- Church rhythm home base. The Church tab now centers the member experience around the current church rhythm, with clearer weekly readings, gatherings, community activity, and next actions. - Feelings check-in flow. Mood taps now open a dedicated feelings screen so reflection has its own focused surface instead of being a dead-end gesture. - Nearby church discovery support. The app now requests approximate location only when using nearby discovery and can use stored church coordinates for location-aware directory results. - Today, Study, and You tab positioning. Core tabs now point more deliberately toward church participation, daily rhythm, and recent activity so the app feels less like disconnected tools. - Church dashboard settings. Dashboard church settings now support location fields needed for mobile nearby discovery and cleaner public church listings. - Church and member display fallbacks. User names, directory rows, and join-request updates are more resilient when profile fields are sparse or updated concurrently. - Release test determinism. Unit tests now clear local simulator auth env so social sign-in tests exercise Apple and Google flows consistently during release automation. - Dependency and route hardening. Updated server/client dependencies and pinned the router path matcher to keep release builds on patched, deterministic versions.

- Activity replaces Bookmarks. Saved highlights and AI insights now live in one Activity surface, with clean AI insight previews and saved insights opening directly instead of jumping back to the chapter. - AI explanation sharing stays text-first. Shared AI insights now send a single AI · Explain · Reference heading followed by the cleaned explanation text. - More AI results are shareable. Mood guidance, Daily Devotional, and Weekly Reflection results now use the native share sheet with cleaned text output. - Chapter AI paywall flow. Exhausted free AI usage now opens the subscription page instead of inserting a large paywall card above the chapter. - AI explanation overlay clarity. AI explanations now open as an opaque full-screen reader so chapter text no longer appears behind the insight. - Chapter reading surface cleanup. The bottom “Try AI Explain” prompt no longer appears after reaching the end of a chapter. - Bible chapter navigation polish. Chapter grid spacing is tighter on shorter books, and vertical scrolling no longer accidentally advances to the next chapter. - Church detail polish. Empty About Church cards are hidden, and configured church details/logos render cleanly.

- Activity replaces Bookmarks. Saved highlights and AI insights now live in one Activity surface, with clean AI insight previews and saved insights opening directly instead of jumping back to the chapter. - AI explanation sharing stays text-first. Shared AI insights now send a single AI · Explain · Reference heading followed by the cleaned explanation text. - More AI results are shareable. Mood guidance, Daily Devotional, and Weekly Reflection results now use the native share sheet with cleaned text output. - Chapter AI paywall flow. Exhausted free AI usage now opens the subscription page instead of inserting a large paywall card above the chapter. - AI explanation overlay clarity. AI explanations now open as an opaque full-screen reader so chapter text no longer appears behind the insight. - Chapter reading surface cleanup. The bottom “Try AI Explain” prompt no longer appears after reaching the end of a chapter. - Bible chapter navigation polish. Chapter grid spacing is tighter on shorter books, and vertical scrolling no longer accidentally advances to the next chapter. - Church detail polish. Empty About Church cards are hidden, and configured church details/logos render cleanly.

Fixes AI explanation limits and account creation flows. AI explanations now open in a shareable overlay, save to the AI archive, and show the correct quota state. Google sign-in and create-account paths now return users to the app cleanly.

Fixes daily devotional loading, restores verse of the day on the Home tab, and corrects the free AI daily limit counter.

- Study Room answer sharing. The Study Room now shows a share button after an AI answer is available and exports the latest question + answer as a square image card using the same native sharing path as verse and insight cards. - Bible chapter grid number centering on iOS. Chapter numbers now render in a full-cell centered numeric overlay instead of a serif text box, so the digits sit horizontally and vertically centered inside the rounded tiles in native TestFlight builds. - Inline prayer language + guided context handoff. The chapter-screen Pray panel now localizes its full prayer body instead of mixing English into Portuguese, Spanish, or French screens. "Begin guided" opens Study Room with the selected verse reference/text and starts the guided prayer chat with that context. - AI icon consistency + exhausted-limit upgrade prompts. Active AI surfaces now use the lamp icon instead of sparkle icons, and exhausted verse, chapter, and Study Room AI attempts now show the Altar Pro opportunity instead of a stale/generic error or one-time-only prompt. - Long-press verse actions + memorization guidance. The chapter screen no longer opens an inline action toolbar on tap; verse actions live in the long-press sheet, which now includes Memorize, while a subtle hint and the empty Memorization screen teach the gesture. - Português (Portugal) consistency on AI surfaces. AI prompts now explicitly distinguish European Portuguese from Brazilian Portuguese, and the You tab Garden takeover copy/date line now follows the Settings language instead of mixing hardcoded English with localized chrome.

- Study Room answer sharing. The Study Room now shows a share button after an AI answer is available and exports the latest question + answer as a square image card using the same native sharing path as verse and insight cards. - Bible chapter grid number centering on iOS. Chapter numbers now render in a full-cell centered numeric overlay instead of a serif text box, so the digits sit horizontally and vertically centered inside the rounded tiles in native TestFlight builds. - Inline prayer language + guided context handoff. The chapter-screen Pray panel now localizes its full prayer body instead of mixing English into Portuguese, Spanish, or French screens. "Begin guided" opens Study Room with the selected verse reference/text and starts the guided prayer chat with that context. - AI icon consistency + exhausted-limit upgrade prompts. Active AI surfaces now use the lamp icon instead of sparkle icons, and exhausted verse, chapter, and Study Room AI attempts now show the Altar Pro opportunity instead of a stale/generic error or one-time-only prompt. - Long-press verse actions + memorization guidance. The chapter screen no longer opens an inline action toolbar on tap; verse actions live in the long-press sheet, which now includes Memorize, while a subtle hint and the empty Memorization screen teach the gesture. - Português (Portugal) consistency on AI surfaces. AI prompts now explicitly distinguish European Portuguese from Brazilian Portuguese, and the You tab Garden takeover copy/date line now follows the Settings language instead of mixing hardcoded English with localized chrome.

Serving Opportunities: We’ve updated the Church feature so members can easily volunteer and manage their service roles. New Language: Altar is now available in French, featuring a newly added French Bible.

Find Your Church — Browse churches on Altar and request to join with a tap. Listings now show the church's city and country.

Your church, closer to your pocket. Your church's logo, right where you read. When your pastor adds a logo, you'll see it next to your church's name on the Church tab — a small thing that makes it feel like home. A redesigned Church tab. Five clean rows — Weekly Readings, Announcements, Sermons, Prayer Wall, Events — so you can find what your church is saying without scrolling past it. Prayer wall, fixed. Better in Spanish and Portuguese. Plural forms read naturally, the onboarding headings landed right, and event badges no longer show raw timestamps. Weekly Reflection, always there. The tile now shows up for everyone, with a proper empty state if you haven't reflected yet. Sign-in polish. Cleaner placeholder spacing, tighter copy, and a smoother Continue button on first launch. Thank you for reading Scripture with us.

Now you can Sign-in with Apple and Google and Unlock your face-id

Altar 2.0 is a complete reimagining of the app: - Study Tab — Lectio Divina, Daily Examen, memorization, reading plans, and sermon studies all in one place - Church Tab — announcements, sermons, prayer wall, and events from your congregation - AI Study Tools — verse explanations, chapter summaries, study chat, mood-based verses, and daily devotionals - The Garden — a botanical garden that grows with your reading habit - Reading Plans — curated multi-day plans with daily reflections - Sermon Studies — AI-generated 5-day guides from your pastor's sermons - Scripture Memorization — spaced repetition flashcards with AI prompts - Highlights — mark verses in up to 5 colors - Activity Feed — see your spiritual journey over time - New design with warm cream and gold tones