Comparison

Ganzhi Diary vs Six Throws

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

Head to head
About

Ganzhi Diary

Features
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GanzhiDiary is a personal wellness journal rooted in the traditional Chinese calendar and the five-element system. Record your daily mood, energy, body, and flow — and discover how your personal rhythms align with the ancient cycles of wood, fire, earth, metal, and water. FEATURES • Daily Log — Rate four dimensions (mood, energy, body, flow) on a simple 1–9 scale, add optional notes. • Ganzhi Display — See today's year, month, and day pillars (干支三柱) with elements color-coded. • Five-Element Bar — Visual breakdown of the day's elemental composition based on three-pillar blending. • Insights Radar — Bayesian affinity scores reveal which elements resonate most with your personal state. • Ganzhi Ranking — Discover which stem-branch combinations correlate with your best and worst days. • Rhythm Chart — 7-day moving average trend to spot weekly patterns. • Calendar View — Monthly overview with logging status dots, historical review, and precise seasonal term calendar transitions.

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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.

Screenshots

Ganzhi Diary4 screens
Six Throws4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Six Throws at every 4 days against Ganzhi Diary's every 3 weeks. 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

Ganzhi Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, Six Throws every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 5 level
Ganzhi Diary versus Six Throws: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGanzhi DiarySix Throws
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS16.4 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size257 MB23 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developerxinchen zhouYadong Xie

In-app purchases

None

Ganzhi Diary

No in-app purchases

None

Six Throws

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Ganzhi Diary free?
Ganzhi Diary is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Six Throws free?
Six Throws is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Ganzhi Diary or Six Throws have ads?
Neither Ganzhi Diary nor Six Throws shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Ganzhi Diary or Six Throws?
Ganzhi Diary ships an update every 3 weeks, and Six Throws every 4 days. Most recently, Ganzhi Diary was updated on November 5, 2026 and Six Throws on October 31, 2026.

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