Six Throws: I Ching
Book of Changes, three coins
Free · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Push the phone upward and three old cash coins fly with your hand. Six throws make a hexagram, read by the old rules: Chinese original, faithful English, plain words.
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. Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese and English. 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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· New: a calendar line above the cover, with the lunar date, the solar term, the current five-day period and the hexagram assigned to it.
· The coins now tumble and flip even when you push the phone straight up; a throw counts only once they have really turned over.
· The website is now Six Throws at sixthrows.com, and shared links and cards point there.
· Text corrections.
The developer, Yadong Xie, 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 Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
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Information
- Seller
- Yadong Xie
- Size
- 21.5 MB
- Category
- Lifestyle
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 17.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 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
English and 2 more
- English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Copyright
- © 2026 Six Throws