Comparison

Alpha App vs SermonNotes

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Alpha App

Enhance your personal growth journey with this companion app. Access session videos, summaries, bonus content, and reflection tools to deepen your understanding and spark breakthroughs.

Highlights
  • Rewatch session videos
  • Concise session summaries
  • Weekly bonus content
  • Inspiring videos and readings
  • Curated online resources
  • Discussion questions
  • Personal note-taking
Features
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Fuel Your Curiosity with Your Digital Companion for Alpha! Transform your Alpha journey with this must-have app, designed to inspire and empower you every step of the way. Dive deeper, reflect meaningfully, and unlock exclusive content that fuels your personal growth. - Relive the Series: Rewatch the captivating session videos or dive into concise summaries to keep the insights fresh. - Discover More: Unlock a treasure trove of weekly bonus content – from inspiring videos and thought-provoking readings to curated online resources. - Grow Through Reflection: Revisit powerful discussion questions and capture your thoughts in personal notes to spark breakthroughs. Don’t just participate in Alpha – amplify your experience. Download the Alpha App now and start your journey to a more inspired, connected, and purposeful journey!

About

SermonNotes

Features
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A notebook built for the twenty minutes you actually have. SermonNotes is for people who want to keep what they hear on a Sunday — not a general-purpose notes app with a church-shaped folder in it, but something built around the way a sermon actually arrives: fast, out of order, and worth more later than it seems at the time. WRITE AT THE SPEED OF THE SERMON Notes are made of blocks — a heading, a point, a quote, a scripture, a question you want to ask someone afterwards. Tap once to add one, and keep going. Nothing to format, nothing to fight, no cursor jumping to the wrong place as the preacher moves on. SCRIPTURE, RIGHT IN YOUR NOTES Choose the book, the chapter and the verses, and the passage is placed in your note, numbered and in full. Or open the Bible reader, find the chapter the preacher is in, and tap the verses you want to keep. Choose from several translations, including the ESV and the NIV. The passage stays in your note afterwards, so it's still there when you read it back on a train with no signal. EVERY SERMON YOU'VE HEARD, STILL FINDABLE Notes carry the date, the speaker and the series, so a year of Sundays is a list you can actually navigate rather than a pile. Search runs across all of it — the words in the sermon, the passage it was on, the person who preached it. The note you half-remember from March is one search away. THE THREADS THROUGH EVERY SERMON Themes gathers the ideas that keep coming back across your notes — grace, prayer, the Church, whatever your preachers keep returning to — and shows you every note on each one. Tap your weekly streak for your Journey: the parts of the Bible you have sat under, and the notes that marked a turn. A quiet record of attention, not a scoreboard. SUNDAY'S NOTES, ON A WEDNESDAY Each day, SermonNotes builds a short devotion out of something you already wrote — the passage, the line you thought worth writing down, and a question to sit with. Study turns a note into questions for a small group or for your own reading in the week. Nothing generic, nothing generated: your own notes, handed back to you at a distance where they read differently. SHARE WITH THE PEOPLE YOU ACTUALLY SIT WITH Notes are private by default. Share one and it goes to the friends you have accepted in the app — not to the public, not to strangers, not to an algorithm. They can leave a comment or an Amen, and ask for a copy if the notes would help them. You can stop sharing at any time. BUILT FOR SUNDAY MORNING - Home Screen widgets: today's devotion, and one tap to a new note - Share text in from anywhere — a verse, a quote, an outline - Bring your old notes across from Apple Notes, Notion, Evernote, Obsidian, Bear, Drafts or Google Keep - Export any note, or your whole library, as PDF, Markdown or plain text MADE TO BE READABLE Set the reading text size independently of the rest of iOS, choose a warmer page tint if a white screen is hard going, and switch on a dyslexia-friendly typeface for the reading column. Dark Mode throughout. FREE, AND PRIVATE SermonNotes is free. There are no adverts, no subscriptions and no tracking of any kind. Nothing about what you write or read is measured. Your notes are never sold and are never used to train AI. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. —— Scripture is provided through the YouVersion Platform and, for the ESV, the ESV API from Crossway. Each translation remains the copyright of its publisher, and the publisher's notice is shown alongside the text. Questions, or something that looks wrong? Write to hello@sermonnotes.uk — a real person reads it.

Screenshots

Alpha App4 screens
SermonNotes4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SermonNotes at every 2 days against Alpha App's every 2 weeks. Alpha App's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Alpha App ships an update every 2 weeks, SermonNotes every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Alpha App versus SermonNotes: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAlpha AppSermonNotes
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (10 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews50.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings10 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size45 MB29 MB
Age rating17+4+
Developeralpha internationalPeter Smith

In-app purchases

None

Alpha App

No in-app purchases

None

SermonNotes

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Alpha App free?
Alpha App is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is SermonNotes free?
SermonNotes is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Alpha App or SermonNotes have ads?
Neither Alpha App nor SermonNotes shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Alpha App or SermonNotes?
Alpha App ships an update every 2 weeks, and SermonNotes every 2 days. Most recently, Alpha App was updated on October 27, 2026 and SermonNotes on October 31, 2026.

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