Great stoic widget
The new version is great. It has tons of new gorgeous themes and categories. It has all the main categories you’d expect from a stoic app like memento mori, amor fati, dichotomy of control. They also have all the major stoic philosophers like Seneca, Marcus Aurelius and they use modern easy to understand English translations. Would recommend if you want more stoic wisdom in your life.
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Poor App
No edit option for size and position of widget
Buggy app
It no longer works.
AI generated / made up quotes
Love the idea, and is beautiful, but execution falls short. Many quotes are just totally made up. My guess is the developer leaned heavily on AI and was too lazy to check what was generated. The backgrounds look AI generated too.
Here’s an example of a fake quote that makes no sense and just popped up:
“Life’s no soft job. Not a battlefield, where cowards are the ones who run the most risk.” - falsely attributed to Cleanthes
Note to developer, please QC your quotes and I will change to a 5/5!
Here’s an example of a fake quote that makes no sense and just popped up:
“Life’s no soft job. Not a battlefield, where cowards are the ones who run the most risk.” - falsely attributed to Cleanthes
Note to developer, please QC your quotes and I will change to a 5/5!
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Iffy Quotations
In a time of lots of useless quotes being created and attributed to people who never said them, I’m skeptical when I come across ones I don’t know about. I found myself almost ready to share a quote, attributed to Marcus Aurelius, but thankfully decided to double check it was legit since I had never heard it before. Imagine my frustration when the quote in question was never said by him through any translation that I could find. Quotes don’t have to be from certain individuals to resonate, but they should not be attributed to someone falsely just to lend them an air of legitimacy. I have deleted the app and do not recommend this app. Only reason I gave it 2 stars was that the interface was clean and easy.
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