• Support your pastor — the "Bless this further" gift now pays by card directly, so it's simpler and more reliable. • Lead a church — believers can now start or claim their church right from the app. • Catalog — filter Journals, full uncropped book covers, and read sermons in-app. • Bible — choose your audio translation, with cleaner reading and headings. • A more streamlined More/Profile, plus fixes throughout.

Team & Roles — pastors can now invite team members and give each the exact tools their role needs, so more of the church can help lead from the app. Find your way around faster: • The Bible, prayer, and audio are one tap from anywhere — the bottom bar stays put instead of features opening into full-screen dead-ends. • Clearer tab icons, and ORA — your AI study companion — is now front and center on Home. Polish & fixes: • Bigger, more comfortable sermon video player • Accurate community member counts + cleaner headers for long church names • Shared sermon links are now tappable and open right in the app • You're prompted in-app the moment a new version is available

Lead your church from SoapBox If you pastor or help lead a congregation, you can now start or claim your church right in the app, set up your teaching and giving, and switch between your personal and pastor views whenever you like. Also new: • A cleaner, simpler menu — profile, saved items, and giving right where you expect them • Read sermons and teaching in the app, without jumping to a browser • A tidier catalog — browse by Journals, with full book covers • Smoother Bible browsing, with an audio Bible translation picker • Invite links now carry friends straight into your community after they install

Easier from your very first tap: • Clearer labels and prompts throughout — less guessing what a feature does • After you post a prayer, you'll see exactly what happened (shared or private) • Your daily streak now explains itself and shows how to begin • Empty screens guide you to your next step instead of dead-ending • The Bible book list is grouped into easy sections (The Law, History, Gospels, Letters…) • Community invite links are now tappable when you share them Thank you for all the feedback — keep it coming!

Give again — when a message moves you • New "Bless this further" on every sermon and reading plan — give an optional gift to support the teaching anytime, even on free content. • Pastors: manage your team — invite staff, assign roles & permissions, re-invite or remove members, with email alerts on role changes. • Open shared sermons straight in the app from any link. • Onboarding, performance, and reliability improvements.

NEW — SoapBox Amplify for pastors: connect your church's social accounts, turn your sermons into ready-to-share posts, and approve everything right from your phone. Less time on social media, more time on ministry. Recently added: 6 Ugandan languages, a faster Bible book picker + search, and a smoother giving setup. Thank you for being part of SoapBox

n this update: • Bible reading made easier — tap the book name to switch books, with a new search box to jump to any book. (Android) • Smoother language switching — fixed an issue that could leave the screen blank after changing your app language. • For pastors & creators: choose "Pay What You Can" for the teaching you share, so no one is ever turned away for lack of means. • A simpler way to follow SoapBox and stay connected after posting a prayer. Your feedback shapes what we build — thank you for walking with us.

NOW IN 140+ LANGUAGES SoapBox now meets you in your language — read the Bible, talk with ORA (your AI guide), and connect with your community in 140+ languages, including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Persian, Chinese, Korean, Hindi, Swahili and many more. Switch anytime in Settings → Language and the app updates instantly, right-to-left languages included. See an awkward translation? Press and hold it to suggest a better one — native speakers help us improve.

• Your Bible language and translation now stay put across the whole app. • Reading-plan days now open the full devotional — scripture, reflection, prayer, listen, and journaling — not just the verse. • Cleaner church discovery: no duplicate listings, and churches you've already joined are filtered out. • More reliable translations for Ugandan languages. • Stability and polish.

Connect your AI assistant to SoapBox. Link an AI agent and — only with your permission, and within limits you set — let it request prayer for you on the community prayer wall (real people pray), give to your church, and personalize using your faith profile. Review, manage, or revoke access anytime in Settings → Connect your AI agent. Pastors: new tools to share selected sermons and series with AI assistants. Plus reliability and performance improvements.

More of SoapBox, in your language The whole interface — not just content — is now translated into even more languages, with fuller Luganda, so the app feels like home. Find a church near you Search the directory by name or browse by city to discover churches and communities around you. Connect your AI assistant Let an AI assistant submit prayer requests — and, if you choose, give to your church — on your behalf, within limits you set. You're always in control and can revoke access anytime. Polish & fixes Smoother devotional audio, a clearer visitor journey, and behind-the-scenes improvements.

More of SoapBox, in your language The app interface — not just content — is now translated into dozens more languages, so the whole experience feels like home. (Newer translations are marked Beta — we'd love your feedback!) Find a church Search 200,000+ churches by name or city, right from the Communities tab. Smoother & fixed • Multi-day devotionals now play the right audio for every day • Tap your church journey card to jump straight to your community Thank you for helping SoapBox grow — in every language.

SoapBox now speaks your language Read, pray, and grow in the language you think in. • The app is now available in 17 languages — including Spanish, Portuguese, French, Arabic, Farsi, Korean, Chinese, Hindi, Indonesian, Swahili, and Luganda • ORA AI answers and community posts translate automatically across 100+ languages • Full right-to-left support for Arabic and Farsi • Choose your language during sign-up or anytime in Settings We'd love your feedback on how SoapBox reads in your language — it shapes what we refine next.

Welcome to SoapBox — your faith, community, and growth in one place. - The whole Bible, free & ad-free — 300+ translations, classic commentaries, Strong's Greek & Hebrew, highlights, notes, and AI study guides - Offline Bible — download, read, search, highlight & note with no signal; everything syncs when you're back online - Listen & pray — guided-prayer audio, calming soundscapes, and sermons you can stream or save offline - Reflect — S.O.A.P. journaling, plus sermon devotionals that turn a message into a multi-day plan - Community — a prayer wall, circles for your group, and church discovery near you - ORA — your AI study companion for questions, reflection, and going deeper No ads. No paywalls on your study tools. Just Scripture and the tools to grow.

What's new in 1.14.5: • Today's Verse widgets — add Scripture to your Home & Lock Screen • AirPlay & output picker — send sermons and audio to HomePod, Apple TV, or your car • Soundscapes — gentle looping ambient audio for prayer & reflection • Daily devotional reminders now span 4 AM–10 PM, so you can pick the time that fits your rhythm • In-app Support — send a question, bug, or feature request and track your past tickets • Stability and polish improvements

What's New (release notes) A major Bible study upgrade — and it's all free, ad-free, and yours. • 300+ Bible translations, now filtered by your language so the picker isn't a wall of text • Classic commentaries from Matthew Henry, Jamieson-Fausset-Brown, Adam Clarke & John Gill — plus Treasury of Scripture cross-references • AI Study Guides — tap a verse for a plain-language explanation, cross-references, and commentary in one place • Greek & Hebrew at a tap — tap any word for its Strong's number and original-language meaning • Highlights & notes — mark verses in colors, add notes, and organize them with categories • Smarter search — find a verse by what it says, not just the reference • Verse-anchored prayers — pray over a verse and keep a timeline as God answers • Parallel translations side by side • Scripture memorization — first-letter practice with spaced-repetition review • Make the reader yours — light/sepia/dark themes, fonts, text size & spacing No ads. No paywalls on study resources. Just Scripture and the tools to go deeper.

• MTN MoMo donations work from any country (no longer locked to Uganda devices) • Community feed now shows member avatars • Live unread badge on the notifications bell • Sign-up: email verification lands you on the correct screen • More Bible translations now free; only NASB, AMP, and MSG require Believer • Subscription page lists accurate features per tier

1.13.3 — bug fixes for the 1.13 line. • Smoother pastor signup — after the email code, you now go straight to church setup with no flash back to the sign-up page. • Members can see the Give sheet on churches that have Stripe or MTN MoMo Pay set up (was sometimes showing "hasn't enabled donations yet" even when it was live). • Mobile Money amounts now correctly shown in Ugandan Shillings on the MoMo tab. • Churches on MoMo-only setups now open the Give sheet on the MoMo tab by default.

Bug fixes: • Members in a church can now see their church to give to (was incorrectly showing "Join a church to give") • Nearby Churches list now includes churches created by local pastors • Mac (Designed for iPad): file picker for church logo + pastor photo now works • Churches without donations configured now show a clear "X hasn't enabled donations yet" message • Stripe Connect setup for pastors fixed (was 502'ing on capabilities)

Two subscription tiers launch today — and Word Study is free for everyone. WORD STUDY (free for all) Tap any verse, get the Greek or Hebrew words behind it. Strong's numbers, transliterations, semantic range — guided by ORA, your study companion. BELIEVER · $5/month or $50/year Go deeper without the friction. • All 18 Bible translations (NIV, KJV, NASB, NLT, MSG, AMP, CSB, BSB, and more) • 6 audio narrator voices for hands-free listening • Save sermons for offline — the gym, the road, anywhere • 25 ORA conversations per month DISCIPLE · $10/month or $100/year For when scripture study is part of how you think and pray. • Everything in Believer • Unlimited ORA conversations • Classic commentaries on every passage — Matthew Henry's Concise Commentary plus Treasury of Scripture Knowledge cross-references. 32,000+ entries covering every chapter of every book. • Smart Journal Search — find past entries by meaning, not just keyword. Search "anxiety" and surface every time you've wrestled with it. • ORA grounded in your own reflections — "In your entry from May 12 on John 3:16, you wrote about…" • Cinematic audio narration with studio-quality voices The Holy Spirit is the teacher. SoapBox is the study companion. Believer and Disciple just remove the friction so you can stay there longer. Manage or cancel anytime from Profile → Subscription.

What's new in 1.12.0: • Give to your church directly from the app — one-time or recurring (weekly/monthly/quarterly/annually). Donations land in your church's own Stripe account; SoapBox never touches the money. • Pastors: new "Donations" setup flow walks you through Stripe Connect Express onboarding in a few minutes. • Pastor home redesign — Sermons promoted to a primary tab, Members and Visitors unified into "People" with a filter, More menu reorganized into Insights / Ministry / Study / Account. • Schedule sub-tab in Sermons (coming soon with a tier feature). • Bug fixes and polish.

Bible reading just got more interactive. Tap any verse to Copy, Share, Journal it, Pray with it, or Ask ORA for a deeper reflection. Plus: • Communities is now a bottom tab — one tap from anywhere • Pray This Verse and full SOAP journaling from Today's Verse • Shareable image cards — send a verse to Instagram, iMessage, anywhere • Six new high-quality narration voices for the Audio Bible • Sign-up that meets you where you are — tell us about your journey and we'll tailor the experience • A stack of bug fixes from your feedback — comments, reading plans, notifications, and more Thank you for the reports that shaped this release. Keep them coming.

Pastor dashboard fixes + smoother sermon playback This update lands a focused set of fixes from pastor QA on the church-side experience: • Your onboarding checklist now reflects reality — uploaded sermons mark "Upload your first sermon" complete, and "Invite your first members" checks off as soon as your first invitee actually joins your community. • Top Sermons, Recent Clips, the Small Groups stat tile, and the clip-storage banner on your dashboard all fill in correctly now (they were running queries against the wrong identifier and quietly returning zeros). • YouTube sermons pulled in via the Connect YouTube channel sync now play correctly inside the app instead of showing "No media attached." • Fixed a "Video player configuration error" on some YouTube embeds — the player now passes the right origin so videos load on the first try. • Transcript tab no longer spins forever for sermons without captions yet — you'll see a clear "Transcript not available" state. Thanks to the pastors testing this week — keep the bug reports coming.

A big release for both pastors and members: • Pastors: invite your whole church at once — paste your church directory's phone numbers and SoapBox finds the people who are already here. Each invited person sees a clean Accept or Decline, so joining is always their call. • Find Friends now matches your contacts to people on SoapBox, privately. Phone numbers are hashed on your device — we never see the originals. • Save Bible chapters with a tap and find them later in Saved → Verses. • Pastors can pin a post to the top of their community's Connect feed when something matters. • Promote members to Leader or Admin from the Members tab, or remove someone when you need to. • Quiet polish and stability across the believer and pastor pathways.

A few small touches that compound into deeper rhythms with your community: • Save Bible chapters with a tap — find them later in Saved → Verses • Pastors: pin posts to lift important moments to the top of your community's Connect feed • Pastors: promote a member to Leader or Admin, and remove someone when you need to — all from the Members tab • Quiet polish and stability across the believer and pastor pathways