One Stoic passage a day — and where it actually comes from.
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, read in public-domain translations. Every passage carries its canonical reference, never an orphan line. On your Home Screen, your Lock Screen, and in StandBy.
No account. No tracking. Works in airplane mode.
Men seek retreats for themselves: houses in the country, seashores, mountains. Yet it is in your power, whenever you choose, to retire into yourself. Nowhere can a man find a retreat more quiet or more free of trouble than his own soul.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 3
The difference
Every passage carries its reference.
Meditations, IV, 3 — book and section, not just a famous name. Quote apps are full of lines that were never written by the person credited. Here, the reference is part of the composition on every surface: full screen, every widget size, the daily notification, the share image. If the reference will not fit, the passage changes — the reference never drops.
- Author, work and locator on every surface.
- Public-domain editions, credited by name.
- No truncation, ever — short surfaces draw from short passages.
Do not demand that events happen as you wish. Wish them to happen as they do happen, and your life will flow well.
— EPICTETUS · ENCHIRIDION, VIII
Widgets
Built for the Home Screen first.
All WidgetKit families: small, medium and large on the Home Screen, rectangular, inline and circular on the Lock Screen, and a dedicated StandBy composition. One entry a day, refreshed at midnight, computed on device. Every widget is free — including in tinted and monochrome rendering, because the hierarchy never relies on colour.
- The canonical reference fits even in the small size.
- Legible in tinted (iOS 18) and monochrome rendering.
- All widgets free, in every family.
We suffer more often in imagination than in reality.
— LETTERS 13
The best revenge is not to become like the one who wronged you.
— MEDITATIONS VI, 6
Offline and private
The whole library ships inside the app.
There is no server to sign in to, because there is no server. The corpus is embedded in the binary, so the app is complete on first launch and in airplane mode. Your favourites, language and theme stay on your iPhone.
- No account, no sign-up, no email required.
- No analytics, no advertising, no profiling.
- Anonymous requests only: the corpus update, and validating a subscription.
Errata: the embedded corpus holds 153 passages from 3 authors, published as a versioned static file. The app compares a version number and merges the delta — no identifier is ever sent.
What you get
Three authors
Marcus Aurelius, Seneca and Epictetus — the Meditations, the Letters to Lucilius, the Enchiridion and the Discourses.
Verified translations
Public-domain editions only, modernized for readability and credited edition by edition.
Unlimited favourites, free
Keep as many passages as you like. No quota, no counter, no upsell on your own reading.
Coming to the App Store.
Stoïque is in development. The daily passage, all widgets, unlimited favourites, the daily notification and both Paper and Ink themes are free. Stoïque+ adds the Seneca and Epictetus corpora, search by life theme, six more themes and alternate icons.