Lift Up Your Hearts Hymnal 3.5.5

Lift Up Your Hearts serves as the iPad edition of the hymnal Lift Up Your Hearts: Psalms, Hymns, and Spiritual Songs, published by Faith Alive Christian Resources in 2013. This app features high-quality music alongside comprehensive search capabilities that enhance user engagement. Users can access detailed song information, including backgrounds on the songs and their authors. The app also supports various formats such as pew, large print, lead sheets, and instrumental arrangements for strings, brass, and woodwinds.

Available at no charge, the app includes 228 public domain songs from Lift Up Your Hearts, highlighting classics like “Amazing Grace,” “To God Be the Glory,” and “My Jesus, I Love Thee.” Users may opt for in-app purchases to add the large print edition of the hymnal, which encompasses both public domain and copyrighted hymns.

The in-app purchase options are as follows:

• Pew edition of the complete hymnal: $24.99
• Large Print edition of the complete hymnal: $24.99
• FlexScore edition of the complete hymnal: $99.99
• Individual FlexScores – one version of one song: $1.99
• Individual FlexScores – all versions of one song: $9.99
• Alto Sax Edition: $24.99
• Bass Edition: $24.99
• Bassoon Edition: $24.99
• Cello Edition: $24.99
• Clarinet Edition: $24.99
• Flute Edition: $24.99
• Horn Edition: $24.99
• Oboe Edition: $24.99
• Tenor Sax Edition: $24.99
• Trombone Edition: $24.99
• Trumpet Edition: $24.99
• Tuba Edition: $24.99
• Viola Edition: $24.99
• Violin Edition: $24.99

For each hymn, the app provides information that can include descriptions, brief author biographies, and helpful notes for worship leaders regarding performance suggestions and arrangements. Additionally, brief audio clips are available for most songs to aid in familiarization.

The integrated search feature offers flexibility, allowing users to locate songs by first line, author, composer, topic, or referenced scripture passages. An immediate search by hymn number is also supported.

A notable aspect of this app is the revolutionary FlexScores available for many songs, which include large print, lead sheet, and instrumental arrangements. Users can customize both the music and text size and transpose scores as needed.

The FlexScores encompass various formats such as pew editions, lead sheets, and arrangements for a wide range of instruments including violin, viola, cello, bass, flute, clarinet, oboe, bassoon, saxophones, horn, trumpet, trombone, and tuba. Each instrumental arrangement is transposed appropriately to suit the instrument's range.

A network connection is required to access audio samples and view most FlexScores. It is important to note that while editions like Pew and FlexScore can be transferred across devices, individual FlexScores purchased for either $1.99 or $9.99 are not transferable.