Rostra vs Delphi

The war for your attention is real. Every scroll fills your mind with someone's ideas — why not the best ones? Rostra is a feed of humanity's greatest quotes. Ideas that have survived centuries of scrutiny. Scroll Marcus Aurelius, Emerson, Einstein, Churchill, and hundreds more — the way you already scroll, with thoughts that last. What you can do: • Curated feed — For You or Following tabs • Follow figures who speak to you • Collect quotes that stop you cold • Search any figure or quote The collection spans Stoic philosophy, Greek and Eastern thought, American Transcendentalism, science, poetry, statecraft, and more. Fill your mind with great ideas, not mediocre ones.

Delphi is a reader for the great books — with narration that stays in sync with the text. As the audio plays, the current sentence is highlighted and the page scrolls with it. Tap any sentence to hear it from exactly that point. Close the app mid-chapter and Delphi brings you back to the same spot, ready to continue. THE LIBRARY • Thucydides — History of the Peloponnesian War • Augustine — Confessions • Plato — Dialogues (Apology, Phaedo, Symposium, Republic and more) • Goethe — Faust • Aristotle — Nicomachean Ethics and Politics • The Bible (KJV) — Old Testament • Hamilton, Madison, Jay — The Federalist Papers • Machiavelli — The Prince • Dostoevsky — Crime and Punishment MADE FOR LISTENING • Word-for-word sync: the sentence being read is always highlighted • Tap to play: touch any line to jump the narration there • Background playback with full lock screen and Control Center controls • Skip back and forward 15 seconds, scrub anywhere MADE FOR READING • The complete text of every work is built in — no connection needed to read • Download any work's audio once and listen fully offline • Bookmarks for every book: save a passage, jump back to it anytime • Automatic resume: pick up exactly where you stopped, even after restarting No account. No subscription. No ads. Just the classics, read to you.