Sacred Music Reviews

SacredMusic 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 SacredMusic 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!

Every now and then a hymn in the hymn list gets marked or highlighted and I can't remove that color highlight on the hymn.
I like that this has options for words and sheet music, that it has optional music to play for sing along or background, and that this is the official app. This is great for the iPhone, but on iPad it renders as a stretched phone app and doesn't make better use of the available space. It's also too bad that copyright does allow the digital use (in SacredMusic ) of all hymns in the hymn book (some are blocked).
The optional music somewhat sounds like violins, but it would be nice to have a preferences area where I can pick what instrument sound to have used and have a grand piano as an option (if not the default option).
It would be nice if this were in the same app as the official gospel library, rather than as a separate app.

I love SacredMusic and without a doubt recommend it to everyone. That said I would like to address a few features I hope for in the future:
- Turn off dark mode from within SacredMusic . I like dark mode on the rest of my device, but it hurts my eyes while trying to read music.
-... that’s actually all I can think of at the moment. I look forward to future updates! :)

I loved SacredMusic in the beginning. When going to church I didn't need to use any books. Teaching primary this an important tool for my lessons. But then the last time I updated SacredMusic. I tried looking up hymns and primary songs. I searched songs by titles and numbers and nothing would appear. Then I decided to delete SacredMusic. I just came across it again and thought I give SacredMusic a second chance because SacredMusic used to display the lyrics and play music so my primary kids could sing along. And now SacredMusic won't open. I'm so disappointed . And I can't find another app that has lyrics and plays music. Please fix this.

First of all, I love SacredMusic so much. The only problem is, recently it stopped opening. I can click on it and it will show me the eighth note symbol, then it will crash. I have tried offloading it and re downloading it but that didn’t fix it and I don’t want to delete it because I have a few very dear playlists saved in SacredMusic and they could get lost. Please help!

I love SacredMusic, but can’t figure out how to enlarge the font. This should be an easy fix, I would think, and so helpful! And I agree that there should be at least a two-button checkpoint for changing it to playing the music instead of just showing it.

Lately I haven’t been able to open up my playlist, it breaks when I click on it :( I wish you could save your playlists to an account so they can switch between devices and not get lost. I would make a new playlist but I’m not sure of all the songs I put on there

So I’m a lds and I love SacredMusic because I can play them and I love how you can make playlists of your own and you can repeat songs as much as you want so THANK YOU!!!! You have no idea how much I am greatful for this. Thank you to everyone who helped make SacredMusic. One of my favorite songs is I will walk with Jesus. It almost made me cry. In the childrens book

After the last update nothing was coming up in my app. I deleted then reinstalled, still nothing. I was getting ready to write a review then remembered the system update on mu iPhone. Installed that and SacredMusic works perfectly. Hope this helps others!

Thank you, thank you, thank you!!! I love SacredMusic it is been so nice to see it slowly getting better and better over the years. I have recently discovered the ability to choose if I want to listen to the music with without words and it is just so nice! Thank you!

Great collection. I had a hard time finding the visual sheet music when playing the audio, but the support told me to just hit the BACK arrow after playback, and it will display the words and music instead of the green logo. Thanks!

SacredMusic is good when it works and I can read the music. It is just as often bad when I launch it and it needs an internet connection to download the music. Why oh why would you make an app that constantly has to update never-changing content? Super frustrating, and it always needs to download the sheet music at the worst time. Glad the scriptures app doesn’t do the same thing.

I use this all the time! The only suggestion is please add SacredMusic to Apple TV. I would even use it more. I would love to have this playing in my home or even have my kids play list of there primary program songs going often so they can hear them more.

SacredMusic is really good aside from not being able to change the tempo of the songs and the instrument on which the song is played. I think the ability to change the tempo is the most important feature that is missing.

I love SacredMusic but could use the option of adjusting the tempo when playing the music. It plays the same speed no matter which hymn and just a little too slow.

I love SacredMusic! I listen to the youth music all the time and love it. I haven’t had any problems with it and like that I can change it between “music only” and “music and vocals”. I also love that you can pull up the sheet music for hymns and primary songs. Great app all around for my iPhone.

I’m not happy that I can’t sign in and sync with my church account. Recently, I had to buy a new phone and create a new playlist. My original playlist is on a broken phone, which won’t even turn on. I’m not digging the name change nor the removal of the tempo feature. Otherwise, I’m grateful to have access to our church hymns.

I have 2 iPad 2s that would just crash on launching SacredMusic. With the latest update I deleted SacredMusic and reinstalled it. App launches and works as expected now. Hope this helps someone else with the same issues.

I love using SacredMusic to practice my French but for whatever reason when I switch the language it cuts letters out of words either leaving words in pieces or filling that space with a box. I am not good enough to guess what word goes there. Please fix!

I loved using SacredMusic every Sunday, but since the last update I can't get anything to appear when I send a song. The update was supposed to fix this exact issue for some users, but possibly created the problem for others like myself. We need SacredMusic since we don't have piano players in our YW organization.

Lately SacredMusic has been adding itself to the dock on my iPad with a little clock badge in the corner of the icon, and the only way I’ve found to make it STOP is to delete SacredMusic .

Note: “Show suggested and recent apps” is disabled on this iPad. SacredMusic doesn’t seem to care.

I would love to give it another chance, because I use SacredMusic all the time. But until there’s a way to make the bad thing stop, it’s not getting installed again.

I've had no problems when using SacredMusic. It's easy to use and works well. I would like to see an option to play the music with or without people singing.

SacredMusic is great for listening to music. I just have one suggestion: there should be an option to play the separate parts (Soprano, Alto, Tenor, Bass) of each song. It would be great to have this option as it would make it easy to learn parts.

I love SacredMusic. What I would like is to have availability to access it without the Internet and burning up my data. There’s just sometimes I want to listen to it and I don’t want to worry about the data usage.

I love the Hymns and I enjoy playing them on the piano and it is great to have all of them here on this phone. I also love listening to these beautiful hymns. I definitely recommend SacredMusic because it can make cleaning fun and hymns are amazing!!!!!!!!!

SacredMusic is perfect for singing the hymns as well as other church songs. And, unlike Gospel Library, it has the music in addition to the words of each song. 10/10