Verdant Canon — Overview

Current facts

Current product

Verdant Canon

Current version

1.1.0

Current status

Publicly distributed on the App Store in selected regions since 2026-08-10. App Store ID: 6796951283.

Positioning

A Global Atlas of Chinese Botanical Classics.

Primary markets

A global audience interested in Chinese botanical classics, historical sources, and cultural archives. Geographic launch priorities have not been published.

Business model

Free download with an optional, permanent Complete Archive purchase. The verified US storefront price is USD 9.99; other storefronts show a localized price.

Platforms

iPhone, iPad, and Mac. iPhone and iPad require version 17.0 or later.

Languages

English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, Simplified Chinese, and Traditional Chinese. Original source material may remain in Chinese or its source language.

Frozen decisions

The product remains a cultural and bibliographic archive, requires no account, performs no tracking, and keeps the core archive available offline. StoreKit and user-selected external destinations are separate network boundaries.

Current priorities

No internal priority order has been published. The confirmed product direction emphasizes source traceability, historical illustrations, editions and provenance, offline collection, and multilingual discovery.

Known issues

Apple storefront Support and Privacy destinations still require publisher confirmation against the current canonical Jiang Finance pages. The installed 1.1.0 policy destination, accessibility coverage, localization completeness, and support backlog also require confirmation.

Next release

Version number, scope, and date are unknown. No future release is promised by this document.

Last updated

2026-08-23.

Its public scope is the connection between classical sources, historical names, editions, collection records, provenance, rights context and traceable references.