Hey Product Hunt — I'm Stan, and I built UpperRoom because I lost

my sermon notes.

Not dramatically. No crash, no scandal. My notes app just... stopped.

A subscription lapsed. An account error. Years of Sunday mornings,

small-group discussions, and half-finished thoughts about Romans 8

— gone.

So I started building the app I wished existed.

Why I built this

Every note app I tried in this category had the same three problems:

the notes were hard to find six months later, the pricing was a

weekly subscription dressed up as a free app, and nothing exported

cleanly enough to trust. I wanted something that recorded the sermon,

timestamped every note I typed, and kept the whole archive

searchable for years. Something that exports everything in one tap,

for free, even if I disappear tomorrow.

What's different about UpperRoom

- Bidirectional audio-text linking. Every note you type while

recording is stamped to the exact moment in the audio. Tap the

timestamp later and the recording plays from that sentence.

- Offline-first, export-always. Notes and audio save locally

first. The app works in a church basement with no signal. Export

to Markdown, PDF, and text is free—always—even if you stop using

the app.

- Fair pricing. The free tier does everything that matters:

capture, search, export, review. The paid tier is $48-$60/year, or $6.99/month

. No weekly billing. No trial-to-subscription

conversion.

What feedback would help most

I'm one person building this, and I want to know where it actually

breaks for real people. The questions I care most about:

1. Does the timestamping actually work for how you take notes?

I built it around my own habit of typing fragments during the

sermon, but I know other people write full sentences, draw

diagrams, or don't type at all. If the core mechanic doesn't fit

how you listen, I want to know.

2. Is the free tier fair enough to trust? I've deliberately kept

export and search free. If you've been burned by a notes app

before, does this feel different, or does it still feel like a

trap waiting to close?

3. What's missing that would make you switch? I know Selah

doesn't do everything. Tell me what the dealbreaker is.

Happy to answer anything about the build, the pricing, or why I

think the weekly-subscription model in this category is broken.

— Stan