Ikigai Daily: Fun Facts & Art

Discover something surprising every day. Ikigai Daily brings you fun facts and true stories from history, science, nature and art, set on beautiful paintings made for the app. Did you know that the Statue of Liberty was copper brown before it turned green? Or that someone who saw the first aeroplane could have watched the Moon landing? Ikigai Daily is full of true things like these, and almost every card comes with the story behind it. Many cards are about people: a teenager in Malawi who built a windmill from scrap and lit his family's home, or an artist who painted lions by firelight in a cave around 36,000 years ago. THINGS WORTH KNOWING • Read about 2,000 illustrated cards: facts, true stories, quotes, proverbs and reflections. • Enjoy over 350 quotes and over 100 proverbs from more than 20 cultures. • Explore 10 subjects, from history and science to art and language. • Every card has a picture, including over 400 paintings made for Ikigai Daily with AI image tools. A FEW OF OUR FAVOURITE CARDS • A king penguin at Edinburgh Zoo is an honorary major general of Norway's King's Guard. • Flamingos are not born pink. They turn pink from what they eat. • Saturn is less dense than water, so it would float in a big enough bath. • The internet's first message crashed the system after two letters. • A ship sank in Antarctic ice, and all 28 men came home. • Japanese has a word for buying books and letting them pile up unread. THE STORY BEHIND THE CARD Tap Info to read the story behind a fact, a person or an idea. Most cards link to Wikipedia, so you can keep reading. YOUR DAILY CARDS • Choose 1 to 10 cards a day. Three is the default. • Swipe up for the next card, and pull down to bring the last one back. • Read a short card in each notification. Choose every day, weekdays or weekends, with up to 8 alerts a day. • Notifications repeat weekly and refresh when you open the app. WIDGETS • See the day's card on your Home Screen and Lock Screen with widgets. • Add two widgets and set each one to a different card of the day. YOUR LIBRARY • When you finish today's cards, the Library is ready whenever you want more. • Browse by topic, search cards or authors, show only your favourites, or shuffle for a surprise. MORE OF WHAT YOU LOVE • Choose your subjects and card types: facts, stories, quotes, proverbs and reflections. • Favourite a card to see more like it. • Tap Show less to hide a card and see fewer like it. You can undo it or restore it later in Settings. • Cards about religion and belief stay off unless you choose them. • The app learns what you like on your iPhone, with no account. MAKE IT YOURS AND SHARE IT • Write your own words on one of the app's paintings and keep it in My Cards. • Save any card as a vertical image to share with friends or use as your wallpaper. COMFORTABLE TO READ • The app follows your iPhone's Light or Dark setting, or you can choose one yourself. • Choose a larger card text size in Settings. • Read in English or Turkish, and switch at any time. • Your cards work offline. WHY IKIGAI Ikigai is the Japanese word for what makes your days worth living. In Japan it is usually something small and ordinary, like a garden, a grandchild or the walk to the shop. A true story you read in the morning can be one of those things. Read at your own pace. There are no streaks, quizzes or goals to keep up with. NO ACCOUNT AND NO SUBSCRIPTION Ikigai Daily is free to download and supported by ads. • A banner sits at the bottom of the screen. Full-screen ads appear between screens, at least six cards and two minutes apart, up to five times a day. • Once a month, readers with ads also see one card for Documni (software in development), our document app, at the end of Today. It is marked AD, and Show less stops it. • One Remove Ads purchase turns off the banner, full-screen ads and the monthly Documni card. • Your reading history stays on your iPhone. Download Ikigai Daily and find something surprising today.