Tao te Ching Lite vs Cast
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tao te Ching Lite
Explore the wisdom of Lao Tzu's Tao te Ching with this app. It offers contemporary translations and allows for linear reading or random selections. Enhance your experience with additional content and emailing features via an in-app purchase.
- Complete odd-numbered passages
- Contemporary translations
- Linear reading mode
- Random reading selections
- Email selections to friends
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The Tao te Ching of Lao Tzu is among the wisest books ever written and one of the greatest gifts ever given to humankind. In the handful of pages that make up the Tao te Ching, there is an answer to each of life’s questions, a solution to every predicament, a balm for any wound. It is less a book than a living, breathing angel. This lite version contains the complete odd-numbered passages. Additional content and emailing feature is available through an In App Purchase. Brian Browne Walker’s contemporary translations of Taoist classics have received high marks for their simplicity, clarity, and accessibility. This beautiful and functional app, which you can read in a linear fashion like a book or receive random readings from, and which allows you to email any selection to a friend with the click of a button, will be a beloved friend for years.
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 in-app purchases: Cast at none against Tao te Ching Lite's 1. Cast also leads on update cadence (every 10 days vs every 4 months) and review sentiment (100% vs 73%). Tao te Ching Lite's advantage is ratings volume (92 vs 5) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 15.1). On price, rating, ads and device support 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
Both are free to download. Tao te Ching Lite sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Cast asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cast holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tao te Ching Lite has 92 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Tao te Ching Lite's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cast's.
Tao te Ching Lite ships an update every 4 months, Cast every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tao te Ching Lite | Cast |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (92 ratings) | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.1% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 92 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 21 MB | 34 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brian Walker | AFSHIN DARIAN |
Customer experience
Tao te Ching Lite
Cast
Bugs and requests
Tao te Ching Lite
Reported bugs
11 issues- Font too small
- Random passage feature removed
- Swiping is hard
- User interface outdated and confusing
- No instructions
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- Not the full text
- Misleading introduction
- Charged unexpectedly
- Horrible translation
- Soliciting to buy more content
- Lite version not in German
Requested features
3 requests- Add German language option
- Include classical texts
- Bilingual (Chinese/English) display
Cast
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Tao te Ching Lite
- Tao Te Ching$5.99
Cast
No in-app purchases
