Every note in Cardinal now opens the same way. Studies, sermon notes and verse notes used to each work differently, and now there is one screen per note, no Save button to hunt for, and one clear way to delete anything with an undo if you change your mind. Your writing is kept as you type, and now the app says so. Studies comes with a finished example you can read through, so you can see what a week of preparation actually looks like before you start your own. Catching a thought while you read is faster too. A verse note takes one screen instead of four, and Cardinal will tell you what's new in each release right inside Ask.

Your outline is no longer stuck in the order you wrote it. Drag a point by its number to move it, and the point you decided belongs first on Saturday can go first. Studies and Sermon Notes now look like one place instead of two. Sections, headings and controls match across both, the Big Idea carries the same weight wherever you write it, and the full writing page is one swipe from the keyboard. Your studies and sermon notes also turn up in Spotlight now, so a message you spent a week on is one swipe-down and a few letters away.

Search now keeps your place. Tap a verse to read it, come back, and your results, your filters and your scroll position are exactly where you left them. It also stops leading you somewhere you cannot go. A verse you are entitled to read always opens, and if your free day with a translation has ended you can keep reading the same passage in the King James Version with one tap. Results are quieter to read, with the verse itself now leading each row instead of the reference. If you read in German or Russian, search no longer answers with unrelated English verses. And on the CSB, NKJV, NASB and NLT, word completion and spelling suggestions work for the first time.

Switching translations no longer means waiting. The chapter you asked for now appears as soon as it arrives, and the rest of the book fills in behind you while you read. This release also fixes a bug that could leave some readers unable to open any book at all, restores 24 verses that were missing from Numbers 1 in the NLT, and makes Bible book names follow your language the moment you change it.

Journeys now answer your touch. Opening a journey, stepping between stops, starting the narration, recentering the map, and arriving at the final stop each carry their own subtle haptic, so a guided tour feels physical, not just visual. A few other recent controls that were missing that feedback, the record/CD artwork switch and the side-by-side translation reader, get it back too. Cardinal Pro can now be unlocked with a redemption code.

Journeys now answer your touch. Opening a journey, stepping between stops, starting the narration, recentering the map, and arriving at the final stop each carry their own subtle haptic, so a guided tour feels physical, not just visual. A few other recent controls that were missing that feedback, the record/CD artwork switch and the side-by-side translation reader, get it back too.

Tap any word while you read and Cardinal now speaks it in Hebrew or Greek, so the original language is something you can hear, not just look at. The word study card tells you which pronunciation tradition you are hearing, and it says plainly when it cannot tell which original word your English word came from, instead of guessing at you. Search is clearer about which translation it is actually searching, and Bible search results load faster when you keep a lot of notes.

Cardinal comes to your wrist. A new Apple Watch app puts today's verse and your next reading a glance away, with complications for your watch face and controls for the audio Bible. Just the verse, no streaks, no counters. Widgets got a real upgrade too: pick your translation and theme, start listening with one tap without opening the app, and a new bedside layout for StandBy. And every widget now follows your text size, so larger type finally works everywhere.

The NKJV, NASB, CSB, and NLT are back in Cardinal, now licensed directly from their publishers as part of Cardinal Pro. Try any of them free for a full day, no subscription needed. If you were reading one of them before, your free day with it starts automatically. KJV, BSB, WEB, and MSB stay free. Always. New readers now start in the King James Version, and this build also brings a more polished Journeys experience and stability improvements.

Simplified Chinese now has a complete Bible that works fully offline. The Chinese Union Version (和合本) joins the growing set of translations you can open anywhere, with no download and no connection. The King James Version is now fully bundled too, so it opens instantly whether you're online or not. More translations are on the way as licenses are finalized, and a note in the translation picker keeps you posted.

Three Bible translations now work fully offline: the King James Version, plus two new modern-English translations, the Berean Standard Bible (BSB) and the World English Bible (WEB). All three are bundled with the app, so Scripture is always there, connection or not. More translations are on the way as publisher licenses are finalized, and a note in the translation picker keeps you posted. You can also report any AI answer now (long-press, then Report), and the paywall spells out subscription renewal terms more clearly, including the 3-day free trial on the annual plan.

Delete a note or highlight by accident? A tap of Undo brings it right back. Bible search is more flexible. Search the whole Bible or narrow to the book you are in, and start from a full reference or a single word. You can now manage your subscription and restore purchases right inside Settings, alongside clearer notes on how your data is stored. Reading size and style now live in one simple place, and everything new in this update arrives fully translated in every supported language.

Cardinal now keeps you company on the Lock Screen. Start listening and the passage you are hearing shows on the Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island for the whole session, so where you are is always a glance away. The verses you highlight and note now surface in Spotlight. A verse you have marked is findable from anywhere on your iPhone, by meaning, not just exact words. Ask Siri to read you a passage and Cardinal opens and plays it. And motion across the app is smoother and calmer, with full respect for Reduce Motion for anyone who prefers less movement.

Quiet Time now has a short reflection for every chapter of the Bible, so whatever you are reading, there is a thought to sit with. A new Journey traces the wise men from the East to Bethlehem and home by another road, a companion to the Nativity story already in Cardinal. Journeys speak more languages. The guided narration, the places along the way, and their descriptions are now translated for Spanish, French, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, Chinese, and Russian readers, alongside English and German. Explore is tidier, too. Theme filtering lives in a single clean menu, and the Journeys shelf opens with a fresh mix each time you visit, leading with the season when there is one.

A new Journey traces the wise men from the East to Bethlehem and home by another road, a companion to the Nativity story already in Cardinal. Journeys now speak more languages. The guided narration is translated for Spanish, French, Korean, Brazilian Portuguese, and Chinese readers, alongside English and German. Explore is tidier, too. Theme filtering now lives in a single clean menu, and the Journeys shelf opens with a fresh mix each time you visit, leading with the season when there is one.

Search now finds more than verses. Look up a place from Scripture, like Jerusalem, Galilee, or Corinth, and open it right on the map, or jump straight into a Journey from your search results. Your Verse of the Day widget now follows the translation you read in, instead of always showing one fixed version. And your memorize verses now appear in the exact translation you've chosen, ESV, KJV, NKJV, NLT, or NASB, with the wording matched to the label so a verse never shows one version under another's name.

Meet Journeys. Follow the great figures of Scripture across the very lands where their stories happened. Trace Paul's missionary voyages, Abraham's road to the Promised Land, the Exodus, Passion Week, and more, flying place to place over real satellite maps. Read the story of each stop, listen as it's narrated aloud, tap a location to learn about it, and open the verses right where they were lived. Sixteen journeys to explore, free for everyone. Explore has a fresh look too. It's now a single scrolling feed with Journeys up top and your verse packs below, and your own saved verses are always the first card, so everything is easier to browse.

Notes get more flexible: drag to reorder the sections of a sermon note, attach related verses to a note, and organize notes with tags. Big fixes: Switching translations now updates what you're reading. Change your translation from the reader or Settings and the verses on screen change with it, not just the label.

Compare translations side by side. Tap any verse, choose Compare, and see how it reads across translations at once, with the words that differ from your current version gently highlighted so the nuances jump out. The audio player gets a new look you can choose: tap the artwork to switch between a spinning vinyl record and a glowing CD. Reading is a little cleaner too, with simpler chapter controls, and deleting a verse note is now a single tap.

Cardinal now speaks your language. The whole app is translated into German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese, and it switches the instant you choose a language or open a Bible in another one, with no restart. Search is smarter: it suggests references and words as you type, offers a gentle "Did you mean?" when something is slightly off, and still finds the passage even when your exact wording isn't in the translation you're reading. You can now reach Cardinal from Siri and Shortcuts: continue reading, hear the Verse of the Day, search, ask a question, or start a sermon note by voice. Sharing a verse is lovelier too, with light, dark, and red cards that send as an image your friends can actually see. We also deepened accessibility throughout and smoothed performance across the app.

Cardinal now speaks your language, fully. The whole app is translated into German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese, and it switches the moment you choose a language or a Bible in another language, with no restart. Search is smarter too: it suggests references and words as you type, offers a "Did you mean?" when a word is slightly off, and still finds the passage even when your exact wording isn't in the translation you're reading. We also deepened accessibility throughout, so more of Cardinal works beautifully with VoiceOver and assistive tools.

Cardinal now speaks your language, everywhere. The whole app is translated into German, Spanish, French, Korean, Portuguese, Russian, and Chinese (Simplified and Traditional), and it follows the Bible you read: choose a translation and the app sets itself to match. Search is smarter too. It suggests references and words as you type, offers a "Did you mean?" when a word is slightly off, and still finds the passage even when your exact wording isn't in the translation you're reading. We also deepened accessibility throughout, so more of Cardinal works beautifully with VoiceOver and assistive tools.

Cardinal now speaks Russian. The whole app is translated, and you can read Scripture in the Synodal Bible, with word-by-word audio in the New Testament that follows along as you read. Keyword search works in Russian too: download the translation in full and it finds the exact wording you're looking for. Psalm numbers follow the convention Russian readers expect, so Psalm 23 is the shepherd psalm wherever you look it up.

Audio now follows what you're reading. Open ESV and you'll hear ESV, not a fixed English voice, and when a translation has no recording of its own, the player tells you which narration you're hearing instead of switching silently. Keyword search works in every translation now, not just one: download a translation in full and search finds its exact wording, including in languages other than English. We also added two more German Bibles, the Elberfelder (1871) and the Menge-Bibel.

Long-press the Cardinal icon for Home Screen shortcuts: jump straight back into reading, search, Ask, or a new sermon note, without opening the app first. Ask also got a calmer, more readable refresh: answers now flow like a clean page instead of sitting in a box, the question cards on the Ask screen start a conversation with a single tap, and the type is gentler on the eyes. New conversations open with the keyboard ready, so you can just start typing.