Senny: Philosophy & Meditation
GREGORY RAKOVSKY Health & Fitness iPhoneiPadiPod touchApple Watch
Senny: Philosophy & Meditation is a free Health & Fitness app for iPhone and iPad by GREGORY RAKOVSKY. Rated 5.0/5 from 9 ratings. Requires iOS 17.0.
- Rating
- 5.0
- 9 ratings
- Price
- Free
- on the App Store
- Size
- 22 MB
- Age 4+
- Updated
- Sep 11
- 2026 · v1.3
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About Senny: Philosophy & Meditation
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.
Ratings & reviews
5.0
9 ratings
What’s new
Version 1.3 · Updated September 11, 2026
**Reminders on your terms.** Four of them now, each with its own switch and its own time: the morning One Thing, a quote whenever you want one, an evening nudge to write, and a Sunday recap of the week. Three of the four arrive switched off, because an update that quietly starts sending you three new notifications is exactly the sort of thing this app is meant not to do. Turn on the ones you want, at the hour you want them. **Find the passage you're thinking of.** The library has a search field. Look for a philosopher, a tradition, a mood, or half a remembered line — "stoic", "anger", "the obstacle" — and it will find it across every reading and every quote. It forgives a typo and it doesn't mind about accents. **And keep the ones that landed.** Tap the heart on any passage or line and it goes into Kept, in the library. Works with no signal, because the heart fills before anything is saved. **A great deal more to read.** 402 quotes from 23 writers, up from 117 from 14, and 98 readings. Montaigne joins, along with Alfred Adler, and Cicero, Plutarch, Boethius, Chuang Tzu and the Havamal all have considerably more to say than they did. Every line is checked word for word against the original — no quote-website misattributions, and no Marcus Aurelius saying things Marcus Aurelius never said. **Today tells you what you're about to read.** The day's passage now leads the screen and arrives with its title and its author, instead of sitting at the bottom promising two minutes with someone unnamed. If you've already told Senny your One Thing, that still comes first — a promise you made outranks an invitation he's making. Also: sits you do on the watch now count toward your streak, which they embarrassingly didn't; sharing from a milestone sends the picture of your sanctuary rather than a description of it; and Senny himself, standing on the porch at stage ten, is no longer a small white shape that looked rather like a hole in the temple.
App privacy
The developer, GREGORY RAKOVSKY, reported these privacy practices to Apple.
Data Not Linked to You
The following data, which may be collected but is not linked to your identity, may be used for the following purposes:
- Usage Data: Product Interaction
- Identifiers: User ID
- Diagnostics: Other Diagnostic Data
- User Content: Other User Content
Used for: Analytics, App Functionality, Other Purposes
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