What You Get

🎯 Everything in One Place

Jump straight to what matters — the same layout you land on after sign-in.

• Conversations — Your gospel assistant: sourced, verified answers you can save
• Come Follow Me — AI study assistant for each week's lesson (full year of curriculum)
• Gospel Connections — Explore the knowledge graph with built-in AI chat and verse previews
• Study Plans — One scrollable page: curated study paths at the top, build-your-own (Come Follow Me + AI) below, your active plans and inline calendar at the bottom (see the Study Plans section below)
• Library at a glance — One-tap counts for Bookmarks, Notes, Tags, and Shares
• Recent activity — Latest conversations without digging through menus
• Usage summary — Track your monthly question usage

🛡️ Interrupt Safe New

Close your browser, lose connection, switch tabs — your answer still finishes and is waiting when you come back.

• Background completion — Responses finish generating even if you leave
• Automatic recovery — Return anytime and your response is waiting
• Full persistence — TruthLock verification and Proof of Authenticity complete in the background
• No lost work — Close your browser, lose connection, switch tabs — your answer is safe

TruthLock Verification Patent Pending

Every AI response is checked against official Church sources to catch and flag potential errors.

• Real-time verification — Checked against official sources as generated
• Color-coded badges — Gold, Green, Amber, Red shields
• Detailed results — See what was checked and why
• Refresh anytime — Re-verify with one click

🔐 TruthLock Proof of Authenticity Patent Pending

Every response is cryptographically signed and blockchain-anchored so tampering is impossible.

• Cryptographically signed — Unique blockchain-anchored signature
• Tamper-evident — Any modification immediately detectable
• One-click verify — Anyone can verify authenticity
• QR code sharing — Scan to verify shared responses

📖 Citations & Sources

Every answer links directly to official Church resources so you can verify.

• Inline citations — Sources embedded in responses
• Scripture footnotes — Cross-references explained with clickable links
• Conference talks — Links validated to churchofjesuschrist.org
• General Handbook — Current handbook references

✨ Scripture & Language

Word-perfect scriptures and flexible language options.

• Word-perfect quotations — Scriptures quoted exactly as written, never paraphrased
• Clickable footnotes — Scripture footnotes preserved as clickable references
• Modern language mode — Ask for scriptures explained in modern language
• Multi-language support — Chat and receive answers in any language

🔖 Bookmarks 1 new

Save important answers for quick access later.

• Bookmark answers — One-click save any response
• Categories — Organize into custom folders
• Bookmarks Page — Browse and search all saved

📝 Notes

Capture personal insights and spiritual impressions on any AI response.

• Add notes — Attach personal thoughts to any answer
• Note count badge — See notes per message
• Notes Page — Browse all notes in one place

🏷️ Tagging System

Automatically categorize and organize your conversations by topic.

• Auto-tagging — AI detects Come Follow Me weeks and gospel topics automatically
• Add/remove tags — Add custom tags or remove existing ones
• Refresh tags — Re-run tagging on any message anytime
• Click to filter — Find all content on a topic instantly
• Tagged Content Page — Browse and search all tagged content

🔍 Search & Discovery

Find any conversation, answer, or insight instantly.

• Full-text search — Questions, answers, tags, bookmarks, notes
• Scripture search — Validated links to official sources

🔗 Shares

Everything you've shared in one place — same counts you see on the Study Hub metrics row.

• Shared Content page — Manage links, see activity, and open shared items
• From chat — Share answers or conversations with TruthLock™ and optional expiry (see Conversation Features)

📑 Message Templates

Save and reuse question patterns with customizable fill-in fields.

• Create templates — Fill-in-the-blank questions
• AI Builder — Describe and AI generates it
• Drag-and-drop — Organize in your order

📐 Redesigned Conversation Layout New

Completely rethought how conversations are displayed. Your question and the AI's answer are now unified into a single turn card — eliminating the separate user/assistant headers and putting everything you need in one place. The result: less visual noise, more content on screen, and faster access to every action.

• Unified turn cards — Question and answer together in one card instead of separate bubbles
• Sticky headers — Your question, TruthLock badge, and all action buttons pin to the top as you scroll through long answers. No more scrolling back up to bookmark, copy, share, or add notes
• Everything in reach — Tags, notes, bookmarks, share, copy, print — all accessible from the pinned header without leaving your place
• More content, less chrome — Removed redundant user header, streamlined spacing, tighter visual hierarchy
• Consistent actions — Header icons and menu items in the same logical order everywhere

💬 Message Controls

Full control over sending, editing, and managing messages.

• Cancel send — Stop a message while it's being processed
• Edit message — Modify your question and resend
• Send again — Resend the same question for a fresh response
• Queued send — Messages queue automatically while one is processing
• Expand/collapse — Collapse individual, multiple, or all responses for easier scanning

🖨️ Printer Friendly New

Print any turn cleanly with one click — choose what's included and pick portrait/landscape.

• Print Options — Include/exclude Question, Key Insights, Suggested Reading, Suggested Questions, Notes
• Notes in print — Your personal notes included with a dedicated toggle New
• Live preview — Changes update instantly in the print preview
• Orientation — Portrait (default) or Landscape

🔀 Fork Conversations

Branch any conversation to explore different directions without losing your original thread.

• Branch from any point — New path from any answer
• Keep both paths — Original stays intact
• What-if scenarios — Explore alternatives

📎 File Attachments

Ask questions about images, PDFs, and documents you upload.

• Image analysis — Memes, photos, screenshots
• Document review — "Is this PDF legitimate?"
• Talk ID — "What talk is this from?"
• Content for talks — "Use this in my talk"

🔗 Content Sharing

Share verified answers with anyone via secure, trackable links.

• Share via link — Share single answers or full conversations
• Proof of Authenticity — Every share includes TruthLock™ seal and QR code
• Full context included — Question, response, and verification always included for proof integrity
• Access controls — Public, email required, specific emails, or domain-restricted
• Feedback buttons — Enable thumbs up/down for recipients
• Expiration dates — Set when shared links expire
• Shared Content Page — Manage all shares, view analytics, see who viewed and their feedback

🎚️ Quick Settings

Adjust AI behavior instantly without leaving your conversation.

• Send bar access — Tap + for instant adjustments
• Toggle features — TruthLock, Key Insights, Tagging
• Full settings — Complete options from main menu

⚡ Fast Answer Send

Skip optional features for the fastest possible answer.

• Lightning bolt button — One tap speed mode
• Skip extras — Bypasses Key Insights, Suggested Reading
• Proof included — TruthLock proof still applied

📜 Scroll Navigation 1 new

Quick navigation through conversations.

• Scroll to top/bottom — Jump to beginning or end instantly
• Scroll to message — Navigate message-by-message with up/down buttons. Each message positions at the top for easy reading

📋 Slide-In Action Menu New

The three-dot menu on each message now slides in from the side instead of dropping down — no more scrolling to reach menu items that opened off-screen.

• Always reachable — Full menu visible regardless of where the message sits on screen
• Clear ownership — A pointer arrow and highlighted button show exactly which message the menu belongs to
• Scrollable menu — All actions accessible in a scrollable panel instead of clipped by the viewport
• Smart close — Closes on scroll, tap outside, Escape key, or selecting an action

🔊 Voice / Read Aloud

Listen to any AI response read aloud in a natural voice — study hands-free while you drive, cook, or follow along on screen.

• One-tap listen — Tap the speaker icon on any response to hear it read aloud instantly
• Section-level control — Separate speaker buttons for the Response and Key Insights so you listen to just the part you want
• Pause & resume — Tap to pause, tap again to pick up right where you left off
• Multiple voices & speeds — Choose from natural-sounding voices and adjust playback speed
• Configurable read order — Set the toolbar speaker to read Response only, Key Insights only, or both in your preferred order

📂 Conversation Management

Organize and manage your conversation library.

• Rename conversations — Give meaningful names to your chats
• Search conversations — Full-text search across all questions and answers
• Conversation info — See message count, date created, last updated
• Delete conversations — Remove conversations you no longer need

🎧 Read Aloud

Tap the speaker icon on any response and listen — hands-free while you drive, cook, or just follow along.

• Section speakers — Both the Response and Key Insights sections have their own speaker button so you can listen to just the part you want
• Toolbar speaker — The speaker in the toolbar reads based on your preference: response only, Key Insights only, or both in either order
• Starts in seconds — No waiting, even for long responses
• Pause & resume — Tap the speaker to pause, tap again to pick up right where you left off
• Configurable — Choose what the toolbar speaker reads in your Voice settings: Response Only, Key Insights Only, Key Insights then Response, or Response then Key Insights

🎙️ Voice & Speed Settings

Choose the voice and speed that feel right to you. Preview any combination before you commit.

• Multiple voices — Choose from several natural-sounding voices
• Adjustable speed — Slow down for careful study or speed up for review
• Preview before saving — Listen to a sample with your chosen voice and speed
• Remembers your preference — Your voice and speed settings are saved

📚 Come Follow Me – AI Study Assistant

Study the Church's Come Follow Me curriculum with AI-powered insights alongside official content — 52 weeks, aligned with the current year's manual (e.g. Old Testament in 2026).

• Side-by-side study — Official CFM on left, AI insights on right
• AI overview cards — Lesson Explanation, Context, Dig Deeper
• Built-in AI assistant — Ask questions about each lesson

🔍 Smarter Search New

Upgraded from keyword-based to semantic search — Iron Rod AI now understands the meaning behind your question when finding conference talks, articles, and resources.

• Meaning-based — Finds relevant results even when your words differ from the source
• Better for nuance — Especially effective for complex gospel topics
• Broader reach — Conference talks, Church magazines, scholarly articles

🔗 Citations System Redesign New

Complete architectural redesign of the citations pipeline — built from the ground up for speed, accuracy, and reliability.

• Dramatically faster — Citation verification that previously took 45–100+ seconds now completes in under a second
• More accurate links — Sources are verified at search time rather than after the fact, so you get the right URL the first time
• More reliable — Eliminates broken links, redirect chains, and index-page citations that plagued the previous system

🤖 24 Specialized Agents, Not One Generic Chatbot

Your question doesn't go to one AI. An orchestrator routes it to the right specialist — scripture search, doctrinal analysis, citation verification, TruthLock — and they work together. The result: deeper answers than any single model can produce.

• Orchestrated routing — Each question is analyzed and routed to the right specialist agents
• Parallel execution — Multiple agents work simultaneously for faster, deeper answers
• Real-time status — Watch agents work as they process your question

⚡ Fast Performance

Answers begin streaming within seconds, optimized for speed without sacrificing depth.

• Real-time streaming — Responses within 1-5 seconds
• Adaptive depth — Simple fast, complex deeper
• Optimized infrastructure — Built for speed

📊 Performance Diagnostics New

Enhanced behind-the-scenes performance tracking so our engineers can pinpoint bottlenecks and keep your experience fast.

• Work vs. idle tracking — Distinguishes active processing time from passive wait time for every pipeline stage
• Visual timeline — Gantt-style breakdown shows exactly where time is spent across agents
• Continuous improvement — Helps us identify and eliminate slowdowns before they affect you

👤 Personalization

AI adapts to your gospel knowledge level and communication preferences.

• Adaptive responses — Adjusts to your background
• Expertise level — New member to scholar
• Language style — Plain to rich scriptural

📚 Add-On Knowledge Sources

Optionally expand answers to include supplementary Church-adjacent content.

• BYU content — Speeches, religious studies, articles
• Church News — News and updates
• Non-LDS topics — Everyday info with LDS perspective

Note: Add-on sources are clearly labeled and are not official Church materials.

🛡️ Always On, Always Honest New

Three AI providers. Automatic failover. If one is limited, we tell you — a small notice appears so you always know what's happening. Your questions still get answered.

• Multi-provider AI — Anthropic, OpenAI, and Google models working behind the scenes
• Automatic failover — If one provider is slow or down, another picks up seamlessly
• Transparency — If any capability is temporarily limited, you'll see a notice — no silent failures

📊 What's in the Graph

A comprehensive knowledge graph connecting every dimension of Latter-day Saint study — not just scriptures, but the full picture of how gospel content relates.

• 42,000+ scripture verses — Every verse in the Old Testament, New Testament, Book of Mormon, Doctrine and Covenants, and Pearl of Great Price, linked by 293,000+ official footnote cross-references
• 4,000+ General Conference talks — Every General Conference talk from 1942 through the most recent conference, with citations linking talks to the scriptures they reference
• 744 speakers — Prophets, apostles, and Church leaders connected to their talks and the scriptures they cited
• 3,600+ Topical Guide topics — The Church's Topical Guide with 65,000+ verse references and cross-linked "See also" relationships
• 50 Come Follow Me lessons — Weekly lessons for the current year connected to their scripture blocks

🔗 Cross-Reference Intelligence

The AI uses the graph automatically to enrich answers and verify facts — no extra steps required.

• Automatic enrichment — When scriptures appear in an answer, related cross-references, topics, and conference talk citations are surfaced automatically
• Multi-hop discovery — Follow chains of cross-references across books and testaments, uncovering patterns like how a phrase in Isaiah connects to Nephi connects to Christ's words in 3 Nephi
• Ask the graph directly — Ask "How many times is faith mentioned in the Book of Mormon?" or "What talks cite 1 Nephi 3:7?" and get exact counts — not estimates
• TruthLock™ graph verification — TruthLock uses the graph to verify verse counts and cross-reference claims with real data instead of guessing

🔭 Gospel Connections Explorer New

A full-page interactive explorer where you can visually navigate the entire gospel knowledge graph — ask questions in built-in AI chat, preview verse text in context, and search any verse, topic, or speaker.

• Standalone page — A dedicated full-screen explorer at the same level as Conversations and Come Follow Me
• AI chat built in — Ask about what you're seeing; responses use the graph and official sources
• Verse previews — Read referenced scripture text without leaving the explorer
• Smart search — Type any verse, topic, or speaker name and instantly load a visual network of connections
• Interactive graph — Drag, zoom, and click through nodes color-coded by type: scriptures, talks, speakers, topics, and lessons
• Expand & explore — Click any node to expand its connections, 1–3 hops deep across the entire graph
• Filter & navigate — Filter visible nodes by name, speaker, conference, or topic with match navigation
• Layout options — Switch between Force, Circle, Radial, Grid, and Tree layouts
• Also in Conversations — Click the graph icon on any scripture citation to explore its connections without leaving the chat

🚀 Ways to start something new

Same page, separate tabs—Study Plans opens here first.

• Learning plans — Curated multi-day journeys (short intros, themed weeks, read-through pacing, and more)—start in one tap; day one usually includes extra context before the verses
• Come Follow Me — Pick any week and spread that week’s readings across the number of days you choose
• My own plan — Describe what to study (volume, book, topic, or chapter range), set duration (days through a full year), and get real references, one technique per day, and prompts per passage
• My study plans — Every plan you’ve created, active or archived

📅 Study calendar New

The calendar is the last tab in the row—your month-at-a-glance for what’s due across every active plan. Tap a day to open items, set which weekdays you usually study, and reschedule when life happens.

• Month grid — Color cues for completed, today, and overdue
• Study days — Pick the days you study; scheduling and “fit to study days” respect your real week
• Pick up from today — Shift remaining items forward from today
• Fit to study days — Redistribute items onto only the days you selected

📖 One Method per Day

Each day in your plan pairs a reading with a single study technique from the Church's Scripture Study — The Power of the Word manual. You don't do all eight — the plan rotates through them so you learn different ways to read over time.

• Ask Questions — Who is speaking? What's the message? What about Christ?
• Watch for Definitions — When the author defines a word differently than you'd expect
• Liken unto Yourself — Put your name in place of the person addressed
• Look for Patterns — Recurring themes: prayer, repentance, faith, revelation
• Stress Connecting Words — And, but, therefore, if/then, inasmuch
• Follow Author Annotations — "Thus we see" — the author's own takeaway
• Substitute Antecedents — Replace pronouns with actual names
• Memorize — Commit a key verse to heart

✅ Daily Checklist

Open your plan, do today's reading with today's method, check the box, write a note if you want. Progress bar updates live.

• Scheduled dates — Each day is mapped to a calendar date starting from when you create the plan
• Prompts — 3–4 specific questions or instructions for that day's passage and technique
• Personal notes — Write your thoughts, impressions, or answers directly on each day — auto-saved
• Progress tracking — See how far you are at a glance; 100% turns gold

💬 Study with AI Chat

Every plan item has a "Study with AI" button that opens a conversation right inside your plan — no navigating away. The AI breaks the passage into sections, explains what's happening, pulls out the doctrine, and answers your follow-up questions. Your chat history stays with the plan.

• Embedded chat — AI chat opens in a floating panel inside the plan detail page, same pattern as Come Follow Me
• One conversation per plan — All your study chat for a plan lives in one place; pick up where you left off
• Clickable footnotes — Tap any footnote in the verse text to see cross-references and Topical Guide entries; tap a reference to send it straight to the AI chat for exploration without leaving your study
• Verified answers — Same TruthLock-verified responses as regular conversations

🔔 Daily Reminders

Opt in to daily email reminders with a digest of what's due that day. Choose your time, and toggle reminders on or off per plan.

👥 Available for All Users

Study Plans is available to all Iron Rod AI users — free and paid. Open the Study Hub and tap Study Plans to browse curated paths, build your own, or manage active plans.

👤 Profile & Account

Manage your personal information and preferences.

• Profile photo — Upload and manage your avatar
• Contact info — Name, email, phone, address
• Timezone — Set your local timezone for accurate timestamps
• Email preferences — Control notification settings

🎨 Appearance Mode New

Choose light, dark, or system theme for comfortable viewing in any lighting.

• Light mode — Bright interface for daytime use
• Dark mode — Easy on the eyes for evening study
• System mode — Automatically matches your device theme
• Dark mode overhaul — Every alert, modal, tag, note, and toast properly themed — no more jarring bright flashes New

🎛️ Conversation Defaults

Set your preferred defaults for all new conversations.

• Response style — Expertise level, embellishment, length
• Response sections — Key Insights, Suggested Questions, Suggested Content
• Tagging — Enable/disable auto-tagging
• TruthLock — Enable/disable verification by default

👨‍👩‍👧‍👦 Family Accounts

Manage your whole family's Come Follow Me study with one subscription.

• Unlimited family members — All ages on one plan
• Individual accounts — Each member gets their own login
• Age-appropriate content — Tailored for each family member
• Family management — Invite members, set roles, parental controls