
Shema: Sermon Notes & Bible
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What's New in Shema
2.0.0
October 17, 2026
Shema began as a way to keep what you heard on Sunday. Version 2.0 makes the Bible itself the reason to open the app on the other six days. The reader is the center of it now. Read a chapter at a time, or one verse at a time with everything else cleared away. Set the typeface, the theme and the size to something you would actually read in. NKJV, ESV, NASB and NLT are here for the first time, alongside hundreds of other translations — and where a publisher has recorded a dramatized reading, with a cast and a music bed, that is what plays. Set a verse side by side across several translations, find where Scripture says the same thing elsewhere, and download a book or a whole Bible to read with no signal. Reading plans do the arithmetic for you. Say which book and how long you want to read each day, and Shema works out the pace and the day you finish. Or take one of nine ready-made plans, including all 1,189 chapters in the order the events happened. Today's reading waits for you in the reader, and marking it read counts toward your streak. Study is its own tab. Swipe sideways through verses and up into the Hebrew and Greek words inside them — each word in its own script, how it is said aloud, and what it carries. Ask for a study on a passage or a theme and it comes back in eleven sections, or in S.O.A.P. form. Look up an English word and read Strong's own 1890 entry, word for word. Ask for a lesson and get a manuscript you could preach from. Three new places to sit with it. Abide in Him holds a verse over moving scenery, with an ambient bed and a blessing to close, and in most Bibles it will read the verse to you. Any verse in Abide can now leave as a 15-second video, the scene still moving behind it, straight to Instagram Reels, Facebook, Messages or Photos. The Prayer Journal takes what you are carrying in your own words and gives it back as something prayable, with a devotional and a prayer written for that situation — and a Lock Screen widget opens straight into a new one. The Bible in Stories retells Scripture as short chapters with narration and artwork, each one linked to the passage it came from, and more arrive as they are released. The daily devotional is paced now: read, then reflect, then pray, one thing at a time. What you write in answer to the question stays on your device. Sermons got the rest. Read the same sermon as a Discussion Guide, a Life Application, or a Family Guide. Listen to a spoken recap of it. Shema is in the iOS share sheet now — send it a YouTube sermon from any app and the importer opens with the link already in it. Insight cards come with nine drawn templates and nine painted backgrounds, and Instagram opens its story editor with your card already placed. And if you have shared a sermon page, you can now take it down again. Shema no longer asks you about AI before it has said hello. First run asks what brings you here and what to call you; the question about what gets sent comes later, at the moment something is actually about to be sent. There is a Record widget for the Home and Lock Screens, the verse on the Lock Screen is readable at a real size now, and Discover Widgets in Settings shows you how to add one, with a short video for each screen.
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