Comparison

Stars** vs VisualAstro

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

Head to head
About

Stars**

Explore your astrological birth chart and transits with detailed interpretations and animated timelines. Offers precision wheel charts with zoom and pan functionality, and supports iPad split-screen for seamless data editing. Includes preloaded data for notable figures.

Highlights
  • Expert scrollable interpretations
  • Animated transit charts
  • Precision wheel charts with zoom/pan
  • iPad split-screen support
  • Preloaded celebrity natal data
  • Manual map override for birth places
Features
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Astrological calculations with accuracy matching Astro Dienst (astro.com). Preloaded with natal data for 100 celebrities including Benjamin Netanyahu, Volodymyr Zelenskyy, Vladimir Putin, and Donald Trump—easily add yourself and loved ones. KEY FEATURES: • Expert scrollable interpretations for birth charts and transits • Smoothly animated transit charts (month to century timelines) • Freeze/step forward or backward through transits • Precision wheel charts with zoom/pan for full detail • iPad split-screen: edit birth data → instant chart updates • Birth places for all major world cities + manual map override

About

VisualAstro

Explore precise astrological analyses with detailed charts, transits, and progressions. Analyze relationships with synastry and composite charts, and delve into vibrational astrology with advanced visualizations. Features include customizable settings and privacy-focused on-device processing.

Highlights
  • Accurate astrological charts
  • Transit and progression analysis
  • Synastry and composite charts
  • Vibrational astrology reports
  • Interactive chart visualizations
  • Customizable house systems and orbs
  • On-device Apple Intelligence processing
Features
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VisualAstro brings a modern and very intuitive Astrology analysis to your device — and it's free. Easily explore harmonics, midpoints, fixed stars, anticia, golden mean midpoint and pattern highlights with professional‑grade chart accuracy. And much much more: - Accurate charts: Swiss Ephemeris, time‑zone rules by date/place (including pre‑standard offsets), and an offline world‑cities database. Includes Topocentric calculation for all objects and Planet's True Positions. Precision up to the second of arc. 0-4000 AD. - Read chart data from photo for your commodity. Use your camera to capture name, date, time and location from sources like AstroDataBank and other reference software for your commodity. Simple and agile. - Transits: fast lookups for any aspected related pair of objects date/time; dynamic step by year/month/day/hour/minute with transits-natal, transits-transits and ingresses in sign/houses. - Secondary Progressions: fast lookups for any aspected related pair of objects date/time; dynamic step by year/month/day/hour/minute with progression to natal, lunation, ingresses and retrograde cycles. - Synastry and Composite Davison Method: bi‑wheel overlays to compare two charts; create Davison composites for relationship analysis. Davison Chart for the Transits. - Vibrational Astrology: Vibrational Charts and secondary vibes, midpoint structures, golden‑mean midpoints, aspect strength/highlights, clear visuals for discovery. Full Vibrational Chart Reports with customisable vibe ranges, advanced rating system for score ranking, spotlights on quincunxes, 11/24, 4 or more conjunction and Isotraps below 1 minute. Interactive spectrum graph analysis with all the feature in the Vibrational Report plus Fractals and Prominent Primes highlights and multiple filters for the astrological explorer. - Easy visualisation: clean charts, click-to-highlight features in the chart, color‑coded aspects, retrograde markers, smart labels with contextual information, light/dark mode. Single chart with dual layout for your preference. - Antícia, Fixed Stars and Golden Mean Midpoint with orb customisable conjunction detection. - Customisation: multiple house systems (12 to choose from), flexible orb settings for individual technique, Tropical, Sidereal and Heliocentric Zodiac Type. Customise your work area with sections reordering. multi-language (english and portuguese) and time‑format options, tags/type for chart classification and exploratory research. Notes to organize work and keep track of notable insights. Topocentric and True planetary positions at your service. - NEW FEATURE: Apple Intelligence Vibration Synthesis in circuits, isotraps, midpoint structures and Vibrational Chart Report vibrations: Private and runs only in-device. Data is not sent out to online LLMs. - NEW FEATURE: Time-Continuum for primary chart. Dynamically updates calculations and allows Chart Rectification with the help of Transits and Progressions. - Privacy‑first: no account required; calculations run on‑device; optional iCloud Sync stores your charts in your private iCloud. - Works anywhere: offline cities and built‑in time‑zone data. Optional inexpensive add‑ons (via in‑app purchase): Synastry, Davison Composite, Transits, Progressions, Vibrational Chart Reports and Vibrational Chart Spectrum .

Screenshots

Stars**4 screens
VisualAstro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: VisualAstro at 5.0 against Stars**'s 3.5. VisualAstro also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 60%). Stars**'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 18.0). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. VisualAstro sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Stars** asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

VisualAstro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.5. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 60% of Stars**'s written reviews are positive against 100% of VisualAstro's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Stars** ships an update weekly, VisualAstro every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 24, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
Stars** versus VisualAstro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterStars**VisualAstro
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.5 (2 ratings)5.0 (5 ratings) — better
Positive reviews60.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings25 — better
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 10 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB389 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperAtle WilhelmsenNelson Jorge Vieira Ramos

Customer experience

Stars**

All ratings2 ratings
Positive50.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative50.0%
Written reviews5 reviews
Positive60.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative40.0%

VisualAstro

All ratings5 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Stars**

No in-app purchases

9 purchases

VisualAstro

One-time9
  • Small support donation$1.99
  • Small Donation to the Project$1.99
  • Composite$3.99
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  • Vibrational Chart Spectrum$3.99
  • Synastry$3.99
  • Davison Composite Charts$3.99
  • Transits$8.99
  • Progressions$8.99
  • Vibrational Chart Report$8.99

Questions

Is Stars** free?
Stars** is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is VisualAstro free?
VisualAstro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Stars** or VisualAstro?
VisualAstro is rated higher. Stars** averages 3.5 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while VisualAstro averages 5.0 from 5 ratings.
Do Stars** or VisualAstro have ads?
Neither Stars** nor VisualAstro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Stars** or VisualAstro?
Stars** ships an update weekly, and VisualAstro every 10 days. Most recently, Stars** was updated on October 24, 2026 and VisualAstro on October 24, 2026.

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