Symphonia began in June 2025 and has been built steadily ever since — first as design and prototypes, then as one parish's beta, then release after release. Version 0.10.0, in October 2026, is the first general release. These are the milestones, in plain language.
The first general release. Each person opens Studio to one page of their own work, and records that lived in two or three places each have one home. The rector chooses what each role can see and do. ParishBooks works from the first day with files: bank statements in, QuickBooks files out, 1099s for the IRS, and payroll figures. Parishes can post to Bluesky from Communications.
Full parity on mobile — not only reading records but creating and editing every one of them from a phone, so the studio goes wherever the priest does.
Guided tours, a single help center, a plain-language glossary, and a practice mode — so a new administrator can find their feet without a manual.
One-click setup for online giving, parish subscriptions, and invoices — real money moving, handled carefully and posted straight to the books.
Sacramental records as a proper archive — scanned certificates filed against the person and the register, safe and easy to find years later.
A system-wide sweep for safety, privacy, and accuracy: more records encrypted at rest, tighter access on every read and write, and honest language throughout.
Every date shown in the parish's own clock, and where it helps the reader's own — so “today” and “this Sunday” always mean the right day, wherever you are.
The parish family tree draws itself from the records you already keep — households, godparents, and degrees of kinship, with a canonical reading to consult before a wedding.
The calendar gathers the day for you — the service, the readings, the fast, and the commemorations — drawn from your jurisdiction and calendar, in one place.
Face ID and Touch ID sign-in, with an email-code fallback — quiet, modern security that respects a busy priest's time.
A second, member-facing app: the whole parish in every pocket, with ministries to join, a directory, giving at a glance, and a way to make sure every request gets an answer.
A permanent, confidential record for the deeply sensitive things a future priest must know — encrypted for the rector and opened in Symphonia by him alone, never by staff and never in a support session.
One person from the first hello to reception — visitor to inquirer to catechumen to member as a single record, with the catechumenate, families, and godparents kept as one.
Fund accounting built for a parish: a chart of accounts, giving that posts itself to the ledger, bank reconciliation, and books a treasurer can hand an auditor.
Every part of the back office rebuilt for the phone — real mobile surfaces a priest can read and work from anywhere, not a desktop screen squeezed small.
Documents, shared drives, and office editing for the whole parish — the day-to-day paperwork of parish life, organised and in one place.
Symphonia went live for its first parish: a private, encrypted home of its own, one unified studio, and the first records kept in the Church's own vocabulary.
A conviction that an Orthodox parish deserved software built in its own vocabulary — the calendar, the sacraments, the Fathers — rather than a general tool bent to fit. The work began with listening: how parishes actually keep their records, their people, and their year.
Months at the drawing board: studies of the parish studio, the sacramental register, and the calendar — the shape of a system that starts where a parish starts. Much of how Symphonia looks and feels was settled long before it shipped.
Working prototypes put in front of priests, and reshaped by what they said — the flows, and the model behind the pastoral spine, the relationships graph, and the liturgical calendar, reworked until they fit parish life rather than the other way around.
The studio shell, sign-in, and the first real records — the foundation the beta would grow from. Everything from here on is in the release history below.