Taoist Diary
A meditation every morning
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases
iPhone
One meditation each morning, and ten complete works to read in full. The daily meditation, the books, and the tales can also be heard, narrated, with the subscription.
Taoist Diary is a quiet reading app. One meditation arrives each morning — a short passage from the Taoist, Buddhist and Stoic traditions, with a line to carry into the day.
THE DAILY MEDITATION
Three hundred and sixty-five mornings, each one built the same way: a title, a line from the source, a short reflection, and the name of the text it came from. Nothing to scroll through, nothing to catch up on. One day at a time.
THE SHELF
Ten complete works, in public-domain translations, free to read:
• Tao Te Ching — Laozi
• Zhuangzi — Zhuang Zhou
• The Four Lesser Classics — Taoist canon
• Actions and their Retributions — Anonymous, Sung dynasty
• The Classic of Filial Piety — attributed to Confucius and Zang-tze
• The Dhammapada — the Buddhist canon
• The Sutta-Nipata — the Buddhist canon
• Meditations — Marcus Aurelius
• The Discourses of Epictetus
• The Encheiridion — Epictetus
You can read every one of them without paying anything, and without an internet connection once the app is installed.
THE TALES
Fifty-eight parables, retold from named sources across eight traditions — Taoist, Buddhist, Chinese, Greek, Indian, Sufi, Stoic and Zen. One arrives each week. Every tale names the work it came from; none of them were invented for this app.
LISTENING
Everything above can be heard as well as read: the daily meditation, nine of the ten books, and the tales, narrated. There is background music you can leave on underneath, or turn off.
Listening is the part that costs. Reading is not.
WHAT IS FREE, AND WHAT IS NOT
Reading is free — the daily meditation and all ten books, always. Listening is a subscription: US$1.99 per month or US$19.99 per year, with seven days free before anything is charged.
Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the end of that period. You can manage the subscription and turn off auto-renewal in your Apple Account settings after purchase.
Terms of Use: https://app.taoistdiary.com/terms
Privacy Policy: https://app.taoistdiary.com/privacy
YOUR ACCOUNT
An account keeps your place in each book and carries your subscription between your phone and the web. You can delete it, and everything in it, from inside the app: Profile → Delete account.
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Information
- Seller
- Solomon Interactive LLC
- Size
- 21.8 MB
- Category
- Books
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 15.0 or later. - iPod touch
Requires iOS 15.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
13+
- 13+
- Infrequent
Realistic Violence
Alcohol, Tobacco, Drug Use or References
Guns or Other Weapons
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Yearly Listening $19.99
- Monthly Listening $1.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Solomon Interactive LLC