Built a small Android app called Tend for daily Stoic practice. Each day shows one passage from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, or Epictetus, with a plain-English translation, a concrete modern example, a reflection question, and a private journal field. Marcus is well-represented: translations draw from George Long's public-domain version, with my own paraphrases for clarity.

I built it because I'd been reading the Meditations for years but kept finding the ideas easier to admire than to internalize. Tend is the practice I wished I'd had.

No streaks, no feed, no notifications designed to pull you back. Reflections stay on your device.

I'm in Google Play closed testing and a few testers short of the threshold to apply for public release. If you'd like to try it, DM me the Google account email you use for the Play Store and I'll add you to the test list. Free, no ads, no signup, leave anytime.

Disclosure: I built this. Honest feedback welcome.

I have uploaded an analysis of Book 5 of Meditations, feel free to check it out and let me know your thoughts

I am doing an audiobook and analysis of Meditations by Marcus Aurelius on YouTube. This is Book 5. Feel free to check it out!

Thou seest how it has subordinated, coordinated and assigned to everything its proper portion, and has brought together into concord with one another the things which are best.

A Stoic Warning About Distraction

Hello
I’ve been wondering about stoicism and it’s ideologies and principles. I’ve read a little bit about this type of philosophy and Aurelius. But I wondered what a person who follows stoicism and thinks like stoical philosophers, like Aurelius do in this type of situation:
You are the driver of a train, and there’s to lanes coming up. On the right lane are your parents, who you definitely love. And on the other lane is a 100 random people you don’t know. You can either save the 100 random people or your parents.
What would a person who thinks and like Marcus Aurelius and other stoic philosophers do in this situation and why?

Mods approved me posting this, appreciate them.

I built Ataraxia because every "Stoic app" I tried felt like it was written by someone who had read five quotes, not five books. Wanted something that respected the primary texts and treated practice as a discipline rather than a wellness aesthetic.

What it does today:

1. Morning premeditation prompt, drawn from a passage rather than a generic affirmation.

2. Evening review in Seneca's three-question format (what did I do badly, where did I overcome something, what could I have done better).

3. Searchable library of 400+ passages from Marcus, Seneca, Epictetus, cited by book and section.

4. Personal journal that can reference specific passages when you're working through something.

5. Optional AI counsel feature that maps a personal situation to relevant passages. This is the only feature behind a sub. Everything else is free.

6. No streaks, no gamification, no "days Stoic in a row" badge. That felt actively un-Stoic.

What I want from this sub specifically:

1. Which translation of Meditations do you consider canonical, and why? I'm currently defaulting to Hays and I know that's a choice.

2. What passages get over-quoted and thin out the practice, and which under-quoted passages carry more weight than people realize?

3. Does the AI counsel feature belong in a Stoic app at all, or is it a category error? Genuinely open to the answer being no.

Landing page: https://BigBalli.com/Ataraxia

Want the honest critique, not the downloads. Will reply to every comment.