# Planetary Hours by Planetaro — Moon Phases, Sign, VOC, Widget

> Planetary hours calculator and moon phase calendar with location-based unequal hour division. (iPhone/iPad app by Muhammed Tanriverdi.)

- Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/planetary-hours-by-planetaro/id1533644988 (this page in markdown: same URL + `.md`)
- Developer: [Muhammed Tanriverdi](https://appshunter.io/developer/1871442495)
- Category: Lifestyle, Utilities
- Price: Free with in-app purchases
- Rating: 4.80/5 from 1,569 App Store ratings · 98 written reviews indexed
- Age rating: 4+
- Requires: iOS 16.6 · 34 MB
- Languages: American English, Arabic, French (France), German (Germany), Japanese, Brazilian Portuguese, Russian, Chinese (Simplified, China), European Spanish, Turkish
- Released: 2020-09-29
- Data updated: 2026-08-27
- Monetization: free with in-app purchases
- User reviews in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/planetary-hours-by-planetaro/id1533644988/reviews.md

## What is Planetary Hours by Planetaro?

Planetaro is a powerful planetary hours calculator and moon‑phase calendar that syncs with your location to divide each day into unequal hours from sunrise to sunset. Track which of the seven classical planets—Saturn, Jupiter, Mars, Sun, Venus, Mercury and Moon—rules each hour, and align your activities with their energies. Now featuring Moon Sign tracking and Void of Course (VOC) alerts to help you time your life with even greater precision.

Stay in tune with the sky:
• Planetary hours & moon calendar — view rulership and lunar phases at a glance
• Moon Sign & VOC tracking – Identify the current lunar zodiac sign and avoid the "Void of Course" periods when planning new projects.
• Lock & home screen widgets for iPhone and iPad, plus Apple Watch complications
• Notifications for selected planetary hours so you never miss a moment
• Multiple themes and automatic or manual location selection
• Universal app: works seamlessly on iPhone, iPad and Apple Watch

Based on the ancient Star of the Magi principle, Planetaro helps you make the most of your time by showing favorable and unfavorable moments for different activities. Explore the planetary clock that gave rise to the names of the days of the week and discover a timeless tool for self‑awareness, scheduling and astrology.

Learn more at www.planetaro.com.

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Terms & Conditions
https://planetaro.com/terms-and-conditions/

Privacy Policy
https://planetaro.com/planetaro-planetary-hours-widget-privacy-policy/

## Key features

- Planetary hours and moon calendar
- Lock and home screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
- Notifications for selected hours
- Calendar syncing
- Live Activities integration
- Multiple themes

## Pricing and in-app purchases

Base price: Free.

**Subscriptions**

| Subscription | Price | Period |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Annual Plan | $14.99 | per year |
| Monthly Plan | $2.99 | per month |

**One-time purchases**

| Purchase | Price | Type |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Lifetime Pro | $49.99 | one-time |


## What do users think of Planetary Hours by Planetaro?

Overall sentiment: positive

**Pros**

- ⭐️ Excellent app
- 🌟 Helpful for planning
- 🌍 Useful for astrology/spirituality
- 🕰️ Accurate planetary hour tracking
- 💻 Great widget and complication

**Cons**

- 💰 Expensive subscription model
- 🌐 Lack of language options
- 📆 Limited calendar view
- 🔄 Inconsistent widget updates
- 🔋 Battery drain issues

**Commonly reported bugs**

- Planetary days/hours displayed incorrectly
- Subscription issues and refund problems

**Most requested features**

- Add moon phase information
- Expand calendar view to weekly/monthly
- Improve planetary hour notifications
- Provide option for free/one-time purchase

## Recent user reviews (10 of 98)

All indexed reviews: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/planetary-hours-by-planetaro/id1533644988/reviews.md

### 1/5 — A Magical App Ruined by Subscription Creep

*2026-08-15*

I absolutely loved Planetaro before this latest update. It was one of those rare apps that was genuinely useful, beautifully designed, and earned a permanent place on my phone. The widgets in particular were a major part of the experience and something I actually used every single day.

Then I updated the app.

Suddenly, functionality I had been using without issue is locked behind yet another subscription.

And before the developer responds with the same explanation being given to other reviewers—that these features were supposedly always “Pro” and users only had access because of a years-long subscription bug—I’m sorry, but from the user’s perspective that distinction is almost meaningless.

If your app allows people to use a feature for YEARS, people integrate that feature into their daily routines, you never meaningfully interrupt that experience, and then one software update abruptly takes it away unless they start paying you every month or year, you have functionally taken an existing feature away from those users. Calling the previous access a “bug” doesn’t magically make the experience less anti-consumer.

And this is exactly what people are exhausted by.

Not every useful function on our phones needs to become another recurring payment. I am perfectly willing to PAY for good software. Charge a reasonable one-time price. Offer a lifetime unlock. Put genuinely NEW advanced capabilities into a Pro tier. There are plenty of fair ways to monetize continued development.

But taking something your longtime users have relied on and effectively saying, “Actually, you weren’t supposed to have that—subscribe now if you’d like it back,” is an excellent way to destroy goodwill.

The irony is that Planetaro was good enough that I would have happily supported its continued development. Instead, this update has made me question whether I want to support it at all.

Developers should understand the difference between adding value worth subscribing to and removing value until people subscribe to get it back.

Planetaro used to feel like a thoughtful astrology tool made for people who genuinely use planetary hours in their daily lives.

Now it feels like another app looking at previously satisfied users and asking: “What else can we turn into recurring revenue?”

Extremely disappointing.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the most thoughtful critique this update has received, and you are right about more than you might expect us to admit. From your side the distinction between a bug fix and a price change is indeed almost meaningless: you had something, you built it into your daily routine, and an update took it away without warning. If we had done that deliberately, it would deserve every word you wrote. But consider what a deliberate version would have looked like: nobody reprices in silence, with no announcement and no transition, because the only thing silence buys is exactly what happened, a wave of one star reviews. The correction itself was logged as a minor cleanup in our tracker. Nobody knew that a years-old bug had quietly been handing out Pro access at this scale, and we learned it from the reviews, which is the last way an independent developer wants to learn anything. On the explanation you have seen under other reviews: it repeats because the truth does not change from one review to the next, but every review and every mail, including yours, has been read and answered personally by the same person for six years, and this one is no exception. Your fairness principle is one we agree with, and for what it is worth, Pro was built on it: everything that existed before the subscription has stayed free since 2020, and Pro was meant to cover only what came after. This update did not move that line, it surfaced the place where a bug had quietly erased it. And one more thing, because your review deserves more than words: you asked for a fair one-time option, and you are getting it. A lifetime unlock is coming in Planetaro 2026.4, and we are committing to that here, in writing. Until then, two things are yours if you want them: the full story is at planetaro.com/six-years-of-planetaro-and-a-note-about-the-widgets/ and if you open Settings and tap "Help Us Improve the App", we will send you a personal code for a full free year of Planetaro Pro. Not as a sales tactic, simply because nobody should lose something they loved to the same bug twice.

### 1/5 — After update this app has took a major turn for the worst :(

*2026-08-15*

I rarely ever write reviews on the Apple App Store. However, the most recent update to this app demands an honest review from someone who is not new to the app. 

I have used this app for almost a year, and I have absolutely loved my experience with it so far. The little Home Screen widget that shows what planetary hour it is along with how much time has elapsed in that hour and how much is left, along with a small colored visual of said planet, and what was before and after, has been one of my favorite features. It was SO helpful and convenient. I am not a fan of opening up an app just to check for one simple thing, especially on an older generation phone. Along with this feature, there was also an additional feature that I loved, which was adding a small tiny widget to the lock screen, which basically just told you what planetary day it was and also included it’s little symbol/sigil. It was awesome, oh it’s Tuesday, mars day, and here’s its symbol as well. It was not only aesthetically pleasing, but it was incredibly helpful, especially when I was just beginning to learn the correlations to each day. 

Unfortunately, with the newest update, these features, that have been available for as long as I was using the app, are now locked behind a premium subscription paywall. This is incredibly upsetting on multiple levels. 

I have read the recent reviews and I am not the only one saying this. 

TO THE DEVELOPER: I sincerely hope that you take all of your users seriously, and I hope that you take into account that we are upset at this new update, and that we would all like our widgets and simplicity and helpfulness back. We deserve the simple features. The features listed in this comment that are now locked with the newest update, have been available to any and all users for around a year or more, and I would really appreciate it if you consider changing it back to the way it was. 

It is unfair that in the updates notes you did not include some features now only being included in premium. This is a disservice to us all, and it is also blatant trickery — something that magicians should stay away from. 

Please give us our features back. 

Thank you for your time and attention to this matter. Take care.

**Developer response:** Thank you for taking the time to write such a detailed and honest review, it deserves an equally honest answer. The two widgets you describe, the home screen widget with the elapsed and remaining time of the current planetary hour and the lock screen widget with the day ruler and its symbol, have been part of Planetaro Pro since the day they were introduced. They were never moved behind the paywall in this update. What the update fixed is a long-standing bug where an expired subscription or free trial could silently keep Pro features unlocked for years, and that is almost certainly why they worked for you all this time, most likely from a trial started when you first installed the app. On your fairness point, you are right that trickery has no place here, so here is the plain truth: we did not mention this in the release notes because we did not know, we only discovered the bug through reviews like yours, and the fix note will be in the next update notes. The core of Planetaro stays free for everyone, the planetary hours themselves, moon phases and the free home screen widget showing the current hour. And since you lost widgets you genuinely loved, let us give them back: open Planetaro, go to Settings, tap "Help Us Improve the App" and attach a screenshot of your Apple subscriptions screen showing the expired Planetaro plan, and we will send you a personal offer code for a full free year of Planetaro Pro.

### 4/5 — Forced to subscribe?

*2026-08-13*

Very disappointed that after using this app for its widgets and notifications for a long time that I’ve now been locked out of the widget feature and am being forced to pay a subscription for it. It is a good app though so I guess I might if I can’t find a free replacement.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words about the app, and we understand the disappointment, so let us explain what actually happened. You were not suddenly locked out of a free feature: this update fixed a long-standing bug where an expired subscription or free trial could silently keep Pro features unlocked for years, and that is almost certainly how the widgets had been working for you, most likely from a trial started long ago. Nothing was moved behind the paywall, and the planetary hours themselves, moon phases and the free home screen widget remain free for everyone. Before you go looking for a replacement, let us make it right: open Planetaro, go to Settings, tap "Help Us Improve the App" and attach a screenshot of your Apple subscriptions screen showing the expired Planetaro plan, and we will send you a personal offer code for a full free year of Planetaro Pro.

### 1/5 — Was best left free.

*2026-08-10*

This was one of if not the only app I used for planetary hours; I don’t want to have to pay extra to use a feature I’ve used for years. The widgets were top notch and I will be deleting this app now that I have to pay to use them. I don’t want to have a million subscriptions to apps, the best feature you had is now unavailable and I will be deleting the app. Consider returning features with no subscription and the idea that mystic knowledge such as astrology has helped me fight capitalism; but you’re giving right into it.

**Developer response:** Thank you for years of using Planetaro for planetary hours, and we hear the subscription fatigue, so let us clear up what happened before you go. Nothing was moved behind the paywall in this update. The Pro widgets have been part of the subscription since they were introduced, and what changed is that we fixed a long-standing bug where an expired subscription or free trial could silently keep them unlocked for years, which is very likely how you were using them for free. The core of Planetaro stays free for everyone, the planetary hours themselves, moon phases and the free home screen widget, and that is deliberate. On the capitalism point, fair enough, but Planetaro is not a corporation, it is a tiny independent team, and the subscription is simply what keeps the servers running and the app maintained. Since you lost something you were used to, we would like to give it back: open Planetaro, go to Settings, tap "Help Us Improve the App" and attach a screenshot of your Apple subscriptions screen showing the expired Planetaro plan, and we will send you a personal offer code for a full free year of Planetaro Pro.

### 5/5 — Pay for widgets??

*2026-08-09*

I have been using this amazing app for some time now, and with this recent update, I can no longer see the planetary day at the top of my lock screen because you have to pay for it. Just like everything else in this capitalistic world, the simple little things are starting to cost money now. I added this feature to every Lock Screen since I knew I could, because it helps with a quick glance and is also very aesthetic for an astrology girly like myself. I don’t mind paying for it but it's like dang ANOTHER subscription. This app has helped me understand the planetary days/hours so much. I will just keep using it without the pro features because I just can't do another subscription.

**Developer response:** Thank you for this kind review, it genuinely made our day, and we are glad Planetaro helped you learn the planetary days and hours. Let us explain what happened, because it is not what it looks like. The lock screen widgets have been part of Planetaro Pro since the day they were introduced, and this update did not move them or anything else behind the paywall. What it fixed is a long-standing bug where an expired subscription or free trial could silently keep Pro features unlocked, so your lock screen widget most likely stayed free all this time because of that bug, probably from a trial started a while ago. We completely understand subscription fatigue, and we love that you are staying anyway, so let us make it right: open Planetaro, go to Settings, tap "Help Us Improve the App" and attach a screenshot of your Apple subscriptions screen showing the expired Planetaro plan, and we will send you a personal offer code for a free year of Planetaro Pro, no strings attached. And either way, the planetary hours, the free home screen widget and moon phases stay free for you forever.

### 4/5 — Wonderful app / Gated widgets

*2026-08-07*

One of the best planetary timing apps out there, imo. The only downside is, the best widget, which had been freely available until yesterday’s update, just went behind the pro subscription wall. That’s a huge bummer.  But this is still by far the best at what it does.

**Developer response:** Thank you for the kind words, and for flagging this. We dug into it and found the real cause. No widget was moved behind the subscription: the free and Pro widget sets are unchanged since they were introduced. This update fixed a long-standing bug where an expired Planetaro Pro subscription or free trial could keep Pro features unlocked indefinitely, including the Pro planetary hours and moon phase home screen widgets. The update now applies the correct subscription state, which is why those widgets appear locked. Since you had been using them, we would like to make it right with a free year of Planetaro Pro. Open Planetaro, go to Settings, tap "Help Us Improve the App" and attach a screenshot of your Apple subscriptions screen showing the expired Planetaro plan, and we will send you a personal offer code.

### 5/5 — Saheed

*2026-07-22, version 2026.3*

I love this app more than my wife 😀🤗

### 5/5 — Great Way to Add Structure to Your Routine

*2026-06-24*

Love this app! As someone who does everything from home it’s been incredibly helpful at helping me focus on tasks! Anytime I feel a bit scattered I just look at the app the align myself with whatever hour it is: ADHD-approved!

**Developer response:** Thank you for your kind words! We're glad to hear that the app is helping you focus and structure your routine. If you have any further feedback or suggestions, feel free to share.

### 5/5 — Fun app

*2026-06-15, version 2026.2.1*

The app is fun to use and organized well.

### 5/5 — Great App

*2026-05-31, version 2026.2.1*

This app works seamlessly with my projects.

## Frequently asked questions about Planetary Hours by Planetaro

### What does the Planetary Hours by Planetaro app do?

This app calculates planetary hours based on your current location, dividing each day into unequal hours ruled by the seven classical planets. It also provides a moon phase calendar, helping you understand and align your activities with celestial energies.

### What are the key features of this app?

Key features include a planetary hours and moon calendar, customizable widgets for iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch, notifications for specific planetary hours, calendar syncing with services like Gmail and Outlook, and Live Activities for lock screen display.

### Is this app free to use?

The app is free to download and use, offering core functionality. It also includes in-app purchases, suggesting that some advanced features or customization options may require payment.

### What devices is Planetary Hours by Planetaro compatible with?

This is a universal app designed to work seamlessly across iPhone, iPad, and Apple Watch devices, offering a consistent experience across the Apple ecosystem.

### How can I use this app for scheduling?

The app helps in scheduling by identifying favorable and unfavorable moments for different activities based on planetary rulership. By syncing with your existing calendars, you can integrate these insights to make more informed decisions about when to undertake tasks.

## Version history (last 5 releases)

### 2026.4 — 2026-08-17

- Now in German, Portuguese and Russian: Planetaro speaks 10 languages
- Lifetime Pro: pay once, keep every Pro feature forever
- New Announcements section in Settings, so important news reaches you in the app
- Fixed: calendar and Live Activity confirmations no longer dismiss themselves
- Refreshed social links in Settings, and the TikTok link now opens our profile

### 2026.3.1 — 2026-08-06

Planetaro Talk, our new podcast series, is now inside the app.

- You can now hide the night ruler: Settings > Customize Theme & Colors > Show
  Night Ruler.
- The ruling planet's icon is back on the main screen.
- Moon: step through days with the new arrows, or tap the date to pick one from
  the calendar.
- Planner: a new Void of Course card shows at a glance whether a VOC period
  started the day before or runs into the next day.
- Bug fixes and small improvements.

### 2026.3 — 2026-06-24

• New Planner tab: pick a date, city, and activity (Love/Career/Money…) to find the right planetary hours.
• World Hours map: favourite cities appear as pins showing their current planet; tap a pin to open that location.
• Moon Cards + Widget: now show sign transitions.
• Notifications: no longer a tab, now inside Settings.

### 2026.2.1 — 2026-04-15

• Added missing translations for French and Spanish
• New widget customization: show or hide the countdown timer in your widgets

### 2026.2 — 2026-04-11

> Moon & Zodiac — Completely Redesigned
• All-new Moon Calculator with astronomical precision
• Moon screen now split into two sections: Moon Phase + Moon & Zodiac
• See current moon sign, Void of Course status, and upcoming VOC periods
• Choose between Tropical / Sidereal zodiac and Traditional / Modern VOC methods

> Improved Accuracy
• Moon phase and illumination calculations verified
• Illumination percentage now displays correctly near full moon

> Saved Places
• New single-button location menu: Locate Me, Search on Map, Saved Places
• Automatically saves your recent locations
• Swipe to favorite or delete, quick access to your most-used places

> Widget Enhancements
• Medium Moon widget redesigned with sign, VOC status, and 4 phases
• Pro widgets now feature timer countdown with circular progress
• Improved widget update frequency for better battery life

> Localization
• Two new languages: French and Spanish

Bug fixes and performance improvements.

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