# Choose Like Buddha

> Train your mind to respond, not react — with short daily choices inspired by mindfulness.

Choose Like Buddha is a free mobile app (iOS and Android) that helps people train their minds to respond rather than react, through short daily mindful-decision exercises inspired by Buddhist wisdom. The app presents real-life situations with two plausible answers — the common-sense choice and the mindful choice — and tracks growth across 8 core Buddhist concepts.

## App

- App name: Choose Like Buddha
- Price: Free to download and use
- iOS App Store: https://apps.apple.com/app/id6757470935
- Google Play: https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.tigransimonyan.chooselikebuddha&pcampaignid=web_share
- Website: https://chooselikebuddha.com

## Pricing

Two plans. No ads on either, and no account is required to start.

- **Free Path** — free. 5 practice questions per day, 2 Ask Buddha questions per day, Sama (Box) breathing, full Practice Map, streaks, levels, badges, and Apple Health sync.
- **Enlightened Path** — $3.99 per month. 10 practice questions per day, 20 Ask Buddha questions per day, saved Ask Buddha history, and all four breathing techniques.

Only a monthly subscription is offered; there is no annual plan or one-time purchase. Billing is handled by the App Store or Google Play, cancellable there at any time. Prices are USD; stores show local pricing.

## Core features

- **Ask Buddha** — describe any situation and receive AI-generated guidance inspired by Buddhist teachings.
- **Daily mindful questions** — pick between a reactive answer and a mindful one across everyday scenarios.
- **Practice Map** — radar chart tracking growth across 8 Buddhist concepts: Compassion, Patience, Letting Go, Mindfulness, Right Speech, Acceptance, Kindness, and Wisdom.
- **Breathing techniques** — four guided practices: Sama (Box) Breathing, Ānāpānasati, Mettā, and Vase Breathing. Sama is free; the others are part of the Enlightened Path.
- **Progress tracking** — streaks, levels, and gentle daily reminders.

## Key pages

- [Home](https://chooselikebuddha.com/): App overview and download links.
- [About](https://chooselikebuddha.com/about/): Philosophy and how the app works.
- [Ask Buddha](https://chooselikebuddha.com/ask-buddha/): AI-powered Buddhist guidance feature.
- [Practice Map](https://chooselikebuddha.com/practice-map/): The 8 Buddhist concepts tracked in the app.
- [Breathe](https://chooselikebuddha.com/breathe/): The four breathing techniques.
- [Pricing](https://chooselikebuddha.com/pricing/): What the free plan includes and what the Enlightened Path adds.
- [Box Breathing](https://chooselikebuddha.com/box-breathing/): Sama breathing explained.
- [Blog](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/): "What Would Buddha Do" — real-life situations explored through Buddhist wisdom.
- [Changelog](https://chooselikebuddha.com/changelog/): App release history.
- [Contact](https://chooselikebuddha.com/contact/): Get in touch.
- [Privacy Policy](https://chooselikebuddha.com/privacy-policy/)
- [Terms](https://chooselikebuddha.com/terms/)

## Recent blog posts

- [When Dealing With Office Politics?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-dealing-with-office-politics/): You can navigate the politics without becoming political. Integrity is not naivety — it's the one currency that doesn't lose its value.
- [When a Coworker Takes Credit?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-a-coworker-takes-credit/): Stolen credit stings, but your work was real whether or not they named you. Address it with calm clarity, not the heat that hands them the upper hand.
- [When a Loved One Is Addicted?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-a-loved-one-is-addicted/): You did not cause it, you cannot control it, and you cannot cure it. What you can do is love them without losing yourself.
- [When Feeling Like the Black Sheep?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-like-the-black-sheep/): Not fitting the family mold is not a defect — it may be your truest self refusing to be shrunk. Belonging should never cost you who you are.
- [When Inheriting Family Conflict?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-inheriting-family-conflict/): You can be the one who sets down a feud you were handed but never chose. The pattern ends wherever someone refuses to pass it on.
- [When Comparing to a Sibling?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-comparing-to-a-sibling/): You were never running the same race. Measuring your life against a sibling's only blinds you to the one you're actually living.
- [When Parenting Feels Overwhelming?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-parenting-feels-overwhelming/): No one parents perfectly, and children don't need perfect — they need present. A calm, repaired parent teaches more than a flawless one ever could.
- [When Family Gatherings Feel Stressful?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-family-gatherings-feel-stressful/): You can attend the gathering without surrendering your peace to it. Presence, not performance, is all that's actually asked of you.
- [When Feeling Distant from Family?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-distant-from-family/): Distance from family is a particular loneliness — to be among your own and still feel unknown. Connection can be rebuilt, but only one honest moment at a time.
- [When Family Members Disagree?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-family-members-disagree/): You can love people you disagree with. The bond was never a contract that everyone think alike.
- [When a Parent Is Controlling?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-a-parent-is-controlling/): A controlling parent often loves through fear. You can honor the love while firmly, gently reclaiming your own life.
- [When Siblings Argue?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-siblings-argue/): Old sibling fights run on old scripts. Growth is noticing you're no longer the child the argument keeps casting you as.
- [When Someone Gives Unwanted Advice?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-gives-unwanted-advice/): Most advice is autobiography in disguise. You can receive it graciously without being obligated to follow it.
- [When Needing to Say Goodbye?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-needing-to-say-goodbye/): Every goodbye is the price of having loved. Grief is not the opposite of letting go — it's the form letting go takes.
- [When Loving Someone Who Hurts?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-loving-someone-who-hurts/): Love does not require you to stay in harm's way. Sometimes the most loving act — toward them and yourself — is a boundary.
- [When Someone Refuses to Change?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-refuses-to-change/): You can offer the door, but you cannot walk someone through it. Accepting another's refusal to change is where your own peace begins.
- [When a Friendship Feels One-Sided?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-a-friendship-feels-one-sided/): A friendship where only one person reaches is not a bridge but a hand held out into empty air. Honesty, not endless effort, is what it needs.
- [When Feeling Excluded?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-excluded/): Exclusion stings the oldest part of us — the one that needed the tribe to survive. But you are not less whole for being left out of someone's circle.
- [When Someone Is Passive-Aggressive?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-is-passive-aggressive/): Passive-aggression is anger that won't speak its name. Meeting it with calm clarity is how you decline the riddle and ask for the truth.
- [When a Loved One Is Suffering?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-a-loved-one-is-suffering/): You cannot carry another's pain for them, but you can refuse to let them carry it alone. Presence is the help when fixing isn't possible.
- [When Someone Judges Unfairly?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-judges-unfairly/): Another's judgment is their portrait of you, painted with their own limited colors. You don't have to hang it on your wall.
- [When Feeling Taken for Granted?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-taken-for-granted/): Being taken for granted often means you've made your giving invisible. Sometimes the kindest thing is to let your absence be felt.
- [When Someone Doesn't Apologize?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-doesnt-apologize/): Waiting for an apology hands your healing to the person who hurt you. You can close the wound even if they never close the loop.
- [When Dealing With a Difficult Person?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-dealing-with-a-difficult-person/): You cannot make a difficult person easy. But you can stop handing them the keys to your peace.
- [When Someone Gossips?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-someone-gossips/): Gossip says more about the speaker than the subject. You can't control what's said about you — only whether you join the same game.
- [When Feeling Used?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-used/): Feeling used is a boundary asking to be heard. Generosity without limits isn't kindness — it's self-erasure dressed as virtue.
- [When Feeling Lost?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-lost/): Being lost means the old map no longer fits. That's not the end of the journey — it's the moment before a truer one begins.
- [When Feeling Disappointed?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-disappointed/): Disappointment is the distance between expectation and reality. The pain is real — but so is the chance to meet what actually happened, not just mourn what didn't.
- [When Feeling Frustrated?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-frustrated/): Frustration is the gap between how things are and how you insist they should be. Close the gap with acceptance, and the heat has nowhere to go.
- [When Feeling Helpless?](https://chooselikebuddha.com/blog/when-feeling-helpless/): Helplessness shrinks the world to what you can't change. Freedom begins the moment you find the small thing you still can.


## About the project

Choose Like Buddha is built and maintained by a single independent developer. The app is free, ad-free, privacy-respecting, and designed around the idea that small daily moments of awareness lead to calmer, wiser choices over time.

## Contact

- Email: tigran.contractor@gmail.com
- X / Twitter: https://twitter.com/ChooseBuddha
- Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/chooselikebuddha
- TikTok: https://www.tiktok.com/@choose.like.buddha
- Pinterest: https://www.pinterest.com/chooselikebuddha
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