About

The project

Family Hymn Companion is a small, private companion app for families who already own and use a traditional hymnal. It assumes the hymnal is on the table. Its job is not to replace or digitize the book — it's to help a family look up a hymn, hear its tune clearly, and build the confidence to sing from the book they already have.

Built around the 1990 Trinity Hymnal

The app is focused on the 1990 revised Trinity Hymnal. Every hymn is keyed to its number in that book, so what you see on screen lines up with the hymnal open in front of you — the number, title, tune, meter, composer, and scripture reference, plus the melody to hear and, for hymns in the public domain, the full verses to read along.

A companion, not a hymnal replacement

This is deliberately narrow. Family Hymn Companion is not, and won't become:

Rights posture

Hymn and tune material is treated as rights-sensitive. Lyrics appear only for hymns in the public domain — the revised Trinity Hymnal's entries still under active copyright show their first line and a link to the source instead. Everything — metadata, lyrics, audio — is served privately to signed-in household members for their own hymn-learning; nothing is republished to the open web. If the app ever grew beyond invite-only, this posture would be revisited first.

Where things stand

Family Hymn Companion is built and run by one family, and it's young. It works — the catalog, the tunes, the lyrics, the shared sung log — but expect rough edges, and expect things to change. It's currently shared with a few invited households whose feedback is shaping it. If something's broken or confusing, reply to your invitation email; that feedback is exactly what this stage is for.

Getting in

There's no public signup or waitlist. Onboarding is invite-based: a founder is invited to create a household, and that household's admin invites everyone else. If you'd like to join a household already using the app, ask its admin to send an invitation to your email, then sign in.