🐛 App crashes and fails to load content
- 📺 Live streaming functionality broken on Roku/TV devices
- 🔄 Recent update removed essential features
- 📱 Confusing dual-app system (Harvest vs Harvest+)
- 🔊 Audio volume too low in some cases
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
Harvest+
Reported bugs
12 issues- App crashes when opening or playing messages
- Live stream not working on Roku/TV devices
- Content fails to load with 'something went wrong' error
- Cellular network connectivity failures
- Downloaded audio files don't complete playback
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- Bible reading plan only shows Old Testament instead of both
- Broken links throughout app
- App won't open after updates
- Unable to access previously saved Pastor Laurie messages
- Devotional content opens in Safari instead of within app
- Data missing errors when accessing devotionals
- No navigation back from date list in reading plan
Requested features
12 requests- Restore 'A New Beginning' daily radio program
- Bring back Bible reading plan functionality
- Restore daily devotion feature
- Consolidate Harvest and Harvest+ into single app
- Add more Yellow Dog children's episodes
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- Restore 'New Beginnings' daily message
- Restore music in sermon playback
- Enable offline access to downloaded content
- Restore progress tracking for podcasts
- Add Bluetooth support for video playback
- Improve audio volume levels
- Restore ability to delete downloaded messages
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
Harvest+
No in-app purchases
Sermon Notes PRO
No in-app purchases
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