# Philosophy by Rick — A philosopher every morning > A philosopher every morning (iPhone/iPad app by Rick van Weersel.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/philosophy-by-rick/id6829479800 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Rick van Weersel](https://appshunter.io/developer/1322426431) - Category: Education, Books - Price: Free - Age rating: 4+ - Requires: iOS 26.0 · 8 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-11-02 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Philosophy by Rick? Philosophy by Rick brings you one great thinker every morning. At 8:00 a new lesson arrives: who they were, where they came from, one idea worth keeping and a small challenge to try that day. It takes about five minutes. When you’ve read it, say so — and the next lesson is written for tomorrow. Fall behind and nothing piles up: the app simply waits for you. ONE LESSON A DAY • About 150 thinkers, from Marcus Aurelius and Confucius to Hannah Arendt • Ancient Greece and Rome, China, India, the Islamic world, Africa, medieval and modern Europe, and the twentieth century • Each lesson has a quote with its source, an explanation in plain language, a challenge for the day and a line to remember the thinker by • Choose your arrival time, how practical or big-picture the lessons are, and whether they take three or five minutes SEE HOW THEY CONNECT • A timeline of everyone you’ve met, with world events to hang them on and who taught whom • An atlas showing where each thinker was born and where they ended up • Each philosopher’s life journey, key ideas, books and portraits from Wikimedia Commons ASK ANYTHING Ask questions about any thinker and get an answer written on your iPhone by Apple Intelligence, grounded in the Wikipedia article and always with its sources. PRIVATE BY DESIGN No account, no ads, no tracking. Your lessons and reading history stay on your iPhone. Apple Intelligence runs on the device; nothing you ask leaves it. ON YOUR LOCK SCREEN Add a widget that shows today’s lesson, and confirm a lesson from the morning notification or with Siri: “I read Philosophy”. Every lesson is pre-written and checked. Quotes come from a curated library with the work they appear in; where a saying is a paraphrase, the app says so. ## Is Philosophy by Rick safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Philosophy by Rick. ## Is Philosophy by Rick legit? Philosophy by Rick appears legitimate, with a few gaps. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Philosophy by Rick is 75 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 2 releases) ### 1.1 — 2026-11-05 • Ask gives deeper answers: it reads the parts of the article that fit your question, explains the reasoning, and remembers what you just asked. • Tap a book to see what it’s about, ask about it, or open it in Apple Books or on Wikipedia. • With Apple Intelligence, lessons now keep their full text and add a paragraph suited to your leaning, with real links to thinkers you’ve already met. • Challenge reminders now take you straight to the challenge, not the top of the lesson. • Real portraits on Today and the Timeline, and ones you’ve already seen appear immediately. • Lessons and thinkers open with a smooth zoom and fill the whole screen. • Confirming you’ve read a lesson is now instant. • In Ask, the keyboard moves out of the way once you’ve asked, so you can read the answer. • Fixed the previous thinker’s portrait lingering on Today when a new lesson arrived. • The app now stays in portrait. ### 1.0 — 2026-11-02 No release notes. ## More apps by Rick van Weersel - [AR Waller](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/ar-waller/id1499015230) - [Barry Counter](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/barry-counter/id6504411640) All apps by Rick van Weersel: https://appshunter.io/developer/1322426431 --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-11-06.*