What's new in Soulver 3?

Interface

• Redesigned user interface supports dark mode and includes a sidebar for managing sheets within the app.

Calculator

• Support for calendar calculations.

• Proportion/'rule of three' functions (10 is to 20 as 50 is to what/15 is to 30 as what is to 80)

• Functions with multiple parameters: 'midpoint between', 'greater/lesser of', 'remainder of'

• Unix time calculations

• More intuitive syntax for some percentage operators ('50 is 25% of what')

• More large SI prefixes & support for small SI prefixes in answer formatting

• 'Half of' function

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

• Sort sheets by date edited, date created or title

• Import Soulver 2 or Soulver 3 files by dropping them on the dock icon.

Subtotals

• Designate a line a subtotal, which will add up all lines above it (up to the next subtotal or heading)

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

Units & Currencies

• 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)

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)

Automation

• Command-line interface

• URL schemes

• Automator Action for evaluating text using Soulver

• Calculate anywhere services

• Alfred integration

Miscellaneous

• 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)

• Import Soulver 2 files, and have them migrated to the latest syntax

• Use # for headings

• Implicit unit detection in some case (i.e 2 ducks + 2 ducks = 4 ducks)

• References can optionally refer to a line's rounded value

• Redesigned styling preference pane with a live preview

• Heading styling (custom font size, and # colour)

• A redesigned reference that mimics the Soulver UI

• A new app icon by Marc Edwards​