I’m exploring tarot and wound up purchasing a number of the Fool’s Dog apps. I got this sampler to get a feel for the different decks, but I’ve wound up using it for my Today’s Card drawing every day because it shows the card from four different decks! How great to be able to compare the symbolism from the different decks…and it’s also a way to more deeply embrace and learn the cards, one at a time. You can set your main settings to show the universal meanings across all decks, but if you select Never, you’ll see the different takes on a particular card as represented by the respective books for the decks, some of which are far more detailed than others. Explore is also a very fine feature of this Tarot Sampler app because you can select an individual card and see a handful of versions of that card from the different decks. It’s a fantastic way to develop an intuitive approach to the tarot. The only weirdness I’ve seen so far is that, if you try to turn off too many of the decks (I’m so NOT into the vampire/zombie stuff), you’ll get odd error messages like “King of Swords missing and 24 others missing.” Does that mean that the individual decks are only subsets of the full decks? I can understand that from a licensing standpoint, but the error messages probably should be suppressed for the end user. One improvement I’d love to see in this sampler app is the ability to tap or long-press a particular card in a reading and have it replaced by that same card from a different deck, as many times as you’d like (kind of an Explore within a reading). That would make this a ten-star app!
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