Need a Digital Hymnal?

March 3, 2010 in digital hymnal, hymnal, iphone app with 5 Comments

If you’ve ever wished you could carry around classic Christian hymns on your iPhone, you’re going to get really excited about this new iPhone app. It’s called I.Praise and it basically has catalogued all of the hymns in the Seventh-day Adventist church hymnal, which by the way, are almost all the same hymns that any other Methodist, Baptist, any many other church hymnals use. Just saying.

I’ve been playing around with it for a little bit, and there’s a few features that are pretty nice.

1. It’s easy to search hymns by category: 
So if you’re looking for hymns that go with a communion service, for example, you can see them all listed.
2. You can also search through the text of hymns. So if you want to search through all the hymns that use the word “resurrection,” it will list them all for you. This is a good way to search if you can’t remember the title of the hymn. 
3. In the app there’s also a dedicated button to go directly to a hymn number. 
There’s also a category for praise and worship songs that includes chords, but this is very limited. It only has about 5-6 older praise and worship songs. 
But, if your main goal is to have a digital hymnal that you can carry with you, this is the app for you.

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5 Responses to “Need a Digital Hymnal?”

  1. Daniel Mendez March 4, 2010 at 2:41 am #

    yes I was very disappointed that the praise songs, the songs with chords,etc… are all limited to 4,5 or 6! I think the issue is that they are only including those that are in the public domain…. I see that they also have a store in the app coming soon… maybe they are thinking to sell them that way… BUT I sure hope a free update will bring more… otherwise it would be very sad. Thankfully I was mainly interested on the hymnal.

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  2. Batsirai March 4, 2010 at 2:50 am #

    Great job! We made an app called SongSuggest that would go great with iPraise. Keep up the good work! http://www.worshipapps.com we will also have a desktop version here in April 2010. http://www.worshipapps.com

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  3. rodlie March 7, 2010 at 12:46 pm #

    Yeah, we'll see what they do. But it's a start.

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  4. Grace March 28, 2010 at 12:42 am #

    Hello Pastor;

    Without seeing the name, I recognized your smile. I was searching for a hymnal app for my ipod touch. This is great.

    Grace

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    • Rodlie Ortiz March 28, 2010 at 2:40 am #

      Hey is this the college professor, Grace that's been coming to Carrollwood Church?

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