# Sota: Stream Entry Guide

> Sota: Stream Entry Guide (iPhone/iPad app by NIKOLAI S HALAY.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sota-stream-entry-guide/id6761080885 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [NIKOLAI S HALAY](https://appshunter.io/developer/1887689556)
- Category: Health & Fitness
- Price: Free
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 15.0 · 11 MB
- Languages: English
- Released: 2026-03-26
- Data updated: 2026-07-08
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/sota-stream-entry-guide/id6761080885/reviews.md

## What is Sota?

Sota: Stream Entry Guide                                                      
                                                                                
Sota is a practice companion for meditators serious about reaching stream entry — the first fruition on the Theravāda path.                             
   
Built around the Mahāsi Sayadaw progress of insight map, Sota supports your daily sits with intelligent guidance, honest tracking, and tools drawn from the pragmatic dharma tradition.                                               
                                                            
What's inside:

  - Sit Timer — Anapana, Metta, and Kasina concentration sessions with voice guidance and a singing bowl bell
  - Stage Map — Navigate the nanas from access concentration to stream entry, with plain-language descriptions of each territory                            
  - Resolve — Set and renew your determination (adhiṭṭhāna) for stream entry
  - Practice Tracker — Log sessions, track streaks, and monitor 7 and 30-day momentum                                                                      
  - Retreat Planner — Structured 5, 7, and 10-day self-retreat templates with day-by-day schedules                                                          
  - AI Guide — A companion trained on the pragmatic dharma tradition, available between sits (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, or Open Router).                                                 
                                                            
Your data never leaves your device. The AI Guide requires a API key (Anthropic, OpenAI, Google Gemini, Mistral, or Open Router).                                                     
                                                                                
Sota is for practitioners who are done dabbling.


## Version history (last 2 releases)

### 1.02 — 2026-05-23

This release adds a secure multi-provider AI key vault with support for Anthropic, OpenAI, Gemini, Mistral, and OpenRouter. Keys are provider-scoped, masked in the interface, and excluded from prompts, logs, and exports.

It also includes a refreshed Enter the Stream landing screen, clearer privacy language, refined visual design, improved Settings and AI defaults, and updated Progress of Insight language.

### 1.0.1 — 2026-03-29

Fixed status bar overlap on iPhone screens.

## More apps by NIKOLAI S HALAY

- [Tone Recall](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tone-recall/id6768010699)
- [Tone Ritual](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tone-ritual/id6768269989)
- [Tone Threshold](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tone-threshold/id6771676288)
- [Tone Steady](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tone-steady/id6771694721)
- [Tone Mirror Journal](https://appshunter.io/ios/app/tone-mirror-journal/id6772032418)

All apps by NIKOLAI S HALAY: https://appshunter.io/developer/1887689556

## Related topics

[kasina](https://appshunter.io/ios/topics/kasina)

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