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Prepser vs Preachup: recording, sermon drafts, AI chat and price

Prepser is our product. Facts about Preachup come from its own public pages, linked in the table. Checked November 11, 2026. If something has changed, email support@prepser.com and we'll correct it.

Preachup describes itself as a place to organize, write, search and present your sermons, with an editor, a calendar and an organizer, on the web and in an iPhone and iPad app. Prepser is an app for iPhone, iPad, Mac and Apple Watch built as an AI second brain for pastors. It records the sermon you preach, turns it into notes for the week, keeps every sermon and note in one library you can chat with, and drafts the next sermon from your own preaching.

What Prepser does that Preachup does not

• Records and transcribes the sermon you preach. On Home, tap Record a sermon, put the phone on the pulpit, and Prepser transcribes live on the device. Recording and transcription aren't listed on Preachup's App Store page or its site; its listing describes writing in its sermon editor.
• Drafts your next sermon. Prepser's Draft a sermon turns a passage, topic, audience, length and format into a first draft that can build on your own notes. Drafting a sermon from a brief isn't listed by Preachup; its editor, in the listing's words, "gives you recommendations for related verses and topics".
• Builds the week's notes from what you preached. A Sunday Message prep in Prepser turns the sermon into an outline, key points, Scripture, prayer points, social posts, a newsletter and small group questions. None of these outputs is listed on Preachup's App Store page or site.
• Answers from your whole library. Prepser's AI Chat works across every sermon, scan, thought and prep you have saved, and shows the notes it used. AI chat isn't listed on Preachup's App Store page; its blog post of May 11, 2026 lists "Foundations for chat" under "Behind the scenes".
• Reviews your invitation. Prepser sums up the call to response you made and suggests a stronger one for next week. Invitation review isn't listed on Preachup's pages.
• Captures the week on your phone. Speak a thought in the car or scan a page from your study Bible, and it goes into the same Prepser library. Voice notes and page scans aren't listed among Preachup's features.

Side by side

Writing in an editor, or starting from what you preached

Preachup's App Store page describes a writing workflow: plan in a calendar, write in an editor tailored for biblical notes, search related passages and topics, and present the sermon from the pulpit. Its site calls it a tool "for researching and brainstorming sermons, studies, and devotionals".

Prepser starts from the sermon you actually preach. On Sunday, tap Record a sermon before you step up, put the phone on the pulpit, and the transcript builds while you preach. A sermon you already have comes in with Import a sermon. After the service, open a Sunday Message prep, tap Edit next to the linked notes, add the recording, and tap Generate Sermon Artifacts: outline, key points, Scripture, prayer points, posts, newsletter, small group questions and the invitation review, all from what you said. During the week the same library holds your study: thoughts you speak into the phone, pages you scan, preps for Sunday, Bible study and small group.

Drafting the next sermon

This is the clearest difference. In Prepser, AI Chat has a Draft a sermon button: give it a passage or topic, pick the audience, length and format, and leave Draw on my notes and preps on. The draft builds on what you have already preached and studied, so it sounds like you, and it lists the notes it used. It is a first draft: you study it, cut it and preach your own message. Complete examples are on our sermon pages.

Before you draft, Prepser can help with the text itself. In a prep, Prepare study notes gives you passages, cross-references, questions to study, possible angles and illustration ideas, written from the prep's brief. The study notes and preps page shows what each section holds.

One library you can ask

Every sermon you record or import stays in your Prepser library next to your notes and preps, and AI Chat answers from all of it: what you preached on forgiveness last year, which illustrations you have used for grace, where your series on Romans went. Under each answer, Sources lists the notes and preps it drew on, so you can open them and check. Scripture comes in the Bible translation you chose in onboarding. A good answer can be saved back to your library as a note or a prep.

Preachup's App Store page describes an organizer that analyzes your sermons and their verse references, and a search that finds related passages, topics, your sermons and ideas from the community. Its blog post of May 11, 2026 describes assistant tools that will "recall past sermons" as groundwork for chat.

Pricing

Prepser Pro is $8.99 a month or $74.99 a year, with no limit on the number of sermons. The Free plan includes 30 AI chat messages, 3 sermon drafts, 3 prep generations and 3 study notes a month, and capturing sermons and notes is free. Prepser Pro is a personal subscription billed by Apple. Preachup's App Store page lists the app as free with no in-app purchases; its site invites you to start for free, its pricing page doesn't list prices in its text, and its April 19, 2026 blog post mentions a "Manage subscription" button in account settings. Details on our pricing page.

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Updated November 11, 2026 · Prepser 1.1.7 · Preachup facts checked November 11, 2026.