What's new

A running log of the big features as they go live on Church Melodies.

  1. 19 September 2026

    Feature requests

    Signed-in users can now suggest ideas and follow their progress.

    • Ideas page in the menu: send a suggestion with a title, details and area.
    • Track the status of your requests — new, under review, planned, done or declined.
    • Publishers can view everyone's requests and update their status.

  2. 19 September 2026

    Private songs, public publishing and church groups

    Every member now has a private library, and churches can share songs, sermons and Sunday service sets inside their own group.

    • New songs and sermons start private — only you can see them until they are published.
    • My library: send an item in for publishing or pull it back to private.
    • Awaiting review page for publishers to approve or return submissions.
    • Church groups: create a group, share an invite link, approve join requests, hand over ownership.
    • Share any song, sermon or service set with a group; members can view, print and present it.
    • Service sets carry a service date so the whole group sees Sunday's songs in order.

  3. 19 September 2026

    Favourites for signed-in users

    Keep the songs you use most one tap away.

    • Star any song from the song list or the song page.
    • Favourites filter on the Songs page.
    • Your favourites appear on the home page when signed in.

  4. 19 September 2026

    Church Melodies

    The app has a new name and a new look for the browser tab.

    • Renamed from MyWorshipKeys to Church Melodies everywhere.
    • New church-and-music-note icon.

  5. 18 September 2026

    Word — bilingual sermon library with AI planning

    Sermons in Tamil and English sit next to Songs, with a structured outline editor and an AI assistant that only drafts for your review.

    • Public Word section with search and topic filters.
    • 3-act or 5-act sermon outlines with timing guidance.
    • Tamil and English Bible references linked to Bible.com, with a verification checklist.
    • AI planner suggests improvements into a review panel — nothing is published automatically.
    • Clean A4 sermon printout.

  6. 17 September 2026

    Presentation mode

    Project lyrics for the congregation from any device, ProPresenter-style.

    • Full-screen lyrics output window for the projector.
    • Operator console with Live and Next previews, Black and Clear controls.
    • Choose 2, 3 or 4 lines per screen; blank lines between stanzas count so slides break where you expect.
    • Tamil first, English below — or either language on its own.

  7. 16 September 2026

    AI song import and trusted lyrics sources

    Bring in a song from a photo, pasted text or a link, then finish it with lyrics from websites you trust.

    • Import from a photo of a chord sheet, pasted text, or a URL.
    • AI extracts title, key, tempo, sections and chords with per-field confidence — low confidence is flagged, nothing is guessed or auto-published.
    • Manage your list of trusted lyrics websites under Sources, and pull lyrics for a song with one click.
    • Voice search on the song library.

  8. 15 September 2026

    First release

    The searchable Tamil and English worship chord library.

    • Searchable song library with full-text search in Tamil and English.
    • Structured chord sheets and lyrics-with-chords views.
    • Transpose to any key, including slash chords.
    • Musician info and keyboard voice recommendations.
    • Clean A4 printing with layout and size options.
    • Editor with draft, review, publish and archive workflow.
    • Sunday service sets with per-song keys.