Self-knowledge without the sales pitch
QiLife is a set of free wellness self-assessments built on the classical pattern model of traditional Chinese medicine. No account, no email wall, no upsell in the middle of a questionnaire.
Why it exists
The useful thing about TCM is not that it has an answer for everything — it is that it treats your complaints as one connected picture rather than an unrelated list. Why you are tired, why your hands are cold, why your digestion collapses under stress: pattern thinking links them.
Most online "body type quizzes" either are not scoring anything at all, or hide their logic. QiLife does the opposite: the weights, the thresholds and the failure modes are all published on the method page, and every result shows which of your answers produced it.
What makes it different
- Seven play modes, one scoring model. A story-mode run and a 27-item run are directly comparable, which is the only way a progress chart means anything.
- Honest confidence. Every result tells you how much to trust it, and why.
- Explainable results. The four answers that pushed your profile hardest are listed on the result page.
- Links into reference material. Acupoints come with location, technique and contraindications — including the two points we tell pregnant readers to avoid.
- No data business. Nothing is sold, and results live in your browser by default.
How it is built
The site is static-first: the assessments, the scoring engine and the reference library run entirely in your browser, with no per-page server round trip. A small optional server handles anonymous storage, shareable result links and AI-generated deep reports. Nothing about taking an assessment depends on that server being up.
Sources and licences
Reference entries can be drafted from open sources — Wikipedia and DBpedia for definitions, open-access literature for research pointers. Every draft is rewritten and checked by hand before it goes live, and anything still credited to an outside source is listed here with its licence.
What we are careful about
Traditional medicine has real limits, and product pages usually hide them. We try not to. These assessments cannot diagnose, cannot detect disease, and are calibrated on a general adult audience. We also avoid the two habits that make wellness content untrustworthy: claiming a national standard we do not meet, and using absolute language ("cures", "treats", "fixes") for things nobody can promise.