Ever finish a Bible study session with scattered notes you will never find again? Harvous is a Bible notes app that gives your study a home. Type a reference and it becomes a tappable pill with the Scripture text, connect related notes into threads, and open a passage to read it with every note you have written on it marked in the margin.^1
Harvous is a notes app first, with Scripture built in. It supports 15 English translations, including four Catholic editions, and a Catholic Bible view with all 73 books and the daily Gospel. You can start notes from templates such as SOAP or a sermon outline, compare two translations side by side, scan a page into a note, and use Easton's dictionary, cross-references, a Daily Passage, and a map of where you have studied. Suggestions quietly brings back a note or highlight you have not seen in a while. The app works offline and syncs when you reconnect, your notes are private unless you share a link, and personal notes can be locked with a PIN.^1
Created by Derek Castelli, a Christian designer and believer since 2016 who felt a calling centered around Proverbs 25:2. He built Harvous because his highlights lived in one app, his notes in another, and his best notes on paper he no longer has. He runs the project under Testament Made LLC and also created Here's My Church, an interactive map of U.S. churches.^1^3
Shared Spaces give a group or class a room of its own, and joining is always free. An invite-only church education platform lets pastors build teaching plans per ministry, create multi-week sermon series, and publish curriculum to congregants, including review questions where staff only see how many people answered. A church never sees who wrote what, or whether anyone wrote at all.^1
Harvous is open source, with every line of the app on GitHub.^1 Harvous itself does not use AI to write or change your notes. With Harvous Plus, an optional Connector lets an AI app you choose, such as Claude or ChatGPT, read your notes to answer your questions; it can never change them, and it stays off until you connect an app.^5
Why Christians love it:
"Harvous is simple and efficient compared to other apps I've tried." - Teaella^1
"What I love most about the app is the Bible reader and how the notes taken are unobtrusive." - Yeish^1
"This is one of the most beautiful pieces of software I've used recently." - Joschua^1
Platforms: Web on any modern browser, with add-to-homescreen for mobile. Mac, iPad, and iPhone apps are coming later.^1 Pricing: Free for personal study, with an optional Harvous Plus subscription for unlimited history, review exercises, Shared Spaces hosting, Connector, and family sharing. See the pricing page for current plan details.^5
