What's new in Soulver 3?
For the latest improvements to Soulver 3, please see the Change log.
Redesigned user interface. Soulver now manages sheets for you in a sidebar.
You can still use the classic "Save documents in Finder" workflow if you prefer.
Select light mode, dark mode or system defaults from the General preferences.
Redesigned preferences
A new app icon by Matthew Skiles
Support for calendar calculations, for example:
March 12 + 3 weeks 2 days (4 April)
Days between April 3 and June 12 (70 days)
August 14 + 3 workdays (August 19)
today + 3 weeks
Support for time calculations, for example:
3:30pm + 2 hours 15 minutes (5:45 pm)
01:02:03 + 01:09:54 (02:11:57)
now + 3 hours 25 minutes
Time zone conversions, for example:
Time in New York
Time difference between Chicago and Paris
3:30am Moscow to Japan
2am PST to GMT
You can use countries as well as common city names (in cases where a country spans multiple timezones, the timezone of the capital city will be used)
Proportion/'rule of three' functions, for example:
10 is to 20 as 50 is to what (100)
15 is to 30 as what is to 80 (40)
Functions with multiple parameters, for example:
midpoint between 5 and 10 (7.5),
'greater/lesser of', 'remainder of'
Unix time calculations ('new timestamp', 'march 12 3pm as timestamp')
ISO8601 date formatting
Financial functions for compound interest, loan repayments, & return on investment
Better support for working with rates ('30 hours at $30/hour', '$900 at $30/hour')
More intuitive syntax for some percentage operators ('50 is 25% of what')
if/then/else statements
Random number generator:
Random number between 1 and 10
Create folders for managing sheets.
Trash for recovering recently deleted files.
Drag sheets out of the sidebar to export a .slvr file
Spotlight search integration, within the app and from the system Spotlight
Sort sheets by date edited, date created or title
Import Soulver 2 or Soulver 3 files by dropping them on the dock icon.
Open specific sheets via URLs
Perform quick calculations from a Spotlight like interface
Save your calculations to Soulver as a sheet (⌘S)
Access a "QuickSoulver" from within Soulver, or the menu bar, or global hotkey
Designate a line a subtotal, which will add up all lines above it (up to the next subtotal or heading)
Smarter total will ignore variable declarations & referenced lines automatically
Variables can now include multiple words
Auto-complete support for variables (hit the escape key)
Shift-hover over a variable to see its actual value on that line
Variables can now be redeclared with new values.
Scrubbable numbers (shift hover over a number to show the scrubber)
Auto-thousands separator insertion (1000 becomes 1,000)
QuickOperators (1p1 becomes 1 + 1, etc)
Keystrokes to insert labels & variable declarations
Touch Bar support with quick access to operators, sheet defined variables, and line references.
A preferences to start sheets with a heading or a comment
Use # for headings, rather than @. Multiple #'s are supported.
Customize the color of the # part of a heading in the Styling Preferences
User definable custom units
More scientific units
Better answer formatting of time & imperial lengths
Support for 16 popular cryptocurrencies
Better handling of unit calculations in many cases than in Soulver 2.
All real-world currencies now enabled by default (no need to add them manually)
Customize currency symbols (i.e choose whether ¥ refers to JPY or CNY)
Send beautifully styled HTML emails (not available in the Mac App Store version)
Rearrange & delete lines & via the answer column
Bump lines up/down using keystrokes
Reference insertion mode (hit ⌘L, then type the number of the line you want to insert a reference to)
Automatically convert documents created in foreign locales into your preferred locale
Soulver now uses a JSON based file format (.slvr) rather than XML based (.soulver)
You can import your old Soulver 2 files into Soulver 3.
Use Soulver from Terminal with the new CLI
System-wide "Calculate Anywhere" text services
An Automator action
Improved VoiceOver support, with the option of reading out a line's answer after editing
Search your sheets from Spotlight & get a QuickLook Preview. QuickLook is also supported in Finder.
Touch Bar support with quick access to operators, sheet defined variables, and line references.
URL schemes for creating sheets, opening sheets, and doing calculations
