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I Ching: the App of Changes Lite app for iPhone and iPad


4.0 ( 7440 ratings )
Lifestyle Book
Developer: Brian Fitzgerald
Free
Current version: 4.5, last update: 7 years ago
First release : 27 Jun 2016
App size: 10.68 Mb

“To slow time down, practice enjoying the moment. It is where we spend our entire lives.” -Wu Wei, I-Ching Wisdom

This Lite version of I-Ching App of Changes allows you unlimited consults of the Book of Changes and a complete reading of your primary hexagram, changing lines and all. To get access to the journal feature, the library, the coin menu, the trigram lookup, and readings of hexagrams transformed by their changing lines, purchase the full version.

The full version of this I-Ching app is used every day around the world by novices & old souls alike to explore lifes big questions and daily uncertainties. It boasts all the features youll find in much more expensive versions, and unique aspects built at user request. The lite version contains every line of text that users of the full version love.

Heres what a few users have said about I Ching: The App of Changes:

"Of all the versions Ive used, your renderings of the texts are my heart-felt favorites. They have inspired me, made me laugh and cry and everything in between."

“It is evident that the developer of this app has invested his heart and passion into deciphering this eccentric yet sagacious book of wisdom..."

"No fortune-cookie obtuseness!"
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Some people approach the I-Ching as an oracle, others as the kind of psychic mirror that Carl Jung believed it was. Philip K. Dick believed it to be a window between alternate realities. However you choose to approach it, the deep imagery can reveal the shadows of your own attitudes to your question -- the answers buried deep below the logic of your brain in the place where myth and story live, where magic and mysticism ghost through your dreams. All of us sometimes need a sympathetic ear and wise counsel: the I-Ching can become a companion along life’s journey like no other.

Following the tradition of Baynes and countless interpreters of the original texts, Ive written commentaries which borrow words and inspiration from a multitude of sources; Bob Dylan, Lao Tzu, Doctor Who, T.S. Eliot, King Kong, Philip K. Dick, John Lennon, Joseph Campbell, and Martin Luther King all make cameo appearances. The language, unlike so many translations, makes every attempt to be gender-neutral.

I wanted the sparest interface possible. No fake parchment backgrounds, no gimmicky images of bamboo or cartoon sages. I tried not to imitate materials in the real world, but to let this app be its own thing, at home in its digital space. The YinYang symbol I adopted as a button breathes quietly. Changing lines appear in grey and animate gently between solid and broken and back again, expressing their nature through a visual change rather than the ink convention of an X or an O. The primary colour palette is limited to black, dark grey, light grey, blue, and white smoke. Texts fade in rather than flash.

I strived to create a quiet, reflective, slowed down experience in an environment that normally shouts.

I hope you enjoy using this app as much as I enjoy crafting it, improving it, and hearing from people who have found it helpful in their lives.