v1.1.3PatchJun 17, 2026Current
Theme Studio: make the verses on screen look like your church.
The way scripture appears on the projector is now yours to design — the font, the colours, the background — and what you see while you build it is exactly what the congregation sees.
Added- Theme Studio: a full editor for your live verses, where you set the typography, colours, shadow, and layout and save each look as a theme you can switch between.
- Three ready-made themes to start from — Default, Pure White, and Parchment Light — so a church has a polished look on the first Sunday without designing anything.
- Background choices for every room: a solid colour, a clean transparent background for streaming, or a green-screen background for OBS and vMix lower-thirds.
- Keep one look on the projector and a different one on your stream, each set on its own.
- "Mirror a screen" sizes your design to the exact resolution of the display you're sending to, so verses are never cropped or stretched.
Improved- What you see is what goes out: the Stage Preview, the Live Output, and the Theme Studio preview now match the projector and the stream exactly — same font, same spacing, same background.
- Long passages still split into clean, readable slides, now sized to whatever font you've chosen for the theme.
Fixed- A background colour now always takes effect on the projector and the stream, instead of quietly falling back to black.
- The verses on the operator's monitors no longer look bigger or wrap differently than what actually reaches the screen.
v1.1.2PatchMay 25, 2026
Built for Sundays that run long. A reliability pass for full-length services.
The verses follow the preacher more naturally, the operator screen feels calmer, and the moments when something goes wrong now have a clear way back.
Added- A new candidate list keeps the verses Kerygma is most sure about, so the operator can pick them at a glance instead of catching each one as it flashes past.
- Pin and resize the right-hand panel that give the chapter view or pinned verses more room when you need it.
- When Session Notes don't appear, a clear "Try again" button asks Kerygma to write them once more.
Improved- The live transcript scrolls itself as the preacher speaks, and quietly stays put if the operator scrolls up to re-read a line.
- Long services no longer "go quiet" partway through — Kerygma keeps the connection to its cloud features alive in the background.
- Session Notes now show one of three calm screens: generating, ready, or a friendly recovery view if something went wrong.
- The bottom of the operator screen is split evenly between detection and candidate verses, so neither one shouts over the other.
Fixed- If something fails behind the scenes, Kerygma now explains it in plain English instead of showing a technical error.
- When the preacher reads through several verses in a row, the projector moves to the next verse on its own; no more clicking each one.
- "Try again" for Session Notes works on any sermon you've opened, not just the one currently in progress.
v1.1.1Patch23 May 2026
macOS is now stable alongside the Windows build.
The native Mac installer is ready for church booths, with the same Sunday workflow as the Windows release.
Added- Stable macOS build for churches running Apple laptops in the booth.
- Universal DMG download for Apple Silicon and Intel Macs.
- macOS download route now falls back to the latest GitHub release asset if release metadata is unavailable.
Improved- Download page now presents Windows and macOS as stable builds.
- Docs now include first-run setup for both Windows and Mac operators.
- Release copy has been tightened around the current v1.1.1 build.
Fixed- Removed older macOS beta language from public install guidance.
- Updated stale fallback download links from the old 1.0.x release stream.
v1.1.0PatchMay 20, 2026
Twenty-three Bible translations, voice-driven switching, and motion backgrounds for your projector.
Windows and macOS builds published from the release desk.
Improved- 15 new translations including Yoruba, Igbo, and Hausa — 23 total.
- Switch translations by voice mid-sermon ("give me the Passion translation").
- Motion backgrounds for the projector and NDI output — drop in a video or image and it composites behind every live verse.
- Verse-range highlighting in the chapter sidebar with auto-scroll to the verse on Live.
- macOS installer for churches running Apple laptops on the booth.
- Faster speech recognition with less delay between words spoken and verses appearing.
- Sign in once and the cloud engine switches itself on automatically.
- Three free translations available to everyone (KJV, NIV, NKJV); Pro and Plus unlock the rest.
- Toast when a verse isn't in your active translation, so missing references no longer fail silently.
- Cleaner first-launch flow — Kerygma opens straight to the app while speech models download in the background.
- Crash reports now upload automatically and securely on next launch — no dialog, no friction.
- Help → Send Feedback dialog goes straight to the team.
- Session Notes summary works for full-length sermons, not just short readings.
- Cloud engine label correctly reflects whether transcription is actually running.
- Live Output window stays out of Alt-Tab and won't be closed accidentally during a service.
- Reference line ("Genesis 1:26 · KJV") now appears correctly on NDI output.
- Church name updates immediately after sign-in.
v1.0.5PatchMay 16, 2026
Long passages and oversized verses auto-split into multiple slides
Long passages now split into clean, readable slides. Each operator panel has its own controls so previewing doesn't change what's on the projector.
Improved- "Slide X of Y" indicator and arrow controls on each operator panel
- Independent slide controls for Stage Preview and Live Output
- Amber verse-number markers inside multi-verse slides
- Slides re-flow automatically when the live font size changes
- Settings Cancel reverts every change
- Search Scripture lookups paginate the same as voice detections
- Next / Previous Verse walks through passage ranges one verse at a time
- Larger, bolder slide indicator on operator panels
- No more multi-reference flicker on Live when verses are spoken back-to-back
- Live no longer reverts to a stale verse from a cumulative cloud transcript
- Verse numbers stay visible after a font-size-driven re-paginate
- Slide indicator stays off the projector output
v1.0.4PatchMay 15, 2026
RNNoise + auto-gain audio preprocessing (Settings → Audio Processing toggles now actually work)
The current public Kerygma build. This version makes the app clearer for Free, Pro, and Plus users while keeping the media-booth workflow simple.
Improved- Toast notification when a spoken verse is out of range
- Out-of-range fallback no longer steals Live from correctly-detected verses
- LLM badge purple styling + per-reference cooldown stops AI suggestion spam
- Voice/explicit detections now highlight the active verse in the chapter sidebar
- Partial-transcript regex parser tightened: "verse 16" no longer false-matches Esther 2:16
- Mid-session mic switch documented as audio-quality-dependent (use webcam mic over laptop builtin)
v1.0.3PatchMay 15, 2026
First public release of Kerygma
This build focused on helping a church get from download to first launch with less friction.
Improved- Real-time verse detection with paraphrase support
- 8 Bible translations (KJV free; NIV, ESV, NLT, NKJV, NRSV, RSV, MSG on Pro+)
- 35 min/week Deepgram cloud trial on Free; unlimited on Pro/Plus
- Pro: local AI verse-suggestion judge
- Plus: cloud Claude Sonnet AI, sermon summary, cloud sync
v1.0.2PatchEarlier build
More reliable startup before a service.
A stability pass for the moment that matters: opening the app, starting the backend, and getting ready before the sermon begins.
Fixed- The app reports backend startup more clearly when something takes longer than expected.
- Live Output waits more reliably for the backend before showing session state.
- Reduced noisy detection updates while a service session is starting.
v1.0.1PatchEarlier build
First-run setup felt less rough.
The first patch after launch tightened the setup path for churches trying Kerygma for the first time.
Improved- Audio input selection became clearer during setup.
- Opening Live Output for the first time became easier to understand.
- Free-tier copy was adjusted so new users knew they could start without a card.
v1.0.0MajorInitial release
The first public Kerygma release.
The first version of Kerygma for churches that want verse detection without building a full tech team around it.
Added- Live transcription and scripture detection workflow.
- Built-in Live Output window for putting verses on screen.
- KJV Bible support and local-first operation.
- Windows installer for the media-booth laptop.
That is every public version of Kerygma so far. Older internal builds live outside the public release stream.
