Take notes during the service while PewPad writes the message down and opens every passage the preacher reads.
You sit down, the preacher reads a verse, and by the time you find it they've moved on. PewPad's church notes keep up for you. Write what speaks to you; PewPad follows the message, keeps the passages, and saves it all in one place you can come back to.
New church notes open with Main points, Scriptures, Takeaways, and Questions, dated today, with the speaker and main passage as chips under the title. Start them from the Home Screen widget, from Today on iPhone, or from Home on iPad — one tap, and you're writing.
Tap Listen and PewPad writes the message down line by line. When the preacher names a passage — "turn with me to Matthew 8, verse 10" — it appears beside your notes, ready to read. When a line clearly echoes a passage that wasn't named, PewPad suggests it quietly as one that fits what's said.
Speech is turned into text on your device using Apple's on-device speech recognition. No audio is recorded or saved, and nothing is streamed to a server.
Select words and highlight them as a Key point, Promise, Question, Apply this, or Pray about — and add a note. Notes taken while listening remember the moment in the message they belong to. The Highlights panel lists them all, in reading order, filtered by meaning.
Your church notes join your studies and devotionals in the Library, searchable by passage, theme, or words you half remember. Reflect shows the messages you've heard by month, and each book of the Bible shows the sermons you've heard in it.
No. Listen turns speech into text on your device and keeps only the text with your notes. No audio is recorded, saved, or sent anywhere.
No. Church notes, Bible study, highlights, and devotionals are for everyone. Preaching tools are there if you need them.
Yes. Listen works in English and in French, Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, Mandarin, Cantonese, Korean, Hindi, Telugu, Tamil, and Arabic, with a Bible in that language downloaded for book names.
Yes. Listen is optional. Church notes are a normal document you can type into, with passages, highlights, and notes like any other.
Read a book from its introduction to its last verse, with cross references, commentary, Greek and Hebrew, and your own notes beside it.
Read more →Private Homiletic MemoryEvery sermon you have preached, quietly cross-referenced — searchable by Scripture, topic, illustration, and theme.
Read more →Voice Reference ActivationSpeak naturally during the sermon. PewPad opens the passage beside your notes — on device, hands-free.
Read more →Offline Bible & StudyBundled translations, licensed Bibles, 500+ open Bibles in other languages, commentary, and word study — beside whatever you're writing.
Read more →Download PewPad and start your first church notes from the Home Screen — on iPhone, iPad, or Mac.