# Simposeum — Talk with history's thinkers > Talk with history's thinkers (iPhone/iPad app by Simposeum.) - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/simposeum/id6819830355 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`) - Developer: [Simposeum](https://appshunter.io/developer/6819830357) - Category: Education, Reference - Price: Free - Age rating: 12+ - Requires: iOS 15.0 · 10 MB - Languages: American English - Released: 2026-10-26 - Data updated: 2026-11-06 ## What is Simposeum? Simposeum puts history's great thinkers in conversation with you. Philosophers, psychologists, theologians and rhetoricians, from Heraclitus to Hannah Arendt, answer in their own voice and reason from their own work. ASK A THINKER Put a question to Kant, Simone Weil, William James or Augustine and get an answer in the register they wrote in. Substantive answers are grounded in the thinker's writings, retrieved from their texts as you ask, and cited to the passage, so you can see where an idea comes from and check it. For the ancients whose books are lost, they reason from the fragments and reports that survive. WATCH THEM ARGUE Set two thinkers against each other on a question that divides them: Hobbes against Rousseau on human nature, Hume against Aquinas on whether reason can prove God, Marx against Keynes on capitalism. Or convene a panel of several and listen to them take each other on. LEARN IN THEIR COMPANY Courses written from the primary sources, each taught by the thinker or narrated around them: Nietzsche's genealogy of morals, Freud's unconscious, the history of how madness has been named, the arguments for the existence of God. Lessons come with the paintings, documents and diagrams of their period, and with questions that test what you understood. LISTEN Press Listen and hear a reply read aloud in a synthetic voice made for that thinker. It keeps playing with your phone locked. FIND THE RIGHT MIND Describe what you are wrestling with and Simposeum suggests the thinkers who worked on it. FREE Every account gets free credits every week. Reading a course costs nothing; conversations and lessons with a tutor draw on the credits. Simposeum's thinkers are AI. Their replies are generated, not recorded, and can be wrong; the voices are synthetic, not recordings. Simposeum is not affiliated with any of the thinkers, their estates or their publishers. ## Is Simposeum safe? Not enough ratings yet to assess Simposeum. ## Is Simposeum legit? Simposeum has limited verification signals. The AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for Simposeum is 58 out of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data. ## Version history (last 5 releases) ### 1.0.4 — 2026-11-03 A link to a page that does not exist now says so, instead of showing a blank screen. Sign-in fields are labelled for VoiceOver. Many smaller fixes. ### 1.0.3 — 2026-11-03 The last six courses are rewritten from the thinkers' own texts, among them the political philosophy series and Under Questioning, on the Nuremberg trial. Dates and numbers are read aloud more clearly when you listen. Hannah Arendt's voice is now made from her own 1964 interview. New figures in Why Obey? New trophies for the Casket courses and the founders courses. Many smaller fixes. ### 1.0.2 — 2026-11-02 92 courses rewritten from the thinkers' own texts, each laid out as a path of lessons. Lessons in those courses are pre-recorded, so Listen starts right away. Course pages now list the books each course was written from. A new end-of-lesson screen and smoother audio between clips. Many smaller fixes. ### 1.0.1 — 2026-10-27 Fifteen new thinkers, among them Kautilya, Julian of Norwich, John of the Cross, John Bunyan and Henry George. Free credits now arrive every week. Notifications, if you turn them on: know when a reply is ready or a new course arrives. Panels redrawn, with a Listen button that reads the whole panel aloud. Many smaller fixes. ### 1.0 — 2026-10-27 No release notes. ## Apps similar to Simposeum | App | Rating | Price | Category | | --- | --- | --- | --- | | [History of world](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/history-of-world/id1623768398) | — | Free | Education | | [Physics Solver AI](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/physics-solver-ai/id6736621573) | 4.5 (137) | Free | Education | | [Chemistry Master Periodic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/chemistry-master-periodic/id1496664834) | 4.9 (51) | Free | Education | | [Code Karts - Pre-coding logic](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/code-karts-pre-coding-logic/id1222704761) | 3.8 (147) | Free | Education | | [English ー Listening・Speaking](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/english-listeningspeaking/id1474321557) | 4.8 (382) | Free | Education | | [Learn Quran Tajwid](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/learn-quran-tajwid/id960134803) | 4.7 (3,111) | Free | Education | --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). 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