Changelog
Follow up on the latest improvements and updates.
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Soulver 3.14.3
Inline Knowledge Assistant
- The default provider for inline knowledge queries is now Wolfram|Alpha.
- Wolfram|Alpha is the most reliable data source for live and accurate data, and it supports natural language queries.
- If Wolfram|Alpha cannot process your query (for example, if you use a language other than English), the knowledge assistant will direct your query to the latest AI model from OpenAI.
Availability
- The Setapp version, or the optional data subscription in the App Store version, is required to use the inline knowledge assistant.
- The direct download version continues to have access to inline Wolfram|Alpha (but you must provide your own Wolfram App ID).
Large currency notation
This update adds support for additional symbols representing large currencies (commonly used as shorthands in finance and journalism):
- Millions: $1M, $2m, or $3mn
- Billions: $1B, $2b, or $3bn
- Trillions: $1T, $2t, or $3tn
Currency results at these magnitudes will automatically use the new currency notation symbols.
- Which symbols are used depends on your region: for example, uppercase "$K, $M, $B, $T" are used in the US, and longer form "$k, $mn, $bn, $tn" are used in the UK.
Misc improvements
- New lines now automatically inherit the formatting settings of the previous line (this behaviour matches Soulver 2), rather than the default formatting settings.
- 'yr' and 'mo' are now supported as aliases for 'years' and 'months'.
- Support for "weather in place in a month of the year" style weather queries, like "weather in Tokyo in June" (advanced data subscription or Setapp required).
- Modernised currency codes for Mauritanian Ouguiya (MRO → MRU) and Venezuelan bolívar (VEF → VES).
- A slightly more accurate definition for the density of corn.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue with the automatic number formatter when formatting negative numbers with a fractional component after adding a space between the minus sign and number.
- Fixed an issue where the iPhone version could sometimes take a few seconds to launch during periods of low network coverage.
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Soulver 3.14.2
Non-decimal bases
- Support for unit expressions in bases other than decimal, like "0xF days in minutes"
- Added support for base 8 (octal) numbers: 123 as octal (= 0o173)
- Added support for converting into other bases using a phrase "as base x", like "0b101101 as base 16" (= 0x2D)
- Added support for converting into other bases using functions: bin(), hex(), int() and oct() (inspired by Python)
Expression Formatting
Auto-spacing division slashes
- Soulver will now automatically insert spaces around slash division characters in certain cases, like in "500 / 40"
- There are still many cases where it's not preferred, like when working with fractions (1/3), rates (10 km/h), and Soulver will continue to not auto-space the division slash in these cases.
Thousands separators
- Soulver will now delete unnecessary thousands separators when deleting digits from the end of a number (i.e. "1,000" will now become "100" when deleting the final zero)
Financial Functions
Investment required for return
- This function is useful for when you have a specific return on investment you'd like to achieve from an investment (like a bank deposit)
- Specify a target dollar amount you wish you receive over a given period of time in interest and the interest rate
- Soulver will tell you how large your initial bank deposit needs to be
Examples:
- "investment required for $10k/month at 5%" (= $2.4M)
- "deposit needed for $42k/year at 7.5%" (= $560k)
Daily mortgage payment functions
- daily payment on $1M over 30 years at 6.5% (= $207.67)
- daily interest paid on $1M over 30 years at 6.5% (=$116.40)
Totals & Sub-totals
- Support for adding up numbers and percentages on different lines in subtotals
- For example you could type $500 on one line, and 10% on the next line. The total will now show $550.
- The floating total is smarter in some cases when adding up subtotal lines (thanks Sasha)
Other
Clamp function
- "clamp 26 between 5 and 25" (= 25)
- "clamp 4 from 5 to 25" (= 5)
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue with certain rounding phrase syntaxes that broke after the previous update, like "$110.00 USD in AUD to 2 digits" (thanks Ian & Mark)
- Fixed an issue where global currency variables were being rounded to 2 dp (thanks Shai)
- Fixed a bug where QuickSoulver would sometimes not respect editing setting changes (thanks Marcin)
- Fixed a bug where the floor() function wasn't working correctly with degree units (thanks Markus)
- Fixed an issue with very small numbers displaying as zero with notation disabled (thanks Eli)
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Soulver 3.14.1
Rounding Numbers Up and Down to Nearest Interval
- Added phrases to round numbers up or down to a specific interval
- For example, "round 21 up to nearest 5" (= 25), "round down 20 to nearest 8" (= 16)
Time to Decimal Conversions
- Support for converting times to decimal: for example, "10:15 to decimal" (= 10.25)
Millisecond Unix Timestamps
- Added support for converting millisecond timestamps into dates, like "1733823083000 to date"
Timezones
- You can now include "time" as a commenting word in time zone conversions, like "3pm Sydney time to Lisbon time"
- "10am to London" will now be interpreted as "10am here to London"
General
- When copying out multiple lines of text with expressions & answers that include subtotal lines, these will now be included on their own line
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue with sheets written in certain locales that use space as a thousands separator being incorrectly interpreted after syncing (thanks Øyvind & Edgar)
- Fixed an issue with auto-converting quantities in brackets in QuickSoulver (thanks Chris)
- Fixed a crash with the factorial function (when doing an expression like "fact(9999999.3)")
- Fixed an issue where an expression like "1.6 fl oz/acre to mL/ha" would return an error instead of converting correctly
- An expression like "Monday 5pm-7pm" now correctly returns the interval of time specified (2 hours in this example)
Localizations
- Minor improvements to the Russian localization
- Fixed an issue with the Chinese translation of Soulver not working correctly
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Soulver 3.14 (iPad & iPhone)
Use the Floating Number Pad Without the System Keyboard on iPad
- It can be helpful to hide the system keyboard when you don't need it (especially on smaller iPads, like the iPad Mini in landscape)
- Hide/show the system keyboard using a button in the floating number pad
(Optional) Larger Floating Number Pad with Accessory Bar on iPad
- We've added a larger floating iPad number pad with larger key sizes and the handy accessory bar (which you may have used in the iOS version)
- The keyboard accessory bar provides many useful keys for various workflows, including currency conversions, working with variables, percentages, and date & time calculations
- You can customize the keyboard accessory bar with your own keys
- Toggle between the larger and compact floating number pads, depending on your needs
Other Number Pad Improvements (iPad & iPhone)
- Added parentheses ( ) as a popup option on the multiplication key
- Added move cursor left/right keys to the general accessory keyboard
System Integration
- Added a Control Center control button that opens Soulver on iOS 18+
- Support for large & small icon styles on iPad, and dark & tinted icons on iOS 18+
Bug Fixes
- Fixed a crash on first launch on iPhone after starting the trial
- Fixed an issue with using the number pad alongside third-party keyboards (like SwiftKey from Microsoft, or Gboard from Google)
- Fixed an issue where pasting copied text containing line reference tokens into other apps wasn't working
- Fixed an issue where the variable accessory keyboard could show an out-of-date variable state for a line
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Soulver 3.13.1
Mac
- Fixed an issue with the command line utility (& Alfred workflow) not being able to use currency rates
- Fixed a crash on macOS Sequoia for some non-English users
iOS
- Fixed an issue with the [% of] button missing a space
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Soulver 3.13
This update introduces additional settings and options for further personalizing the way currencies are formatted.
For data service subscribers on the App Store (and Setapp users), there are also new improvements to the weather feature, including the ability to perform weather queries for smaller places around the world and conduct historical weather queries.
Currency Formatting
Use currency codes instead of symbols
- In the Calculatorsettings underCurrency Symbols, you can now choose to always use currency codes (like EUR) instead of currency symbols (in this case, €).
Hide trailing zeros on currencies
- In the Calculatorsettings underCurrency Symbols, you can now choose to hide trailing zeros on currencies. With this setting off (the default), $1 is rendered as $1.00. With this setting on, the trailing zeros will be hidden.
Settings
New sheet/file on launch
- In the Generalsettings, you can now choose to create a new sheet or Soulver file on launch.
Tab for variable autocomplete
- In the Formattingsettings, you can now select Tab instead of Escape as the key that invokes variable autocomplete.
Advanced Weather (requires Setapp or data services subscription on the App Store)
Historical weather queries (macOS 15+)
- Look up the average, high, and low temperatures, as well as rainfall, in a place on a particular date.
- Data is available back to August 1, 2021.
Historical averages by month (macOS 15+)
- Perform weather queries for the average high/low temperatures and rainfall in a place in a given month.
- For example, "high in New York in June."
- Note that these are historical averages based on weather records going back to the 1970s (not maximum/minimums).
Weather & time zone queries for small places
- Soulver can already perform weather and time zone queries for approximately 500 of the largest cities on Earth.
- New in this update is the ability to look up weather for any place on Earth, including smaller places.
- For example, you can now type "weather in Ubud, Bali," or "temperature in Assisi, Tuscany."
- This feature also works for time zone queries using "time in (place)": "time in Inverness, Scotland," "time in Wollongong, NSW."
- And when working out time differences: "time difference between Kemer, Turkey, and Mill Valley, Marin County."
Bug Fixes
- Fixed an issue where a zero currency (like $0) could have unnecessary decimal places with certain decimal point settings (thanks, Nevan).
- Fixed an issue where subtotals were not respecting custom currency formatting settings (thanks Anssi).
- Fixed an issue with larger/smaller functions and negative currencies (thanks Ian).
- Fixed an issue introduced in 3.12 where certain variable lines needed to be manually edited to make them update (thanks Suvil & Andy).
- Fixed an issue in the Setapp version on macOS 15 where Soulver would unnecessarily prompt for access to "data from other apps" when opening Soulver Mini.
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Soulver 3.12.1 (iPhone) & Soulver 3.12.2 (Mac)
Mac (App Store)
- New purchase history window to see which Soulver products you have purchased
- Support for changing Apple Accounts & retaining purchases
- Fixed an issue with a purchase sometimes not being recognized after an update
iPhone
- Localization improvements
- Fixed a crash when opening the getting started guide
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Soulver 3.12
Support for latest operating systems
This release adds support for the latest versions of Apple's operating systems:
- macOS 15 (Sequoia)
- iPadOS 18
- iOS 18
What's new for iOS?
Devices
- Added support for the new iPhone 16 Pro screen sizes.
Editor
- The title of the current sheet will be displayed in the navigation bar (if it has one)
- Note that a "title" in Soulver refers to when you begin a sheet with a "#"
Quick actions
- Tap the answer of the line you're editing to quickly copy it to the clipboard
- Tap an empty line to quickly make a subtotal of lines above on that line
Currency Keyboard
- You can now pin select currencies to the start of the list (hold down on the currency code button, and choose "Pin" or "Unpin")
Sharing
- PDF is now the default file format for sharing a sheet.
Bug fixes
- Fixed a bug where the "( )" button would not wrap a text selection in brackets (thanks Evgeny)
What's new for macOS?
Quick Copy Action
- Double-click the answer of the line you're editing to copy it to the clipboard
- Hold down option and double-click an answer of another line to quickly copy to the clipboard
- The default action for double-clicking other answers continues to be inserting a reference to the answer
Quick Add Subtotal Action
- Double-click an empty line to quickly make a subtotal on this line
Alfred Workflow
- The Soulver Alfred workflow has been updated (v1.5) and now lets you specify the trigger keyword (previous versions used "u").
- A bug introduced in the last update of the Soulver CLI has been fixed that prevented the Alfred workflow from working correctly with the Setapp & Mac App Store versions.
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue with scrubbing negatively from $0 (thanks James)
What's new in the Soulver calculator?
Units & Conversions
- Added cubic micrometer & square nanometer units
- Support for conversion from & into imperial volume units explicitly, like "1 liter in imperial pints"
- Added support for unit expressions with a fractional value, like "1 1/2 pounds"
- More flexible unit conversion for ostensibly incompatible units: "3 mph to minutes" (convert to miles/minute), "10 cubic centimeters to meters" (convert to cubic meters)
- Support for automatic conversion of units without explicit value: "usd eur" will be interpreted as "1 usd in eur"
- Units in rates will now be preserved rather than cancelling out when converting to an alternative form: "8g/2 lb as grams/lb (= 4 g/lb)"
Stock Tickers
- Added Nvidia (NVDA) as a built-in stock ticker (along with the existing support for the tickers of Apple, Microsoft, Google, Amazon, Meta, Tesla, AirBnB, & Netflix)
Cryptocurrencies
- Switched to using "POL" as the symbol for the Polygon token (previously "MATIC")
Time zones
- Support for "ct" (central time), "pt" (pacific time), "mt" (mountain time) and "et" (eastern time)
Subtotals
- When starting a new line with an operator (±) inside a subtotal, Soulver will no longer insert the previous line as a reference. This is helpful for doing running subtotals.
Financial functions
You can now work out compound interest compounding monthly and quarterly:
- "interest on $100 after 3 years at 10% compounding monthly"
- "interest on $100 for 3 years at 10% compounding quarterly"
General
- Support for larger inputs to combination and permutation functions
- Support for min/max functions with percentages (thanks Eemil)
- Power phrase function: "3 to the power of 9", "2 exponent 4", "4 raised to 2"
- Added additional trigonometry functions that take their parameter in degrees: "asind", "acosd", "atand" and "tand"
International
- Support for full width parenthesis characters ( commonly used in China, Korea & Japan)
Bug fixes
- Fixed an issue where "1.003.020" was incorrectly being interpreted as a date (thanks @infolinux)
- Fixed an issue with summing multiple decimal rates in the quick total or subtotals (like 3.4/day, 5.9/day, etc) (thanks Devin)
- Fixed an issue with certain unit multiplications not returning in the most ideal form: "3 min × 15 mph" now returns "0.75 mi" rather than 1,207 m
- Fixed an issue with feet units that are written with a trailing apostrophe, like 30.334'
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Soulver 3.11.3
Soulver Studio
- Turn sheets into stand-alone Mac apps that can be shared with others (compatible with macOS 12+)
- Select a sheet, go to the "Sheet" menu and choose "Build App from Sheet"
- Choose from 7 fun icon colors
App creation details
- Mac apps built from sheets are sandboxed for security and sent to Apple for "notarization"
- Notarization is a process that makes an app Gatekeeper compatible, so they can be installed on other Macs
- This process generally takes less than 5 minutes
- Apple restricts us to building 75 apps per day this way. You might find the service is unavailable for a time if we run out of capacity
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Soulver 3.11.2
Calculation Engine
Bitwise Operators
Support for bitwise operators, including:
- Bitwise AND (&), bitwise OR (|), bitwise XOR (xor)
- Bitwise left shift (<<) and bitwise right shift (>>)
Permutations & Combinations
- "10 permutation 3" (= 720)
- "25 combination 3" (= 2,300)
Or, alternatively, use a clearer syntax:
- "3 permutations of 10 (= 720)
- "3 combinations of 25" (= 2,300)
Financial Functions
- Added a compound interest function that gets just the interest earned (without the principal), i.e.:
- "interest on $35k after 3 years at 4.5%" (= $4,941)
Crypto-currencies
- Support for "Gwei" and "Wei" (sub-dominations of Ethereum)
Number pad (iPhone)
- Added ETH, BNB and SOL as popup options on the BTC button (thanks John)
- You can now quickly convert a currency result on a new line: add a new line (after a line with a currency result), then tap a currency code. This will insert a reference to the previous line, and conversion to the inserted currency.
- Operators & return/delete keys in the number pad are now visible to VoiceOver (thanks Scott)
Sheet settings (iPhone & iPad)
- Added a setting to control what happens on app launch: either open the previous sheet, or create a new sheet on launch (but only after 5 minutes of inactivity)
- Added a sync troubleshooting section: this includes a button to manually reload your sheetbook file (rarely required, but can be helpful sometimes)
- Minor layout improvements to the sheet settings pane
Bug fixes (Calculation Engine)
- Fixed an issue where certain date interval phrasings could cause a crash
- Fixed an issue with 0.9M being incorrectly formatted by the thousands separator insertion feature (thanks Matteo)
- Fixed an issue with dash separated dates (like 04-05-2020) incorrectly having spaces inserted around the dashes while typing (thanks Dr. Dishant)
Bug fixes (Mac)
- Made it clearer that the Monospaced System Font option only applies to digits (thanks John)
- Fixed an issue with the delete button in the sheet view not during mouse movement after cancelling a drag (thanks Jasper)
- Fixed an issue with the syntax coloring of variable declarations on subtotal lines in HTML/PDF output (thanks Jason)
Bug fixes (iPhone & iPad)
- Copying & pasting lines that contain line references now works correctly (thanks Tony)
- Fixed an issue with opening .slvr files from the Files app not working correctly on iPhone (thanks Alexander)
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