# Four Books: Confucian Classics

> An Intro to Confucian Thought

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## Overview

- **ID:** `id6747745289`
- **Platform:** Apple
- **Type:** Apple app
- **Status:** Available
- **Publisher:** Daoxue Academy
- **Category:** Books
- **Rating:** 5.00 / 5 (5 ratings)
- **Version:** 1.9.1
- **Last updated:** 2026-09-18
- **First published:** 2025-12-12
- **Size:** 83 MB
- **Data as of:** 2026-09-21
- **Store listing:** [Apple App Store](https://apps.apple.com/us/app/four-books-confucian-classics/id6747745289)
- **Website:** [https://www.daoxue.academy](https://www.daoxue.academy/)
- **Privacy policy:** [https://www.daoxue.academy/privacy](https://www.daoxue.academy/privacy)

## Description

The Four Books App is a book reader and scholarly utility which presents the traditional Confucian curriculum: the Great Learning, the Discourses of Confucius (the Analects), the Book of Mengzi (Mencius), and the Doctrine of the Mean. A six-year translation project in progress. New verses arrive in the app around the first of each month.

-- Ancient Teachings, Correct Transmission, Modern Tech --

Traditional Interpretation
• A public benefit project to translate Zhu Xi’s “Four Books with Collected Commentaries” 四書章句集注: the classic that defined orthodox Confucianism and served as the basis of the imperial examinations from 1313 to 1905.

Established Lexicon
• Builds upon the translation lexicon perfected by Wing-tsit Chan (A Source Book in Chinese Philosophy), with roots going back to James Legge (The Chinese Classics). Honoring lineage—with conservative refinements. Uses modern pinyin, of course.

Learn Classical Chinese
• Study Classical and Middle Chinese with literal glosses for grammar and per-character meaning. Highly configurable dual-language presentation parsable by sentence.

Reading Experience
• Meticulous attention to readability: translation, typography, and a full-screen reader for iPad. This Classic deserves to be both scholarly and good reading, just as the native text is.

Optimized Multi-platform
• iPhone features intuitive tab bar design for one-handed navigation, while iPad leverages a powerful sidebar for efficient browsing through verses. Designed for iOS 26. Also runs on Apple Silicon Macs.

Apple Native UI
• Pure Apple native tech throughout: SwiftUI, FTS5 search, and an embedded SQLite Confucian database for lightning-fast location of verses, key terms, named persons and named texts. 

-- Basic App & Scholar Pack In-app Purchase --

Basic App:
• Core Ancient Verses: 284 most influential
• Language: English translation only
• Search: Basic, English-only
• Encyclopedia: Ancient figures only

Scholar Pack:
• All Ancient Verses: 804 complete
• Traditional Commentary
• Language: English & Classical Chinese
• Tap Character for Literal Gloss
• Full-Verse Literal Gloss Sheets
• Sentence-Level Parsing Tool
• Search: English & Chinese
• Encyclopedia: Ancient and medieval figures
• Book 5: Explanation of Terms

• No ads, no account creation, no data collection
• Small offline app, low battery usage

Scholar Pack is a single in-app purchase that includes everything above. It has a final target price, but is currently priced lower based on the percentage completion of the translation. One-time purchase, with all future content delivered free.

-- Reach Out --

Please contact us at support@daoxue.academy, or using the in-app contact tools in settings, with questions or requests. We are committed to continual refinement and making this the optimal Confucian Classics app for both scholars and readers.

## Rankings

- #431,791 — Overall

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