Sermon Keeper is an iPhone app that records a live service and captures notes as it happens. If your church already has the recording — MP3, M4A, MP4, WAV, MOV and more — on a computer, Sermon-transcription.com skips the app entirely: upload the file from any browser and get the transcript, outline, discussion questions, blog draft, big idea and closing prayer back. One free sermon up to 90 minutes, then $5 first month, then $19/month.
Sermon Keeper
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Sermon Keeper records the moment. We transcribe the recording you already made.
| Feature | Sermon Keeper | Sermon Transcription |
|---|---|---|
| Best for | The person in the pew or pastor recording on their phone in the moment | A church that already has the recording and wants a transcript back |
| Platform | iPhone app (iOS 17+) | Any browser, desktop or phone |
| Input | Records live | Upload an existing file |
| Outputs | Transcript, summary, timestamped notes | Transcript, Sermon outline, Small-group discussion questions, Blog post draft, Big idea, application points and a closing prayer + SRT/VTT captions |
| Free tier | 3-day trial | One full sermon, up to 90 minutes |
| Price | Paid plans, not listed on the page we checked | $5 first month, then $19/month |
| Works with recordings from YouTube, Zoom, a soundboard or a previous Sunday | No — it records live | Yes |
| Android | In development | Any browser |
Two patterns that come up when a church already has the recording.
Sermon Keeper's whole design is capturing the service as it happens on someone's iPhone. Church media teams usually already have a clean recording from the soundboard, a livestream export, or a previous Sunday sitting on a computer — nothing to capture live, just a file to hand off.
Sermon Keeper's page lists a transcript, a summary, and timestamped notes from the live recording. Our Church Plan turns the same kind of audio into the transcript, outline, discussion questions, blog draft, big idea and closing prayer — built for publishing, not personal note-taking.
We're not trying to win every case.
If you're the one in the pew, or a pastor without a soundboard feed, and you want to record the service live from your own phone — with offline Bible-verse autocomplete, timestamped notes taken during the message, and no account required — Sermon Keeper is built exactly for that.
It also deletes the audio after transcription and syncs via iCloud, which matters if minimizing what leaves your device is a priority. We don't do live capture at all; we work from a file you upload.
If your church's workflow is genuinely "record on a phone in the room," not "hand off a file afterward," Sermon Keeper is the right tool for that moment. Many churches use both: Sermon Keeper (or a soundboard) to capture the service, then a browser upload here for the outline, discussion questions and blog draft.
Honest answers — including when Sermon Keeper wins.
First full sermon free, no credit card. Upload the file you already have and get the transcript, outline, discussion questions, blog draft, big idea and closing prayer back.
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