pauci
Seneca, with a few friends.
Pauci means “a few”. Every morning you and up to twenty friends meet the same sentence. React, write one line, and see how your circle met the same day.
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Pauca sunt, quae dicuntur, sed si illa animus bene excepit, convalescunt et exurgunt.
The words are few, but if the mind takes them in well, they grow strong and rise.
Seneca, Epistulae 38.2Every morning
Everyone wakes to the same sentence of Seneca, in Latin and in a new English translation, set on a public-domain painting from a great museum. One tap says what you think: Holds true, Not sure, or Disagree.
Your circle
Invite the few people whose thoughts you want to hear. Each of you writes one line on how the sentence came to you; your friends’ lines appear as stories, and a ring of lamps shows who has answered.
Every evening
Three short questions from Seneca’s own evening review. Answer one or all, for your circle or only for yourself. One answer lights your lamp.
Share a card
Turn the day’s sentence and your line into a card for your stories or a message, in day or night colours.
Kind by design
No public feed, no follower counts, no ads. Every line passes a safety filter before it is shared, everything can be reported, and we act on every report within 24 hours. Pauci is for people 16 and over.
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Pauci Plus
Everything above is free, always. Pauci Plus opens your own book: every line, reaction and evening card older than seven days, search across them, and extra card styles.
$0.99 a month or $7.99 a year, the yearly plan with a 3-day free trial. Billed by Apple; cancel any time in your Apple ID settings.