One Chinese saying a day.
Read it, hear it, and learn the story behind it. Two minutes each morning, on a poster worth looking at.
Coming soon to the App Store
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Read it, hear it, and learn the story behind it. Two minutes each morning, on a poster worth looking at.
Every saying arrives set the way it deserves: the characters large, the pinyin under them, the English in its own voice, and the person who said it.
Tap the pinyin and hear it read aloud. All four hundred and eleven sayings are recorded, not synthesised on the fly.
Swipe once and the saying opens into the passage it came from, in the original and in translation, with a note on what it actually meant and how it gets used.
A breakdown gives every character its own reading and gloss, so a line you liked becomes a line you can partly read.
One switch, everywhere: the poster, the story, the widget, the notification. Pinyin and audio are the same in both.
From Laozi and Sun Tzu to Lu Xun and Bruce Lee, each drawn from a verifiable, out-of-copyright text and cited to the work and chapter it came from.
By topic, from patience to strategy, or by who said it: the schools of thought, the poets, the statesmen, the generals, the proverbs.
Each one a photograph or a pattern with its own ink, its own Chinese face and its own Latin face. The whole app changes with it.
Chalk, seal script, jade, gold. Pick the one that belongs on your Home Screen.
The day's saying on your Home Screen, or the English line, the Chinese line, or a character of the day on the lock screen.
From once a day to ten, inside the hours you choose, on the days you choose. Free on every tier, because a habit shouldn't be the paid part.
No account, no sign-in, no analytics, no tracking, no ads. Your favourites, your history and your settings are written to your iPhone and stay there. Nothing is sent anywhere, because there is nowhere to send it.
Purchases go through Apple, so even those never reach me. See the privacy policy, which is short.
Today's saying, its audio, its breakdown and your reminders are free forever, along with a set of themes and icons.
Prices in US dollars. Apple sets the equivalent in your region. Full details in the terms.