Jizhi: Chinese Poetry & Colors
Color Palette & Poem Widgets
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
New ink-wash themes: ink blooms across xuan paper and follows your finger. Midnight Ink brings drifting colors and a faint gold glow for reading poetry at night.
"Red beans grow in the southern land; come spring, how many sprigs (jizhi) will bloom?" — Wang Wei
Jizhi is a quiet, beautiful home for classical Chinese poetry and traditional Chinese colors. Each day it brings you a verse that fits the season and the sky, paints it in a traditional Chinese color, and lets you keep it as a card, a wallpaper, or a widget.
NEW: INK THAT FOLLOWS YOUR FINGER
• Xuan Paper Ink: ink blooms slowly across rice paper, and flows wherever your finger moves
• Midnight Ink: colors drift across dark paper with a faint glow of gold, for gentle reading at night
• Both themes are free for everyone
Please note: the app interface and all poems are in Chinese (Simplified or Traditional). Jizhi is made for readers of Chinese — whether you grew up with these poems or are learning to read them.
A TRADITIONAL CHINESE COLOR PALETTE
• Every verse is paired with a traditional Chinese color, with its classical name and literary source
• Daily picks follow the season, the solar terms and the time of day
• Seven living themes — ink wash, midnight ink, sea breeze, cherry blossoms, starry sky, fireflies, river moon — with separate picks for day and night
POEM CARD STUDIO
• Five original card styles: Elegant, Ink, Minimal, Sakura, Misty Rain
• Three layouts, including classic vertical writing read right to left
• Smart line breaking that never leaves a single character alone on a line
• Add a seal stamp and export HD wallpapers and long share images
MORE THAN TANG AND SONG POETRY
• Thousands of poems from the Tang, Song and Yuan dynasties and beyond
• Five classics: the Book of Songs (all 305 poems, annotated), the Analects of Confucius, the Tao Te Ching, the I Ching and The Art of War
READ SLOWLY, READ DEEPLY
• Tap any character for pinyin, radical, animated stroke order and its Shuowen Jiezi definition
• Notes, modern Chinese translations, background and commentary for each poem
• Gentle voice recitations that bring out the rhythm of the verse
ON YOUR HOME SCREEN AND WRIST
• Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets with traditional paper textures: boats, mountains, ink wash, xuan paper
• A standalone Apple Watch app with vertical layout and color themes — read a poem without your phone
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JIZHI MEMBERSHIP
Core reading is free. Membership unlocks:
• All premium widget papers, textures and layouts
• Unlimited favorites, synced across devices
• Full access to the classics library
• Unlimited voice recitations
• An ad-free experience
Subscription terms:
• Payment is charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase
• Subscriptions renew automatically unless turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, in your Apple ID account settings
• Privacy Policy: https://jizhi.yichenlab.com/privacy
• Terms of Use: https://jizhi.yichenlab.com/subscription
• Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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FROM THE DEVELOPER
Jizhi is an independent app, built out of love for classical Chinese writing and the quiet beauty of empty space. If you enjoy it, a review on the App Store means a lot. Questions or ideas? Write to Hugo3641+jizhi@gmail.com
May these lines, a thousand years old, bring a little calm to your day.
Keep a favorite line on your home screen.
• In a poem's full text, tap the home icon to pick any line and show it on the home page
• Send a saved line back to the home page in one tap; refreshing picks a new poem as usual
• Bug fixes and stability improvements
The developer, Chengdu Yichen Technology Co., Ltd, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Used to Track You
The following data may be used to track you across apps and websites owned by other companies:
- Usage Data
Data Not Linked to You
The following data may be collected but it is not linked to your identity:
- Usage Data
- Diagnostics
Accessibility
The developer has not yet indicated which accessibility features this app supports. Learn More
Information
- Seller
- Chengdu Yichen Technology Co., Ltd
- Size
- 146.3 MB
- Category
- Education
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 17.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 17.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 14.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 1.0 or later. - Apple Watch
Requires watchOS 10.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Languages
- Simplified Chinese and Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- 连续包年 $9.99
- 连续包月 $0.99
- 终身会员 $19.99
- 连续包年 $9.99
- Copyright
- © Jizhi