Every hymn you sing. Lyrics, sol-fa, score and sound in one app.
Hymnphony brings your hymn books to life on your phone. Read the words, follow the tonic sol-fa, study the staff notation and hear every part, whether at church, in rehearsal, or anywhere you practice. Save any hymn to use offline.
On the App Store and Google Play · No ads · iPhone, iPad & Android
What is Hymnphony
A hymn book, a choir tutor and a rehearsal room, all in your pocket.
Hymn books are heavy, easily lost and rarely include everything a singer needs. Hymnphony gathers the hymns your congregation already sings into one searchable, beautifully typeset library, then adds the things paper never could.
- Find any hymn in seconds by number, title, tune name, or any line of any verse.
- Switch views instantly between words, tonic sol-fa and staff notation without losing your place.
- Hear how it goes with four part audio. Isolate any voice, slow it down to learn it, or switch between the tunes a hymn is sung to.
- Carry it everywhere. Save a hymn once and it works without a connection.
Key features
Built by people who sing, for people who sing.
Every detail is designed for real use, whether in a pew, at a keyboard, or standing in front of a choir.
Instant, forgiving search
Type a number, a title, a tune name or half a remembered line. Hymnphony finds it, and capitals, accents and punctuation never get in the way. Type a metre and it finds every hymn that fits.
Tonic sol-fa, done properly
Clean, legible sol-fa laid out for singers, with adjustable text size, a fullscreen view and a night-friendly reading mode.
Staff notation & SATB scores
Crisp, high-resolution scores you can zoom into on a phone or spread across a tablet on the music stand.
Follows the music
As a hymn plays, the current note lights up in sol fa and on the staff, so you never lose your place.
Listen and rehearse
Hear all four parts, one voice alone or any mix of soprano, alto, tenor and bass, on organ, piano or strings. Slow the playback down while you learn it, skip back ten seconds, and keep it running with the screen off.
Read it your way
Light and dark themes, lyric wallpapers, and your choice of font and size. Set it up the way you read best.
Save for offline
Save the hymns you need and they work on a plane, in a village church or anywhere the signal drops.
Favorites & collections
Star the hymns you return to. Favorites, reading history and downloads are kept separately for each hymnal.
Service & rehearsal plans
Songbooks let you build an ordered hymn list for a service and reorder it with a drag. An account keeps them synced to you. Share one with a link, and read or sing along from it.
Lead the service
Turn a Songbook into a running order: an introduction, interludes, pauses between stanzas and the voices for each verse. Run it from an iPad console, with your phone as its remote.
Found a mistake?
One tap reports it. Every report is read, so the books keep getting more accurate.
Playlists & Now Playing
Line up hymns in a playlist and play them from Now Playing. Repeat plays every verse, keeps the Amen for the end and eases the last verse to a close.
Widgets & hymn of the day
A hymn of the day on your home screen, on iPhone and Android, and a hymn of the week reminder if you want one.
Another tune, same metre
Sing a hymn to a tune your church knows. Hymnphony lists every tune in that hymnal with the same metre, and plays the words to the one you pick.
Share it with the music
Send a verse card, or a music card with the staff, the sol fa and the words under the notes, as a picture or a short video.
Three ways to read a hymn
Words, sol-fa and score, one tap apart.
Choirs rarely read one way. Hymnphony lets each singer choose the notation they are fluent in, on the very same hymn.
Lyrics view
Large, well-spaced text with verse numbering that stays readable at arm’s length, ideal for the congregation.
Tonic sol-fa view
The notation most choirs across Africa, Asia and the Caribbean grew up with, typeset for screens rather than scanned from paper.
Staff notation view
Full four-part scores for organists, pianists, instrumentalists and formally trained musicians.
A look inside
Designed to disappear, so the music can lead.
Calm typography, generous spacing and a layout that never gets in the way of the singing.
The App Store screenshots of Hymnphony on iPhone.
Who it’s for
One app, many seats in the church.
Whether you lead the choir, play the organ or simply love to sing along, Hymnphony meets you where you are.
Choir directors
Build the service order in a Songbook, then drill individual parts before Sunday.
Organists & pianists
Readable scores on a tablet, sized to read from the stand, with no page-turning in the middle of a verse.
Choristers & singers
Learn your part at home, slow it down, and arrive at rehearsal already confident.
Church members
Follow every verse clearly, even when the hymn books have run out.
Music students & teachers
A practical bridge between tonic sol-fa and staff notation for sight-singing and theory classes.
Worship leaders & clergy
Choose hymns by theme or season and build the order of service in minutes.
Hymn books & traditions
Your hymnal. Your church. Your tradition.
Hymnphony holds five church hymnals in one app: Methodist with Canticles, Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and Seventh day Adventist, in English, Twi and Fante. New books are added as they are ready.
- Multiple hymn books side by side in a single library.
- Denominational breadth across the major worshipping traditions.
- Every verse of every hymn, in full.
- Request a book. Tell us what your church sings and help shape what comes next.
Checked with care
Every hymn is checked before it appears, and authors and composers are named where known.
Your data stays yours
No selling of personal information, no tracking of what you sing. Read our plain-English privacy policy.
Made for the church
Built with choirs, organists and music teachers, and shaped continuously by their feedback.
Common questions
Everything you might be wondering.
Are there ads?
No. There are no ads in Hymnphony, and nothing comes between you and the words of a hymn.
Does it work without internet?
Yes. The words stay on your phone, and Save for offline keeps a hymn’s notation and audio there too. You need a connection to install the app and get updates.
Which devices are supported?
Hymnphony runs on iPhone and iPad with iOS 15.1 or later (home screen widgets need iOS 17), and on Android phones and tablets with Android 7.0 or later. It is on the App Store and Google Play now.
Can I use it during a service?
Absolutely. A clean reading mode with large text, a dark theme and screen-awake support is designed for exactly that.
My church sings from a different hymn book. Can you add it?
Please tell us. We prioritize new books by demand, and every request genuinely influences the order in which books are added.
Bring your hymn book everywhere you sing.
Download Hymnphony and keep the whole library in your pocket: words, sol-fa, scores and sound.
iPhone, iPad and Android, with no ads.