Buddhism: Daily Dharma

Meditation & Daily Reflection · for iPhone

A small daily practice grounded in early Buddhist texts. Each day gives you one short passage to read, one brief sit, one concrete thing to try in your day, and one question to reflect on in the evening. No feed, no account, no chatbot, no streaks.

Coming to the App Store. Until then, this page, the support pages, the privacy policy and the terms of use describe exactly what the app does.

Each day, four steps

Learn (about two minutes). A short excerpt from an early Buddhist text, shown unchanged, with a plain-language explanation and a link to the source.
Sit. A silent timer from 1 to 30 minutes with an optional chime, or a text-guided session with cues you can read and then close your eyes. Optional read-aloud uses the voices built into your iPhone.
Live. One concrete action for your day, such as taking one slow breath before replying to a difficult message. You decide whether you tried it.
Reflect. One question and an optional private note in a journal that stays on your iPhone. Writing is never required to finish a day.

Miss a day? Nothing breaks. There is no streak, no rank and no guilt. You pick up where you left off.

Read the texts in full, free

The Read tab holds the whole Library: all 120 bundled texts, read in full, free for everyone. That is the complete Dhammapada (26 chapters, 423 verses) and 94 discourses grouped by topic, each with a short original introduction, plus a glossary of 73 terms as the translations use them. Every text links to its original on SuttaCentral. Nothing in the Library requires a subscription.

Free, for as long as you like

Getting Started: a seven-day introduction
Daily Practice: twenty-eight practices that repeat every 28 days
The whole Library: 120 texts, the complete Dhammapada and 94 discourses, with introductions and a glossary of 73 terms
Silent timer, 1–30 minutes, with an optional chime
Two guided session templates (on-screen cues with optional device narration)
Journal: always readable, editable, exportable, and deletable
Calendar, days practised, and sitting minutes
Day 1 of each of the eight Plus journeys as a complete preview

Daily Dharma Plus

Eight complete journeys, 104 days in all: The Eightfold Path (21 days), 14 Days of Metta (14), Right Speech in Real Life (14), The Four Noble Truths (10), Working with Difficult Emotions (14), The Body as Home (14), Giving and Gratitude (7), and Change and Letting Go (10)
All twelve guided session templates, each with 3-, 5- and 10-minute pacing
Up to three saved personal routines, assembled from the bundled practice library
Weekly reviews with measured facts and fixed reflection prompts

An auto-renewing monthly or annual subscription, priced in the app, purchased through your Apple ID. No free trial, no coaching, no community, and no new weekly content. Not a donation and not a religious duty. When a subscription ends, your progress and every journal entry stay with you. Working with Difficult Emotions and Change and Letting Go are practice with what the texts say about pain, anger, worry, loss and change; they are not treatment or grief support.

Your data stays on your iPhone

Journal entries and practice records are stored on your device only. There is no account, no login, no analytics, and no cloud sync.
Export your journal as JSON or plain text whenever you like, and delete everything from inside the app.
Purchases are handled by Apple through the App Store; no third-party subscription service is used. Reminders are optional, scheduled on your device, and use generic wording.

The details are in the privacy policy.

About the content

Excerpts and the full texts in the Library are Bhikkhu Sujato's translations from SuttaCentral, released to the public domain (CC0) and shown unchanged; the 120 source files are pinned to one commit of SuttaCentral's repository with a checksum for each. Practice explanations, Library introductions, the glossary and the guided-session scripts were developed with AI assistance and checked against the linked source texts. That checking was done by a language model, not by a human reviewer or a teacher, so mistakes are possible. The app is not affiliated with the translator, SuttaCentral, or any Buddhist organisation. It is a beginner's companion, not a teacher or a community, and it makes no claims about spiritual attainment or medical benefit.

If you find an error, email gpmediacontact@gmail.com with the lesson title and what is wrong, or use "Report a correction" on the app's About screen.