Hymnal Voice vs Scriptorium

Hymnal Voice began with the beloved Tshivenḓa hymn books — Nyimbo dza Vhatendi and Phalaphala ya Mafhungo-Maḓifha — and the classic English hymns behind them. Today it is a growing offline home for hymn traditions across Southern Africa, now joined by the isiZulu Amagama Okuhlabelela — with more languages and traditions on the way. Read, sing, and praise the Lord in church, at home, or far from home. EVERY HYMN, ALWAYS WITH YOU • Over 700 hymns across four hymn books — Tshivenḓa, English, and isiZulu — all fully offline • Choose your own home hymnals, so the books you sing from are always to hand • Find any hymn by number, title, or any line of its words • Large, clear hymn-book typography with adjustable text size • English translations line by line under the original, whenever you want them • Many hymns link to their English original — and back SING ALONG • Instrumentals for hundreds of hymns, in five sounds — from cathedral organ to gentle piano — with adjustable speed that never changes the key • A short intro gives the starting pitch, then the verses follow RECORD AND SHARE • Record yourself singing — recordings stay on your phone unless you choose to share them • Tap the lines as you sing and playback shows the words in time with your voice • Share a recording in the app as a 24-hour status friends can hear, send the audio to another app, or create a captioned video for your status • Sing over an instrumental, or add your voice to someone else's recording THE STORIES BEHIND THE HYMNS • Hymn writers from the Venḓa mission era, the German chorale tradition, the great gospel songwriters, and beyond — over fifty biographies New hymnals arrive over time, on their own — no reinstall needed. From the Venḓa missions to hymn traditions across the region, these songs have carried worship for generations. This app is for the praise of the Lord.

Scriptorium is for taking notes in church. When the preacher says "turn with me to Romans 8", write Romans 8:28 the way you'd write it anyway. Scriptorium notices the reference and offers to put the verse in; one tap and it's in your note. No flicking between your Bible app and your notes, no copy and paste, and you're still listening when the next point comes. Around that, it's a proper notes app: - Want a verse without waiting to be asked? Type @Romans 8:28, or tap Verse and search. Ranges like John 3:16-18 work too. - Three Bible translations built in: World English Bible British Edition, American Standard Version and Berean Standard Bible. Tap a verse's translation to switch it. - Works offline. The Bible and its topics are stored in the app, so you never need a signal to find a verse. - Bold, italic, underline and strikethrough for your own words. - File each note by notebook, preacher, date and tags. Sermons and Bible Study notebooks are ready from the start. - Mark a line or verse in a note with Remind me, and you'll get a notification reminding you of it a few days later, or at a time you choose. Tap it to open the note. - Search for a word, a preacher or a reference. Search John 3:16 and you'll find every note that quotes it, whichever translation you used. - Search a topic like hope or forgiveness to find verses on it, even before you've written a note. Copy one, share it or add it to a note. Tap Verse while writing and it finds topics too. - Press and hold a verse to see related verses, and add one to your note. - Notes save as you type. Delete something by mistake and it waits in Trash until you decide. - Share a note, with its preacher and date, or a whole notebook as plain text. Or export every note as one text file to read or print. - Back up all your notes to one file, and add them back on a new iPhone or iPad. - Text can go as large as you need, with dark mode and VoiceOver support. - On iPad, your library and the note you're reading sit side by side. What it doesn't do: it doesn't record audio or summarise sermons with AI, and verses on a topic come from a topic index, not AI. It doesn't sync. Your notes stay on the device you write them on until you back them up and move them. There's no account, no ads and no tracking. The app collects nothing. It's free, with no subscription and no trial that runs out. Requires iPhone or iPad on iOS 18 or later. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://qiseda.co.uk/scriptorium/privacy