The app
Stoic Practice for iPhone.
An app for doing Stoicism every day: a verified passage each morning with a plain-English explanation and one practice, guided exercises for hard moments, and an evening examination. The daily practice is free. There is no account, and nothing you write leaves your phone.
The Stoic day
What you do each day.
I · Morning
Prepare
Each morning brings one passage from Marcus Aurelius, Epictetus or Seneca, its source, a plain-English explanation and one thing to practice that day. A reminder comes at the time you choose.
II · Whenever it gets hard
Respond
I Need Perspective is one tap from Today. Pick what is happening and work through a few short steps: what happened, what you are adding to it, what is up to you, and one concrete next action.
III · Evening
Examine
Five questions before sleep, in the order Seneca describes: what went well, what to do better, what outside your control disturbed you, which virtues you practiced, and what you will do tomorrow.
IV · Tomorrow
Repeat
Tomorrow’s Today screen shows what you resolved last night. Your journal keeps every reflection you choose to save, on your iPhone.
Free and Premium
A complete daily practice, free.
Premium is for the full guided morning, every exercise and practice, and the archive: $6.99/month or $39.99/year in the U.S. There is no trial, no ads and no account, and your journal is never locked.
| Feature | Free | Premium |
|---|---|---|
| Daily teaching: passage, In Plain English, Today’s Practice | Every day | Every day |
| Guided Morning Practice with Going Deeper, reflection and intention | — | Every day |
| I Need Perspective exercises | 3 (Anger, Worry, Outside My Control) | All 12 |
| Practice Library with Try It Now | 3 (Dichotomy of Control, Four Virtues, Evening Examination) | All 12 |
| Evening Examination | Every night | Every night |
| Archive of past days | — | All 365 |
| Journal, reminders, backup and restore | Yes | Yes |
The 365-day path
Thirteen units, one day at a time.
Everyone starts at Day 1, with Epictetus’s first lesson, and the app keeps your place. Each unit gathers about four weeks of passages around one theme.
- IWhat Is Up to UsDays 1–28
- IIImpressions and JudgmentDays 29–56
- IIIWisdomDays 57–84
- IVCourage and AdversityDays 85–112
- VJustice and Shared HumanityDays 113–140
- VITemperance and SimplicityDays 141–168
- VIITime and the PresentDays 169–196
- VIIIAnger and the PassionsDays 197–224
- IXAcceptance and FateDays 225–252
- XMortality and ChangeDays 253–280
- XIRoles, Duty and WorkDays 281–308
- XIITranquility and FreedomDays 309–336
- XIIIPractice and ProgressDays 337–365
What you can count on
Real sources. Private by design.
Sources you can check
322 of the 365 daily passages are exact excerpts of public-domain translations, checked word for word against the digitized text, with book, section, translator and year. The other 43 are labeled paraphrases. How we source the Stoics.
Nothing leaves your phone
No account, no server and no analytics. The App Store privacy label is Data Not Collected. The app works offline, and Export Backup saves your journal to a file you control. Privacy policy.
What it isn’t
Not therapy, not meditation audio, not a feed of motivational quotes, and no chatbot: every passage is a checked translation and every exercise is a fixed set of steps you can see.
Try it here first
The free tools run in your browser.
The same free exercises and the evening review work on this site, with nothing saved or sent.