Sermon Notes vs My Sermon Notes
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Sermon Notes
Capture sermon or lecture insights with simultaneous audio recording and note-taking. Organize your thoughts by date, category, speaker, or location, and easily export your content.
- Simultaneous audio recording and note-taking
- Automatic time-tagging of notes to audio
- Export notes via email or iTunes File Sharing
- Organize notes by date, category, speaker, location
- iCloud database transfer between devices
- Dark mode support
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Sermon Notes is an application to help you get the most out of a sermon or lecture. Featuring a user intuitive interface and audio recording sizes optimized for the mobile platform. Highlights • Simultaneously record audio while taking notes • Automatic time tag aligns notes with audio track • Export to iTunes App File Sharing and/or e-mail • Simple, clean design • Database transfer between iOS devices via iCloud • Easily organize by date, category, speaker, or location • Dark mode support (iOS 13 and newer) • Default font size support based on iOS settings John 3:16
My Sermon Notes
Capture sermon notes with fill-in-the-blank outlines and access them offline. Submit prayer requests, receive church announcements, and join or create ministry groups. Stay connected with your congregation through interactive features.
- Interactive fill-in-the-blank sermon notes
- Offline access to sermon notes
- Submit and view prayer requests
- Receive church announcements
- Create and join church groups
- Event sign-ups and reminders
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Take interactive, fill-in-the-blank sermon notes at your church with My Sermon Notes. You can also interact with your church in other ways, including prayer requests, announcements, and more. NOTES Our fill-in-the-blank notes system gives you an outline of your pastor's sermon to easily and effectively take notes. You always have access to your past sermon notes, whether online or offline, and our search feature allows you to locate previous sermons you're interested in. PRAYER REQUESTS Pray for others in your church congregation using the Prayer Requests feature. Prayer requests are submitted with the option of being anonymous or restricted to the church staff only. When new prayer requests are added, users can receive push notifications. Users can leave comments of encouragement on published prayers. ANNOUNCEMENTS Receive push notification updates from your church with the latest announcements. Share images, links, contact info, and more. GROUPS Create and join groups for any category of your church ministry. Small groups, serving teams, or age groups. Create a group for your youth ministry to offer exclusive sermons, announcements, and prayer requests only to group members. Groups can be public, private (requires permission to join), or hidden (users can only be added by an admin). FEATURE OVERVIEW - Sermons notes are saved locally and in the cloud and are searchable by tags. - Users can submit connection card information directly to the church staff. - Church members can view and sign up for events or contact the event coordinator. Notification reminders are sent for upcoming events. - Prayer requests can be submitted to church staff or congregation. Members will receive notifications when new prayer requests are added. - Church members can join or leave ministry teams or contact the team coordinator.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Sermon Notes at 4.6 against My Sermon Notes's 3.8. Sermon Notes also leads on ratings volume (1K vs 13) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 13.1.0). My Sermon Notes's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (monthly vs every 4 months). On price, review sentiment, ads 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
Both are free to download. Sermon Notes sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. My Sermon Notes asks for nothing beyond the download.
Sermon Notes holds the better App Store score, 4.6 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Sermon Notes has 1K ratings behind it against 13, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 73% of Sermon Notes's written reviews are positive against 80% of My Sermon Notes's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Sermon Notes ships an update every 4 months, My Sermon Notes monthly. The most recent releases landed on September 23, 2026 and September 11, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Sermon Notes | My Sermon Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1K ratings) — better | 3.8 (13 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 73.0% of reviews | 80.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 1K — better | 13 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | Yes | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Ad-supported — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 13.1.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 16 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | ChuChu Train Productions | CT Software Systems, LLC |
Customer experience
Sermon Notes
My Sermon Notes
Bugs and requests
Sermon Notes
Reported bugs
4 issues- Crashes when app goes to sleep
- Loses notes when closing the app
- Ignores regional settings
- Audio quality issues
Requested features
4 requests- Add formatting options (bold, italics, bullet points)
- Integrate with Bible apps
- Improve note-taking experience (e.g., Apple Pencil support)
- Provide better file management and export options
My Sermon Notes
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Sermon Notes
- Database Transfer$4.99
- Remove Ads$9.99
- Unlimited Entries$9.99
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- All Features$19.99
My Sermon Notes
No in-app purchases
Questions
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