Glide Oracle vs THE YOUNG I Ching
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Glide Oracle
Explore an ancient divination system with dynamic, transforming symbols that offer translations. This app presents a unique language and its interpretation, inspired by concepts of co-evolving language and consciousness.
- Dynamic, transforming symbols
- User interaction with symbols
- Symbol translations
- Inspired by I Ching tradition
- Xenolinguistics interpretation
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The Glide Oracle is an oracle whose roots are in the tradition of the I Ching, and whose symbols announced themselves as an alien language called Glide, transmitted in an altered state of consciousness. Glide symbols dynamically transform under the touch of the user, and deliver a translation. These translations of 729 Glide hexagrams were completed by Dr. Diana Slattery of the Department of Xenolinguistics at the Institute for the Encouragement of Outrageous Ideas. Slattery speculates that language and consciousness are co-evolving in the human species, catalyzed in the culture by psychedelic experience, an idea addressed by psychedelic philosopher Terence McKenna. She sees the morphing symbols of Glide as a model of a new way of making meaning that can potentially rewire the brain with a bias toward perception of transforming rather than static states, increasing the fluidity and flexibility of thought forms.
THE YOUNG I Ching
This app provides insights and guidance for navigating challenging situations. Users input a question, and the app generates a response based on a historical divination system, offering food for thought and encouraging playful interpretation of the results.
- Contemplate and type questions
- Receive immediate answers
- Historical divination system
- Dreamlike background visuals
- Interpretive guidance
- Numerical results
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The YOUNG I ChING 太玄經 ORACLE , March 2023 From he computer program THE YOUNG I CHING, modeled on T'ai Hsüan Ching 太玄經 (English: Canon of Supreme Mystery), you can expect food for thought on how to cope with difficult situations. Start playing THE YOUNG I CHING (Mystery) as follows: 1. Contemplate your question before typing it in, starting with something like why, how come, etc., avoid questions that can only be answered with yes or no. 2. The computer provides the current date and time. 3. You’ll get an immediate answer including a number (more on these later), - done! Even if you get an answer to your question that you can't make head nor tail, do not reject it from the outset. Take your time - gain distance and relax while looking at the dreamlike background pictures - allow any association and try to playfully resolve the complications in your thoughts. Historical: It is believed that the Chinese scholar Yang Hsiung (also Yang Xiong, 53 B.C. - 18 A.D.) gave his T'ai Hsüan Ching ( 太玄經 Mystery) to the I Ching (周易, Chou I, or Changes) which he held in high esteem but was in danger of being forgotten, in order to give the latter new impetus. "By the first century B.C. the I Ching consisted of a set of sixty-four texts, each associated with a six line graph ( or "hexagram"), in which component lines could be either solid or broken (signifying yang if solid, yin if broken). Under each hexagram, there are six assigned texts, each of which corresponds to one line of the graphic symbol (hence, the "Line Texts"). The core text of the Mystery, like that of its prototype, the Changes, presents a series of linear complexes. For the hexagram of the Changes, however, the Mystery substitutes a four-line "tetragram" whose component parts read from top to bottom (i.e., in the opposite order from the Changes). Also in contrast to the Changes, where the lines are categorized as either yin (broken) or yang (unbroken), the divination procedure prescribed in Yang's instructions involves three possibilities for each line of the graph: (1) an unbroken line (correlated with Heaven), (2) a line broken once (representing Earth), or (3) a line broken twice (symbolizing Man as one of the triadic realms, living between Heaven and Earth)". Michael Nylan, "THE ELEMENTAL CHANGES", The Ancient Chinese Companion to The I Ching, translated by Michael Nylan, SUNY, New York, 1994. p.8. In addition to these appraisals, you will receive two numbers as the answer, a) that of the trigram and b) that of the appraisal, so that you can read the full version at Michael Nylan's correct translation. Method: a) An alphabetical code (a=1, b=2, and so on) is used to convert the letters in the question into numbers, which are then added. The sum (according to Shao Yong), is transformed into the upper bigram. b) The hour, month, and year are automatically obtained from the computer. A specific algorithm is applied in order to combine these with the day and convert them into the lower bigram (again according to Shao Yong). c) The numerical values of the lower and the upper bigram are the coordinates for finding the tetragram with the nine appraisals, one of which is determined as the answer by transforming hour and minute (freely according to Shao Yong's method). Texts: The basis of this app is that T'ai Hsüan Ching. Instead of my own words, without exception I have used proverbs and quotations from all over the world, whose fields of meaning either coincide or at least overlap with the key words of the appraisals. This eventually results in a relatively autonomous canon of answers, a Mystery- wordplay, so to speak, reminiscent of T'ai Hsüan Ching and I Ching and mimics its systematics so stringently so that I believe that it is justified to access it according to Shao Yong's guidelines . - And Yang Xiong would certainly have turned a blind eye to this as well. For Nicolas
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Glide Oracle at 75% against THE YOUNG I Ching's 0%. Glide Oracle also leads on update cadence (every 8 days vs every 28 months) and iOS requirement (8.0 vs 12.0.0). THE YOUNG I Ching's advantage is device support (3 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Glide Oracle ships an update every 8 days, THE YOUNG I Ching every 28 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Glide Oracle | THE YOUNG I Ching |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (1 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Every 28 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 8.0 — better | 12.0.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 20 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Mark Buchanan | Rainer Jauernig |
Customer experience
Glide Oracle
THE YOUNG I Ching
In-app purchases
Glide Oracle
No in-app purchases
THE YOUNG I Ching
No in-app purchases
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