Comparison

I Ching vs sp8cetime

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 provides users with a tool for self-divination using the ancient I Ching (Book of Changes) principles. It offers guidance on various life aspects, including luck, love, career, and health, helping users understand their current situation and navigate future challenges.

Highlights
  • Divination across 13 categories
  • Guidance on luck, love, career, and health
  • Ancient I Ching principles
  • Self-divination tool
  • Future status guidance
  • Unique Taiji circle animation
Features
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Producer: Master Miao You (Graduated in U.S.A with a Master Degree, M.Sc.) Users can divine the following 13 categories:  1. Luck  2. Wish  3. Love  4. Marriage  5. Family  6. Health  7. Disease  8. Business  9. Investment  10. Job-hunting  11. Entrepreneurship  12. Study  13. Dispute None of the people, ancient and modern, Chinese and foreign, doesn’t depend on divination to ask questions, good or ill luck. About what is detailed and comes true, Divination of I Ching (also known as the Book of Changes) is the first and best. The software program (I Ching Tarot) helps diviner to explore the vast universe, search for the intelligence hidden in it by adopting the intelligence of I Ching, thus make them have good luck, avoid ill luck, gain fortune and absorb happiness, grasp preemptive opportunities in everything, wishful rich and auspicious. The software is easy to study, use, operate and understand within one minute. I Ching, with thousands of years’ culture, is in the first place of Chinese intelligence with What I Ching shows to people is the vast and rich universe world. Whoever is the ancient emperors, generals or dignitaries, or modern billionaires, busy and successful persons, all take Divination of I Ching as the tool and weapon have good luck, avoid ill luck, gain fortune and absorb happiness and solve problems, making them fill with confidence and grasp opportunity decisively and appropriately, thus turn things round, and master opportunity in everything, plan in hand, wishful, successful and rich and auspicious. There are 64 symbols that represent many minor parts in the whole universe in I Ching, every symbol represents universe intelligence code in which hides the bad and good luck, richness and poverty in the past, at present and in future. The software program is to help user with self-divination no matter what time it is and where is. The result of divination clearly shows the current situation as well as guides the future status of diviner and how to face and solve the problems. The divination shall be carried out in person, not others, and then the result will be accurate. The unique design of this software program lies in there is one Taiji circle is rotating when divining, the rotation speed of this Taiji circle is carefully designed, which makes diviner correspond with the sun, the moon, stars and universe as a whole as well as divination be more accurate. The diviner can also feel the positive quantity of magnetic field, which makes his mood calm and happy. Because human body is small universe, only divination in person can correspond with large universe as a whole, making result more accurate. The secret is disguised here for you, then you will become a professional diviner, no need to ask others. Another special function of the software program is with divination indexes (Rating). For example, divination of luck, there is luck index, divination of investment, there is investment index, deviation of love, there is love index, the highest index is five stars. Therefore, after divination, you can know about the good and ill luck of divination results form divination index except the detailed description of divination result content, make you know about the current status and future more clearly. When the software program is operated, symbols of I Ching will appear on the background as wall paper which are all most auspicious chosen from 64 symbols in I Ching. When you operate, you can often see them, which can make you luck better.

About

sp8cetime

Explore the cyclical nature of time and dimensions of space through the lens of Chinese Metaphysics. Discover patterns beyond the ordinary, tracing the creation, process, and return of all things. Understand the fundamental principles that govern the universe and your place within it.

Highlights
  • Cyclical time measurement
  • Spatial dimension exploration
  • Chinese Metaphysics principles
  • Patterns of creation, process, return
  • Heaven and Earth movements
  • Wind and Water guidance
  • Dao, Wuji, Taiji, Yin/Yang, Elements, Trigrams, Stems, Branches
Features
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sp8cetime (spacetime) measures the cyclical nature of time and the boundless dimensions of space. Based on principles of Chinese Metaphysics, it explores patterns of our world beyond the ordinary and observable: the creation, process, and return — of Ten Thousand Things. Follow the movements of Heaven and Earth as they rise and fall through time. Guide the path of Wind and Water as they carve and pass through space. Witness the source that binds all things and find your place along the Way. Dao 0 Wuji 1 Taiji 2 Polarities (Yin, Yang) 3 Realms (Heaven, Earth, Man) 4 Images (Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter) 5 Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) 8 Trigrams (Heaven, Lake, Fire, Thunder, Wind, Water, Mountain, Earth) 10 Heavenly Stems (Tree, Flower, Sun, Flame, Mountain, Soil, Iron, Gold, Ocean, Mist) 12 Earthly Branches (Rat, Ox, Tiger, Rabbit, Dragon, Snake, Horse, Goat, Monkey, Rooster, Pig) ---------- This application supports both English and Chinese. Some text is only available in English. Designed for handheld phones only. Membership is $9.99 USD/month or $99.99 USD/year.

Screenshots

I Ching4 screens
sp8cetime4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: sp8cetime at 91% against I Ching's 0%. I Ching's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. I Ching sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and sp8cetime sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

I Ching ships an update every 15 months, sp8cetime every 10 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and November 3, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
I Ching versus sp8cetime: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterI Chingsp8cetime
PriceFreeFree
Rating—4.8 (90 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews90.9% of reviews — better
Number of ratings—90 — better
Update frequencyEvery 15 monthsEvery 10 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS10.0 — better11.0
Further details — not scored
Size15 MB180 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperKeung Wah ChanI Love View Inc.

Customer experience

I Ching

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

sp8cetime

All ratings90 ratings
Positive95.6%
Neutral1.1%
Negative3.3%
Written reviews33 reviews
Positive90.9%
Neutral3.0%
Negative6.1%

Bugs and requests

I Ching

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

sp8cetime

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • App stuck at initial load screen
  • Wrong polarity for water/fire branch
  • QMDJ page resets when exiting app
  • QMDJ not linked with Bazi data

Requested features

5 requests
  • Add seconds pillar for horary Oracle
  • Improve QMDJ persistence and linking
  • Add map locations for Feng Shui
  • Add in-app guidance for understanding concepts
  • Add translation option for other languages

In-app purchases

1 purchases

I Ching

One-time1
  • I Ching -- The Full Feature Version$4.99
2 purchases

sp8cetime

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly $9.99$9.991 Month
  • Yearly $99.99$99.991 Year

Questions

Is I Ching free?
I Ching is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is sp8cetime free?
sp8cetime is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do I Ching or sp8cetime have ads?
Neither I Ching nor sp8cetime shows ads.
Which is updated more often, I Ching or sp8cetime?
I Ching ships an update every 15 months, and sp8cetime every 10 months. Most recently, I Ching was updated on November 1, 2026 and sp8cetime on November 3, 2026.

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