Comparison

Shamanic Oracle Cards vs Balanced Minds

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Shamanic Oracle Cards

Explore spiritual traditions with three beautifully illustrated oracle decks. Get daily guidance, uncover past life lessons, and reconnect with spirit animals. An AI assistant offers deeper insights and new perspectives on your readings.

Highlights
  • Three illustrated oracle decks
  • AI-powered insights assistant
  • Daily guidance and readings
  • Past life lessons exploration
  • Spirit animal connections
  • Save readings to a journal
  • Share readings with friends
Features
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NEW: Discover "Insights," your next-generation AI assistant. Spark your intuition, delve deeper into your readings, and uncover the meaning of your cards. Ask questions and discover new perspectives. Explore shamanic and spiritual traditions, and use those three beautiful decks created by Frédéric Calendini for daily guidance. The "Spirit Animal Oracle" is a beautifully illustrated 48-card deck that will help you reconnect with your benevolent and wise animal guides. Use this deck to get deep reflections and insights about your daily issues or long term projects. Let the animal spirits surprise you with their wisdom and compassion. With the "Shamanic Journey Oracle", embark on a mysterious journey to discover the shamanic traditions of South America. Connect to these ancient cultures and rituals with this gorgeous 52-card oracle. Call upon the spirits of Teacher Plants for guidance and comfort. And finally, the new "Lessons of the Soul Oracle" will allow you to step into the heart of your past lives — and uncover the timeless lessons they imprinted on your soul. This beautifully illustrated 50-card oracle deck invites you to explore the memories of your past incarnations, and allow them to speak again. Its themes are universal, echoing the cycles of life and helping you bring the best of your past learnings into the present. Once the 7-day trial is over, you can still use this app as a full-featured, ad-free "Lite" version with a limited number of cards, or unlock each deck for accessing all cards. Key features: – Three decks of 48, 52 and 50 cards, beautifully illustrated, covering many topics regarding daily issues. – Three types of readings (1, 3 or 5-card readings). – Save your readings to a journal for further reference. – Share your readings with your friends, by email or on social networks. About the author: Frédéric Calendini is a therapist, counselor, writer and entrepreneur. After a personal crisis, he started working with Amazonian shamanism in 2009, and has been following this healing path since then. As a former IT executive, he founded Indie Goes Software, an initiative to gather inspirational authors under the same banner, and share their positive energy and wisdom through mobile apps. Website : www.fredericcalendini.com

About

Balanced Minds

This app offers a focused space for emotional awareness and personal growth. It combines guided reflection, affirmations, and structured self-awareness exercises across five core areas to help users find clarity and calm.

Highlights
  • Guided reflection prompts
  • Daily affirmations
  • Reflective articles
  • Structured self-awareness exercises
  • Progress tracking of reflections
Features
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Balanced Minds Balanced Minds is a focused space for clarity, emotional awareness, and intentional growth. Built around five core areas — Emotional Regulation, Mental Discipline, Clarity, Stress Recovery, and Boundaries — the app combines guided reflection, affirmations, and structured self-awareness into one calm and intentional experience. Inside the app you can: • Explore reflective articles designed to help slow racing thoughts and encourage deeper self-awareness • Receive daily affirmations focused on clarity, emotional balance, and intentional growth • Navigate content through five core values that support a more grounded mindset • Use guided reflection prompts to better understand patterns, reactions, and emotions • Return to conversations and reflections over time to continue personal growth at your own pace Balanced Minds is not built to overwhelm you with endless content. It is designed to create space — a place to pause, reflect, and reconnect with yourself in a more intentional way. Whether you are looking for perspective, calm, clarity, or a moment to slow down, Balanced Minds is built to meet you where you are. Built from within.

Screenshots

Shamanic Oracle Cards4 screens
Balanced Minds4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Balanced Minds at weekly against Shamanic Oracle Cards's every 2 months. Balanced Minds also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Shamanic Oracle Cards's advantage is ratings volume (952 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Shamanic Oracle Cards sells 3 one-off in-app purchases and Balanced Minds sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Balanced Minds holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shamanic Oracle Cards has 952 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Shamanic Oracle Cards ships an update every 2 months, Balanced Minds weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Shamanic Oracle Cards versus Balanced Minds: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShamanic Oracle CardsBalanced Minds
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (952 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews82.4% of reviews—
Number of ratings952 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsWeekly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size21 MB62 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperFrederic Calendini7vn Designs LLC

Bugs and requests

Shamanic Oracle Cards

Reported bugs

2 issues
  • In-app purchase freezing
  • Inability to see letters while typing review

Requested features

1 request
  • Unlock full deck of cards

Balanced Minds

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Shamanic Oracle Cards

One-time3
  • Spirit Animal Oracle Cards Full Version$9.99
  • Shamanic Journey Oracle Full$9.99
  • Lessons of the soul Full version$9.99
1 purchases

Balanced Minds

One-time1
  • Reflection$4.99

Questions

Is Shamanic Oracle Cards free?
Shamanic Oracle Cards is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Balanced Minds free?
Balanced Minds is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Shamanic Oracle Cards or Balanced Minds?
Balanced Minds is rated higher. Shamanic Oracle Cards averages 4.8 out of 5 from 952 ratings, while Balanced Minds averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Shamanic Oracle Cards or Balanced Minds have ads?
Neither Shamanic Oracle Cards nor Balanced Minds shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Shamanic Oracle Cards or Balanced Minds?
Shamanic Oracle Cards ships an update every 2 months, and Balanced Minds weekly. Most recently, Shamanic Oracle Cards was updated on October 30, 2026 and Balanced Minds on October 25, 2026.

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