TaoOfWisdom vs Cast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
TaoOfWisdom
Explore the wisdom of the Tao Te Ching with this beautifully illustrated app. It offers a serene reading experience, allowing you to delve into ancient philosophy and find inner peace amidst life's uncertainties. Navigate easily with intuitive controls and bookmark your favorite passages.
- Tao Te Ching text
- Poignant illustrations
- Intuitive page navigation
- Content listing for quick access
- Bookmark functionality
- Universal app for iPhone and iPad
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For people who think there's more to life than cable news, blogs, work, family, gadgets. Find the calmness underneath. Wade through the vastness. Be grounded amidst Life's uncertainties. Peek from a transformed point of view. Long, long ago, before Lao Tzu left the imperial kingdom, he was asked by a gatekeeper to impart his wisdom before the world lost him altogether. What he left behind was the Tao Te Ching. This version tries its best to capture the breath, meaning, poetry, depth and otherworldliness that Lao Tzu was pointing to, framed in the poignant pictures of artist-photographer Dollie Rubiano. Available as a universal app in beautiful layout for both iPad and iPhone/iPod Touch versions, it is free for all to share, to be enlightened, to be enjoyed. Swipe or tap at a page's side to go through the pages. Tap in the middle to hide/show the menu. Quickly go to the page you want via the Contents listing or via your own saved Lookup Tabs. Quickly bookmark a page by tapping on the bookmark icon. Just as briskly go back to your bookmarked page by tapping on the Go-To-Bookmark Arrow.
Cast
This interactive edition of the ancient Chinese divination text helps you explore life's important questions. Focus universal energies to seek guidance and discover what fortune holds for you.
- Interactive I Ching edition
- Ask life's important questions
- Focus universal energies
- Discover your fortune
- Carefully designed interface
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Cast: I Ching is a carefully designed interactive edition of the I Ching – the Book of Changes. Focus the energies of the universe on answering the important questions of your life. Ask the I Ching what fortune holds for you.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cast at Free against TaoOfWisdom's $2.99. Cast also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 45 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 84%). On rating, ratings volume, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Cast is free to download; TaoOfWisdom costs $2.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for TaoOfWisdom against 5.0 for Cast. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 3 and 5 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 84% of TaoOfWisdom's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cast's.
TaoOfWisdom ships an update every 45 months, Cast every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | TaoOfWisdom | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $2.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 5.0 (3 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 84.2% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3 | 5 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 45 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 42 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Vicente Malixi | AFSHIN DARIAN |
Customer experience
TaoOfWisdom
Cast
In-app purchases
TaoOfWisdom
No in-app purchases
Cast
No in-app purchases
