STAR/CHILD Reviews: Is It Legit?

Customer Experience

Positive experience36.2% of reviews
Neutral33.3% of reviews
Negative experience30.5% of reviews

~ Based on 105 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say about STAR/CHILD

Is STAR/CHILD Safe?

STAR/CHILD appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for STAR/CHILD is 87/100.

This assessment is based on 401 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.4/5.

Safety Analysis

81.0% of ratings point to a safe experience
8.7% of ratings suggest some concerns
10.2% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 401 App Store ratings for STAR/CHILD.

Is STAR/CHILD Legit?

STAR/CHILD appears legitimate, with a few gaps. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for STAR/CHILD is 73/100.

Based on 73 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Late updates.

If this app would reliably load new content every week it would be my favorite app. But it’s Thursday night, and still showing last week. Last week it didn’t update until Wednesday, and a few weeks ago it skipped a week altogether.

Enjoying this!!

I enjoy Jessica, the daily and weekly readings, and the info about my kids astrology in comparison to mine— fascinating! I love my daily check-ins on the app and I still have so much more to explore!! I recommend

It is great but too much bugs

I enjoyed Jessica’s reading so much. But half of the time the app is malfunctioning. The weekly reading is not up to date most of the time and past days’ reading cannot be played. Can you fix your bug and upload recording on time? The malfunctioning and delayed update is too frequent that it is diminishing your valuable reading.
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Would Love to Love It

I think this app is phenomenal but it doesn’t work half the time. Lately every other week it won’t update to the correct date so I can’t even use the app. Like today it is still stuck on August 9th-16th. Which is such a bummer! Also, it for some reason has my kids a whole year older than they actually are. I have put in their correct birthdays and triple checked and it just won’t change so their reading end up being inaccurate.

I would love to love this app because when it works it’s a great read and is super useful but if it’s not going to work I may have to look for a better app elsewhere!
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No App Support

For the past few weeks I’ve had random days not show up, I didn’t get the weekly reading at all last week. And sometimes the day doesn’t update until the end of the day. I had gotten into such a great rhythm starting my day with this (I’m in CST) and it’s been such a bummer it has not been consistent because it is THE BEST. I’ve emailed multiple times and messaged on instagram and cannot find any other way to reach them. I have never gotten a response :( I’ll come work for you! lol. I’m just heartbroken that I haven’t been able to lean on this app the past few weeks. So hoping maybe a review will grab some attention so I can troubleshoot? Not sure if it’s a me thing or an app thing.
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Delay in updates

I love this app for everything except for the fact that it doesn’t update to the correct day or week if you want your horoscope or to find out what’s happening today or this week. The weekly forecast will be like a week behind or the daily forecast will be 1 to 2 days behind, which makes it feel kind of funny because it’s not that helpful after the fact! I emailed them about it—not sure if it is an app glitch or just how they update the info.
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Good insights, tons of bugs

I really enjoy the insights for the app, as well as the experience for the user. My co-parent and I both use the app and it’s funny to compare the daily readings they have for us. Really enjoy the personable weekly and daily audio recordings that I listen to during chores or drives with the little one. HOWEVER, I will say the free trial could be more information inclusive. I have the monthly subscription and while I enjoy all of these insights and features I have encountered wayyyy too many bugs within the two months I’ve upgraded to premium, e.g. there hasn’t been a weekly reading posted for this current week (August 17th-23rd) as the weekly reading posted as I type this review on August 22nd is still for the week of August 9th-16th. The days also don’t always update for example, I couldn’t get the daily reading for August 18th or yesterday August 21st. Whenever I would intentionally select the date it would show the days prior (17th of 20th.) I keep checking for app updates to fix these bug issues and nothing, it really alters my experience of the app. Please fix it!
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Hit or miss

This app is very hit or miss. My app is always up to date, however, there are many instances that the weekly reading is not the correct week or the daily reading is still showing for the previous day. I pay for a subscription, so this has become increasingly frustrating. In fact yesterdays reading, the first 4 minutes do not play, it just picks up wherever the person is in the reading. Like I said, when the information is actually up to date, it is helpful but when the information does not come through correctly it becomes frustrating to the point that I may discontinue my subscription and listen elsewhere.
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AI slop

Every piece of writing is so clearly AI-generated. Most of it makes no sense. Do not waste a cent on the paid version.

Needs a little work

I really love the concept and loved the first few days of having the app. Now, there seems to be a bug where both of my kids with very different charts have the exact same daily readings, etc. I’ve tried removing charts and re-adding, no luck. Hopefully some of this gets ironed out or I will probably cancel the membership.
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Weekly Update Delays

I reeeaaaaallllly love this app. Helps me feel like I have a more detailed instruction manual for my kids, and most everything resonates. My only complaint is that lately it won’t update to be the current week until around Wednesday, and I think there was one week it was Thursday or Friday when it finally caught up with the calendar. Which kind of makes the app useless for half the week.
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Good when it’s updated

I really like this app and have been paying for the premium version for a while but I think it’s time to move on. It’s getting more and more inconsistent with updates. Today is July 4 and I still have the update from July 2. It’s annoying.

Baffled??

I want to love this app so much but it doesn't load. I'm so embarrassed because I tell everyone about how great it is in theory but I cannot get any sort of information from it! I've deleted it and reinstalled. I've done w/wo WiFi. Am I missing something??

App Never Worked

Unfortunately, I never got to use this app. After downloading it, it would only display the STAR/CHILD logo screen and never load past it, no matter how long I waited or how many times I tried.

I also paid for the premium subscription, which made the experience even more frustrating. I reached out to the company by both email and Instagram for support but never received a response.

The app looks like it has great potential based on the description, but I wasn’t able to access any of the features. Until the loading issue is fixed and customer support is more responsive, I can’t recommend paying for the premium subscription.
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Astro House Systems

It would be great to have the option to switch between Whole Sign and Placidus house systems. Many astrology enthusiasts use different house systems and may find one resonates more than another. Several competing astrology apps already offer this feature so adding it here would make the experience more customizable and appealing to a wider range of users.
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Great content but app is buggy

I love Jessica’s reading and it is so far the best astrology content. But really need some improvement on the app: for example there is not today’s reading when I open the app and it is still showing the yesterday one. There has been several times that the recording cannot be played normally. Jessica keeps saying you can go listen to last week or another day’s reading but I can never successfully have pas day recording played. I will select the date, hit the play, and it still play today’s or this week’s recording, not the designated one. Please look into your app infrastructure and see how can we get it function better. But again, all these is because I love your content and I would like to be able to access what you suggest to listen back.
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Why Pay for Inconsistency

When you decide to have a paid app, it comes with the responsibility of consistently running a business that produces what people are paying for. I can’t count the number of times where days go by without an audio recording, where a weekly reading isn’t published until midweek.

I love this app but the day to day management has to be pushed off to a wider team to have oversight. It’d be an entirely different scenario if this were free TikTok content, etc. It’s a business with paying customers expect a reliable product output.
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Extremely illuminating

In the past, I didn’t take much stock in astrology and horoscopes, but after using this app, and seeing how the specifics of my family’s birth charts interact with one another, I was struck by how illuminating these insights can be! I gained quite a bit of insight into my own interactions with my child based on our charts, and how I can best meet his needs. I felt that the individual birth charts were very knowledgeable and painted an accurate picture of the individuals in my family as I knew them. My only suggestion would be a widget for the iPhone Home Screen that had daily information about the family signs interactions or the origin parent’s day, similar to the co-star app’s widget.
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Like it except for the Ai content

It’s great. The comparisons to each other, the analysis between houses and planets and how they’re aspected to each other is great, but the writing is soooo obviously AI. I hate the writing style!

Beware of charges continuing if you cancel

The astrology portion of the app is very spot on, however I canceled my subscription and have still been charged multiple times since doing so with no response from support.