Sermon Design 3 vs SermonSteward

Sermon Design 3 is a tool built to help you prepare thoughtful, intentional sermons. It walks you through the process of thinking through the sermon, from considering its focus and purpose to writing the final manuscript. At the core is a visual outlining tool that helps you design your sermon's flow, using movements like building blocks to construct a message that will fulfill its purpose. Sermon Design uses a 5 phase process: Plan: Think about sermons coming up over the next few weeks, months, or years! Focus: Consider the heart of your sermon, distilling it's core message. Listen: Give attention to the text, asking question that get to heart of what the Word is for the people. Structure: Build the frame of the sermon by giving consideration to the type of movements through which the sermon will move. Write: Finalize the manuscript for the sermon you've been designing. With the iOS version, you can capture ideas while on the go, crafting your sermon in the moments and times when inspiration comes to you. Sermon Movement Library — Access 40+ predefined movement types including Opening, Transition, Anecdote, Exegesis, Theology, Application, Question, Metaphor, Prayer, and more. Custom Forms & Templates — Create and save your own sermon structures. Build templates for recurring sermon types and reuse them across documents. Guided Reflection Prompts — Explore textual, theological, contemporary, personal, and pastoral questions designed to deepen your engagement with scripture. Session Timer — Track your writing sessions and maintain momentum with built-in timing tools that automatically split sessions at midnight. iCloud Sync — Your planning data, custom movements, and templates sync across all your devices via CloudKit. Export & Print — Print sermon plans and manuscripts with professional formatting. Export to PDF or RTF for sharing with team members. **DESIGNED FOR YOUR WORKFLOW** Whether you're preparing Sunday sermons, special occasions, or teaching series, Sermon Design 3 adapts to your needs. Work on individual sermon documents while maintaining awareness of your broader preaching calendar. Create custom movements that reflect your unique preaching style. Build sermon structures that honor traditional homiletical practices while remaining flexible for contemporary approaches. **CROSS-PLATFORM** Available for Mac, iPad, and iPhone with adaptive interfaces optimized for each device. Use sidebar navigation on Mac and iPad, or tab navigation on iPhone. Keyboard shortcuts on Mac make phase switching and common actions quick and efficient. **WHO IT'S FOR** - Pastors and ministers preparing weekly sermons - Lay speakers developing occasional messages - Seminary students learning homiletical practices - Preaching teams collaborating on sermon series - Anyone seeking a systematic approach to sermon preparation Sermon Design Pro is available as a one-time Lifetime purchase or as an annual auto-renewable subscription. The annual subscription automatically renews at the end of each one-year period unless canceled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at purchase confirmation. Manage or cancel any time in your Apple ID account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial period (if offered) is forfeited when you purchase the subscription. Privacy Policy: https://stevenhovater.com/sermon-design-privacy-policy/ Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

SermonSteward is a quiet, dependable home for your sermons, from the first outline on Monday to the pulpit on Sunday and the archive for years to come. Write in a familiar word processor, preach from a clean, distraction-free view, and always know where and when you last preached a sermon. No markup, no clutter, and no training required. WRITE NATURALLY • Headings, bold, italic, underline, bulleted and numbered lists • Highlight key lines in six colors • Scripture references link automatically. Tap one to insert the passage, or look up any passage and drop it in • Start from your own templates, with a default for your weekly sermon • Private notes for every sermon • Export a clean PDF or print your manuscript PREACH WITH CONFIDENCE • A distraction-free pulpit view with large, adjustable text • Scroll or page through your manuscript, with tap, swipe, keyboard and Bluetooth page-turner support • Dark, Light and High Contrast themes, with adjustable line spacing and margins • Jump straight to any section of your sermon • Clock and timer that counts up or down from your time limit, with a gentle warning as time runs short • Your screen stays awake while you preach RECORD YOUR SERMON • Tap Record in Preach Mode to capture your sermon from the iPhone, iPad or Mac microphone, or a connected mic • Recordings are saved with each sermon. Play them back, share them to your church website or podcast host, or find them in the Files app • On Mac, add recordings to your Music library, labeled with the sermon, series and preacher REMEMBER WHERE YOU PREACHED • Record each time you preach a sermon: church, location, date, occasion and notes • See at a glance where a sermon was last preached • Perfect for guest preaching, pulpit supply and re-preaching a sermon years later ILLUSTRATIONS & QUOTES • Keep illustrations, quotes, personal stories and historical examples in one searchable library • Insert them into a sermon in a couple of taps • SermonSteward tracks where each one was used, so you never repeat a story to the same congregation ORGANIZED FOR THE LONG HAUL • Organize by series and tags; rename or merge tags anytime • Favorites, archive and fast search across every sermon • A three-column layout on iPad and Mac: library, list and editor side by side • iCloud sync across iPhone, iPad and Mac • Export a complete backup of your library anytime Built for pastors, preachers, church planters and seminary students who want software that simply works, and gets out of the way. SERMONSTEWARD PRO Create up to 10 sermons free. SermonSteward Pro unlocks unlimited sermons with a monthly or yearly subscription, or a one-time Lifetime purchase. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and can be managed in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://ryanegli.com/sermonsteward-privacy-policy