Sermon Notes & Bible Journal
ChuChu Train Productions Lifestyle iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Sermon Notes & Bible Journal is a free Lifestyle app for iPhone and iPad by ChuChu Train Productions. Rated 4.6/5 from 1,035 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 4.6
- 1K ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 79 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Nov 2
- 2026 · v3.1.0
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About Sermon Notes & Bible Journal
Sermon Notes is the place to keep every sermon you hear: your notes, the scripture, the recording, and what you want to do about it. 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. TAKE NOTES AS YOU LISTEN Start 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. RECORD THE MESSAGE Tap 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. TRANSCRIPTS AND SERMON RECAPS Turn 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. THE BIBLE BUILT IN Read 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. LIVE IT OUT A 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. YOUR LIBRARY, BEAUTIFULLY KEPT See 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. SHARE WHAT STAYED WITH YOU Send 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. SERMON FOCUS Turn 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. APPLE WATCH, IPAD AND MORE Bookmark 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. COMING FROM AN EARLIER VERSION Your sermons, notes and recordings come over the first time you open the app, and the features you bought before are still yours. AUTO-RENEWABLE SUBSCRIPTIONS Subscriptions 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. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.chuchutrain.com/privacy-policy.html
Ratings & reviews
4.6
1K ratings
What’s new
Version 3.1.0 · Updated November 2, 2026
Recording is smoother on iPhone and Apple Watch: • While a sermon records, the Lock Screen shows only the recording's Live Activity, without an empty media player above it. • On Apple Watch, the recording remote now fits on one screen, so Bookmark and Stop are always in reach. • The watch's view of a recording shows the sermon's title, series and speaker. A change to the free plan: your newest sermons stay fully editable, and older ones open read-only. Watch a short video to edit one, or go Premium to edit them all. Every sermon is still yours to read, play, search and export, and nothing is ever deleted. Thank you for taking notes with Sermon Notes! If the app helps you, a rating or review means a lot.
App privacy
The developer, ChuChu Train Productions, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Data Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected and linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Identifiers: Device ID
- Usage Data: Advertising Data
Used for: Third-Party Advertising
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