Comparison

Sermon Log vs SermonSteward

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

Head to head
About

Sermon Log

Capture, organize, and revisit religious messages with this companion app. Record audio, take notes, generate AI summaries, and connect reflections to scripture. It provides a focused space to remember insights and deepen faith.

Highlights
  • Record sermons and save with notes
  • Write rich notes during messages
  • Generate transcripts for review
  • Create clear summaries of big ideas
  • Connect reflections to scripture
  • Organize notes by title, speaker, date
  • Share summaries, transcripts, or audio
Features
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Sermon Log is a beautifully designed sermon companion for capturing, organizing, and revisiting the messages that shape your faith. Whether you are in church, at Bible study, or listening again later, Sermon Log helps you keep everything in one place. Record audio, take notes while you listen, generate smart summaries, and connect your reflections back to Scripture without losing the heart of the message. With Sermon Log, you can: • Record sermons and save them alongside your notes • Write rich notes during or after a message • Generate transcripts for easier review and recall • Create clear summaries that highlight the big ideas • Keep key verses close with built-in Bible access • Organize notes by title, speaker, and date • Share summaries, transcripts, or audio with others • Revisit past messages for deeper reflection throughout the week Sermon Log helps you move beyond scattered notes and forgotten insights. It gives you one calm, focused space to capture what God is saying and return to it again and again. From Sunday messages to personal study moments, Sermon Log helps you listen well, remember more, and reflect deeply. Terms of Use: https://getsermonlog.com/terms-of-service Privacy Policy: https://getsermonlog.com/privacy-policy

About

SermonSteward

This app helps religious leaders write, organize, and deliver sermons. It offers a distraction-free writing environment, preaching tools like adjustable text and timers, and the ability to record and archive sermons. It also includes a searchable library for illustrations and quotes.

Highlights
  • Distraction-free writing and preaching modes
  • Automatic scripture reference linking
  • Adjustable text size and themes for preaching
  • Integrated clock and timer for sermons
  • Sermon recording and sharing capabilities
  • Searchable library for illustrations and quotes
  • iCloud sync across devices
Features
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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

Screenshots

Sermon Log4 screens
SermonSteward4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Sermon Log at weekly against SermonSteward's every 2 months. Sermon Log also leads on ratings volume (41 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). SermonSteward's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.7). On price, review sentiment, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Sermon Log sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month and SermonSteward sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SermonSteward holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.7. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sermon Log has 41 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 95% of Sermon Log's written reviews are positive against 100% of SermonSteward's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Sermon Log ships an update weekly, SermonSteward every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on October 28, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Sermon Log versus SermonSteward: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSermon LogSermonSteward
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (41 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews95.5% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings41 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 2 months
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size93 MB2 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperChukwunedum UzorRyan Egli

Customer experience

Sermon Log

All ratings40 ratings
Positive95.0%
Neutral2.5%
Negative2.5%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive95.5%
Neutral0.0%
Negative4.5%

SermonSteward

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

Sermon Log

Subscriptions4
  • Sermon Log Pro — Monthly$3.991 Month
  • Sermon Log Pro — Monthly$5.991 Month
  • Sermon Log Pro — Annual$29.991 Year
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  • Sermon Log Pro — Annual$39.991 Year
3 purchases

SermonSteward

Subscriptions2
  • SermonSteward Pro Monthly$0.991 Month
  • SermonSteward Pro Yearly$9.991 Year
One-time1
  • SermonSteward Pro Lifetime$29.99

Questions

Is Sermon Log free?
Sermon Log is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is SermonSteward free?
SermonSteward is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Sermon Log or SermonSteward?
SermonSteward is rated higher. Sermon Log averages 4.7 out of 5 from 41 ratings, while SermonSteward averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Sermon Log or SermonSteward have ads?
Neither Sermon Log nor SermonSteward shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Sermon Log or SermonSteward?
Sermon Log ships an update weekly, and SermonSteward every 2 months. Most recently, Sermon Log was updated on October 28, 2026 and SermonSteward on October 25, 2026.

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