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.
People seek retreats for themselves: houses in the country, the shore, the mountains. You too long for such things. But that is the mark of the most ordinary of men, since you may withdraw into yourself whenever you choose. Nowhere can a man withdraw more quietly, or more free of trouble, than into 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.
- Work and locator on every surface; the author too wherever the room allows.
- Public-domain editions, credited by name.
- No truncation, ever — short surfaces draw from short passages.
Be like the headland on which the waves keep breaking: it holds firm, and tames the fury of the water around it.
— MARCUS AURELIUS · MEDITATIONS, IV, 49
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 color.
- The canonical reference fits even in the small size.
- Legible in tinted (iOS 18) and monochrome rendering.
- All widgets free, in every family.
Look within. The spring of good is inside, and it will keep rising if you keep digging.
— MEDITATIONS VII, 59
The finest way of avenging yourself is not to become like the one who wronged you.
— MEDITATIONS VI, 6
Offline and private
The whole library ships inside the app.
The corpus is embedded in the binary, so the app is complete on first launch and in airplane mode — nothing to sign in to, nothing to download before you can read. Your favorites, language and theme stay on your iPhone.
- No account, no sign-up, no email required.
- No analytics, no advertising, no profiling.
- Two reasons to use the network: corrections to the texts, and validating a subscription.
Errata: the embedded corpus holds 376 passages from 3 authors. The app compares a version number and downloads a correction only when one exists, through an Apple App Attest check that proves the copy is genuine and identifies no one.
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 favorites, free
Keep as many passages as you like. No quota, no counter, no upsell on your own reading.
Now on the App Store.
Stoïque is available on the App Store. The daily passage, all widgets, unlimited favorites, the daily notification and both Paper and Ink themes are free. Stoic+ adds the Seneca and Epictetus corpora, the whole of the life-theme search — three of the twelve themes are free — six more themes and alternate icons.