Why we built this
"How often do you think about the Roman Empire?" turned a quiet personal fascination into a shared joke, and it turns out a lot of people think about it a lot. Roman Empire Daily takes that idea at face value. Instead of an app you have to remember to open, Rome comes to you: a fact on your home or lock screen, every single day.
It's meant to be the good kind of screen time. A small, genuinely interesting thing you learn between other things, with no feed to fall into.
What makes us different
Human-written
Real people research and write every fact. We may draft with tools, but a human checks each one before it ships. No AI slop.
Source-checked
Every fact is backed by a primary or scholarly source you can see. If we can't stand behind it, it doesn't go out.
Myth-free
No vomitoriums-as-puke-rooms, no salt-for-salary. We deliberately skip the tired myths that get repeated everywhere else.
Ambient by design
Most Roman apps make you open them. Ours is built to be glanced at. A widget you pass dozens of times a day. Learn something, get on with your life.
Who's behind it
Roman Empire Daily is made by MJM Design, an independent studio behind a small family of simple, privacy-respecting daily apps. No ads, no tracking, no accounts. Just a clean product that does one thing well.
Now on the App Store
The iOS app, with home- and lock-screen widgets, is free on the App Store for iPhone now.
