More to discover every time you open your Bible. • Ask a question in your own words and search everything at once: the Bible, lessons, devotionals, commentary and guides, opening right at the paragraph you need. • New devotionals now reach you without waiting for an update, starting with The Beatitudes, a 30-day walk through the heart of the Sermon on the Mount. • Your devotional shelf looks beautiful on larger screens. • When you listen, the voice now reads references the way you would: First John, chapter 4, verse 8. • Word Study shows the very word your verse prints, not only its dictionary form. • A friend you invite to your Study Circle lands right in it, even when they install VerseRoot first. • See how much space VerseRoot keeps on your device, and free it up by kind. • Your fill-in-the-blank answers now forgive a stray space. • Be ready when a friend asks about your faith: sixteen guides help you answer people of other beliefs and honest skeptics, and share the gospel in eight simple ways, each one read aloud, with every Bible reference a tap away. • For churches: if you lead one, you can now send a weekly study to every member's phone, and one membership covers all of each member's devices.

A place to keep what God is teaching you as you read and study His Word. • Write your own notes in a beautiful notebook. Headings, lists, checklists and quotes look finished as you type, and you can keep notes in folders, pin the ones you need most, and find any of them in a moment. • Keep your prayer list or study plan as a checklist. Tick an item and it slides gently to the bottom, so what is still ahead of you stays in view. • Share the notes you choose as a clean PDF, ready to print or send to your small group. • Pinch the page to make your Bible's text larger or smaller, right where you are reading. • Bible quizzes have a fresh look: your answer drops right into the verse, and you see how you did at a glance. • Watch Bible videos full screen on your phone, tablet or computer, and come back with one tap. • After a quiet moment with a Letter from God, you can send it to someone you have in mind, with their name in it. • Another trusted commentary, clear and modern, now sits beside your reading to answer your questions. • Your highlights stay in step across all your devices. • Your verse for today greets you in Settings with its own photograph.

Read your Bible every day, understand it, and see how far you have come. • Read the whole Bible in a year, with two short readings each day. Already on the plan? You keep your place. • Devotionals now show your journey: each day you have read along a path, how many are left, and a shelf of the ones you have finished. • Every devotional opens on a clear plan, week by week, so you always know where you are and pick up with one tap. • Not sure what a word means? Look it up right where you read: in your Bible, devotionals, lessons and more. • Prefer to listen? Long readings now play all the way to the end. • Your Bible's books are grouped the way you know them, from the Law to the Letters, with a mark for how much of each you have read. • Start memorizing with one tap: a first verse is waiting for you, in your own Bible. • Letters from God stay open once you have read them, so you always know which are new. • The Scarlet Thread is reborn as a living sphere you can turn and explore, tracing God's promise from Genesis to Revelation, and it can read itself to you. • For deeper study, press and hold a word to select it, drag to take in a whole phrase, and open the original Hebrew or Greek behind it. • Lighter and faster: the app takes less space, uses less memory, and stays smooth on older devices.

More of the Bible in your hands, and more ways to pray it. • Read your Bible in thirty-three English versions, from word-for-word classics to easy modern English, and set any two side by side, lined up verse for verse. • Pray through your list, one person a day: a gentle daily reminder can name someone, shows the verse you chose for them in your own Bible, and lets you say amen and move on. • Not sure what to pray? Choose what you are carrying, comfort, peace, strength, and find a verse to hold onto. • See every prayer God has answered in one place, and keep your prayer list on all your devices. • New to prayer? The Prayer Room now shows you where to begin, and after a guided prayer you can keep a line of it in your journal. • Your notes, highlights and memory verses stay on the right verse, whichever version you read. • When your connection drops, you'll know why and what you can still read. • Videos close with one tap, the list of versions scrolls all the way on your iPad, and your prayer cards share as the picture they were made to be.

More ways to understand the Bible you're reading, and to enjoy it. • Watch the story unfold. Short animated videos walk you through the books of the Bible and its great themes, free for everyone. • Tap a word in your Bible to see what it means in that verse, explained in plain words you can share with anyone. • Press and hold any word in your Bible and its meaning opens right away, the very word you pressed. • When you tap a word, you now get the right one, in every translation you read. • More trusted study notes beside your reading, including Spanish for the first time and more in French. • Your Bible, lessons and videos open faster and run more smoothly, even on older phones.

WordLab: keep your Greek and Hebrew. Your Bible already carries the whole Hebrew and Greek text, every word tagged and parsed. WordLab turns that into daily practice, so the languages you worked hard for stay with you. START WHERE YOU ARE A 90-second check finds your level, or simply choose it yourself. Nobody has to begin at the alphabet. PRACTISE WHAT YOU WOULD OTHERWISE FORGET Vocabulary comes from the same frequency lists your textbook uses: the 320 Greek words that occur 50 times or more, and the 568 Hebrew words at 70 or more. Spaced review brings each one back just before it slips away. REAL FORMS, NEVER INVENTED ONES Every question is drawn from the biblical text, and every answer opens the verse it came from. 819 PARADIGM TABLES, MINED FROM SCRIPTURE Tap any form to see how often it occurs and to read a verse where it actually stands. Empty cells stay empty: if a form never appears in the Bible, WordLab will not invent one. PRACTISE THE PASSAGE YOU ARE READING Open any chapter in Greek or Hebrew and turn it into a session on the spot, or practise a single word from Word Study. RENDER IT YOURSELF Write your own translation of a verse, then compare it with the published ones and see exactly what the grammar settles and where translators are free to differ. Also in this release: everything holds its shape at large accessibility text sizes, the free trial is stated clearly wherever the app asks you to subscribe, and WordLab speaks French and Spanish throughout.

Read the Bible in the languages it was first written in. • Open Hebrew and Greek like any other version. Pick it from your version list and read Genesis or John in the words the first readers held. • Touch any word to learn what it actually means, how it is used, and the form it takes here, explained in plain language. • See where the ancient copies differ, and where they agree. When a passage is disputed, you are told plainly instead of left to wonder. • Thousands of words of Scripture restored to our Hebrew and Greek text, so nothing is quietly missing from what you read. • Ready for the newest iPhone and iPad software, with a calmer, steadier app throughout. Come closer to the words behind your Bible.

Everything you love about VerseRoot, now smoother and clearer. • Watch your walk with God grow — your Bible reading, prayer, memorization and quiet devotional moments now come together in one honest, encouraging picture. • Go deeper in seconds: tap any word to uncover its original meaning, or open a guided study on the topics that matter to you. • Prepare and preach with confidence using the Sermon Workshop and Preaching Calendar. • Read, listen and study anywhere — the Bible, audio and your notes travel with you, even offline. • A calmer, faster app that gets out of your way and keeps you in the Word. Come see why so many are making VerseRoot part of their daily time with God.

A fresh look, deeper roots. • A new look throughout, with the VerseRoot mark on every screen • Preaching Calendar in the Sermon Workshop: plan your year, set a date and series for each sermon, and see what you have covered at a glance • Sermon Workshop refinements: rename outline sections, tap a verse to type its number, a Read pane that follows your language, and a Build-your-own template • Bible commentary in the Study panel stays in your reading language • A cleaner, livelier tab bar Your studies, notes, highlights, prayers and subscription carry over exactly as they are.

A second full year of Daily Manna is here. 365 brand-new devotionals, every one written fresh, so the readings now run on a two-year cycle and you can go two full years without meeting the same morning twice. You choose which year you are reading, and you can switch whenever you like. Teach without worrying about the room's Wi-Fi. When you open a study, its whole presentation now downloads in the background, so the slides are already on your device before you stand up to speak. You also get a short presenter brief before the study opens, speaker notes while you present, and discussion prompts that stay on screen long enough to actually use. Finding the right study is faster. Studies are now grouped by track and searchable by name, and every track opens with a free study so you can see what is inside before you decide. French and Spanish readers get the whole teaching library in their own language, with Scripture shown in Segond and Reina-Valera rather than translated back out of English. Plus a steadier app throughout: the day turns over correctly at midnight, a verse your translation leaves out now says so instead of showing an empty number, your place in a long list is kept when you come back, and several crashes are fixed.

A year of Daily Manna, rewritten. All 365 devotionals are new. Each one starts where your day actually starts, walks into the passage, and ends with one thing you can do before the day is out. Nineteen were replaced outright, because the year had quietly begun repeating itself, so Jonah, Ruth, Esther, Ezra and Amos finally have their morning. Every entry was read word by word against the passage it cites, in English, French and Spanish, each against the Bible its reader actually opens. Greek and Hebrew you can actually read. Tap a word in any verse and the definition is written to be understood rather than decoded. For a large share of the New Testament there was previously no plain-language definition at all, only classical Greek prose, and that included the words people reach for most: Jesus, Christ, Father, Spirit. The word behind "locusts" in Matthew 3:4 now tells you what the insect was and how it was eaten. Greek can be heard. Original-language entries now carry a pronunciation you can play, and it is free rather than part of Pro. When a commentator discusses the exact word you tapped, you see their own sentence about it with their name on it, instead of a paraphrase. Search takes a question. Ask how to deal with anxiety and it finds what you meant, rather than returning nothing because you phrased it as a sentence. French readers now have a commentary written in French: La Bible Annotée de Neuchâtel, verse by verse, the whole Bible. Spanish and French word study now finds the original word behind the word in their own language. Study Circle leaders can hand the circle to someone else. Until now the only way out was deleting it for everyone who had studied there. Sermon Workshop is open from the first screen. Build the whole sermon, and decide about Pro at the finish line instead of at the door. Sharing the Verse of the Day works again, and two crashes are fixed.

Your study now goes wherever you do. VerseWise comes to Apple Watch, so today's verse is on your wrist the moment you raise it, in three designs you can choose between, and your memory verses are there too. A spare minute in a waiting room becomes a minute in the Word. Ask and it appears. Siri now reads you today's verse, opens your daily manna, picks up the study you left unfinished, tells you how many memory verses are due, or jumps straight to any passage. No unlocking, no tapping, no hunting for it. Starting out is simpler. The app opens to Scripture right away now, and setting up your profile waits until you have had a look around. Reading feels lighter. Selecting a verse brings up a compact frosted bar that stays out of the way of the text, and the last verse on a page is never hidden behind it again. Sharing actually arrives. Send someone an episode of Stories of Redemption and it opens that exact episode for them, or shows them where to get VerseWise if they do not have it yet. Audio remembers you. Press play on your headphones later and VerseWise picks up where you stopped instead of staying silent. Steadier everywhere. Fixed the crashes behind a good number of unexpected quits, stopped two reminders from stacking on top of each other, and settled the menus on iPad that could flash open and vanish before you could read them.

Now you can start a Study Circle with a friend, free. Invite someone you love into Scripture and grow side by side, right in the app. And you're always in control of your notifications, with a simple mute switch for any circle when you need a quieter moment. Plus a smoother, more polished experience throughout.

Hide God's Word in your heart. This update introduces Scripture Memorization, a gentle guided journey that takes a verse from the page into your memory. Take it in, fill in a few words, then a few more, and before long you are saying the whole verse from the heart. Gentle reminders bring each verse back right before it fades, so what you learn actually stays with you. Memorize together. Study Circle leaders can now send verses to the whole group, and everyone grows side by side. And when you want to understand a verse, not just recall it, the new Verse Intelligence view gathers trusted commentary, connected passages, and the original Hebrew and Greek in one beautiful place. Plus a smoother, faster, more polished experience across the app. Less friction, more Scripture.

This update helps you go deeper in the Word and feel more at home in your community. Prepare your sermons with less friction and deliver them with a calm, focused view that keeps your eyes up. See yourself and your group reflected in new profile photos and a wider, more representative set of avatars. Enjoy richer audio, clearer account sync, and a smoother, more dependable experience throughout. Less getting in your way, more growing in faith.

A more beautiful, more personal VerseWise. Your daily time in the Word feels calmer and more inviting, with a refreshed reading experience throughout. Our devotional letters are lovelier than ever, and you can now hear them read aloud in a warm, natural voice, keep the ones that move you, and share them with someone you love. Thank you for studying with us.

Meet Letters from God, a new devotional series written just for you. Each letter arrives on its own, one at a time, so every word has space to settle in your heart. When a new one is ready, a gentle moment lets you know it has arrived, waiting to be opened like a letter meant for you alone. We also polished the details that matter most: prayer reminders, sharing, and audio all feel calmer and more reliable. Thank you for making VerseWise part of your walk with God.

Listen to VerseWise. Daily studies, Foundations chapters, devotionals, and more can now be read aloud in a warm, natural narrated voice, with tap to pause and pick up right where you left off. Also in this update: - Your Daily Verse now displays and shares in your chosen translation - Fresh New tutorials - Smoother Bible Reader navigation - Spiritual Gifts growth dashboard refinements - Stability improvements and polish throughout

PRAYER ALARMS The Pray For list is now Prayer Alarms. Set a reminder for the people and causes God has put on your heart. Alarms fire as a three-ring volley at your chosen time, with a 15-minute safety nudge so you do not miss the moment. The days picker lets you opt into specific weekdays. Reminders stay opt-in per entry, so the list still works fine as a plain written record without them. DAILY STUDY: TAP TO READ THE PASSAGE The scripture reference on the Daily Study card is now tappable. Tap to read the full passage inline in a popup; tap outside to dismiss. Read the day's text without leaving the study screen. BIBLE READER NAVIGATION A teal Library pill expands at the top of the reader on entry, then folds away after ten seconds, so the exit is always obvious. The floating bottom-corner controls (the jump-tab menu and the study panel entry) use a refined teal treatment that adapts to every reading theme, and the menu auto-opens for a moment on entry to teach where it is. PATH TO CHRIST A new 27-lesson Path to Christ track for new believers and seekers walks through the foundations of the Christian faith from "Can God be trusted?" to "The Home Without Tears." Pinned to the top of the All Sections screen and the Study Circles lesson picker for one-tap access. The legacy section is renamed Steps to Christ for clarity. TUTORIALS IN SETTINGS A new Tutorials section in Settings with planned video walkthroughs for every part of the app: Bible Reader, Study Tab, Library, Prayer Room, Study Circles, Leadership Resources, and Settings. Videos arrive in batches and appear automatically as they are recorded. No app update required to see new ones. UNDER THE HOOD Smarter back-arrow behavior in the Bible Reader so it always exits when there is no passage history left. Faster manifest fetches for community devotionals. Numerous small UX polish and stability fixes across Bible Reader, Daily Study, and Study Circles.

SERMON WORKSHOP (Brand new) A complete sermon-preparation environment built into the app. Pick a passage. Choose from 14 outline templates including Three-Point Expository, Verse-by-Verse, Topical, Doctrinal, Narrative, Typological, Inductive OIA, One-Point Big Idea, Funeral, Wedding, and Communion. Study with every commentary, lexicon, profile, theme, cross-reference, and book introduction the app ships. Write your outline with live rich-text formatting. Drop in inline Illustration, Application, and Scripture markers anywhere. Hear it read back end to end. Export as PDF, Word, plain text, or Markdown. Premium feature. CLOUD SYNC (Brand new) Sign in with Apple, Google, or email to sync your notes, highlights, bookmarks, and study progress across iPhone, iPad, Mac, and Android. Your data is encrypted in transit and at rest. Works offline; syncs when you reconnect. SERMON PREPARATION PRIMER (12 guides) In-depth guides woven through the Workshop: Prayer in Sermon Preparation, Preaching the Gospel in Every Sermon, Exegesis vs. Eisegesis, Reading in Context, Hermeneutics, Crafting Introductions, Building Application, Transitions and Pacing, Delivery, Common Mistakes, Choosing What to Preach, and Using Original Languages Responsibly. THE STEWARDSHIP OF LIFE (60-day devotional) A new 60-day series on the biblical theology of stewardship: time, talents, treasure, body, relationships, and witness. Plus a new Biblical Stewardship topical category. AUDIO LIBRARY Audio editions of The Imitation of Christ, The Pilgrim's Progress, and Absolute Surrender added. Final cover art for four classic devotionals. LEADERSHIP HUB A masterclass sermon preparation guide with prayer woven throughout, plus dedicated guides for funerals, baby dedications, and weddings. YEAR IN REVIEW A personalized year-end recap with confetti, count-ups, and color-coded stats. Notification on December 27 so you do not miss it. NOTES & BOOKMARKS Tagging system with a self-managed vocabulary. Unified Library Notes and Bookmarks feeds with source filter chips. Notes affordance now wired into 7 content surfaces beyond the Bible. ADVANCED SEARCH Deeply indexes Leadership content, the Heresies resource, and lesson depth tools. Persists recent queries. WORD STUDY Major presentation refinements. Comprehensive lexicon rebuild with Strong's 1890 definitions and KJV translation counts. BIBLE TEXT IN PREMIUM TRANSLATIONS (FIXED) Premium translations now render with proper spacing throughout. The cache refreshes automatically on first launch. SUBSCRIPTIONS & PREMIUM Refreshed paywall with clearer pricing, social proof, and a post-purchase celebration. New What's New release-notes dialog in Settings. iPad Wave of iPadOS 26 fixes: action buttons moved out of top-corner gesture zones, dialog and bottom-sheet barrier-dismiss workaround, dedicated safe-modal helpers. UNDER THE HOOD Daily Study card visible all day with swipe between cards. Daily Verse: tap any word for word study. Daily Manna share export hardened against overflow. Cross-references preview in place. Settings: Clear Cache shows the cache size, Delete All Data requires typing "delete" to confirm. Fixed a crash class around disposed text controllers app-wide.

Today's 5-Minute Study — A brand new daily feature. 370 days of original language word studies, archaeological discoveries, and historical insights. Each morning brings a fresh passage with Hebrew or Greek analysis and a takeaway you won't find anywhere else. 8 Scholarly Commentaries — We doubled our commentary library. Adam Clarke, Barnes' Notes, Robertson's Word Pictures (Greek), and Keil & Delitzsch (Hebrew) join the original four. Over 120,000 verse-level entries covering the full Bible. Richer Word Definitions — Greek and Hebrew lexicons upgraded to full Liddell-Scott-Jones and unabridged Brown-Driver-Briggs. 19,000+ entries with numbered senses and scholarly detail. Listen While You Read — Audio Bible now available for ESV, NKJV, NLT, and CSB with both standard and dramatized narration options. New Themes & Fonts — 4 premium reading themes (Midnight, Rose, Parchment, Slate) and 4 premium fonts (Lora, Crimson Pro, Merriweather, EB Garamond) to make your reading experience your own. Smarter Search — Multi-word search finds verses containing all your terms. Results grouped by book with expand/collapse. Search within the current book for faster lookup. Spiritual Growth Dashboard — Track your spiritual journey with activity stats, Scripture engagement metrics, spiritual gifts discovery, and a comprehensive assessment. 30-Day Devotionals — New devotional series for men, women, and specific spiritual growth topics. Export Your Notes — Save your Bible study notes as a beautifully formatted PDF. Under the Hood — Faster Bible loading with improved caching, better parallel Bible view with verse navigation, cleaner text rendering, and data management options in Settings.

SPIRITUAL GROWTH DASHBOARD Track your spiritual journey with a living, personalized dashboard. See your growth over time with animated trend charts, get weekly challenges tailored to your weakest areas, and receive cross-assessment insights that connect your gifts, temperament, and leadership style into one clear picture. Your personal spiritual rhythm narrative synthesizes everything into guidance crafted specifically for you. EXPANDED QUIZ MODE 2,400+ questions across 4 modes including Bible Mystery riddles and Bible Knowledge trivia across 40 categories. Choose your question count, focus on specific study sections, or drill your weak points. STUDY CIRCLES Real-time group study with threaded discussions, circle prayer requests with praying reactions, leader dashboards, and auto-generated discussion starters from lesson content. SPIRITUAL TEMPERATURE CHECK 10-area spiritual health assessment with personalized growth plans. Each area provides scripture-backed action steps calibrated to your actual score level, not generic advice. ENHANCED LISTENING Text-to-speech on all content screens with voice selection, speed control, and premium voice support. Long-press any listen button to customize your experience. IMPROVEMENTS - Redesigned Library cards with smooth animated previews - Personalized Community dashboard with your name and avatar - Animated progress rings on your journey stats - Better notification reliability on Android - Performance and stability improvements Thank you for studying with VerseWise!

PRAYER ROOM • Complete Prayer Room with 5 immersive modes • Listen to a Prayer: 10 narrated audio prayers for healing, anxiety, grief, strength, and more • Prayer Journal with categories, tags, and answered prayer tracking • 7 guided prayer modes (ACTS, Lord's Prayer, Psalm-based, and more) • Prayer Timer with 8 ambient sounds (rain, ocean, fireplace, worship pads) • Prayer Wall: infinite canvas with draggable sticky notes • 42 shareable Prayer Stickers SPIRITUAL GIFTS DISCOVERY • Comprehensive spiritual gifts assessment • Discover your unique ministry strengths • Practical ministry applications for each gift LEADERSHIP RESOURCES • 6 research-backed leadership styles with biblical examples • 10 practical "How To" guides for church leaders • 7 character studies on integrity and leadership • Leadership assessment tools STUDY CIRCLES • Join or create group Bible studies • Share insights and grow together NEW FEATURES • Text-to-speech on content screens with voice selection • Greek/Hebrew pronunciation button in word studies • Topical Collection for topic-based study • Cross-promotion cards to discover more features IMPROVEMENTS • Updated subscription pricing • Better light/dark theme support across all screens • Performance and stability improvements Thank you for studying with VerseWise!

What's New in 1.0.4 THE SCARLET THREAD • Introducing an immersive 3D constellation experience that traces salvation through Scripture • Explore glowing nodes representing key passages from Genesis to Revelation • Discover connections between prophecies and fulfillments, types and antitypes • Rotate and navigate the constellation to see how God's plan weaves through the Bible • Tap any node to dive deep into the passage with word studies and historical context IMPROVED SEARCH • Fixed an issue where the keyboard could not be dismissed after searching • Search results are now easier to browse without keyboard interference BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS • Smoother overall performance and navigation • Various stability improvements Thank you for studying with VerseWise!

What's New in 1.0.4 THE SCARLET THREAD • Introducing an immersive 3D constellation experience that traces salvation through Scripture • Explore glowing nodes representing key passages from Genesis to Revelation • Discover connections between prophecies and fulfillments, types and antitypes • Rotate and navigate the constellation to see how God's plan weaves through the Bible • Tap any node to dive deep into the passage with word studies and historical context IMPROVED SEARCH • Fixed an issue where the keyboard could not be dismissed after searching • Search results are now easier to browse without keyboard interference BUG FIXES & IMPROVEMENTS • Smoother overall performance and navigation • Various stability improvements Thank you for studying with VerseWise!