Hymn books & denominations
Built to hold the hymn book your church actually sings from.
Congregations do not all sing from the same collection. Hymnphony holds five church hymnals side by side in one app: Methodist, Anglican, Catholic, Presbyterian and Seventh day Adventist, in English, Twi and Fante.
One library, many hymnals
Switch books without switching apps.
Choir members often sing from one book at church and another at a convention or wedding. Rather than installing several apps, Hymnphony keeps every book you need in a single library with one consistent reading experience.
- Save hymns for offline use, and remove them when you no longer need them.
- Consistent layout across books, so the reading, sol-fa and score views behave identically everywhere.
- Search any line of any hymn, not just the first, or find it by title, tune or number.
- Numbering preserved exactly as printed, so “hymn 245” still means hymn 245.
What is in the app
The hymnals in the app today.
These are the five church hymnals in Hymnphony 1.0, on the App Store and Google Play now.
Methodist
The Methodist Hymn Book, every verse, with the Fante words beside the English, the Canticles, the CAN hymns sung in Fante and the additional tunes.
Anglican
The Anglican Hymnal, every verse, with the Supplementary Hymns, the Canticles and the Psalms.
Presbyterian
The Presbyterian Hymnal in Twi, every verse, with the English alongside, the service music, the descants and the additional tunes.
Adventist
The Seventh day Adventist Hymnal, every verse, with the Twi words alongside and the additional Twi hymns in the N and NG sections.
Catholic
The Catholic Hymn Book, every verse, with the New Catholic Hymnal.
Requests help decide which hymnal comes next. The full list is always in the app, on the Choose your hymnal screen.
Languages
The language your congregation sings in.
Hymn singing is deeply local. Hymnphony carries hymns in English, Twi and Fante today. Where a book prints two languages, one tap switches the words, and the music follows the language you are reading.
Multilingual by design
Text rendering, search and sorting are built to handle non-English characters and diacritics correctly.
Tell us your language
If your church sings in a language you do not find in the app, tell us which one and the hymnal you use.
Local composers included
Regional and indigenous hymn traditions matter as much as inherited European ones.
How a hymn book is added
Carefully, and credited faithfully.
Adding a hymnal is not simply a matter of scanning pages. Every book passes through the same four stages before it reaches your device.
You ask for it
Requests from churches, choirs and unions tell us which books are genuinely needed and where.
From the printed book
Every verse is taken from the printed hymnal, and hymn numbers stay as printed.
Typesetting & proofing
Lyrics, sol-fa and scores are prepared for screens and checked by musicians against the printed edition.
Release & corrections
The hymnal appears in the app. Anyone can report an error in one tap, and corrections follow in later updates.
Cannot find your hymn book?
Tell us which book your congregation sings from. Requests are what decide the order in which new hymnals are prepared.