Start a relay without even opening the app; pause a relay and resume again as-needed during your church service. Broader performance improvements throughout Velora also help keep your attention on the sermon rather than the app.

What’s new

Quick action controls for starting and stopping Relay

Because Velora is built for use during worship, we strive to make capturing and following a sermon as effortless as possible. You can now start a relay directly from the Velora icon on your phone’s Home Screen.

For iOS users:

• Press and hold the Velora app icon to start and stop a relay.

• Save “start a relay” as a Shortcut. You can even schedule an automation in the Shortcuts app to prompt you to start a relay during your weekly church services.

• Say, “Hey Siri, start a Velora relay.”

For Android users:

• Press and hold the Velora app icon to start and stop a relay.

• Start or stop a Relay from an Android Quick Settings tile.

Pause and resume Relay

Need to pause a sermon relay? Tap the gold Honey Glass menu and choose “Pause relay,” or tap the pulsing microphone icon. Tap either control again when you’re ready to continue.

With the relay sheet open, tap the menu in the top-right corner to access more options, including the ability to delete the relay without stopping it first.

Enhanced Ask Velora

A range of enhancements makes the Ask Velora chat faster and more seamless to use. Here are a few highlights:

• Reopening Ask Velora returns you to your current conversation and preserves any unsent prompt you were drafting.

• Dismissing the modal mid-response no longer interrupts the response.

• Restored chats open directly, without a flash of the welcome screen first.

We’ve also made under-the-hood improvements that help Ask Velora deliver smarter, more polished responses. See the example below:

Introducing a Give page for one-time and recurring donations

As a mission-focused product, Velora has inspired many generous users to ask how they can contribute beyond their subscription. We’re deeply thankful for a community that wants to support our work, and we’ve created a dedicated Give page on our website to make that easier.

Improvements and bug fixes

• Sync engine optimization significantly speeds up relay loading, particularly for libraries with many relays

• Performance improvements to Bible tabs

• Various fixes resolving issues that could sometimes disrupt Relay post-processing

• Relay titles now generate reliably instead of occasionally remaining “Untitled”

• Relay engine improvements to further reduce inaccurate references to Numbers and Song of Solomon

• Opening Edit Relay during a live session no longer collapses the session sheet

• New admin controls to improve customer support around account-based issues

• Misc. minor UI fixes