EbbsFlow vs Six Throws
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
EbbsFlow
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EbbsFlow brings 2,000 years of Traditional Chinese Medicine wisdom to your wrist — and now to your phone too. Your Watch runs EbbsFlow independently, no paired phone required. With the new phone companion app, you also get home screen widgets and a theme gallery that sync your favorite dial straight to your watch. ◈ THE SHICHEN WHEEL Turn the Digital Crown through 12 two-hour periods. Each Shichen governs an organ and meridian — liver at 1 AM, lungs at 3 AM, stomach at 7 AM. See at a glance exactly what your body needs right now. ◈ RED PANDA COMPANION A charming red panda shifts its pose with the time of day — your gentle guide from dawn to rest. ◈ PHONE HOME SCREEN WIDGETS (NEW) Add small, medium, or large widgets to your phone home screen for the current Shichen, active meridian, and wellness tip — wellness reminders, always at hand. ◈ THEME GALLERY & CROSS-DEVICE SYNC (NEW) Browse 15 finely crafted traditional textures — ink wash, cloud patterns, gold leaf, Cloisonné, Cloud Brocade and more. Preview them on a live dial card, pick your favorite, and push it to your Watch in one tap. Buy a premium theme once and it unlocks on both phone and Watch, with restore supported. ◈ COMPLICATIONS & THEMED BACKGROUND Corner, Circular, and Rectangular complications keep Shichen awareness on your watch face; your chosen texture becomes the watch-face background. ◈ GENTLE NOTIFICATIONS Optional period-change nudges, with smart Quiet Mode from 10 PM to 6 AM so sleep stays sacred. ◈ FULL LOCALIZATION English, 简体中文, 繁體中文, 日本語, 한국어 — complete TCM content translated for every market. Stop fighting time. Start flowing with it. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula Privacy: https://3523128.com/EbbsFlow/privacy
Six Throws
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Hold one question in mind, take a breath, throw the coins six times, and read the hexagram. COINS THAT FOLLOW YOUR HAND Three worn Qianlong cash coins are driven in real time by the phone's motion sensors. Push your hand up and stop, and they fly on by inertia: tumbling, clinking, landing on the table, each impact with its own sound and haptic. Prefer not to move the phone? Tap the coins instead. EXACTLY FAIR Every coin is exactly fifty-fifty, guaranteed by a cryptographically secure random bit. How it works is explained in plain language inside the app. A READING YOU CAN FOLLOW Which text applies is decided by Zhu Xi's seven rules for changing lines. Every text is shown three ways: the Chinese original, a literal English rendering, and a reading in plain words that follows Zhu Xi's 12th-century commentary line by line. It adds no promises the text does not make and softens none of its warnings. THE WHOLE BOOK IN YOUR POCKET All 64 hexagrams: judgment, Tuan commentary, the Image, six lines and the small Image commentary. Available in Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, English, Japanese and Korean. The Chinese text was collated against two standard editions; the English was translated fresh and does not reproduce any published translation. WHAT IT DOES NOT DO It does not predict events and it does not decide for you, and it is no substitute for medical, legal or financial advice. The text offers a way of looking at your situation. Fully offline. No accounts, no data collected, no ads.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Six Throws at none against EbbsFlow's 6. Six Throws also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs monthly). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. EbbsFlow sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Six Throws asks for nothing beyond the download.
EbbsFlow ships an update monthly, Six Throws every 4 days. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | EbbsFlow | Six Throws |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, Apple Watch |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Jun Liu | Yadong Xie |
In-app purchases
EbbsFlow
- Theme: Black Gold Slate$0.99
- Theme: Cinnabar Red$0.99
- Theme: Auspicious Clouds$0.99
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- Theme: Tides of Time$0.99
- Theme: Brocade$1.99
- Theme: Cloisonné$1.99
Six Throws
No in-app purchases









