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Caomu Jingwei — Overview
STATUS: AVAILABLEUPDATED: SOURCE: PUBLIC PROJECT RECORD
Current facts
- Current product
- Caomu Jingwei
- Current version
- 1.0
- Current status
- Publicly distributed on the Mac App Store 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 one-time purchase called Complete Archive. Exact storefront pricing is not recorded here.
- Platforms
- macOS 14 or later.
- Languages
- App Store metadata is available in English, French, Hindi, Japanese, Korean, and Chinese. The exact in-app localization coverage is not confirmed here.
- 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
- App Store metadata still points both Support and Privacy to legacy news.jiangfinance.com routes that currently return 404. Inspected v1.0 archives independently embed the legacy Privacy URL. Current accessibility coverage, localization completeness and support backlog are unknown.
- Next release
- Version number, scope, and date are unknown. No future release is promised by this document.
- Last updated
- 2026-08-11.
Its public scope is the connection between classical sources, historical names, editions, collection records, provenance, rights context and traceable references.