Favorite Hymns/Hymnals Premium6.10.28 - App Store

This app contains 11 hymnals containing lyrics to 1400+ hymns and Christian songs (along with some audio). The audio does not include the lyrics.

The reason this app is not free is it contains lyrics to over 90 copyrighted Christian songs and hymns (audio may not be included for all copyrighted songs at this point).

Some of these included hymns are:
- How Deep the Father's Love for Us
- How Great Thou Art
- You are my all in all
- The Power of the Cross
- He Touched Me
- In Christ Alone
- Majesty
- Great is Thy Faithfulness
- The Crayon Box Song
- and many more
(A full listing may be found at http://gospelriver.com/music/hymnapps/favorite-hymns-premium)

INCLUDED HYMNALS:
- Favorite Hymns Premium (Favorites from the hymnals below along with others, including Christmas carols. Sheet music for most.)
- The Believers Hymn Book (465 hymns with tunes, audio but no sheet music)
- The Children's Hymn Book 1987 Premium (missing 8 of 161 songs; 9 bonus songs. Sheet music for most.)
- Classic Gospel Hymns (58 hymns, all present)
- Gospel Hymn Book North America 1989 (256 hymns, all present, sheet music and audio)
- Gospel Hymn Book North America 2001 (407 hymns, all present, sheet music and audio for most)
- Gospel Hymn Book UK 1897 (712 hymns, all present.)
- Gospel Hymn Book UK 1996 (795 hymns, 4 missing)
- Seed Sowers Camp Hymnal (170 songs with 65 copyrighted, only 8 of which are unavailable. Includes some Spanish translations.)
- Gospel Hymns (Oliver & Higgins)
- Sacred Songs and Solos

FEATURES:
- Enter a hymn number and view the lyrics and score
- Listen to the tunes one at a time or randomly all together
- Transpose the music notation and playback
- Multiple playback instrument choices
- Mark favorites
- Take notes on each hymn
- Display / play only the melody
- Emphasize vocal parts to learn to sing SATB
- Change the color theme
- Search lyrics, tunes, and/or authors
- View hymns in distraction-free presentation mode
- No ads

Please contact fav@gospelriver.com with installation issues, feature requests or hymn requests rather than commenting on the app store.

If you rate low, comment with an explanation, or better yet, email me to get it resolved first.

Version History Added "Joyful, Joyful, We Adore Thee" and "Ode to Joy" sheet music on request. 6.10.28 Mar 22 - Removed space under navigation which was causing issues for some people.
- Minor bug, music and lyrics fixes 6.10.26 Feb 1 Add option to play the last line of the tune before playing the hymn as an introduction. 6.10.6 09/01/2025 Fixed issue with lyrics in music view 6.8.0 07/15/2024 - more music added to Favorite Hymns hymnal
- new option to disable swipe
- added short tutorial
- bug fixes 6.7.0 07/14/2024 Added voice instrument
Added fast/slow tempo settings
Presentation view no longer closes on click
Tweaks to pause between repeats
Small lyrics fixes
Repeat play starts at current verse
Added "Better is one day" and "Jesus' love is very wonderful" to Seed Sowers hymnal
Midi download button (online only)
Print button (online only) 6.4.4 06/02/2024 - Added wide music view for piano players
- Reduced amount of silence between playback repeats 6.3.0 01/07/2024 * Backup of your data is always recommended (Settings > Backup) *
- Bug fixes: for music melody view, searching words with apostrophes
- Changed search settings to display on focus
- Increased search delay slightly
- Revisions to how history is recorded
- Small lyrics fixes
- i icon to emphasize authors link 6.2.3 11/28/2023 Bug fix: general note did not show up on hymnal load 6.1.3 07/01/2023 - Premium only: added sheet music for most of the Children's Hymn Book hymns, and all hymns from Gospel Hymn Book 2001 are now present.
- Added hymns to Favorite Hymns hymnal
- Simplified the navigation (view options are now in bottom navigation bar)
- Music melody view
- Save last 100 entries in history and make it scrolling. Keep duplicates.

- Advance verses on repeat playback in music view
- Added author link above music notation
- Other bug fixes 6.1.2 06/04/2023 - added BBC Symphony Orchestra instruments
- Made keypad numbers wider
- Categories dropdown visible via Favorites
- Added "Meeting" entries into index categories for the Believers Hymn Book (DRAFT)
- added text/number switch search button
- History moved to main area
- Bug fixes 5.3.1 12/18/2022 - backup now includes selected tunes
- randomly play hymns or favorites
- emphasize individual SATB vocal parts for singing parts
- add favorites via index
- view index in numerical order
- back up to email 4.7.5 09/28/2022 New interface design and in-app audio with some sheet music added to Favorite Hymns. 4.1.2 01/06/2022 Chorus is repeated for each verse in Favorite Hymns hymnal
Theme redesigned (Thanks to Fernando Mondragon). Lyrics fixes.
New functionality: Add your own custom text (in each hymn);
Added subjects (tags) for hymns in the Believers Hymn Book under index 3.1.1 12/10/2018 Theme redesigned (Thanks to Fernando Mondragon). Lyrics fixes.
New functionality: Add your own custom text (in each hymn);
Added subjects (tags) for hymns in the Believers Hymn Book under index 3.1.0 12/06/2018 Added the chorus between stanzas in Gospel Hymn Book North America 2001 2.7.1 12/08/2017 Added Gospel Hymn Book UK 1996 (many thanks to Colin Forde for the initial draft. I did one pass through first lines, but this has not been fully edited and I don't have the time to do it. Please send corrections as you find them. All but 5 copyrighted hymns are included.) Added chorus between all verses in Believers Hymn Book. Fixed small bug in index code. Minor lyrics fixes. 2.7.0 05/19/2017 Added code for Spanish button
Fix for app audio playback
Minor code tweaks
GHB 2001: fixed missing hymns, some lyrics fixes
Favorite Hymns: lyrics fixes, added hymns 276-289
Believers Hymn Book: audio fixes
Fixed play icon when playing multiple songs 2.6.7 09/25/2016 2.6.6 07/30/2016