# Soulver: what changed from 3 to 4

- Product: Soulver (https://whatsnew.fyi/product/soulver)
- Vendor: Acqualia
- Range: changelog entries numbered after 3.16.2 up to and including 4.0.2, stable releases only
- Entries below: 3 releases (newest first)
- Resolved: 3 is 3.16.2 and 4 is 4.0.2, the newest stable release of each major we track
- Carrying security changes: 0 · CVEs mentioned: 0 · Mentioning breaking changes: 0 · Removing or deprecating something: 0
- Page: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/soulver/compare/3...4

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## What changed (43 changes, grouped by kind)

### Added

#### 4.0.2 (2026-07-20)

- Support for fractional sales tax values like 9.875% in New York
- Trackpad feature to move the cursor by holding down on the 2 key, similar to the spacebar behaviour in the system keyboard

#### 4.0.1 (2026-06-29)

- Add a setting for whether divider lines are purely cosmetic, or also reset your local variable state for subsequent lines
- You can now resize the answer column on iPad

#### 4.0 (2026-06-22)

- Universal purchase across Mac, iPad, and iPhone
- Trip planning feature to plan date ranges by specifying days or nights at each location
- Trip time budget alerts when exceeding specified duration
- Tags workflow to tag lines with hashtags and aggregate tagged lines
- Line highlighting in color to emphasize important lines
- Dividers to add structure to sheets
- Definition sheet to define new units and global variables
- New unit types including widgets and operations
- Science units for physics, chemistry, electrical calculations, and vehicle-related calculations
- Geography calculations for distance between places and DMS
- Money functions for sales tax, income tax, and inflation
- Music functions for MIDI and pitch
- Change over time functions for linear and exponential change plus file transfer
- Woodworking, pace, and percentage ratio functions
- Improved work hour and work day calculations
- Cultural event calculations for Christmas, Ramadan, Chinese New Year, and others
- Date formatting using format patterns
- Sheet pinning to keep sheets at the top of folders
- Sheet archiving to preserve completed sheets
- Redesigned settings interface inspired by macOS system settings
- 20+ additional customization settings including answer column alignment and background color
- Free HTML emailing service to share Soulver sheets as styled HTML emails
- iPhone cursor pad for easier sheet navigation with hold-down activation on the 9 key
- Agent-friendly CLI that can edit Soulver sheets and sheetbook files

### Changed

#### 4.0.2 (2026-07-20)

- Search results now open in the active window
- Improved typing performance in sheets using many time points

#### 4.0.1 (2026-06-29)

- Improved multi-platform sync reliability, especially related to the definition sheet and global variables
- The sheets list sidebar width is now saved across launches on iPad

### Fixed

#### 4.0.2 (2026-07-20)

- Answers could be misaligned with their expressions when using non-regular line spacing
- Bug with setting custom syntax colours using the system colour wheel
- Changes to the money formatting settings were not applying to lines whose formatting had been individually customised
- Issue when moving a sheet that had also been opened in a separate window into Trash or Archive
- Cursor key movement direction in Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left text
- Words containing slashes like and/or could void a line's result
- Lines in a trip might not update until edited

#### 4.0.1 (2026-06-29)

- Fix a crash in the new trip planning feature when typing out a single date that falls prior to the trip start
- Restore the ability to choose a custom font in the new settings on Mac
- Fix an issue with line highlighting not working in the Setapp version on Mac
- Fix a bug with the new sheets archive not showing on iOS

## Release notes

### 4.0.2

- Date: 2026-07-20
- Version: 4.0.2
- Original notes: https://documentation.soulver.app/changelog#id-4.0.2
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/soulver/releases/4.0.2
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

Mac Added support for fractional sales tax values (like "9.875%" in New York)Search results now open in the active windowFixed an issue where the answers could be misaligned with their expressions whe…

- **added** — Support for fractional sales tax values like 9.875% in New York
- **changed** — Search results now open in the active window
- **fixed** — Answers could be misaligned with their expressions when using non-regular line spacing
- **fixed** — Bug with setting custom syntax colours using the system colour wheel
- **fixed** — Changes to the money formatting settings were not applying to lines whose formatting had been individually customised
- **fixed** — Issue when moving a sheet that had also been opened in a separate window into Trash or Archive
- **added** — Trackpad feature to move the cursor by holding down on the 2 key, similar to the spacebar behaviour in the system keyboard
- **fixed** — Cursor key movement direction in Arabic and Hebrew right-to-left text
- **fixed** — Words containing slashes like and/or could void a line's result
- **fixed** — Lines in a trip might not update until edited
- **changed** — Improved typing performance in sheets using many time points

Mac

Added support for fractional sales tax values (like "9.875%" in New York)Search results now open in the active windowFixed an issue where the answers could be misaligned with their expressions when using non-regular line spacingFixed a bug with setting custom syntax colours using the system colour wheelFixed an issue where changes to the money formatting settings were not applying to lines whose formatting had been individually customisedFixed an issue when moving a sheet that had also been opened in a separate window, into Trash or Archive

iPhone

Added a trackpad feature to move the cursor, similar to the behaviour of the spacebar when held down in the system keyboardHold down on the “2” key to activateFixed cursor key movement direction in Arabic & Hebrew right-to-left text (thanks Thabet)

Calculator

Fixed an issue where words containing slashes (like "and/or") could void a line's result (thanks Chuck)Fixed a bug where lines in a trip might not update until edited (thanks Jim)Improved typing performance in sheets using many time points (thanks Youssef)

### 4.0.1

- Date: 2026-06-29
- Version: 4.0.1
- Original notes: https://documentation.soulver.app/changelog#id-4.0.1
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/soulver/releases/4.0.1
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

General Improved multi-platform sync reliability, especially related to the definition sheet & global variablesAdded a setting for whether divider lines are purely cosmetic, or also reset your local v…

- **changed** — Improved multi-platform sync reliability, especially related to the definition sheet and global variables
- **added** — Add a setting for whether divider lines are purely cosmetic, or also reset your local variable state for subsequent lines
- **fixed** — Fix a crash in the new trip planning feature when typing out a single date that falls prior to the trip start
- **fixed** — Restore the ability to choose a custom font in the new settings on Mac
- **fixed** — Fix an issue with line highlighting not working in the Setapp version on Mac
- **added** — You can now resize the answer column on iPad
- **changed** — The sheets list sidebar width is now saved across launches on iPad
- **fixed** — Fix a bug with the new sheets archive not showing on iOS

General

Improved multi-platform sync reliability, especially related to the definition sheet & global variablesAdded a setting for whether divider lines are purely cosmetic, or also reset your local variable state for subsequent linesFixed a crash in the new trip planning feature when typing out a single date that falls prior to the trip start

Mac

Restored the ability to choose a custom font in the new settingsFixed an issue with line highlighting not working in the Setapp version

iOS & iPadOS

You can now resize the answer column on iPadThe sheets list sidebar width is now saved across launches on iPadFixed a bug with the new sheets archive not showing on iOS. Any sheets you archived are safe, it just wasn't visible in the folders list

### 4.0

- Date: 2026-06-22
- Version: 4.0
- Original notes: https://documentation.soulver.app/changelog#id-4.0
- Permalink: https://whatsnew.fyi/product/soulver/releases/4.0
- Labels: Platforms: macOS

Soulver 4 is our first paid update in 7 years with 50+ new featuresSoulver is now a universal purchase (Mac, iPad & iPhone)Owners of Soulver 3 are invited to upgrade to Soulver 4 at 50% off on the App…

- **added** — Universal purchase across Mac, iPad, and iPhone
- **added** — Trip planning feature to plan date ranges by specifying days or nights at each location
- **added** — Trip time budget alerts when exceeding specified duration
- **added** — Tags workflow to tag lines with hashtags and aggregate tagged lines
- **added** — Line highlighting in color to emphasize important lines
- **added** — Dividers to add structure to sheets
- **added** — Definition sheet to define new units and global variables
- **added** — New unit types including widgets and operations
- **added** — Science units for physics, chemistry, electrical calculations, and vehicle-related calculations
- **added** — Geography calculations for distance between places and DMS
- **added** — Money functions for sales tax, income tax, and inflation
- **added** — Music functions for MIDI and pitch
- **added** — Change over time functions for linear and exponential change plus file transfer
- **added** — Woodworking, pace, and percentage ratio functions
- **added** — Improved work hour and work day calculations
- **added** — Cultural event calculations for Christmas, Ramadan, Chinese New Year, and others
- **added** — Date formatting using format patterns
- **added** — Sheet pinning to keep sheets at the top of folders
- **added** — Sheet archiving to preserve completed sheets
- **added** — Redesigned settings interface inspired by macOS system settings
- **added** — 20+ additional customization settings including answer column alignment and background color
- **added** — Free HTML emailing service to share Soulver sheets as styled HTML emails
- **added** — iPhone cursor pad for easier sheet navigation with hold-down activation on the 9 key
- **added** — Agent-friendly CLI that can edit Soulver sheets and sheetbook files

Soulver 4 is our first paid update in 7 years with 50+ new featuresSoulver is now a universal purchase (Mac, iPad & iPhone)Owners of Soulver 3 are invited to upgrade to Soulver 4 at 50% off on the App Store

What's new in Soulver 4?

Detailed release notes

Trip planning

Plan out the date ranges for a trip by specifying the days or nights you'd like to spend in each placeSpecify a trip end date and Soulver will alert you when you've exceeded your time budget

Tags workflow

Tag lines with hashtags (#work, #home, etc) and add up or average lines that include the tag

Line highlighting

Highlight important lines in color to make them stand outCreate dividers to add extra structure to sheets

Definition sheet

Define new units & global variable in a dedicated Soulver sheetSupport for new unit types (like "widgets", "operations", etc)

Functions & units

Science: additional units for physics & chemistry, electrical calculations & vehicle related calculationsGeography: calculations (distance between places, DMS)Money: sales tax, income tax, inflationMusic: midi & pitchChange over time: linear & exponential change + file transfer functions

+ functions for woodworking, pace and percentage ratios.

New calendar calculation features

Improved work hour & work day calculationsDo calculations involving cultural events (Christmas, Ramadan, Chinese New Year, etc)Format dates using format patterns

Sheet pinning & archiving

Pin sheets to the top of foldersArchive sheets once you're done editing them but want to keep them around

Redesigned settings

Inspired by the macOS system settings20+ additional settings to further customize your Soulver experience, including answer column alignment & background color

HTML emailing service

Free service that lets you share your Soulver sheets as beautifully styled HTML emails

iPhone cursor pad

Navigate your sheets on iPhone more easily with the new cursor padHold down on the 9 key to activate the pad

Agent friendly CLI

The soulver command line interface can now edit Soulver sheets & sheetbook files