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Best Sermon Prep Software (2026)
Three tools pastors use to research, write and preach a sermon: price, writing and pulpit tools, research help, and where each one runs.
Updated September 2026
·3 sermon prep tools compared
SM
🆓
Best free option
Sermon Maker
✍️ Best for writing
Sermonary
📚 Best for deep study
Logos Pro
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#1
SM
Sermon Maker
Free + from $15/mo · sermonmaker.net
75/100
Winner · Free sermon editor
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| Price | |||
| Price | Freepaid plans from $15/mo, billed yearly | $49/moor $499/yr · Sermonary+ $99/mo or $899/yr | Not publishedPro price loads by region |
| Free trial | Free plan | ✓length not stated | 30 days |
| Writing and preaching | |||
| Sermon editor | ✓upload old Word sermons | ✓drag and drop | ✓Pro plan |
| Sermon templates | ✓100s | ✓ | ? |
| Preaching mode | ✓timer, cues | ✓Podium Mode | ? |
| Slides from your sermon | ✓built-in slide builder | ✓export to slides | ? |
| Ready-made sermon series | ✓new each week | 2,000+Sermonary+ only | ✗ |
| Research help | |||
| Commentaries and books | Scripture onlyplus idea search | ✓Research Suite | 500+ booksin Pro |
| AI helper | ✓ideas, sermon analyzer | ✓edit, expand, summarize | ✓outlines, illustrations, application |
| Illustrations | ✓idea search | ✓library built in | ✓AI ideas |
| Where it runs | |||
| Web | ✓also offline | ✓ | ✓ |
| Windows / Mac app | ✗ | ✗ | ✓ |
| iPhone / Android app | In the browser | In the browser | ✓iPhone 4.9 (175K ratings) |
| Try it | Try now | Try now | Try now |
Independent ranking. Every app here is scored the same way. Nobody can pay to rank higher. Free matters. If the best parts are locked behind a paywall, the score goes down. Every fact comes from the maker's own website or its App Store / Google Play page, checked 28 September 2026. Logos loads its plan prices by region, so we could not read the Logos Pro price; that cell reads "Not published" and scores 0. Cells we could not confirm show a question mark and score 0.
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