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Write while you listen, record the message, and come back to it any time. Sermon Notes keeps your notes private on your device and in your own iCloud, with no account to create.\n\nTAKE NOTES AS YOU LISTEN\nStart a sermon and write. Add the speaker, church, series and main passage, then add notes, scripture and photos of the slides as the message goes. Notes can be bold, italic, in lists, or highlighted in nine colors, and every note can be folded, locked or moved. Suggestions fill in the speakers, churches and series you've used before, so a new sermon takes seconds.\n\nRECORD THE MESSAGE\nTap Record and Sermon Notes captures the sermon while you keep writing. Tap Bookmark the moment something stands out, from the app, the Lock Screen or your Apple Watch, and a note is dropped in at that exact time. Later, tap any time tag to hear that part again, or skip back and forward 15 seconds. Recordings are saved as you go, so a call or a dead battery won't lose them.\n\nTRANSCRIPTS AND SERMON RECAPS\nTurn a recording into a transcript, made on your iPhone, with the scripture it mentions picked out. Sermon Recap writes a summary of the message, its main points, discussion questions for a small group, and steps to live it out, from your notes, the transcript or both. It all runs on your device on supported models, nothing is sent to a server, and every verse it shows comes from the Bible in the app.\n\nTHE BIBLE BUILT IN\nRead six translations right in the app, with no connection needed: KJV, WEB, ASV, BBE, Darby and Young's Literal. Select verses and add them to a sermon, highlight words in a passage, and search for any word or reference. Verses you've used in sermons are marked in gold, so you can find every message on a passage.\n\nLIVE IT OUT\nA sermon is meant to change the week after it. Add the steps you want to take, alone or from a recap's suggestions, set a reminder, and check them off on your iPhone or your wrist. The Live It Out tab shows what's left this week and how far you've come.\n\nYOUR LIBRARY, BEAUTIFULLY KEPT\nSee your sermons by month, series, speaker, church or book of the Bible, as photo cards or compact colored bars. Every series, speaker and church gets its own cover. Search everything you've written, mark favorites, and drag sermons into your own order. A Series Recap brings a whole series together, week by week.\n\nSHARE WHAT STAYED WITH YOU\nSend a sermon as a PDF, plain text or Markdown, make a share card from a takeaway, or share a sermon with family and friends to read.\n\nSERMON FOCUS\nTurn on Sermon Focus to set aside the apps that pull at you while a sermon records. It uses Screen Time, lifts on its own when the sermon is over, and is free for everyone.\n\nAPPLE WATCH, IPAD AND MORE\nBookmark from your wrist with a tap or a Double Tap, start and stop recordings, check off steps and carry a verse with you on a complication. On iPad the app spreads out into wide columns, and it works on iPhone Duo folded or open.\n\nCOMING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION\nYour sermons, notes and recordings come over the first time you open the app, and the features you bought before are still yours.\n\nAUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS\nSubscriptions renew automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Cancel any time in your Apple Account settings. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you buy a subscription.\n\nTerms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/\nPrivacy Policy: https://www.chuchutrain.com/privacy-policy.html","facts":{"developer_id":415772087,"developer_url":"https://www.chuchutrain.com/","first_released":"2013-09-11T01:35:36Z","support_url":"https://www.chuchutrain.com/","privacy_url":"http://www.chuchutrain.com/eula--privacy-policy.html","website_url":"https://www.chuchutrain.com/","app_version":"3.1.1","release_notes":"minor bug fixes","rating_current_version":4.61197,"rating_count_current_version":1036,"star_counts":[42,15,49,91,838],"genres":["Lifestyle","Utilities"],"languages":["EN"],"content_advisories":null,"device_families":["watch","iphone","ipad"],"made_for_iphone_duo":true,"chart":null},"freshness":{"apple_read_at":"2026-11-11T06:24:12.972Z","catalog_read_at":"2026-11-05T06:35:13.876Z","reviews_checked_at":null,"summary_written_at":"2026-11-05T05:58:12.805Z","placed_at":"2026-11-05T06:34:13.156Z","scored_at":"2026-11-13T20:12:12.744Z"},"editorial":{"one_liner":"Keeps sermon notes, recordings, transcripts and follow-up steps together, stored privately on your device and in your.","what_is":"Sermon Notes & Bible Journal is a free Lifestyle app for writing notes while a sermon plays and recording the message to return to later. 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