My Sermon Notes vs Takewise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
My Sermon Notes
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Transform your sermon experience with intelligent note-taking, Bible verse lookup, and seamless organisation. Capture insights, add photos, and never lose a moment of spiritual wisdom. Key Features: * Sermon note taking with rich text editing * Bible verse lookup and integration * Photo capture and management * Todo items and reminders * PDF and Rich Text export * Search and filtering capabilities * Preacher management * Cloud sync (iCloud/Google Drive) * Offline functionality * Auto-save drafts
Takewise
Transform lengthy YouTube videos into concise summaries, key insights, and actionable takeaways. Engage in conversations about the content with an AI chatbot and save your findings in an organized library for easy access.
- Summarize YouTube videos from links
- Generate TLDR and key insights
- Timestamped sections for detail
- AI chat for follow-up questions
- Save summaries in a searchable library
- Share takeaways as clean text
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Takewise turns long YouTube videos into useful takeaways you can read, save, and chat with. Share a public YouTube link or paste one into Takewise. In moments, you get a clean take with the parts that matter: the TLDR, key insights, actionable takeaways, timestamps, and a chat for follow-up questions. Use Takewise when you want to learn from lectures, podcasts, tutorials, interviews, research videos, product reviews, business talks, AI videos, and other long-form YouTube content without sitting through the whole thing. What you can do: * Summarize public YouTube videos from a link * Share from YouTube or paste a URL manually * Read a quick TLDR and structured key insights * Open timestamped sections when you need more detail * Ask follow-up questions about the video * Save summaries in a searchable library * Share takeaways as clean text Every takeaway is designed to be skimmable, specific, and useful later. No messy transcript dump, no generic paragraph recap, and no need to remember where the good part was. Takewise is an independent app and is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by YouTube or Google. Some public videos may be unavailable if transcript or metadata access is not available. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Takewise at 15.1 against My Sermon Notes's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
My Sermon Notes ships an update fortnightly, Takewise every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | My Sermon Notes | Takewise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | — | 5.0 (3 ratings) — better |
| Number of ratings | — | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | — | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 14 MB | 54 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Andrew Turner | Nehemiah Blackburn |
In-app purchases
My Sermon Notes
No in-app purchases
Takewise
No in-app purchases
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