New features, improvements, and fixes — roughly in the order they shipped.
A free iPhone and iPad app that connects wirelessly to a nearby Apple TV running LightLoop. No account required — connection happens automatically over your local network using Apple's Multipeer Connectivity framework.
Control Mode — browse all playlists, tap any item to trigger it on the Apple TV, and monitor a live 16:9 preview of the TV output. Song items expand inline to show all lyric slides; Bible items expand verse by verse. A timeline scrubber handles video and audio seeking.
Stage Mode — a large-text confidence display for worship leaders and speakers. The current slide fills the top of the screen; the next slide or item is previewed below. Navigation via tap zones, swipe, or Bluetooth page-turner.
Bible items now display their configured background image as a thumbnail in the Apple TV playlist grid, consistent with Song items. Previously Bible cards showed a generic placeholder icon.
A new media type purpose-built for worship lyrics. Create a song in the web-based Song Editor — type your slides, link an audio track and background, then record timing markers in real time. Lyrics cross-dissolve on your Apple TV in perfect sync with the music.
Full style controls: font family (Google Fonts), size, weight, italic, all-caps, color, alignment, vertical alignment, drop shadow, text stroke, and a text background color/opacity for contrast over busy visuals. Requires Apple TV app version 1.1+.
An interactive waveform timeline for fine-tuning lyric timing markers. Drag orange handles directly on the audio waveform, zoom from overview to sample-level detail across 5 zoom levels, select a marker and nudge with arrow keys at ¹⁄₃₀ s (33 ms) steps, and watch a live slide preview with cross-dissolve transitions as you scrub.
Song style settings now include a text background color and opacity. Adds a colored panel behind lyric text — useful for readability over high-contrast or motion-heavy background visuals.
A new media type that renders a full-screen birthday roster on your Apple TVs — automatically. Connect to a PCO Check-Ins event and LightLoop finds everyone in that event whose birthday falls this week or this month. Choose portrait or landscape, show or hide avatars/age/birthdate, pick a Dark or Light theme, and optionally upload a custom background image.
For Kidddo users, birthday data accumulates as children check in via webhook — no PCO account required. When a child with a birthday this week checks in, the slide re-renders and updates on screen within seconds. Choose a Dark or Light theme overlay that works with your background.
LightLoop now supports instant Welcome Party triggers via Kidddo's webhook system. Unlike polling-based approaches, the webhook fires the moment a child checks in — no delay, no polling interval. Set it up by generating a webhook URL in LightLoop and pasting it into Kidddo → Settings → Printers → Webhook.
Replaced the old drop zone in the playlist editor with a proper "Add Media" modal — searchable grid of all your media, sorted by most recently added, with multi-select and bulk-add. Select one or many items and click "Add Items" to append them to the playlist in one shot.
Clicking the ✕ to remove an item from a playlist now hides it immediately rather than waiting for the server response. If the request fails, the item reappears with an error toast. Makes the playlist editor feel noticeably snappier.
A new display type that shows a live roster of who's checked in via Planning Center — updated in real time. Great for hallway TVs and volunteer stations where staff need to see who's in the building at a glance.
Lobby and hallway TVs can now display today's schedule pulled live from Planning Center — service times, events, and room assignments. Automatically refreshes throughout the day. No manual updates needed.
Individual playlist items can now trigger a specific soundtrack when they appear on screen — not just the playlist-wide soundtrack. Configure an action soundtrack per item in the web dashboard. On Apple TV, the player only restarts if the triggered soundtrack is different from what's already playing.
Assign a music playlist to any content playlist. LightLoop will play it on loop in the background while the Apple TV displays your slides and videos. Controls for volume, shuffle, and loop are in the playlist settings panel.
Set a countdown on any playlist — when time expires, LightLoop automatically transitions to the next playlist. Combine with a background soundtrack and a looping slide deck for a complete pre-service experience that runs itself.
LightLoop's Welcome Party feature now works with Planning Center Check-Ins. When a child checks in via PCO, a full-screen celebration with their name appears on every Apple TV in the room — automatically, within about a second of check-in.
The Apple TV app now pre-caches all playlist media in the background so screens keep playing even if your internet connection drops. Media updates sync automatically when connectivity returns — no manual refresh needed.
Connect a Google Drive folder to LightLoop and its contents become a live media source. Add or remove files from the folder and LightLoop picks up the changes automatically — no re-importing, no re-linking.