Senny
Your personal philosopher
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Now on Apple Watch and iPad. Sit with the screen off and your arm down, breathe by feel, and take one passage a day — guided by a philosopher with jokes.
Senny is a free, all-in-one daily practice app with a personality: a friendly philosopher who read all the ancients so you don't have to.
Every day, Senny walks you through one short routine — about ten minutes:
• BREATHE — guided patterns (box breathing, 4-7-8, physiological sigh, coherent breathing) with a calm animated pacer
• SIT — an unguided meditation timer with optional interval bells and Apple Health mindful minutes; the bell still reaches you when the screen is off
• READ — a short passage from Marcus Aurelius, Seneca, Epictetus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, the Dhammapada, the Bhagavad Gita, Emerson, Thoreau, Nietzsche, William James and more, set up in plain modern English
• ONE THING — name the day's most important task, and Senny checks in (gently) until it's done
• JOURNAL — evening pages that pick up the morning reading's question
THE SANCTUARY Your practice builds something you can see: a stone sanctuary that rises one stone per active day. Miss a day? Nothing falls. The light dims to dusk and a lamp stays lit — come back, and the first stone brings the dawn. No guilt, ever. Streak insurance is earned by practicing, never sold.
TWELVE TRADITIONS, EVERY LINE VERIFIED Stoicism, Epicureanism, Aristotle, the Cynics, Boethius, Taoism, Confucianism, Buddhism, Hinduism, Transcendentalism, Existentialism and Psychology — over a hundred quotes and nearly ninety readings, each verified word-for-word against the cited public-domain translations. No misattributed internet quotes. Ever.
FREE MEANS FREE No subscription. No ads. No locked content. No account, no email, no sign-up — the app just works, offline too. If it helps you, there's a tip jar. Tips buy Senny figs; they unlock nothing.
YOUR DATA IS YOURS Journals and letters are private, never read, never sold. Export everything as plain text or delete it all, any time, from Settings.
Ancient wisdom, modern jokes, zero guilt. Senny is the philosopher friend you didn't know you needed.
Senny is on your wrist.
Sit or breathe from the watch, with the screen off and your arm down — the whole point of a watch app, and the reason this one exists. A tap starts you, a tap tells you when you're done, and nothing on that screen asks for your attention in between. Your sanctuary, your streak and the day's reading are all there too, and it keeps working with your phone in another room. Mindful minutes go straight to Apple Health.
And Senny fits your iPad.
Not a phone app stretched to fill the space. The day's passage sits beside your cards instead of behind them, the library gets a proper sidebar, and the sanctuary finally has room to be looked at. Bring a keyboard and the shortcuts are there. Still three cards a day, though — a path, not a menu, whatever the size of the screen.
Breathing you can follow with your eyes shut.
The inhale is now a small series of taps rather than one, so you can feel how far through it you are instead of guessing.
Readings stop repeating themselves.
Each week's passages are dealt out so that every one gets its turn before any comes round again. Previously the same reading could land two or three days running, which rather undercut the idea of a daily one.
A minute is a real sit.
The watch offers one-minute sits, because a minute of deliberate breathing while the kettle boils is a genuine thing to want. It won't move your streak — three minutes still does that — and Senny says so once, without making a thing of it.
Also: the calendar and the streak stopped occasionally disagreeing about which days you practiced, and Senny no longer congratulates you on sitting still when you were breathing.
The developer, GREGORY RAKOVSKY, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- User Content
- Identifiers
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- GREGORY RAKOVSKY
- Size
- 22.1 MB
- Category
- Health & Fitness
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- English
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- The whole fig tree $9.99
- A basket of figs $2.99
- A fig for Senny $0.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Gregory Rakovsky
