The painted porch, in your pocket.
What Pocket Stoa is.
Pocket Stoa is a daily practice for people who’d rather think than scroll. Five ways to sharpen your judgment — plus a shelf of shorter practices — in one calm, beautifully typeset app. No ads, no tracking, no dark patterns.
The five modes
- Today’s Dilemma — a fresh moral problem each day, with commentary from the philosophers who’d disagree about it.
- Find Your School — a 15-question map of how you actually reason, from the Stoics to the Existentialists.
- The Trolley — swipe through ethical dilemmas that grow stranger, each teaching the framework behind your gut reaction.
- Socratic Dialogue — spar with an interlocutor who makes you earn every concession. The one place the app uses AI, clearly labeled.
- The Last Day — a short interactive life you walk one choice at a time, then meet who those choices made you.
Practices
The Examen (a nightly reflection), Thought Experiments, Who Said It?, a Daily Maxim, and a Library for the lines worth keeping.
Why it’s different
- Human-authored content — the one AI feature is labeled as such.
- Private by design. Delete everything in one tap.
- Works offline.
- Honest, no-trap subscription pricing.
Free to use, with an optional Pro tier.