SermonDesk

Write the sermon once.

A manuscript, an outline, a handout, and a podium screen from one draft, kept as plain files on your own computer. This is the app, running here with a few sermons in it.

Try: paste a verse and watch it file itself · type / for a point · press Outline, then Handout · press Preach · press the Bible map, the grid beside the search Windows and Mac · works offline

Your sermons are files, in a folder you choose.

One readable file per sermon, in a folder you choose. Keep that folder in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox and you have backup and sync on your own account, with nothing stored by us. A file written by any version opens in every later one, and you can export every sermon as plain text at any time, no licence asked.

The library knows what a passage is.

Type Romans 8 and get every sermon that touched it, even one that quoted a single verse. Open a sermon and see what else touches its chapter, where else you told that story, and the rest of its series. A map of the whole canon shows the chapters you have preached and the books you never have.

Fifty tags do not become a wall.

Tags complete as you type them, so a slip of the shift key never makes a twin. Put them in groups and each group is one chip in the library, opening to a short list with counts: pick one from each and the groups combine. What a sermon is for, a funeral, a wedding, Easter, is a word in the byline rather than a tag, with its own chip. And a tag is a place: press one and see every sermon that carries it in the order they were preached, the tags that travel with it, and the chapters it came from.

If you stop paying, you keep every sermon.

The app goes read only. Open, search, and print all of it, for as long as you own the computer. A subscription buys the ability to write and to preach from the podium, never access to what you already wrote.

Everything included.

$12.99a month, or$119.99a year

One person, up to three of their own computers. The key arrives by email the moment you pay; paste it into the app once and it works offline from then on.

Good to know.

  • The Mac version needs Apple Silicon: an M1 or later.
  • No phone or tablet version, and none planned.
  • No cloud of mine. Your folder can live in iCloud Drive, Google Drive, OneDrive, or Dropbox, and they do the syncing.

Terms and privacy: the short version.

Billing

Change a card, recover a lost key, or cancel from the billing page linked in your receipt. If you cancel, everything keeps working until the end of the period you paid for.

Privacy

Your sermons are written to your own disk and never uploaded, read, or transmitted. They are not backed up by us either. That is the other side of the same promise.

The app makes two kinds of network request: one checks your licence, one checks for a new version. Neither sends anything from your sermons. No analytics, no crash reporting, no tracking.

When you buy, Lemon Squeezy handles your name, email, and payment details under their own privacy policy. We receive your name, email, and what you bought, and use them to send your key and reach you about the software. We do not sell or share them.

Terms

A subscription lets one person write with SermonDesk on up to three of their own computers.

The software is provided as is, without warranty.

SermonDesk is new, and it will keep changing. If a change gets in your way, tell us.

Contact

Built and supported by Sarangbi. Email davislor@sarangbi.co.