Changelog

A new mark

Selah has a new face: the samekh, the first letter of selah in Hebrew. You’ll see it in your browser tab, on social cards and across selah.to. The wordmark stays quiet and serif, the way Selah speaks.

The affiliate programme

If you write, film or speak to people who want to read the Bible properly, you can now partner with Selah. You get £10 for every reader who becomes a paying subscriber through your code, and they get 10% off their first year.

Your code travels by link too: share selah.to with ?via=YOURCODE and the discount applies itself at checkout, with the lower price shown before anyone pays. Still no tracking cookies, just your code, now carried by a link. Everything you need is at selah.to/affiliate.

A changelog of our own

You’re reading it. Our monthly updates now live here on selah.to, written as letters and signed by whoever shipped the month, with a map of every commit since launch at the top. Same rhythm as everything else we do: one honest update a month, no noise between.

A way around the site

Until this month our menu appeared on two pages and the footer pointed almost nowhere. Every page now carries the same small menu. It opens onto the five places worth going: the changelog, Bible verses, reading tools, the email guide and the affiliate programme. Below it sits a proper map of the site.

While we were in there we made everything match: one size for headings, one padding for cards, sentence case throughout and a visible focus ring for anyone moving through the site by keyboard. None of it is exciting. All of it was slightly wrong before.

What our emails were telling you

• Some phones tack their signature onto your reply with no line break: @read arrived as @readSent from my iPhone and Selah filed the whole thing as a note. Your chapter went unmarked. It now finds the command anyway.
• Read confirmations used to promise your next chapter arrives tomorrow. That isn’t true if you skip weekends and it’s Friday. It certainly isn’t true if you’re paused. We now name the chapter that’s next and leave the timing alone.

Smaller but worth knowing

• Reply @billing before you’ve subscribed and the link you get back now takes you to checkout instead of a dead end.
• Dates and times in your emails are British throughout now: 23 Jul and 7:05 pm, not Jul 23 and 7:05 PM.
• Our Terms now spell out how the free trial and cancellation work in writing.
• Every page has a markdown twin, so when you ask an AI assistant about Selah it can read the real thing.

Steadier under the hood

A brief outage in June taught us some lessons, so we hardened the plumbing: the systems that prepare your chapters and parse your replies now recover from provider hiccups automatically, and inbound email is verified more strictly against forgery. None of this changes how Selah feels. That’s the point.

Brand guidelines, published

We also published our brand page covering the wordmark, colours, voice and the words we use and avoid. If you’re writing about Selah or partnering with us, start there.

One plan and 14 days free

Selah is now a single plan: £29.99 a year, which works out to about 58p a week. Every new reader starts with a 14-day free trial, no charge until the trial ends and you can cancel any time by replying @billing. Two weeks is enough to know whether the rhythm suits you. We’d rather you find out for free.

Subject lines that count with you

Daily emails now carry your journey in the subject line: “Day 14 with Psalms” tells you where you are before you’ve opened the email. And if a chapter has been waiting a while, the subject softens to “Still on...” rather than counting up at you. No streaks, no guilt, the chapter simply waits.

Finishing feels like finishing

The congratulations email at the end of each book now shows a progress bar across all 1,189 chapters of the Bible, plus a short introduction to the book you’re starting next. Auto-advance also checks your history first, so if you’re reading in your own order you’ll never be handed a book you’ve already completed.

A starting book, picked for you

Choosing from 66 books is a hard first decision, so onboarding now recommends a starting book based on your quiz answers. It’s a suggestion, not a rule; every book is still one tap away.

Pause and resume, confirmed

Reply @pause and Selah now confirms your daily chapters have stopped. Reply @resume and you’ll get a note confirming they’re back, picking up exactly where you left off. Life interrupts reading. Pausing should never feel like quitting, and now it never feels uncertain either.

Completing a book, celebrated properly

Book completion emails got warmer and more specific about what you just accomplished. And the Bible completion moment is no longer tied to Revelation: finish your final unread book, whichever it is, and Selah recognises you’ve read the whole thing.

Smaller but worth knowing

• Delivery presets are now three-hour windows, so each chapter’s arrival feels more like a letter and less like an alarm.
• The signup flow now has proper ARIA labelling throughout, so screen reader users can join as smoothly as everyone else.
• The homepage was refreshed with an interactive preview of the daily email and words from real readers. A better front door if you’ve been meaning to show Selah to someone.

Just reply “Read”

A bare “Read” now marks your chapter done, no @ required. Selah also learned to see past email signatures and sign-offs like “Sent from my iPhone”, to work out what you meant when a command has a typo and to tell you kindly when you mark a chapter you’ve already read instead of staying silent.

A better way to begin

Starting Selah is now a short guided journey at selah.to: a few questions about how you read, a live preview of the daily email, then your book, version and delivery window, all chosen before you subscribe. By the time your first chapter arrives, it already feels familiar.

A calmer chapter email

The daily email was redesigned around a simple idea: nothing should stand between you and the text. The chapter now leads, and the reply prompt sits quietly underneath with a gentle nudge to jot down a thought while it’s fresh.

Two new free tools

Verse of the Day brings a different verse each day with background, cross-references and a reflection prompt. And the verse image generator turns any verse into a clean, shareable image. Both free for everyone, subscriber or not.