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Bodhi Tree: Buddhist Practice

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Bodhi Tree: Buddhist Practice

by Ming Chieh Lin

5.0 (2) v3.1 25 MB 4+

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Description

Bodhi Tree is a quiet companion for Buddhist practice and study, grounded in real scripture, in English and Traditional Chinese. 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, guided Practice Paths, a meditation timer, and a private journal, all in one calm app that works offline.

WHAT'S INSIDE

• TODAY: A daily teaching tuned to the tradition you follow, with the day's verse and a single tap into Lotus Breath. Tap any verse to read deeper.

• PATHS: Six guided Practice Paths, each a week of short daily steps: Calm Anxiety, Following the Breath, Letting Go, The Four Hearts, Impermanence, and Sleep. Every path is completely free.

• MOMENTS: Readings for what you are facing: meeting anger, facing loss, letting go, new life, mending. Each walks a real passage of scripture line by line, in plain words.

• MEDITATE: A clean timer with three tuned bells (a singing bowl, a temple bell, a zen bowl), interval bells, and a breath ring. A short Lotus Breath practice is one tap away.

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

• YOU: Your traditions, your reminders, and optional morning alerts

• 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 stays on your device: reflections, bookmarks, journal entries. 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 the privacy and support links 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 the meditation timer with all three bells, today's teaching, every Practice Path, the full sutra library, unlimited bookmarks, the daily check-in, and the thoughts journal.

Premium adds three things to your practice:

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

• More Moments readings: the full library of readings for hard moments.

• Reflection search: find any past reflection instantly.

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

Privacy Policy: https://forestoceanlife.github.io/bodhi-tree/privacy/
Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

What's new (v3.1)

Every Practice Path is now fully free, from the first sit to the last day.

This release also brings more than a hundred small refinements: smoother animations, faster screens, gentler battery use, and careful corrections across teachings and sources.

As always, your practice stays on your device. No accounts, no tracking.