Who it’s for
Whoever you are when the hymn is announced.
Hymnphony was designed for a room full of different people: the director watching the clock, the organist watching the score, and the member in the back row who simply wants to sing along.
Choir directors
You are rehearsing volunteers with limited time and mixed reading ability.
- Build the week’s hymn list as a Songbook so the order is settled before you walk in.
- Drill a single voice part when one section needs extra attention.
- Slow a difficult passage down, then bring it back to tempo.
- Keep a Songbook per season, and reuse it next year without rebuilding it.
Organists, pianists & instrumentalists
You need the score clearly, quickly, and in the right key.
- Full staff notation that stays sharp when you zoom in on a tablet.
- Lyrics, sol-fa and staff notation on the same hymn, one tap apart.
- No shuffling of loose photocopies on the music desk.
- Choose which tune to play when a hymn has more than one, with the key shown at the top of the score.
Choristers & singers
You want to learn your part properly between rehearsals.
- Isolate your own voice part and sing along at home.
- Read in tonic sol-fa or staff notation, whichever you were taught.
- Slow your part right down and skip back ten seconds over the bar that keeps catching you out.
- Star the hymns you are working on and find them again instantly.
Church members & congregations
You just want to follow every verse without straining.
- Large, clear text that works from the back of the church.
- No more sharing one book between three people.
- A dark mode that will not glare during an evening service.
- Works offline, so a weak signal in the building changes nothing.
Music students
You are learning to move between sol-fa and staff notation.
- See the same hymn in both notations and compare them directly.
- Hear the line you are reading, isolated from the other parts and slowed to a tempo you can follow.
- Practice sight-singing with immediate audio confirmation.
- Build a Songbook of study pieces and work through it in order.
Music teachers & choir trainers
You are teaching groups with very different backgrounds.
- Set homework from a Songbook rather than photocopying.
- Demonstrate part-writing and harmony using hymns pupils already know.
- Use one device instead of a stack of books in the classroom.
- Switch between the English, Fante and Twi editions of a hymn in one tap.
Worship leaders & clergy
You are choosing hymns and building an order of service.
- Search any line of any hymn, in any language, to match the readings and sermon.
- Assemble the order of service and adjust it up to the last minute.
- Share a hymn as a card when you want to pass one on.
- Check the words of every verse before you announce the hymn.
Small & rural congregations
You have fewer resources and sometimes no musician at all.
- Four part audio to lead the singing when no organist is available.
- One device can carry what a cupboard of hymn books used to.
- Everything keeps working with no internet connection.
- Free to download, so cost is never the barrier to singing.
Beyond Sunday
Wherever hymns are sung.
Weddings & funerals
Assemble the hymns for a service quickly in a Songbook, and check every verse in advance.
Hospital & home visits
A whole hymn book at the bedside, in a pocket, with sound if it is wanted.
Conventions & choral unions
Keep several collections to hand when singers gather from different churches.
Personal devotion
A daily hymn and a quiet place to keep the ones that have carried you.
Find your place in the music.
Hymnphony is free to download. Start with your own hymn book and go from there.