Sacred Music 4+

Hymns, sheet music, and audio

The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

Designed for iPad

    • 4.1 • 858 Ratings
    • Free

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Description

Sacred Music is the official hymns and music app of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It serves as both a digital hymnal and music player, with sheet music and audio from the hymnbook, Children’s Songbook, annual youth album, and other collections.

If you have any questions or feedback about the app, you can open the app, go to Settings, and tap Send Feedback.

What’s New

Version 2.2.0

• Added Audio Type, Features, and Topics filters when viewing a list of songs.
• Added a Display Options panel to customize how sheet music or lyrics are displayed.
• Added the ability to switch between list and grid mode in a folder.
• Improved experience for choosing between audio types.
• Improved relevance ranking for search results.
• Improved accessibility for blind users.
• Fixed an issue that sometimes prevented content from loading.

Ratings and Reviews

4.1 out of 5
858 Ratings

858 Ratings

Southpaw102 ,

Landscape view glitch

Update: yes downloading the newest version fixed it for me thank you! And knowing that I can tap farther over and not just on the words is very helpful, but definitely not intuitive for someone who doesn’t already know that. The pull down was more convenient. Thanks for the tips!

For a year now when I open a hymn and then turn my phone horizontal the phone glitches and it takes a bit before the hymn will switch to that view. So I always join in singing after everyone else (most people still seem to use physical copies). Leaving two stars in hopes developers see this and fix the app. Everything else is great though. One other thing: I wish it went back to where you had to drag the page down to scroll back to the top. I hold my phone with one hand while singing, so I can’t reach the “scroll to top” button. Back when all you had to do was pull down on the page I could do it with one finger when holding my phone with one hand.

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your feedback! Please download the latest version of the app. That should solve the Sheet Music glitching issue you were experiencing. Thank you for the comment about the scroll to top. We'll discuss potential solutions as a team. For now the button does extend the full width of the screen so if you tap in line with the text "Scroll to Top" it will work even if you don't tap the words "Scroll to Top". Let us know if that fixes it for you.

JFLund ,

Great app with a major flaw

This app has all the hymns beautifully formatted to sing or play on the piano. And the ability to have the hymns played audibly is great.
But that is also its major flaw. It is way too easy to accidentally touch the play button at the bottom of the screen and start the hymn playing aloud. Often it's not evident that this has happened until the church organist stops playing, long after you have closed the app and turned off your phone. How embarrassing to have to quickly fumble around trying to stop it from playing while the sacrament is being blessed.
And as if in an attempt to make this all the more common, the music doesn't stop when you put the iPhone to sleep, and it even plays WHEN THE MUTE SWITCH IS ON!
It is a fairly common event that this happens in our ward, perhaps because we have too few hymnals, coupled with he fact thatcher our ward is comprised of mostly young, tech savvy individuals not afraid of pulling their phone out to sing from. But maybe they should be afraid.
Please fix this. All it would take is to add a confirmation dialog asking if you really want to start it playing. Oh, and don't play WHEN THE MUTE SWITCH IS ON!

need a updaet ,

Dark Mode Syncing with "Lyrics"

I’ve sent a feature request in the past in the year of 2023, and didn’t get a notice on when this suggestion would be fixed.

A while ago I wrote a bug report/feature request talking about the "new-ish" iPhone Dark and Light mode capabilities. So a problem that I guess has been noticed a couple times was relating to the "Theming" setting. You know how you turn off dark mode on your iPhone and it transfers to a Light Mode? When you go into the Hymn app and go into "settings" there’s an option for "Theming" for sheets. When activated or turned off the mode will switch to synchronize with the light filter on the device, either it be light or dark mode. Make sure you’re in a song and in "Sheets."

Now the problem comes in when you’re in "Lyrics." Could there be an option for light and dark mode to synchronize just like the "Theme" setting for the Sheets? When you’re in "Lyrics" and when dark mode is enabled, the background is black, right? So it the text color of the lyrics. When dark mode is enabled for Sheets, the text is white and the background is dark and with light mode, the text is black and the background is white. Now, this isn’t an option for "Lyrics." Could that be fixed anytime soon? This understandable?

Thanks for reading and looking into the problem.
-Matthew

Developer Response ,

Thank you for your review and comments Matthew. We'll look into this feature request.

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