For the parish music director and organist

A hymn planner that remembers what your parish sang

A hymn planner, free to start with one hymnal of up to 200 entries, that shows beside each hymn you pick when your parish last sang it and whether it comes round too soon.

Open the planning desk Enter your hymnal

Your plans never leave this browser. No account.

Next Sunday in the demo parish

Proper 22, Sunday 4 October 2026, 10:00

40Entrance
10Offertory
43Communion
76Sending

Proper 22, Season after Pentecost, green, Year A

40Immortal, Invisible, God Only WiseEntrance hymn. Last sung 2 Aug 2026; 3 times in the past year, 3 in all.
10As with Gladness Men of OldOffertory hymn. Last sung 11 Jan 2026; 1 time in the past year, 1 in all.Tune heard within 4 weeks. The tune DIX is also heard 1 week later, with For the Beauty of the Earth on 11 Oct 2026.Tagged for another season. As with Gladness Men of Old is tagged for Season after the Epiphany; this day falls in Season after Pentecost.
43Abide With MeCommunion hymn. Last sung 9 Aug 2026; 3 times in the past year, 3 in all.
76Stand Up, Stand Up for JesusSending hymn. Last sung 9 Aug 2026; 6 times in the past year, 6 in all.

Try another offertory hymn

10 As with Gladness Men of Old (as planned)41 Guide Me, O Thou Great Jehovah36 Amazing Grace38 Be Thou My Vision

How it works

Enter your hymnal in the library. Type the numbers you use, import the index you keep in a spreadsheet, or start from the public domain starter index.
Open the calendar for the quarter. Each Sunday and feast is named, with its season, colour, lectionary year and proper.
Plan a service, with last sung beside every choice. Pick a hymn for each slot by number or title and see the date it was last sung, how often this year, and a warning if it is already planned three weeks from now or its tune is heard under another text next month.
Print the papers the week needs. Big numbers for the hymn board, the week's music for the bulletin, the quarter's list for clergy and choir, the year's hymns sung by hymnal, and a folded bulletin built from your own order of service.

Hymnals, plans, readings and names in your orders of service are stored only in this browser. Export a backup whenever you like, locked with a passphrase if you want. New to planning this way? Start with how to plan hymns for a quarter, tracking when hymns were last sung or all the guides.

The church year, computed

Easter is worked out with the Gregorian computus and checked against the dates the US Naval Observatory publishes for 89 years. Advent, Ash Wednesday, Holy Week, Ascension, Pentecost and Trinity follow from it, and Sundays are named the prayer book way (Propers after Pentecost), counted after Pentecost, or in Ordinary Time. How each is worked out is in computing the church year.

Readings are yours to type, paste or import from a file you keep: lectionary tables belong to their publishers and are not included.

What it is not

Hymnwise ships no hymn texts, no lectionary tables and no liturgical texts: you type or import your own, under your own licences.
It does not suggest music from a publisher's catalogue or sell licences; it plans from the hymnals you own and keeps your history.
It is not a copyright report service. The annual report lists what you sang, for you to report under your own licence.
Hymnwise is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to any church, denomination, diocese, hymnal publisher, lectionary body or licensing service, including the Consultation on Common Texts, Augsburg Fortress, Church Publishing, GIA, OCP, Hope Publishing, Hymnary.org, OneLicense and CCLI.