Why We Built
ScriptureNotes

The problem we couldn't stop thinking about.

Every Sunday, millions of people hear something that matters.

A pastor works 10–15 hours on a message. They study, they wrestle with the text, they find the angle that makes a 2,000-year-old letter speak to this particular congregation in this particular season. They deliver it.

And then — largely — it disappears.

Not because anyone failed. Not because people don't care. Because the infrastructure for what comes next doesn't exist. The bulletin goes in the recycling bin. The handwritten notes stay closed. The phone note that was going to mean something sits beneath 47 grocery lists and half-finished texts.

Within 48 hours, research suggests, most churchgoers have lost 70–90% of what they heard.

We built something for it.

ScriptureNotes is an app for the people who take Sunday seriously enough to want to do something with what they heard.

It transcribes your pastor's message in real time — so you don't have to choose between writing and listening. It links every scripture reference automatically — so the verses your pastor cited are immediately readable, not just noted. And every morning of the week, it generates a short personal devotional from your own notes — not generic content, but your pastor's message, resurfaced for your daily life.

We call the morning devotional Daily Bread. It's named for Matthew 6:11.

We built it because the sermon you heard on Sunday deserves to still be alive on Thursday. Because the insight that landed when your pastor said it deserves the chance to become understanding, not just a memory of a feeling.

Who we are.

ScriptureNotes is a small team with a simple conviction: the tools most people use for their faith practice were not designed for their faith practice.

Paper margins can't be searched. Evernote doesn't know what Philippians 4:13 says. YouVersion's notes are isolated from each other. Logos costs $1,000 and was built for seminarians.

Most serious Bible students — the weekly churchgoers, the small group leaders, the mothers teaching their kids, the fathers in the third row with the 20-year-old Bible, the seminary students carrying more questions than answers — fall in the gap between those extremes.

That's who we built this for.

What we believe.

Built on.

ScriptureNotes uses Deepgram's AI for live sermon transcription and Google's Gemini for Daily Bread devotional generation. The Bible reader includes 10+ translations on Plus. The app is available free on iOS and Android.