Sermon manager for preachers
SermonDesk turns it into a manuscript, a glanceable outline, a fullscreen podium screen, and a handout for the pews. Every sermon stays a plain file in a folder you choose, on your own computer, and Sunday morning never depends on the church wifi.
One sermon, four uses
You write in blocks: point, scripture, illustration, application, reflection question, private note. SermonDesk knows a reflection question belongs on the handout and not on the podium screen, and that a private note is the exact opposite.
Every word, printed the way you wrote it.
A half sheet you can take in at a glance.
Fullscreen, large type, with a timer you can actually read.
For the pews, with a large-print setting that matters.
Where your sermons live
Not in a database of mine. One file per sermon, in a folder you pick. Point that folder at Dropbox or OneDrive and you have backup and sync on your own account, with nothing stored by me. If SermonDesk disappeared tomorrow, nothing of yours would be trapped.
Sermons/
2026/
2026-08-23-romans-8-the-river.json
2026-08-16-psalm-23-the-table.json
2026-08-09-john-3-the-wind.json
The parts worth having
One checkbox, 17pt, double spaced. It is for the people in your pews who stopped being able to follow along, and for the elders who take handouts to the homebound. It is the feature this whole thing was worth building for.
Type "Romans 8" and you get every sermon that touched it, including the ones that only quoted a verse in passing. It does not care whether you wrote "Rom 8:28", "romans 8.28", or "Romans 8".
Keep the stories you tell, and see every sermon you have already told each one in. No more preaching the same lighthouse story to the same congregation twice in a year.
Import from Word and Google Docs, including a whole folder of Google Takeout in one go. Ten years of sermons in Docs is not a reason to stay there.
No Bible text ships with SermonDesk, on purpose. Copy a verse from wherever you read it and paste it in: the quotation is recognised and filed with the reference and version already filled in. Which Bible you use is not this app's business.
If you stop paying
SermonDesk goes read-only. You can still open, search, print, and preach all of it, for as long as you own the computer. Payment buys the ability to write in the app. It never buys access to what you already wrote, because that was yours before you paid and it stays yours after you stop.
Pricing
Fourteen days free first. The trial takes a card and turns into a paid subscription at the end of it unless you cancel, and cancelling takes two clicks from your receipt.
Yearly · saves $45
The same thing, billed once, for people who would rather not think about it again.
SubscribeSermonDesk is still in beta, so checkout is not open yet. Email and you will get a key, and the pastors who use it for real before it opens get their first year at no cost.
Plainly
Better you read it here than find out after paying.
Terms, refunds, and privacy
Cancel any time, change a card, or find a licence key you have mislaid, from the billing page linked in your receipt. It signs you in with a link sent to the address you bought with, so there is no password to lose and still no account to keep.
Nothing is charged again once you cancel, and the subscription keeps working to the end of the period you have already paid for. Cancel on the second of the month and you still have the rest of that month, including the Sunday at the end of it.
Refunds are not offered as a matter of course, and the fourteen free days are the reason why. They hold nothing back: write a real sermon in it, print the handout, take it to the pulpit, and cancel before the trial ends if it is not for you. Nothing is charged until then, and nobody is asked to buy this without having used it.
If something is genuinely broken, or you were charged in a way you did not expect, email and it will be put right. Where local consumer law gives you a right to a refund, that right applies regardless of anything written here.
After a subscription ends the app becomes read-only, and every sermon you wrote stays on your computer, openable, searchable, and printable, permanently.
There is no account and no sign-up to use SermonDesk, and no password anywhere in it. Your sermons are written to your own disk and are never uploaded, read, or transmitted anywhere. They are not backed up by us, which is the other side of the same promise: the copies are yours to keep.
The app makes exactly two kinds of network request, both of which you can watch. It asks whether your licence key is still valid, sending only that key and nothing about you or your sermons, and it checks whether a newer version has been released. There is no analytics, no telemetry, no crash reporting, and no third-party tracking of any kind.
When you buy, your name, email, and payment details are handled by Lemon Squeezy under their own privacy policy. We receive your email address and what you bought, and use it to send your licence key and to reach you about the software. We do not sell or share it.
A subscription grants one person a licence to write with SermonDesk. Reading, searching, printing, and preaching sermons you have already written continues to work whether or not you have a subscription, including after it ends.
The sermons you write are your own work and nothing in this licence claims any interest in them. The software is provided as it is, without warranty. It is a tool for preparing sermons and is not relied upon as the only copy of anything: keep the folder somewhere that gets backed up.
This is a beta. Features may change and defects are likely. If a change leaves the software unusable for you, say so and it will be put right, which is the same commitment as above and is not limited by how long you have had it.
SermonDesk is made by one person. Email davislor@sarangbi.co and you will reach him, not a helpdesk.