Release notes

Thread Bible Study

• Ask. Ask questions about the Bible and the Christian faith, and get answers drawn from the major Christian traditions. Answers appear as they’re written, Scripture quotes come from Thread’s own translation, and every verse reference opens the passage.
• Ask, made safer. When a question touches abuse or crisis, the answer starts with where to get help. Any answer can be reported.
• New courses. Isaiah, the Psalms, Matthew, Luke and John, many of them narrated.
• The Thread Study Bible grows. 2 Samuel, 1 Kings and 2 Kings are complete, in the app and at threadbiblestudy.com/bible.
• Shared lessons open where they should. A lesson link opens that lesson, even when the person installs Thread after tapping it.

Emberside

• Check in on arrival. Emberside checks you in when you arrive at your group’s gathering or your church’s service. Your location stays on your phone. On Android it works even when the app is closed.
• Church services. Your church’s service times and places, beside your group’s gatherings.
• Gatherings do more. Add discussion questions, ask who’s hosting and who’s bringing food, and split into breakout groups. When a gathering changes or is called off, the group is told. Leaders get a reminder to record who came.
• Prayer you can act on. Offer a meal, a ride or childcare right on a prayer request, and keep a prayer list of your own.
• Better chat. Schedule a message to send later, search a conversation, tap links, and keep pictures in albums. Leaders can pin messages and send announcements to their group.
• Youth groups. A chat for the parents of a youth group.
• Birthdays. If you choose to share yours, the group sees it in a post at the start of the month.
• A new look, with light and dark mode.
• For church admins, at admin.embersideapp.com: group health, your groups on your church’s website, a download of your people, a monthly email summary, and a youth safety summary to print.

Sincerity

• Sincerity is on the App Store, as well as Google Play.
• Two new ways to write: Trust, for what you are facing, and Praise, for who God is.
• Thanksgiving for forgiveness. Come back to a confession later, and a thanksgiving for forgiveness is written beneath it. Answered laments and confessions gather in Remembered.
• A fuller daily passage. Days for confession, trust and God’s goodness, alongside lament and thanks. Read in Thread opens the passage in Thread.
• The Library grows beyond grief, with 16 short readings on prayer, thanks and rest, each ending with a way to write that kind of entry.
• Reflections end on Scripture, quoted in the Thread Study Bible, and range further across it.
• Brighter, more varied paintings. The week’s painting sends a notification when it’s ready, and every AI answer and painting can be reported.
• Help when you need it. Entries about abuse or assault show the domestic violence hotline, 911 and RAINN.

Sincerity’s AI features come with a church plan, for adults and for teens whose parents have said yes.