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The Bible, and everything you study beside it.

Carrell is a very fast, beautifully typeset Bible reader for Mac, Linux and iPhone. Your notes, highlights, recorded sermons and photos of the pages you study live beside the verses they belong to, and Ask answers your questions from them and from Scripture.

Download Carrell Get the iPhone beta Free to start. Pro when you want more.
Carrell on the Mac, reading John 1 in the King James Version with highlighted verses, a bookmark and a note Psalm 23 in the Berean Standard Bible, in the warm Paper theme Psalm 1 in the KJV, WEB and BSB side by side Romans 8 with the note on verse 28 open and the Study sidebar listing highlights
Carrell on iPhone: Psalm 23 with two verses highlighted and notes in the margin

Real screenshots. Type a reference and the page is already there.

Read

Typeset for reading, not for scrolling past.

Carrell sets Scripture the way a good printed Bible does: Literata at a comfortable measure, superscript verse numbers, poetry with hanging indents, Lord in small capitals, and the words of Christ in red if you want them. Paragraphs or verse per line, light, sepia or dark.

  • Seven translations built in. KJV, WEB, BSB, ASV, YLT, Darby and Webster, side by side in parallel columns. Import others you own.
  • Compare any verse across every translation at once.
  • Remembers where you were, on every device.

Psalms

Psalm 23

A Psalm of David.

1The Lord is my shepherd;

I shall not want.

2He maketh me to lie down in green pastures:

he leadeth me beside the still waters.

3He restoreth my soul:

he leadeth me in the paths of righteousness for his name’s sake.

28Come unto me, all ye that labour and are heavy laden, and I will give you rest. — Matthew 11, KJV

Fast

Faster than turning a page.

Carrell is a native app written in Rust, not a web page in a window. The first frame already shows the text, and search covers the whole Bible as you type.

~15 msof work to show the first page, on top of opening the window.
< 2 msto search all 66 books; most queries take well under one.
1,189chapters in one continuous scroll. Only what is on screen is ever typeset.
⌘K jump anywhere ⌘F search ←→ turn chapters 1–6 highlight
Searching for “love one another” on the Mac: 19 verses, with the matches highlighted

Scroll

Or scroll, one verse at a time.

Turn on scroll mode on iPhone and the Bible becomes a feed of single verses, each with the screen to itself. Swipe up for the next, through the end of the chapter and on into the one after.

  • Everything you keep comes along. Highlights, bookmarks and the words of Christ in red.
  • Tap a verse to highlight it, write a note or ask about it, as in the chapter.
Scroll mode on iPhone: John 3:16 alone on the screen, the words of Christ in red
Scroll mode on iPhone: Psalm 23:1, highlighted yellow

Keep

Everything you study, filed under the verse it belongs to.

Write a note as you read. Record Sunday’s sermon and get it transcribed. Photograph your handwritten notes, the slides, or a page of a commentary and circle what matters. Carrell reads them and links each one to the verses it mentions, so they show up in the margin the next time you open that chapter.

Library on iPhone: notes, a recorded sermon and a photographed page, each linked to its verse

Notes and highlights

Six highlight colours, notes in the margin, bookmarks. Export to Markdown or JSON whenever you like.

Recording a sermon on iPhone while reading Psalm 23

Sermons

Record on your phone. Carrell transcribes it, finds the passages the preacher read, and outlines it.

Saving a photo of a printed Psalms page, anchored to Psalm 23:1

Photos of pages

Handwriting, slides and book pages, read and searchable, with your circles kept.

Ask

Questions answered from Scripture and your own library.

Ask reads the Bible and what you have kept: your notes, the sermons you recorded, the pages you photographed. Every answer cites its sources, so you can open the verse or the note and check it.

  • Sources you can tap. Verses open in the reader; notes and sermons open where you kept them.
  • Your library is not training data. We don’t sell it, show ads, or train models on it.
  • A starting point, not a pastor. Check answers against Scripture and the sources cited.
Ask on iPhone answering why David fears no evil in Psalm 23:4, citing Psalm 23:4, Psalm 23:1, Isaiah 41:10 and Psalm 118:6
John 3:16 selected on iPhone, with highlight colours and Save, Note and Ask

Everywhere

On your desk, in your pocket, at church.

One Carrell account keeps your library in sync. Reading needs no connection once you’re signed in, and everything you keep stays exportable.

Open it. The page is already there.

Carrell is free to download and free to use. Pro adds more questions, sermon transcripts, photos and storage.

Download Carrell Get the iPhone beta See pricing