The last three months of 2025 were about the basics a church relies on every Sunday: joining with a QR code, knowing whether the speaker is live, managing rooms, signing in safely, and a demo room anyone can open at any hour. Here is what changed, and what it means for you.
Release notes are usually written for engineers. Ours are written for the people who actually use MulingStream: the pastor at the front, the volunteer at the sound desk, and the guest holding a phone. So we leave out how things work inside and only tell you what changed for you.
The last three months of 2025 were not about one big feature. They were about the ordinary things a church relies on every week, and that have to work every time: getting guests into the room, knowing what is going on, and keeping your account in order.
Every room got its own QR code and invitation link. Put the code on the screen, on a printed card or in the church group chat, and a guest joins by pointing their camera at it. No app to download, no account to create, nothing to type. This is still the way almost every guest joins today.
We chose a code over an app on purpose. An app has to be found in a store, downloaded on church wifi and given permissions, all while the service is starting. A guest who walked in for the first time will not do that, and should not have to. A camera and a link work on almost any phone, in any country, and they ask the guest for nothing they do not already have.
A guest who joins before the service begins used to see an empty screen and wonder whether anything was wrong. Since 29 October the listener sees the status of the room: whether the speaker has started, is live, or has left. Arriving early is no longer confusing; the guest knows to wait.
It matters at the end too. When the speaker stops, the listener sees that the session has finished, instead of staring at a quiet screen and wondering whether their phone has lost the connection. Small as it is, this was one of the first things guests thanked us for.
New accounts now confirm their email address, and the dashboard reminds you if you have not, with a button to send the email again. On 11 November we added the page every account needs sooner or later: forgot your password, get a link by email, choose a new one.
Your account gained a billing page with your invoice history, so the church treasurer can find a receipt without writing to us. The emails that confirm a payment were rewritten at the same time.
Rooms became something you can look after, not just create. You can edit a room's name and details, delete a room you no longer use, and reach every action from a small menu on the room card. The dashboard shows your rooms neatly and loads more as you scroll. Today the first room is already there when a church signs up, and setup takes about two minutes, but this is where room management began.
On 1 December we opened rooms that play a real talk on a loop, translated live, at any hour of the day or night. Anyone can open one on their own phone, pick a language and hear what a guest would hear, without waiting for a Sunday and without talking to anyone. It is still the quickest way to try MulingStream: open the 24/7 demo room.
We built it because a pastor deciding whether to try translation should not have to imagine it. Sending a demo room to the media team, or opening it during a council meeting and passing the phone around, answers more questions than any description we could write.
On 3 December we improved the spoken translation: the voice a listener hears in their earbuds became clearer and more natural, and more languages got a voice. Choosing to listen or to read along has been part of MulingStream from the start; this made listening better.
Your account now has email preferences, so you decide which kinds of mail you get from us, and you can unsubscribe from any of them with one click. This is the same place where, since this autumn, churches switch on Product Updates to receive our newsletter.
We closed the year by making our own pages easier for search engines to read, so that a pastor searching for live translation for a church service can actually find us.
The ordinary things have to work every time. That is what these three months were for.
None of this is glamorous, and that is the point. A church does not judge a translation service by its best feature. It judges it by the Sunday when something small went wrong: the guest who could not get in, the volunteer who could not find a receipt, the speaker who forgot a password ten minutes before the service. Every change in these three months removed one of those moments.
In January 2026 we made the translation faster, gave listeners their own controls, and began the work that led to Smart Hints. Read on in the release notes for January to March 2026.
We show you the whole thing live, in about fifteen minutes. Nothing is decided on the call and nothing follows it: you see it, and then you are the judge.