What's new in Soulver 3?

Soulver 3 has 80+ new features, including date & time math, subtotals, an integrated sheets manager, QuickSoulver, and a redesigned user interface.

For the latest improvements to Soulver 3, please see the Change log.

Interface

• 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 settings

• A new app icon by Matthew Skiles

Calculator

• 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

Organization

• 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

QuickSoulver

• 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

Totals & Subtotals

• 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

• 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.

Editing

• 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

Units & Currencies

• User definable custom units

• More scientific units

• Better answer formatting of time & imperial lengths

• Support for 22 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)

Lines & References

• 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)

Files & Locales

• 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.

macOS & Third Party Integrations

• Use Soulver from Terminal with the new CLI

• System-wide "Calculate Anywhere" text services

• A Shortcuts 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