Pulse - Church Connector
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Pulse keeps your church life in one place: your people, your team, your next step.
Stay connected. Chat with your groups, teams and ministries in real time, share Moments from your week, and keep every message and announcement in one inbox.
Find your place. RSVP to events, find a small group that fits your stage of life, and join a serving team.
Grow in your faith. Take the Growth Track to discover your spiritual gifts, get matched to groups and roles that fit you, and follow clear next steps.
Serve with confidence. See your upcoming commitments, answer callsheet requests, and have Sunday's runsheet in your pocket.
For leaders. Care for your people with pastoral notes and follow-ups, see who needs a check-in, and send announcements to the people you lead.
Private by design. Built for churches where people are known, equipped and sent.
more Moments look new, with reactions and a way to frame each photo.
• Leaders can now send you a nudge, and you answer in one tap
• Search on Pulse lists what it finds, grouped and easy to scan
• A weekly series now shows how many more dates are coming
• Leaders can now cancel or move one date of a series
• Admins can bring back anything deleted in the last 90 days
1.7.2 1d ago
Forward a message, photo or PDF into another of your chats.
• See who's talking, with each sender's photo beside their messages
• Photos open full screen: pinch to zoom, swipe down to close
• Answering one serving request no longer hides the rest
• Leaders are warned before booking someone already serving that day
• Campus admins now get every leader tool, for their own campus
1.7.1 3d ago
Reply to a message in its own thread, in chats and event comments.
• Make text bold, italic, underlined or a bulleted list as you type
• Leaders can share files and practice tracks with their serving team
• PDFs sent in chat now open right inside the app
• Leave a chat mid-sentence and your words are waiting when you return
• Moving churches or visiting another campus now has its own clear path
1.7.0 Oct 17
Repeating gatherings now list every date, and you can join them all at once.
• Notifications are grouped by person and day, newest first
• Leaders can turn off a waitlist or set a sign-up deadline
• Group and event leaders can now see their people's contact details
• Add your phone number in a tap so your leaders can reach you
• Churches with several campuses see each person's campus in the directory
1.6.2 Oct 14
Leaders answering Ask the Church can now see who has each question.
• Leaders can make a new Connect Team helper a member in one tap
• Fewer crashes, including opening Pulse from a shared link
• Chats load faster and stay smooth as messages arrive
• A team's roster now drops shifts that moved or were removed
• Notifications refresh every time you open the bell
1.6.1 Oct 9
Gatherings can fill up now: join the waitlist, and check in with a QR at the door.
• A cleaner chat list: what needs you stays on top
• Group and team chats now link to members, details and what's next
• React to any message with any emoji, and pick your favorites
• Connect Team members can answer Ask the Church together
• Pulse en español: choose Español (beta) in Settings, Language
1.6.0 Oct 7
Make a gathering invite-only, and the people you ask answer right in the app.
• Leaders can count a one-time helper, then add them to the team
• Finish attendance and watch the night's highlights reveal themselves
• Your profile now shows your contact details, gifts and metrics
• Tap an event's address to get directions in Maps
• Links in event comments now open when you tap them
1.5.6 Oct 1
See everyone serving across your ministry in one place.
• Say why you can't serve, instead of just answering no
• Your Growth Track now ends where your church says it ends
• Write announcements with real paragraphs instead of one solid block
• An announcement's read count now counts everyone it reached
• Published shifts show what's locked, instead of failing at save
1.5.5 Sep 25
Renée can read her answers aloud in her own voice.
• Her own voice, once your church turns it on
• Tap a tab again to jump back to the top
• A cancelled registration now leaves every list it was on
• An online event's meeting link opens with one tap
• Growth Track: a week opened from the track card now returns you
1.5.4 Sep 23
Pulse on your home screen — and on your Lock Screen.
- Three widgets to choose from: what you're up next for, what you owe an answer on, and this week's message
- Up Next comes in Lock Screen sizes too, so the next thing you're expected at sits under the clock
- This Sunday, once your church turns it on: the service, what's on, and your own part in the day — your shift, your check-in, and anything still waiting on your answer, with a live face for the service running right now
- Your Journey draws your discipleship as a rail — where you are, what's next, when each step began, and the notes meant for you
- Your Growth does the same for the Growth Track, week by week
- Photos on an event upload straight to storage, so posting a gathering's images is quicker
- Growth Track week two shows on every track, and finishing both parts is what joins you
- Tapping a row on your profile lands on the thing itself
- Chat: a long message folds behind a read more, and the message actions stay on screen beside a tall bubble
- Admins: This Sunday is yours from the start, whether or not the church has turned it on
- Admins: the dashboard is two tabs now, each badged with what's waiting behind it
- Admins: a long briefing folds down to a preview, and the header opens the guide
- Admins: LIVE at the top of the Growth Track menu draws the room as a session runs
- Admins: the dormant and at-risk lists moved to the church admin portal, with the rest of the reports
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.5.3 Sep 17
Pulse on your home screen — and on your Lock Screen.
- Three widgets to choose from: what you're up next for, what you owe an answer on, and this week's message
- Up Next comes in Lock Screen sizes too, so the next thing you're expected at sits under the clock
- This Sunday, once your church turns it on: the service, what's on, and your own part in the day — your shift, your check-in, and anything still waiting on your answer, with a live face for the service running right now
- Your Journey draws your discipleship as a rail — where you are, what's next, when each step began, and the notes meant for you
- Your Growth does the same for the Growth Track, week by week
- Photos on an event upload straight to storage, so posting a gathering's images is quicker
- Growth Track week two shows on every track, and finishing both parts is what joins you
- Tapping a row on your profile lands on the thing itself
- Chat: a long message folds behind a read more, and the message actions stay on screen beside a tall bubble
- Admins: This Sunday is yours from the start, whether or not the church has turned it on
- Admins: the dashboard is two tabs now, each badged with what's waiting behind it
- Admins: a long briefing folds down to a preview, and the header opens the guide
- Admins: LIVE at the top of the Growth Track menu draws the room as a session runs
- Admins: the dormant and at-risk lists moved to the church admin portal, with the rest of the reports
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.5.2 Sep 15
Check in to your serving shift, name people by @ in chat, and read your participation at a glance.
- Check in to a serving shift and watch the call fill up live — from the team screen, your callsheet, or the serving hub
- Leaders get a live board for the day, and a service closes with a summary once the clock runs out
- A live service or event is now a bar under the hero rather than an item hidden in a menu
- Type @ in group chat, team chat or an event's comments to name someone, and they are told
- Your profile carries a calendar of your participation across the year
- Message someone straight from their profile in the directory
- Moments upload straight to storage with video compressed first, so posting is faster and a shaky connection no longer posts the same thing twice
- Moments rings announce themselves to screen readers, and stay quiet when there is nothing new on them
- Your chat tabs come from the server, so each one shows the rooms that belong in it, and church-wide rooms stay out of your own inbox
- Take attendance by picking people from the church directory, and invite people to an event instead of only counting heads
- The reactor sheet opens tall enough to read the names, and stays at the height it opened on
- Admins: Renée's weekly pastoral briefing opens at the top of Reports, above the numbers it reads
- Admins: the Learn guides are served from Renée's own corpus, so the app and the assistant can no longer disagree, and asking Renée from a guide starts her on that subject
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.4.4 Sep 11
Your feed in the order you actually read it, and a clearer picture of who reacted.
- The feed opens newest-first, with anything you have not seen yet at the top
- Long-press a reaction to see everyone who left it
- A reaction lands as you tap it, and tells you when it did not stick
- Schedule a message by holding send
- A scheduled message leaves the queue on its own once it goes out, and says why if a cancel comes too late
- Connect shows the next message you have waiting
- The analytics reports moved to the Renée admin portal on the web, which has the room for them — the app keeps the pastoral summary, engagement health, the assimilation funnel, Service Day, moderation and giving, and a card that opens the portal
- The admin screen opens in one request instead of three
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.4.1 Sep 10
A faster start, and messages you can write now and send later.
- Pulse opens on what it already has, so your tabs are there before the network answers
- Schedule a chat message for a time that suits, then change or cancel it from one queue of everything waiting
- Automatic notices about an event now come from Renée, instead of looking like a message somebody typed
- Rename a channel from its room menu
- Choose who a post or a channel is for, with the same audience picker in both places
- See every team rostered on one service day, and what is still unfilled
- Group, team and member trends cover the period you asked for, and an unfinished week is drawn as unfinished
- A recurring event shows once on the Pulse grid instead of once per occurrence
- Assign an invite code to someone from the app
- If the service is having trouble, the app says so instead of failing quietly
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.4.0 Sep 9
The weekly message, in the app — listen to it, read it, and talk about it with your group.
- This week's message on the Pulse tab, a searchable library behind it, and series you can follow
- Audio that picks up where you stopped, and plays faster when you want it to
- Read the message as text once its transcript is ready, and open a passage from any scripture chip
- Discussion guides for groups, and a leader can use any week's guide instead of only this one
- Record a voice memo in chat instead of typing it
- Talk to Renée hands-free: dictate into the composer, and have replies read back to you
- Share a group, team, ministry or message by link, and whoever opens it gets into your church first
- Take a gathering's register on your phone, and let arrival check people in without asking for location
- Watch a livestream on the event it belongs to
- Members, requests and activity on one screen, and a request names who invited them
- Mute a group, team or event room
- Narrow a church-wide announcement to an audience
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.3.4 Sep 4
Reports you can dig into, reactions on Moments, and join requests that behave like a conversation.
- Reports open up: tap any stage of the assimilation funnel to see the people behind it, filter by campus, and choose the period you care about
- New feed and moments reports, plus a view of who in your church is bringing people in
- One place that shows who is owed a call, and you can mark a follow-up done right from the note
- React to a Moment from the story viewer, privately, so only the person who posted it sees
- A Moment or an announcement can point at the event, group or team it is about
- Ask to join with a note, and leaders can answer in a conversation instead of guessing
- Pulse links pasted into chat open inside the app, with a preview of where they lead
- Notifications land on the right screen, including a push tapped from a cold start
- Leaders can retract a published service so stale answers stop counting
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.3.1 Sep 2
Reports you can dig into, reactions on Moments, and join requests that behave like a conversation.
- Reports open up: tap any stage of the assimilation funnel to see the people behind it, filter by campus, and choose the period you care about
- New feed and moments reports, plus a view of who in your church is bringing people in
- One place that shows who is owed a call, and you can mark a follow-up done right from the note
- React to a Moment from the story viewer, privately, so only the person who posted it sees
- A Moment or an announcement can point at the event, group or team it is about
- Ask to join with a note, and leaders can answer in a conversation instead of guessing
- Pulse links pasted into chat open inside the app, with a preview of where they lead
- Notifications land on the right screen, including a push tapped from a cold start
- Leaders can retract a published service so stale answers stop counting
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.3.0 Sep 1
Moments with video, chat where your people already are, and better tools for leaders.
- Share a Moment with video, and watch new ones appear as they're posted
- Chat now lives on your team and group screens, and channels keep themselves in step with who actually belongs
- Leaders get one place that answers "what am I on the hook for", plus ministry rosters and access controls right on a member's row
- Answer ministry join requests without leaving the app
- Admins can find private groups, teams and ministries, clearly badged as private
- The Discover Your Purpose test moves to a four-point scale
- Event, group and team lists load every page, so older items stop going missing
- Notification settings are reachable from your inbox, including categories that never had a switch
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.6 Aug 27
Moments with video, chat where your people already are, and better tools for leaders.
- Share a Moment with video, and watch new ones appear as they're posted
- Chat now lives on your team and group screens, and channels keep themselves in step with who actually belongs
- Leaders get one place that answers "what am I on the hook for", plus ministry rosters and access controls right on a member's row
- Answer ministry join requests without leaving the app
- Admins can find private groups, teams and ministries, clearly badged as private
- The Discover Your Purpose test moves to a four-point scale
- Event, group and team lists load every page, so older items stop going missing
- Notification settings are reachable from your inbox, including categories that never had a switch
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.5 Aug 26
Messages, quick actions, and a fresh look.
- A new Messages hub brings your church conversations into one place, with question and sent filters
- Start a conversation straight from a team or group screen
- Jump to what you do most from home screen quick actions, the iOS Action Button, or Siri
- Renee's ministry briefing now appears on the ministry screen
- A refreshed PULSE look across the app, including the sign-in screen
- Faster photo uploads and quicker-loading member lists
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.4 Aug 19
Richer posts and better tools for campus admins.
- Event posts can now carry their own photos and videos
- Ministry and giving posts support custom media too
- Redesigned image and media pickers, now with a cleaner look
- Your church's branding can now appear on the sign-in screen
- Campus admins can now see shepherd notes for members of their campus
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.3 Aug 11
Richer posts and better tools for campus admins.
- Event posts can now carry their own photos and videos
- Ministry and giving posts support custom media too
- Redesigned image and media pickers, now with a cleaner look
- Your church's branding can now appear on the sign-in screen
- Campus admins can now see shepherd notes for members of their campus
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.2 Aug 5
Richer posts for your community.
- Event posts can now carry their own photos and videos
- Ministry and giving posts support custom media too
- Redesigned image and media pickers, now with a cleaner look
- Your church's branding can now appear on the sign-in screen
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.1 Aug 4
A refined new look for Pulse.
- Dialogs and menus redesigned in Pulse's signature crystal style — sharper, cleaner, and consistent across the whole app
- Refreshed loading indicators that match the Pulse design language
- Faster, more reliable connections to your church community
- Bug fixes and performance improvements
1.2.0 Jul 30
What's New in 1.1.1
Campus support is here! If your church meets in more than one location, Pulse now understands campuses:
- Filter events, groups, reports, and dashboards by campus
- Set a home campus for every member
- Delegate administration to campus leaders with tools scoped to just their campus
Also in this release:
- A warmer welcome — fresh, friendly screens when your feed, chats, or groups are just getting started
- Tap Renée's weekly briefing notification to jump straight into a conversation with her
- Smoother and more reliable church switching
- Fixed an issue where signing in with Apple could lose your name on re-authentication
- Performance improvements and bug fixes
1.1.1 Jul 23
Moments look new, with reactions and a way to frame each photo.
• Leaders can now send you a nudge, and you answer in one tap
• Search on Pulse lists what it finds, grouped and easy to scan
• A weekly series now shows how many more dates are coming
• Leaders can now cancel or move one date of a series
• Admins can bring back anything deleted in the last 90 days
more Version 1.7.2 1d ago
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