Christ In Song4.4 - App Store

856 hymns with piano accompaniment with tempo and pitch customization
Complete musical score
Printable hymn scores
Works 100% offline
Annotation of any page
Search on titles, authors, 1st lines
655 focus Bible verses
207 biographical sketches
417 authors

Hymn Organization
5 major themes
37 sub-themes
249 topics
1 focus: Christ Jesus

Includes
-Index of biographical profiles
-Index of scriptural references
-Index of authors and sources
-Alphabetical index of tunes
-Index of metrical tunes
-Topical index
-Index of 1st lines and titles
-Index of 1st lines of choruses

Some Included Authors
Margaret E. Barber
Philip P. Bliss
Horatius Bonar
Amy Carmichael
Bernard of Clairvaux
Fanny Crosby
Madame Guyon
Frances Havergal
A.B. Simpson
Isaac Watts
Charles Wesley
Nicolaus von Zinzendorf

Some Included Hymns
Abide With Me
All Hail The Power Of Jesus Name
Amazing Grace
And Can It Be That I Should Gain
Be Thou Supreme
Because He Lives
Beneath The Cross Of Jesus
Blessed Assurance
Come, Thou Fount Of Every Blessing
Crown Him With Many Crowns
Fairest Lord Jesus
I Stand Amazed In The Presence
Jesus Paid It All
Lead Me To Calvary
Ten Thousand Thanks To Jesus
The Way Of The Cross
There Is Power In The Blood
What A Friend We Have In Jesus
When I Survey The Wondrous Cross

Details
Excerpt from the preface
“Christ is the center of spiritual song and genuine faith. The sweetest Christian lyrics of all ages have revolved around His Person and work, in whom lies a boundless wealth of grace and mercy. O how Christ leads and shines in the believers’ singing! These hymns of ‘Immanuel’ are constantly sung in the holy of holies of the human heart. Here, such singing in His presence dismisses all doubts, casts off unholy ambitions, brings tears of repentance, restores the joy of salvation, invokes love and hope, and turns eyes heavenward. Here, dissensions among assemblies and theological schools are silenced, and hymnists from every age and sector of the Christian Church raise one voice to glorify one Lord and Savior. Here, Christ is the theme of all ages, tongues, and creeds; the divine harmony over all human and cosmic discords; and the summing up of all things in the heavens and on earth.

Hymns should be simple, full of the experiences of Christ, the appreciation for Christ, and in some measure elevated above mere prose. A desirable hymnbook may be compared to a majestic building, with foundations made solid by accurate truth and sound doctrine, its superstructure elevated with the spirit of poetry, and its interior compartments containing the radiance of spirituality. Spirituality has been the fundamental test in our choice of hymns more often than high poetic literary style.”

6 distinctive features make this treasury useful in drawing nearer to the Lord:
1. Faithful restoration of the authors’ original words as far as practicable.
2. Hymns & spiritual songs for BOTH public & private worship.
3. Special attention to themes often overlooked in hymnals: sovereign grace, overcoming life, personal advent of our Lord, union with Christ, and the sweetness of abiding communion with Him.
4. Covers the broad lyric spectrum spelled out in Ephesians- “psalms, hymns and spiritual songs” (Eph. 5:19)
5. Guided by rare and deep associations of hymns with their history: lyrics breathed by dying lips, traced on prison walls, sung with hushed voices in catacombs, chanted joyfully at midnight, and avowed fearlessly at the fiery stake.
6. Inclusion of carefully researched biographical profiles of authors & composers, so that believers of all backgrounds can meet on the level ground of a common faith.

Christian Chen, 2006

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Version History Added some analytics to be able to tell what features the users are using so that I can improve the app and prepare for our next big release which will include an exciting new feature. 4.4 03/03/2025 iPad users can now pinch-to-zoom on hymns.
Fixed a couple of bugs that made page changes janky. 4.3 02/24/2025 Added some coaching prompts for first time users.
Fixed several hymns that had verse breaks at the wrong time in the music. We apologize for the problem. 4.2 01/25/2025 Fixed a bug that required re-subscription for users that had purchased the app already.
Updated the help screen. 4.1 01/21/2024 We now support paying for the app via a subscription in addition to the lifetime license for the app. Existing users will automatically receive the lifetime license. 4.0 12/14/2023 1. Hymn recordings are not the correct number of verses. The old version's recordings just had 2 verses, this version plays back all verses of a hymn
2. Small UI tweaks to make the UI more familiar
3. Internal changes to keep it up to date with modern development practices 3.7 07/03/2023 Fixed a defect in the search algorithm that caused some searches to not work correctly. 3.6 08/06/2020 Fixed a bug where the app consumed battery in the background after playing a hymn. 3.5 07/15/2020 New search capability
Easily go back to recently viewed hymns
Bug fixes 3.4 07/09/2020 - A few bug fixes
- Hymns are now searchable from the search screen of iOS 3.3 12/05/2015 Fixed a bug that caused a crash if you scrolled past the first page of the hymnal. 3.1.2 02/19/2015 - Fixed a bug that caused some crashes
- Added crash reporting so I can find these things earlier 3.1 02/07/2015 Changes include:
- iOS 8 compatibility
- Background audio playback
- Support for iPhone 6 and 6+ 3.0 01/24/2015 - Adjust pitch and tempo of a hymn while it's playing
- Share hymns via Facebook, Twitter, and email
- Bug fixes 2.0 08/08/2013 - Applied a fix for a defect that occasionally prevents audio output from coming out the speakers; it would only come out of the headphones. 1.3 10/18/2011 - Now supports printing of pages from the hymnal. 1.2 05/19/2011 - iPod/iPhone Support
- More useful indexes
- Looping of accompaniment
- Smaller size 1.1 04/22/2011 1.0 02/11/2011