iArtOfWar: Sun Tzu Art of War

Sun Tzu and the Thirty-Six Stratagems, offline. Read Chinese and English side by side, recite with highlighting, train your memory, and unlock a fresh stratagem daily.

For over two thousand years the strategy in China's military classics has stayed sharp. iArtOfWar brings the greatest of them together so you can read, recite, memorize, and reflect anywhere, fully offline. It is not a plain text dump but a portable strategy classroom: every classic comes with side-by-side translation, a recitation studio, four memory-training modes, and a daily stratagem, woven into widgets, Siri, Spotlight, and Control Center. No account, no ads, no tracking.

THE LIBRARY, FULLY OFFLINE

• The Art of War by Sun Tzu, all 13 chapters, aligned paragraph by paragraph with the classic Lionel Giles 1910 English, a public-domain translation loved for a century.
• Sun Bin's Art of War, restored from the Yinqueshan Han bamboo slips, with one clean note where the original is fragmentary instead of cluttered footnotes.
• Together with Sun Tzu they complete the Seven Military Classics: Wuzi, the Methods of Sima, the Six Secret Teachings, the Three Strategies, Wei Liaozi, and the Questions and Replies of Tang Taizong and Li Weigong.
• The Thirty-Six Stratagems, all 36 across six suites, each with a guide, a plain-language reading, and a short English synopsis.
• 174 passages in all, around 840 aligned vernacular paragraphs and 840 English paragraphs, 101 famous lines and stratagems with English, and 9 author profiles.

BILINGUAL CLOSE READING

• Read Chinese and English side by side: Giles parallel for Sun Tzu, study English for Sun Bin and the Seven Classics, and a vernacular for every classic.
• Show or hide the vernacular and English anytime, or switch to Chinese only or English only.
• Both Simplified and Traditional Chinese are supported.
• Long chapters can be read in sections, and each passage remembers where you stopped.
• Immersive reading, adjustable font size and typeface, and a two-column layout on iPad.
• Turn any passage into a shareable strategy card, with English or vernacular attached.

THE RECITATION STUDIO

• Follow along with line-by-line highlighting and optional vernacular or English subtitles.
• A Playback Content matrix sets exactly what is spoken: title, author, and body, each in original, vernacular, or English, independent of what is shown on screen, so you can mix languages or use a preset.
• Continuous playback across sections and passages, background audio, playback through the silent switch, lock-screen Now Playing, and an optional Live Activity.
• Adjust speed, pitch, and volume, and keep the screen awake while you read along.

THE STRATEGY CLASSROOM

• Four modes: Fade recall, Fill in the blank, Chant check, and a multiple-choice Quiz, all tracking mastery.
• Drill a single section of a long chapter, or run a batch from your favorites and lists.
• On Home, play Keyword Hunt: find every line that contains a given character, with a high score to beat.

A STRATAGEM EVERY DAY

• A Daily Stratagem drawn from a context-aware pool tuned to solar terms, lunar-calendar festivals, and the seasons, with an optional reminder.
• Home Screen widgets for the daily stratagem, famous lines, mastery progress, and favorites.
• Control Center controls, Siri and App Intents including Keyword Hunt and Open a Classic, optional Spotlight that stays off until you enable it, Home Screen quick actions, and iartofwar deep links.

ORGANIZE YOUR STUDY

• Favorites, custom lists, notes, reading history, continue reading, a mastered list, and daily check-in streaks.
• Fast full-text search over a pre-folded index.
• Browse by book, by the Seven Military Classics collection, by the six suites of the Thirty-Six Stratagems, by the six volumes of the Six Secret Teachings, by author, or by famous line.

MAKE IT YOURS

• Themes and accent colors, three interface languages, eight alternate app icons, in-app tutorials, and tabs you can show or hide.

Download iArtOfWar and carry the wisdom of the classics with you.