What Is Soulfeed? The Spiritual Teachings App for iPhone

Soulfeed is an iPhone app that replaces the endless social scroll with a feed of spiritual teachings: short passages from the Dhammapada, the Tao Te Ching, Marcus Aurelius, Rumi, the Bhagavad Gita and dozens of other texts, one passage per screen, each with a plain explanation underneath if you want to go deeper. Its full name on the App Store is Soulfeed: Spiritual Teachings, its subtitle is “Scroll Daily Wisdom & Quotes”, and its tagline is the whole idea in four words: Less noise. More soul.

This page explains what Soulfeed is, what is inside it, who makes it, and how it differs from other things on the internet that happen to share a similar name.

Soulfeed in one paragraph

You open the app and see a single passage in large, calm type on a dark screen. Swipe up and the next one arrives. There are no comments, no follower counts, no adverts, no autoplaying video and no news. If a passage lands, you can double-tap to like it, save it, write a private note, or tap Go deeper to see what it means, the key terms in it, and the original public-domain translation it came from, with the translator’s name and the year. That is the core loop. Everything else in the app (reading plans, search, the daily widget, a daily reminder) exists to make that loop easier to return to.

What “Soulfeed” means

The name is two words pushed together on purpose. A feed is the thing most of us scroll without thinking. Soulfeed keeps the gesture and changes what it delivers: instead of whatever is loudest today, you get something that has been read, argued over and loved for hundreds or thousands of years.

We write it as one word with a capital S: Soulfeed. If you see “Soul Feed”, “SoulFeed” or “soulfeed” elsewhere, it may or may not be us. The next section explains how to tell.

Soulfeed is not the SoulFeed audiobook app (or the podcast)

Several unrelated products use a version of the name. If you searched for “soulfeed” you may have met some of them: a Christian audiobook app on Google Play, a news app, a podcast, a music channel and others. They are separate projects with their own makers, and we wish them well.

Soulfeed, the app this site is about, is different in a few clear ways:

• It is an iPhone app. Soulfeed is built for iOS and runs on iPhone only. There is no Android version.
• It is for reading, not listening. There are no audiobooks or audio dramas. Soulfeed is short text passages with study notes.
• It spans many traditions. Vedanta and Yoga, Buddhism, Taoism, Sufism, the Christian mystics, Stoicism, Visionaries, Awakening and Manifestation all sit side by side, with Kabbalah on the way. You choose which ones you want to see.
• It is made by Trippy Cosmos Ltd, a company registered in the UK.
• Its home on the web is this site. If you want the real Soulfeed, start at the Soulfeed home page.

What is inside the app

A library of public-domain wisdom texts

Soulfeed’s library holds more than 4,600 passages from 67 texts and teachers, and many of the classics are there as whole books you can read in order. The classic texts are all in the public domain, in translations old enough to be free for anyone to read and share. A few examples, with the translations the app uses:

• The Dhammapada, in F. Max Müller’s 1881 translation
• The Tao Te Ching, in James Legge’s 1891 translation, and the Zhuangzi in Herbert Giles’ 1889 translation
• Marcus Aurelius’ Meditations (George Long, 1862), Epictetus’ Enchiridion and Golden Sayings, and Seneca’s Letters to Lucilius
• Rumi’s Masnavi (E. H. Whinfield), Hafiz (Gertrude Bell, 1897), the Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam and Attar’s Bird-Parliament (both Edward FitzGerald)
• The Bhagavad Gita (Sir Edwin Arnold, 1885), the Upanishads (Max Müller) and Vivekananda’s Raja Yoga
• The Sutta-Nipata, and Soyen Shaku’s Sermons of a Buddhist Abbot for Zen
• The Kybalion, Emerson’s Self-Reliance and The Over-Soul, Thoreau’s Walden, and Kahlil Gibran’s The Prophet
• Neville Goddard’s major books, such as Feeling Is the Secret and Your Faith Is Your Fortune, with Florence Scovel Shinn’s The Game of Life and Ralph Waldo Trine’s In Tune with the Infinite
• The Christian contemplatives: The Imitation of Christ, The Cloud of Unknowing, Julian of Norwich and Meister Eckhart

Here is the kind of passage you meet in the feed, shown in its original translation:

For hatred does not cease by hatred at any time: hatred ceases by love, this is an old rule.

Dhammapada 5, tr. F. Max Müller (1881)

In the feed you read each passage as written, with its translator and year one tap away, so you can see exactly where the words came from. The oldest classics can also switch to plain modern English, and every passage has a plain-language explanation in its study sheet.

Modern teachers

The Awakening and Manifestation paths also hold modern teachers, arranged in the Library by teacher. Their books are still under copyright, so this site does not quote them.

Study notes on every passage

Tap Go deeper and a study sheet slides up with:

• Meaning: what the passage is saying, in plain language
• Key terms: words like Tao, Dharma or Logos, with where they come from
• Did you know: one piece of context about the text or its author
• Original translation: the public-domain wording, with translator and year
• Related passages: similar ideas in other traditions, which you can follow from one to the next
• A reflection question: something to sit with, and a private note if you want to answer it

Reading plans

If you prefer a little structure, Soulfeed has 32 reading plans, from a week to a month, most with a black-and-white etching on the cover. A few of them: The Tao in 30 days, The Dhammapada in 21 days, Stoic mornings (14 days with Marcus Aurelius and Epictetus), Seneca: a week, Bhagavad Gita: 7 days, Rumi on love and Finding calm. Each day is one short passage with its meaning and a question. Our guide to building a daily spiritual reading habit walks through how to pick one.

The small things that help a habit stick

• A daily widget for your Home Screen or Lock Screen with the passage of the day
• A daily reminder at a time you choose
• Search across every passage, meaning and key term
• Saves, likes and private notes, plus a quiet count of the days you opened the app
• Share cards: turn any passage into a clean image to send to a friend
• Text size and theme settings, including dark, light or system

For a full walkthrough, read the Soulfeed app guide.

Your paths, your feed

When you first open Soulfeed, it asks which traditions speak to you. You can pick one or several, mark one as “home”, and choose how open you are to the rest: Only my path, Mostly mine, a little else, or Show me everything. If you choose “Only my path”, the app means it: your feed, daily passage, search, plans and widget all stay inside the traditions you picked. You can change your answer at any time in Settings.

This matters because spiritual reading is personal. Someone who loves the Stoics may not want Sufi love poetry in their morning feed, and someone exploring Buddhism may want the Zen teachers too. Soulfeed lets you decide.

Privacy: no account, no noise

Soulfeed has no sign-up screen and no login. Your saves, notes, streak and plan progress are stored on your iPhone. If you are signed in to iCloud, they sync quietly across your own devices through Apple’s iCloud storage, which we cannot see. Reminders are local notifications set on your phone. The library itself is bundled inside the app, so it keeps working offline, on a plane or anywhere without signal.

Who Soulfeed is for

Soulfeed is for anyone who has reached for their phone at the end of a long day and felt worse for it afterwards. It suits:

• People who want to replace doomscrolling with something that leaves them steadier
• Readers curious about the great wisdom texts who have never known where to start
• People who already love one tradition and want a daily touchpoint with it
• Anyone who likes a good line and wants to know exactly where it came from

It is not a meditation timer, a therapy tool or a replacement for a teacher or community. It is a quiet place to read.

Soulfeed quotes: where to start

If you want a taste of the library before you download anything, our quote collections use the same public-domain translations the app does, with sources for every line:

• Dhammapada quotes, the Buddha’s sayings with verse numbers
• Tao Te Ching quotes, in James Legge’s translation
• Marcus Aurelius quotes from the Meditations
• Rumi quotes from the Masnavi, plus a little Hafiz
• Bhagavad Gita quotes in Edwin Arnold’s verse
• The Prophet by Kahlil Gibran, on love, work and joy

Getting Soulfeed

Soulfeed is an iPhone app from Trippy Cosmos Ltd. To see screenshots, the reading plans and the latest on how to get it, visit the Soulfeed home page. Then, the next time your thumb goes looking for something to scroll, give it something worth finding.