Ganzhi Diary vs Six Throws
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Ganzhi Diary
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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.
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 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
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.
| Parameter | Ganzhi Diary | Six Throws |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 257 MB | 23 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | xinchen zhou | Yadong Xie |
In-app purchases
Ganzhi Diary
No in-app purchases
Six Throws
No in-app purchases









