Reverence vs Sermon Sidekick
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Reverence
Capture sermons with AI-powered transcription, summaries, and reflection questions. Engage in distraction-free prayer with a focus mode and follow personalized 7-day Bible study plans. Organize your spiritual journey with a searchable library of past messages.
- One-tap sermon recording
- AI transcription and summaries
- Personalized reflection questions
- Distraction-free Prayer Lock mode
- 7-day Bible study plans
- Searchable sermon library
- Multi-language support
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Reverence is a quiet companion for the spiritually serious. Capture every sermon. Pray with focus. Study Scripture deeper than you ever have. — RECORD SERMONS WITH ONE TAP Just hit record. Reverence handles transcription, AI-powered summaries, scripture references, reflection questions, and personal application all generated in minutes. — PRAYER LOCK: DISTRACTION-FREE PRAYER A focus mode that blocks the noise. Choose your mood. Receive a Spirit-led prayer. Sit in stillness. Just you, God, and a quiet timer. — 7-DAY BIBLE STUDY PLANS Every sermon you save can become a personal study plan — daily readings, reflections, and prayers built from the message you just heard. — A LIBRARY OF YOUR JOURNEY Every sermon you capture is saved, searchable, and yours. Look back on what God has been speaking to you over weeks, months, years. — BUILT FOR EVERY TRADITION Catholic, Protestant, Orthodox, Evangelical, Pentecostal — Reverence honors your faith tradition and adapts content to your chosen Bible translation. Available in English, Spanish, Portuguese, and French. — PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your recordings, notes, and prayers belong to you. No social feed. No noise. Just reverence. REVERENCE PREMIUM • Unlimited sermon recordings & AI summaries • 7-day Bible study plans for every sermon • Prayer Lock focus mode • All four languages $9.99/month or $49.99/year. 7-day free trial. Cancel anytime. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Subscription auto-renews unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage subscriptions in your Apple ID settings. Terms: https://reverence.app/terms Privacy: https://reverence.app/privacy
Sermon Sidekick
This app integrates Bible reading, guided study, sermon notes, and personal journaling. It offers tools for in-depth passage exploration, verse saving, and note-taking with optional AI summaries. Users can also access published church messages and take service notes.
- Integrated Bible reading and study tools
- Guided study plans for deeper understanding
- Sermon note-taking with audio recording
- Personal journaling with verse attachment
- Optional AI summaries for notes
- Access to church-published messages
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Sermon Sidekick brings Bible reading, study and your church's weekly message into one place. Read all 66 books in a calm, focused reader. Return to your place, type a reference like "Romans 8:28" to go straight there, and listen with Read Aloud. Tap a verse to highlight it, save it or add a personal note. On iPad, turn sideways to read across two pages. Study a passage a step at a time. Most lessons have five parts: Read, What it says, What it means, Your response and Remember. Practice recalling the verses you want to keep, play Find the verse to discover answers in the passage itself, and explore the places behind the passages on the study map. Genesis, Mark and Psalms are free in full, and the first lessons of every other book are free too. Carry Sunday into your week. This Week gives you the passage to read, understand and practice, with a private page for your service notes. Enter your church's code to read its message. Your Journal keeps your writing and saved passages together, and syncs to your account when you sign in. "Summarize my notes" is an optional AI feature, five a month, that reads back only the entries you choose, after you agree. Silas, your study companion, opens passages, walks you through a passage, compares BSB and KJV and starts Read Aloud, all on your device. With Sidekick Plus you can also ask Silas about the passage you're reading. After you agree, your question and the passage are sent to an AI service (Anthropic) to write an answer, which is labeled as AI-assisted and can be wrong. Group Study, with Sidekick Plus, lets you read a passage with a small group you lead or join, with shared notes and discussion. What you post is visible to that group's members. You can report a post or block a member, leaders can remove posts, and you must be at least 13 years old. Bible reading, notes, highlights, your Journal and reading progress stay free. Optional Sidekick Plus opens complete studies for every book, Ask the Passage (AI-assisted answers about the passage you're reading), online answers from Silas, Group Study and five more themes. If Plus ends, nothing you wrote is deleted. Sidekick Plus is a monthly or yearly auto-renewing subscription. Prices, any free trial and renewal terms are shown in the app and by the App Store before you buy. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation, and the subscription renews automatically unless you cancel it at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel it in your App Store account settings. Deleting the app or your Sermon Sidekick account does not cancel a store subscription. Support: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/support.html Privacy: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://sermon-sidekick.web.app/terms.html
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ratings volume: Reverence at 3 against Sermon Sidekick's 1. Reverence also leads on iOS requirement (15.5 vs 18.0). On price, rating, update cadence and ads 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. Reverence sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and Sermon Sidekick sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Reverence against 5.0 for Sermon Sidekick. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 1 respectively.
Reverence ships an update fortnightly, Sermon Sidekick every 9 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Reverence | Sermon Sidekick |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 3 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.5 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 103 MB | 202 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | GAJ ONLINE SERVICES LTD | Christopher Judge |
Customer experience
Reverence
Sermon Sidekick
In-app purchases
Reverence
- Premium Monthly7 Days trial$9.991 Month
- Premium Annual7 Days trial$69.991 Year
Sermon Sidekick
- Sidekick Plus$9.991 Month
- Sidekick Plus7 Days trial$79.991 Year








