Comparison

I Ching vs Tenets Oracle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

I Ching

This app offers daily insights from the I Ching, a year-long Taoist reflection journey, and guided QiGong exercises. It aims to provide wisdom, balance, and personal growth through ancient practices and AI analysis.

Highlights
  • AI-powered I Ching readings
  • Daily Taoist reflections
  • Guided QiGong exercises
  • Personal growth tools
  • Mindfulness and balance cultivation
  • Ancient wisdom exploration
Features
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I Ching is a calm, trustworthy reference and consultation app for the Book of Changes—built for thoughtful reading, not hype. FREE LIBRARY — ALL 64 HEXAGRAMS Browse and search every hexagram with complete core meanings: names, glyph, trigrams, Judgment, Image, overview, spirit, shadow, sage advice, and all six line readings. The library works offline and is available in English and Spanish. FULL ACCESS — ONE-TIME PURCHASE Unlock the full practice with a single non-consumable purchase. No subscription. No account required. • Guided three-coin casting and manual line entry • Changing-line readings and transformed hexagram • Twelve situation lenses—for love, career, business, family, money, personal growth, learning, creativity, decisions and timing, spirituality, friendship, and life transitions • Private on-device reading journal • Share readings in a clear, text-based format TRY BEFORE YOU BUY New users can start a free seven-day Full Access preview. When it ends, your free library and journal data remain. You choose whether to unlock Full Access. FOR EXISTING CUSTOMERS If you already bought the app, you keep Full Access after updating—casting and journaling stay included. Restore Purchases is available for new unlocks. PRIVATE & OFFLINE Core content is bundled on your device. Journal entries stay on your phone unless you choose to share them. No sign-in required for v1. I Ching is for reflection and study. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, or guaranteed predictive advice. Restore Purchases anytime from Settings.

About

Tenets Oracle

Features
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HexAI is a complete I Ching companion: a scholarly edition of the classic, a reading journal, and an interpretation engine that runs entirely on your device. No account. No cloud. No tracking. **CONSULT** Cast with traditional yarrow-stalk probabilities or three coins. Every reading gives you the full classical translation by James Legge (1882) — Judgment, Image, and all six line texts — plus a structural analysis of trigrams, nuclear hexagrams, and line relationships under three scholarly reading protocols (Wilhelm, Master Yin, Zhu Xi). **TWO LENSES** AI guidance is generated privately — by Apple Intelligence on your device, or by a local model server you run yourself (LM Studio, Ollama, MLX). The Traditional lens reads through the classical text. The Depth lens reads the same hexagram as a mirror of the psyche — shadow, projection, and the work of individuation — grounded in an original archetypal commentary written for this app. Then keep asking: every reading supports a follow-up dialogue. **REFLECT** Your readings build into a searchable Library with notes and tags. The Patterns view shows what recurs: a bagua wheel of your most frequent trigrams, a timeline of your consultations, and AI-clustered themes beneath your questions. When a hexagram returns, HexAI shows you every time it has appeared before — and asks what that suggests. **YOURS** Everything stays on your device. Export your complete journal as CSV or a full JSON archive whenever you like. Import your history from other tools. The I Ching has been consulted for three thousand years. HexAI gives it a private, permanent place in your pocket — and on your Mac.

Screenshots

I Ching4 screens
Tenets Oracle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tenets Oracle at every 5 days against I Ching's every 2 weeks. I Ching's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0.0 vs 18.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

I Ching ships an update every 2 weeks, Tenets Oracle every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
I Ching versus Tenets Oracle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterI ChingTenets Oracle
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.7 (26 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews88.9% of reviews—
Number of ratings26 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationPaid—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, Mac
Requires iOS15.0.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size43 MB3 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJames GodwinDamian Spendel

In-app purchases

None

I Ching

No in-app purchases

None

Tenets Oracle

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is I Ching free?
I Ching is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Tenets Oracle free?
Tenets Oracle is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do I Ching or Tenets Oracle have ads?
Neither I Ching nor Tenets Oracle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, I Ching or Tenets Oracle?
I Ching ships an update every 2 weeks, and Tenets Oracle every 5 days. Most recently, I Ching was updated on November 3, 2026 and Tenets Oracle on November 5, 2026.

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