What we’ve shipped
Every change to Selah, newest first, written for the people who use it rather than the people who built it. Last shipped .
A correction to a Bible translation now actually reaches you.
Fixed
A correction to a Bible translation now actually reaches you.
When we re-sourced the KJV and fixed 3,451 verses that had been silently cut short mid-sentence, the corrected text didn't appear for anyone already reading those chapters. The old text was cached with no expiry, so there was nothing to make the app look again. Chapters now refresh on their own within a day.
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If you started the trial-intent onboarding flow, checked out with Stripe, but didn't finish the wizard in one sitting, coming back later showed the "Start your 14-day Plus trial" screen again — every time you logged in — even though you'd already paid.
Added
Your notes now have a Kind, and the list is yours.
Sermon, Study note, Devotional, Book, Podcast, Conversation — rename any of them, add your own, delete the ones you don't use. Nothing is locked.
Filter your notes by kind.
/notesgains a kind filter alongside status and folder; combine all three.A payment that didn't go through now gets your attention.
If Selah Plus can't charge your card, you'll see it right away — not just buried on the billing settings page. A quiet banner appears across the app with a one-click way to update your card, and it stays out of the way once you've seen it. Your Plus access keeps working while Stripe retries; this just makes sure you actually notice.
Changed
You can finally call your own sermon a sermon.
Setting a note's type used to require naming a person first — the type only existed to describe someone else's material, so your own work had nowhere to go. Kind now stands on its own: Sermon by itself means you wrote it, Sermon · Pastor Mike means you heard it. Saying who it came from is an optional second step, not a precondition.
Selah understands what a note is, not just whose it is.
Ask it about your sermons or what you've been getting from podcasts and it can answer, because the kind now reaches it for every note rather than only for notes you'd credited to someone else.
You can report a reply that gets it wrong.
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You can report a reply that gets it wrong.
Every companion response now carries a Report action next to Copy and Retry. It goes straight to us — no form, no ticket, one click.
A plain note about what Selah is.
A line under the composer says Selah can be wrong and isn't a substitute for professional or pastoral counseling. It quotes scripture and reflects on your journals and prayers, which is close enough to counsel that the boundary is worth naming out loud.
A quiet line under the note title telling you which section you're in
, taken from the note's own headings, as you scroll. It appears only once you've scrolled into a section, and only in a note that has headings.
Fixed
The other way into writing a thought works now too.
The previous release fixed the "Write a thought" button; clicking the thought area itself still went down the update path and reported "Couldn't update — this highlight has no thought yet." Both routes save.
Writing a thought on a highlight you already made now saves it.
Selecting text and pressing Write worked; opening an existing highlight and pressing "Write a thought" did nothing at all — no message, nothing saved. Both paths save now.
When the reader can't start or save a thought, it now reports why.
The last release surfaced a message to you but the diagnostic detail never reached us, so a report still couldn't be traced. It does now.
When a highlight can't be saved, the reader now says so.
It used to roll the highlight back and stop — the highlight appeared, vanished, and the Write button did nothing, with no message. Whatever went wrong is now reported, both to you and to us.
Highlights kept their colour when you switch a note to read view.
A highlight you made while writing turned bright yellow the moment you flipped to read it, and dividers changed shape too — both were falling back to the browser's own defaults instead of the app's.
Dividers have room to breathe in read view
, scaled to the larger reading type rather than reused from the editor.
The reader tells you when it can't start a thought.
Two failures used to do nothing at all — no message, no explanation — which is indistinguishable from a dead button. They now say what went wrong.
Tapping a verse inside your own note now works while you're reading it.
In the read view — the one you use when you're teaching from a note rather than writing it — verse references did nothing. Only the editing view responded. Both work now, by click or keyboard.
A verse inside a full-passage quote is clickable too.
Converting an inline reference to a full passage produced a block that looked interactive and wasn't — in either the editing or the reading view. Tapping its reference now moves the passage, and tapping a specific verse number goes to that verse.
Notes open as a column even when a tool is already open.
With Word Study up, picking Notes used to tell you there wasn't room and suggest hiding the sidebar. The 360px in the way belonged to the panel Notes was replacing, so it now closes it and takes the space.
Changed
"Open as column" is gone — the column is just how notes open.
Picking Notes goes straight to the column beside the passage instead of the narrow panel with a button in it offering to do that.
You can drag the note column wider or narrower
, and it remembers the width on that screen. Arrow keys work on the handle too (hold Shift for bigger jumps, Home/End for the extremes). The passage keeps its reading width no matter how far you drag.
"Back to Hebrews 4" floats at the bottom of the screen
now, the way it does on the phone, instead of appearing inside the passage and pushing the verses down while you were reading them. Tap it to go back, or dismiss it.