The Examined Day

A Stoic practice, not a quote feed. Prepare at dawn, review by lamplight, and let the app change with the hour. One purchase, yours forever. No subscription.

Most "Stoic" apps hand you a quote and walk away. The Examined Day gives you the practice the Stoics actually kept: a short ritual at the start and end of each day.

In the morning you read a passage, set one intention, name the hard thing that may come, and sort what is yours to control from what is not. At night you sit with Seneca's three questions: what did I do badly, what did I do well, what could I do better.

The whole app changes with the hour it is opened. Cool first light in the morning, lamplight and indigo at night. It is a small thing, and it makes the ritual feel like the time of day it belongs to.

FREE, FOREVER

• A new passage every morning and night, drawn from the Stoics
• The full morning preparation and evening review
• A gentle streak that forgives a missed day
• Two optional daily reminders

THE FULL PRACTICE (one-time unlock)

• The complete works to read: the Meditations, the Enchiridion, and Seneca, fully searchable
• Practice tools: Dichotomy of Control, View From Above, and Memento Mori
• Themed tracks for grief, anger, discipline, and mortality
• Your full journal, searchable and exportable
• A Home and Lock Screen widget with the reading for the hour

WHY ONE PURCHASE, NOT A SUBSCRIPTION The value here is the practice and your own reflections, not an endless feed you have to keep paying for. So it is a single purchase, yours forever, on every device. Charging a monthly fee for Stoicism felt like missing the point.

PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account. No login. No tracking. Everything you write stays on your device.

Every quoted text is from a public-domain translation.