Bodhi Tree: Buddhist Practice

Bodhi Tree is a quiet companion for Buddhist practice and study. It opens to today's teaching, a guided breath, and a single tap to sit. No accounts. No feed. No tracking.

Built for newcomers and longtime practitioners across Theravada, Zen, Tibetan, Pure Land, and broader Mahayana traditions, Bodhi Tree gathers what a practitioner actually reaches for — daily verses, sutras and mantras, a meditation timer, a Buddhist calendar, and a glossary — in one calm app in English and Traditional Chinese.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• JOURNAL — A private space for end-of-session reflections and a daily check-in. Stored on your device. Search and full history are part of Premium.

• SUTRAS — A searchable library including the Heart Sutra, the Diamond Sutra, the Amitabha Sutra, the Dhammapada, and selected suttas from the Pali Canon — alongside core mantras like the Great Compassion Mantra, Om Mani Padme Hum, and the Medicine Buddha Mantra, with original-language text, transliteration, and translation. Bookmark passages, write reflections, and track your reading.

• TODAY — A daily teaching tuned to the tradition you follow, with the day's verse, a Buddhist observance when there is one, and a single tap into Lotus Breath. Tap any verse to read deeper.

• MEDITATE — A clean timer with three tuned bells (a singing bowl, a temple bell, a zen bowl), an optional warm-up, interval bells, ambient sounds, and a breath ring. A short Lotus Breath practice is one tap away.

• YOU — Your traditions, your reminders, and a Buddhist calendar covering Vesak, Bodhi Day (Rohatsu), Parinirvana Day, Magha Puja, Asalha Puja, Saga Dawa Düchen, Losar, Hana Matsuri, and more — with optional alerts the morning of each day.

• WIDGETS — Today's teaching on your home screen.

DESIGNED FOR PRACTICE, NOT ENGAGEMENT

Bodhi Tree is built around how practice actually works — slow, repeated, personal. There are no streaks that punish you, no notifications begging you back, no infinite feed. The Bell of Mindfulness reminders are gentle and configurable: a morning bell, a quiet midday pause, and an evening reflection — each one optional.

PRIVACY BY DESIGN

Everything you write — reflections, bookmarks, journal entries — stays on your device. The optional iCloud sync uses your personal iCloud account, never our servers. No third-party analytics, no advertising SDKs, no trackers. The only outside connections are the ones Apple requires for subscriptions and iCloud, plus a few Safari links — privacy, support — that open only when you tap them.

Meditation sessions can be saved to Apple Health as Mindful Minutes if you grant permission. You can turn that off entirely.

PREMIUM

Most of Bodhi Tree is free, including all three meditation bells, today's teaching, the Buddhist calendar, the glossary, a sampler of sutras and mantras, and up to twenty bookmarks.

Premium adds three things to your practice:

• Monthly progress — see the days you practiced this month and the time you spent in stillness.

• Thoughts journal — capture reflections after each session, stored privately on device.

• Daily reflection check-in — a short end-of-day prompt to close your practice mindfully.

Premium also broadens your access to the sutra and mantra library, study tools, and ambient meditation sounds. New subscribers receive a 7-day free trial; subscriptions are managed by Apple.

A NOTE FROM US

Bodhi Tree is named for the tree under which the Buddha is said to have awakened. May this small app give you a few minutes of stillness, and a doorway back to the teachings whenever you need them.

— Bodhi Tree

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