Comparison

大康熙字典 vs 星海子平

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

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大康熙字典

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《康熙字典》是学习传统文化不可或缺的工具。本APP内置了最全本的《康熙字典》,并按传统方式实现了字头检索汉字。同时基于现代人的习惯,还实现了搜索、拼音检索、注音检索、部首检索、笔画检索。最重要的,我们还为它添加了汉字识别功能,这就意味着我们可以对实物上的汉字,通过本APP进行查看释义。 《康熙字典》是一部成书于清朝康熙五十五年(1716年)的汉字字典,记录了当时汉语中汉字的点画写法、音读和义训。《康熙字典》共载47,043字。按地支分为十二集,每集再分为上、中、下3卷,构成正文共36卷。同时以214个部首分类,一一列出《广韵》、《集韵》、《韵会》、《唐韵》等韵书的音切,并注有“反切”、“直音”两种注音。出处、及参考等,多引《尚书》、《孟子》、《庄子》、《荀子》、《史记》、《左传》等经、史、子、集之书为证。

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星海子平

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Every judgement names its source. Xinghai Ziping is a working environment for BaZi (Four Pillars) and Zi Wei Dou Shu, built on primary texts rather than on fortune-telling copy. Cast a chart, then read what the classics actually say about it: the book, the chapter and the passage. BAZI · FOUR PILLARS • Four pillars, luck pillars (Da Yun) and annual pillars from a date and time of birth • Chart structure analysis — Officer, Resource, Dominant, Following, Hour Indirect Wealth and more — with the favourable and unfavourable direction set out • Three reading axes: wealth and career, the six relations, health • Year and month readings across the current ten-year luck cycle, each one shown with its reasoning ZI WEI DOU SHU • Twelve palaces with star placements, plus the major and annual limits • A linked view that reads Zi Wei and Ziping BaZi side by side LIU YAO • Cast hexagrams with Na Jia line assignments and month/day markers • A hexagram case library, so a casting can be compared against recorded ones CLASSICS LIBRARY • 102 works and 8,598 chapters, all offline: Yuan Hai Zi Ping, San Ming Tong Hui, Shen Feng Tong Kao, Di Tian Sui, Zi Wei Dou Shu Quan Shu, Zeng Shan Bu Yi, Bu Shi Zheng Zong and many more • Clean original text — no OCR noise, no rewriting • Search across works, chapters and sections CASE LIBRARY • 5,000+ documented BaZi charts and 460+ Liu Yao castings • Filter by pillars, hexagram or birth date, and open any case to set it against the chart on screen • Similar-chart search: take the chart you are reading as a reference and rank the library by similarity LAYOUT • Built for both orientations — portrait for reading, landscape for wide tables and long charts • Rotating keeps your place, your filters and your search LANGUAGES • English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese • Classical quotations stay in the original Chinese. This is a deliberate scholarly rule, stated inside the app — not missing translation HOW THIS APP THINKS • Every judgement rests on a cited classical source; we never present our own reading as ancient text • Health-related notes organise a cultural Five Elements framework. They are not medical advice • Results are for cultural study and enjoyment, not prediction MEMBERSHIP • Some features need a membership: the case libraries, similar-chart search and the member classics • Membership is a one-time purchase for a fixed term (1 year or 5 years). It does not renew automatically and is never charged automatically • Terms and prices are shown in the app and under In-App Purchases • 10 works are free forever, with no purchase needed PRIVACY • All chart calculation runs on your device. We do not collect or upload your personal data Read your chart, in the words of the classics.

Screenshots

大康熙字典4 screens
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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: 星海子平 at Free against 大康熙字典's $6.99. 星海子平 also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 40 months) and iOS requirement (16.0 vs 18.6). 大康熙字典's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 4). On 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

星海子平 is free to download; 大康熙字典 costs $6.99 up front. 星海子平 sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. 大康熙字典 asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

大康熙字典 ships an update every 40 months, 星海子平 every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 3 level
大康熙字典 versus 星海子平: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameter大康熙字典星海子平
Price$6.99Free — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Update frequencyEvery 40 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.616.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size98 MB26 MB
Age rating4+17+
Developer友华 姜海波 张

In-app purchases

None

大康熙字典

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

星海子平

One-time4
  • 案例参考练习库$0.99
  • 季度会员$9.99
  • 一年期会员$24.99
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  • 五年期会员$99.99

Questions

Is 大康熙字典 free?
大康熙字典 costs $6.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is 星海子平 free?
星海子平 is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do 大康熙字典 or 星海子平 have ads?
Neither 大康熙字典 nor 星海子平 shows ads.
Which is updated more often, 大康熙字典 or 星海子平?
大康熙字典 ships an update every 40 months, and 星海子平 every 4 days. Most recently, 大康熙字典 was updated on October 27, 2026 and 星海子平 on October 25, 2026.

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