Comparison

The Preacher vs Pew

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

Head to head
About

The Preacher

This app helps clergy log sermons, scripture references, and preaching locations. It offers a built-in study Bible with verse notes and Strong's Concordance. Premium features include advanced analytics and an unlimited sermon library.

Highlights
  • Sermon logging with title, location, and notes
  • Integrated King James and American Standard Bibles
  • Verse highlighting and note-taking
  • Strong's Concordance with original language lookup
  • Pulpit-ready preparation mode with timer
  • Offline functionality
  • Ministry analytics and reports
Features
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The Preacher is the record of your ministry. Every sermon you've written, every place you've preached, and every service you've been part of, kept in one place. Log a sermon in about 30 seconds: a title, where you preached, and you're done. Scriptures, outline, notes, tags, and photos are all there when you want them and never required. FREE TO START, NO TRIAL REQUIRED Read the Bible, highlight it, and keep verse notes free forever. Keep your first 3 sermons at no cost: write them, preach them from your phone, print and export them. Premium adds an unlimited library, sermon translation, Strong's Concordance and the Word Study Notebook, analytics, Batch Log, and the app themes. CATCH THE IDEA, THEN PREACH IT Notes is a notebook for sermon ideas, right on the Home screen. Jot down a title, a thought, or a verse the moment it comes. The first line is the title and everything saves itself. When it's ready, tap "Make it a sermon": headings become points, references become scripture with the verse filled in, and it opens in Prepare Mode. YOUR LIBRARY BUILDS ITSELF Each message becomes one sermon card that remembers every time and place you've preached it. Group messages into series, mark favorites, and find anything by title, scripture, location, or keyword. YOUR TIMELINE TELLS THE STORY Every service lands on a searchable timeline you can filter by date, place, or type, with a calendar view. You'll always know what you preached, and where. PREACH FROM IT Prepare Mode is a pulpit ready view of your outline: large text, a message timer, and hands free auto scroll, with the screen kept awake. Tap the point you're on and it glows, so you never lose your place. One tap logs the service when you finish. A STUDY BIBLE BUILT IN Read the KJV and ASV, highlight verses in four colors, and keep notes on any verse. Tap a KJV verse to open Strong's Concordance: the original Hebrew or Greek behind every word, with definitions and cross references. Add a verse straight into a sermon outline, and keep what you study in your Word Study Notebook. ONE SERMON, EVERY LANGUAGE Translate any sermon into Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian Creole, Swahili, Korean, and 30+ more languages, for an interpreter, a mission trip, or a bilingual church. Scripture references stay as written, and you can save the translation as its own sermon. SHARE AND PRINT Share or print any sermon or service as a PDF, in either a large pulpit style layout or a classic page layout. Send a sermon to another preacher as a link: they tap it and the sermon opens in their own app, theirs to edit. MAKE IT YOURS Arrange your Home screen, and pick your accent color, font, text size, and one of three looks: Rounded, Sharp, or Paper. SEE YOUR MINISTRY AT A GLANCE Top scriptures, top locations, preaching streaks, and reports including Scripture Coverage, an Annual Report, and a full Ministry Report PDF. WORKS WITHOUT SIGNAL Everything saves to your phone first, so the app works fully offline and syncs when you're back online. Deleted items rest in a 30 day Recycle Bin, and your data is backed up to your account. FOR PREACHERS AND CONGREGATIONS ALIKE Preach? Log what you delivered. Attend? Log the message you heard, who preached it, and what you took away. The Preacher has no ads, no tracking across other apps, and no selling of your data. Your ministry, remembered. The Preacher is free to download and free to use, with an optional subscription for the rest. Auto renewable subscriptions: Premium Monthly at $4.99 per month and Premium Yearly at $44.99 per year, each with a 3 day free trial. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase, and the subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Manage or cancel anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://thepreacherapp.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Pew

Features
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Record the sermon. Read it later. Put the phone face down on the pew and lock the screen. It keeps recording. When you get home there's the audio, a transcript you can search, and somewhere to write down what you actually thought about it. A WHOLE SERVICE An hour. Two hours. Screen off, in a pocket, at the bottom of a bag. The recording doesn't care. TRANSCRIPTS, WITHOUT THE UPLOAD Speech becomes text on the phone itself, in 11 languages. The audio never gets uploaded anywhere, including to us. SCRIPTURE When someone quotes a verse, Pew catches the reference and shows you the passage. Public domain translations for 21 languages are already on the device, so this works with no signal at all. A few translations are still under copyright and we can't include them; those open in bible.com instead. NOTES Yours go right next to the transcript, not in some other app you have to remember to open. SEARCH Everything you've ever recorded. By word, by who was preaching, by church. AI NOTES, IF YOU WANT THEM A summary, an outline, and the lines worth keeping. This is the only part that sends anything off your phone, and what it sends is the transcript text. Not the audio. It stays off until you turn it on, and you get told exactly what happens before you agree to it. Three of these are free. After that it's part of the subscription. FOR PASTORS A second mode for planning ahead: series, passages, and the notes that go with them. WHAT ISN'T IN HERE No account, nothing to sign up for, no ads, nobody else's trackers. We do count which screens get used, with no name on it. That switch is in Settings. The interface is in 35 languages and follows whatever your phone is set to. You can also just pick one in Settings. Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

The Preacher4 screens
Pew4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: The Preacher at every 4 days against Pew's fortnightly. The Preacher also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 18.0). 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. The Preacher sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month and Pew sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

The Preacher ships an update every 4 days, Pew fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
The Preacher versus Pew: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterThe PreacherPew
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (3 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings3 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 4 days — betterFortnightly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size112 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperROBBIE MICHAEL MILLER岚烜 吴

In-app purchases

2 purchases

The Preacher

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly3 Days trial$4.991 Month
  • Premium Yearly3 Days trial$44.991 Year
2 purchases

Pew

Subscriptions2
  • Pew Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pew Pro Yearly$39.991 Year

Questions

Is The Preacher free?
The Preacher is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Pew free?
Pew is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do The Preacher or Pew have ads?
Neither The Preacher nor Pew shows ads.
Which is updated more often, The Preacher or Pew?
The Preacher ships an update every 4 days, and Pew fortnightly. Most recently, The Preacher was updated on October 13, 2026 and Pew on October 25, 2026.

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