Dawnstone: Daily Stoic

Dongjun Kim

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About this app

Dawnstone places a single Stoic passage on your lock screen each morning — a quiet line from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, or Epictetus, gently modernized from public-domain translations. One card a day, then nothing. No feed, no streaks, no notifications begging to be cleared.

Begin the day with one good thought instead of a hundred distractions.

WHAT YOU GET
• NEW — One Line: each passage now comes with one question. Answer it in a line; your lines stay on your phone
• A daily Stoic quote on a home-screen widget and on your lock screen
• A lock-screen wallpaper you can set in a single tap, refreshed with today's passage
• A calm daily reminder at a time you choose
• 1,277 curated passages from the Stoics — Marcus Aurelius's Meditations, Seneca's letters, and Epictetus
• Light and dark themes, built around a quiet gradient and a serif you can actually read

WHY DAWNSTONE
Most Stoic quote apps are loud — ads, streaks, endless feeds. Dawnstone is the opposite: one Stoic passage, quietly, once a day. It is a daily reading ritual from classic philosophy, not another app fighting for your attention.

DAWNSTONE PRO
The core reader and the lock-screen wallpaper are free. Pro adds:
• The original translations of each passage ("Origin")
• Four wallpaper themes
• Larger home-screen widgets
• A follow-up question after your line, every day (free for your first week)
• Up to four daily reminders, each filtered by mood

Available as a monthly or annual subscription, or a one-time lifetime unlock.

Stoicism is a 2,000-year-old practice for staying calm, clear, and steady under pressure. Dawnstone brings one piece of Stoic philosophy to your screen each morning — daily wisdom from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, and Epictetus, in the quietest way possible.

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What’s new

Dawnstone now asks you once, gently, whether you'd like today's passage as a quiet notification each morning. You can change the time or turn it off anytime in Settings. Also: small wording fixes in Portuguese and German.