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Hymnals is a remarkable app that brings all the elements of your favorite hymnal—and more—right to your iPad. The app is free – through it you can purchase the following best-selling Roman Catholic hymnals from GIA Publications, Inc. using an in-app purchase. ● Gather - Third Edition for Pew, Choir, Guitar, Keyboard, C Instrument, and B flat Instrument ● Worship - Fourth Edition for Pew, Choir, Guitar, Keyboard, C Instrument, and B flat Instrument ● Ritual Song - Second Edition for Pew, Choir, Guitar, Keyboard, C Instrument, and B flat  ● Instrument ● Gelineau Lectionary Psalms ● Guimont Lectionary Psalms ● The Lyric Psalter ● One Lord, One Faith, One Baptism ● Cry Out with Joy ● Gather Comprehensive - Second Edition both Pew and Choir ● Lead Me, Guide Me - Second Edition Pew and Keyboard ● Oramos Cantando - We Pray In Song Pew ● More to come Hymnals offer the complete contents of your hymnal in a compact, lightweight form—no more dragging around multiple hymnals and service binders! The app is perfect for choir members or churchgoers. Swipe or tap to easily page through hymns, or create and manage your own Service Lists! The music and words are crystal clear. With Hymnals, you can: ● NEW - Backup your hymnals, imported music, service list, and annotations to the cloud with your giamusic.com account. ● NEW - Now also works on iPhone. ● Download your hymnal via in-app purchase ● Quickly search for hymns by title or hymn number ● Create your own service lists ● Share service lists with other Hymnals app users ● Arrange your service list and display it in song order ● Listen to audio samples if available (requires an Internet connection) ● Zoom in or out without blurring ● View hymns in both portrait or the wider landscape mode ● Easily toggle to full-screen mode to see the entire hymn page ● Turn pages with AirTurn and PageFlip Bluetooth pedals ● Annotate hymns easy editing tools The free app includes three sample hymns.
What’s New
- Faster navigation from page to page using the arrows
Version 2.9
Version History

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50 Ratings
  • kingofcedarpoint, 12.12.2022
    hard to use
    it's basically a pdf reader. the table of contents is not click able, so when you want the readings that are start with page number 1000, there's no way to skip right to that section. wish there was. way to bookmark pages. also you can only search by hymns and not page number. Show more
  • beaubien123, 03.12.2022
    Worst app for music
    If you need page turns, and expect an intuitive response on your iPad, this app fails! I had disastrous experiences leading Masses using this platform. GIA, please match the quality of your online music offerings for modern day musicians with the resources provided by your competitor! Show more
  • JewelS5715, 19.10.2022
    Love this app
    I use it every Sunday. Once you get used to it, very user friendly. It is a GIA Publications app and therefore geared to their music, but entire GIA hymnals can be downloaded, searched, music edited, annotated. Plus access to Dropbox, so imported music can also be added, annotated, etc., in .pdf format. The only issue is with the sensitivity of down arrow to next page which tends to move you over to next hymn in your set list instead of to next page of current song. But I’m told the next version will have a correction for this. I would love to be able to download and search digital copies of hymnals from OCP, for example, but not really fair for a mostly proprietary app. Unless GIA wants to ultimately transform this app into a stand-alone. IMHO, I think Hymnals App has the perfect structure to work in that capacity for choir singers everywhere. I tried ForScore but it is too steep a learning curve for my purposes to be used exclusively instead of this app. I’ve come to depend on this app and am excited every time a new version is released! Show more
  • ChoirDirectorDMA, 19.09.2022
    Nonfunctional
    Purchased several hymnal accompaniment editions through the app to use while playing services, but for the last 6 months or so it crashes immediately upon opening. It’s totally nonfunctional- can’t trust it to be reliable even for rehearsal, much less a Sunday service or a wedding or funeral. Very very disappointed. Show more
  • Heardleader, 06.08.2022
    Basically a pdf viewer little to no functionality
    Search function is by title only, not by composer or Gia pub # Navigation while playing an instrument is all but impossible No ability to print from the app. Example because you can’t scroll back and forth while playing Service list - to re order song you have to delete the whole list and re-enter exactly as will be played, Show more
  • Dog Pound Dynasty, 20.11.2021
    Last updated in 2019?! Keeps crashing as of Nov 2021
    Last updated in 2019?! Keeps crashing as of Nov 2021 !!!! I just bought an M1 iPad Pro 12.9” and it keeps crashing when you try to select the eBooks that you’ve purchased. Will this be fixed and updated soon? Show more
  • P1CC0LO, 02.10.2021
    I like the app, but it needs a few tweaks
    I can’t figure out how to erase old notes. I tried to find someone to help me with this at the GIA booth during NPM, but no one there new much about the app. Also, the page turns are difficult after an update that was done over a year ago. You used to be able to tough anywhere on the right side to go to the next page of the song, now you have to press the arrow at the bottom, which is awkward when on a music stand or while holding it. Show more
  • Gafsfshi, 22.05.2021
    Please consider add a “single song mode”
    ——————- 5/22/2021 Also, please consider allow us to search by composers or lyricists. This could be really useful. ——————- 8/22/2020 I think one suggestion to solve the page-flipping difficulty for pianist in the keyboard edition is to add a "single song mode" feature where tapping anywhere on the left or right side of the page jumps directly to the next page instead of the next song, when it arrives at the last page, flipping left automatically goes to the first page. Since it is tough to press the arrow button accurately without accidentally flipping to the next song while playing and conducting the choir, I think this "single song mode" feature could make the keyboard edition much more user friendly. Otherwise I would give it a 5 stars. On top of this feature, I would suggest allow searching the content of the lyrics as well. I believe we can only search for a keyword in the title of the song instead of from the lyrics. Show more
  • julianjsand, 07.03.2021
    Consult with a Musician
    I really want to like this app. I am the Director of Music/Organist & Director of Liturgy at a large parish. I purchase a lot of music and music resources from GIA, and purchased the Accompaniment Editions of Ritual Song 2 and the Guimont Lectionary Psalms. As has been stated in other reviews-page turns are AWFUL. I, like most organists and pianists, hate page turns. This takes that stress to a much higher level. The editions are not cheap, and the user interface is horrid (i.e. putting together a setlist, searching for songs, a lack of a “performance mode,” etc. It would be better if you could use it in conjunction with an app like ForScore, but that’s impossible. The OCP Hymnal app blows this app out of the water, and it boggles my mind that GIA Publications haven’t even tried to correct this app in the > year I have had this app. I have been asked by several musicians and choir members about a digital app for Gather, RitualSong, etc, but I tell them just what I’ve said here. Please, for those of us that are GIA customers, do something to fix this. Show more

Information

  • Category
  • Age Rating
    4+
  • Price
    Free
  • Size
    100.55 MB
  • Provider
    GIA Publications, Inc.
Languages
English
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