Planetary Hours & Moon Phase vs cecco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planetary Hours & Moon Phase
This app helps you find the optimal time for activities by tracking planetary hours, days, and moon phases. It provides notifications for astrological events and offers widgets for quick access to timing information.
- Planetary hour and day tracking
- Moon phase and zodiac ingress alerts
- Live 'Now' view with time remaining
- Customizable notifications
- Home Screen and Apple Watch widgets
- Location-based timing
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Success often comes down to doing the right thing at the right time. Planetary Hours helps you find the right time—by tracking planetary hours and planetary days for any date and location, with powerful Moon phase and zodiac ingress tools built in. Enable notifications to receive an alert whenever a new planetary hour begins—with a voice announcement of the new ruler (for example, “Jupiter”). Whether you use it for astrology, electional planning, daily focus, or ritual timing, this is a fast, practical planetary hours tracker and planetary hour calculator you can keep on your Home Screen and on your wrist. Planetary Hours, Made Effortless * Live “Now” view: current planetary ruler + time remaining * Timeline/progress view to see what’s next at a glance * Day & Night rulers clearly shown for quick reference * Full daily schedule (start/end times shown in 24-hour format) * Built on the traditional Chaldean order of the seven classical planets Moon Phases & Lunar Timing * Today’s Moon phase + illumination at a glance * Upcoming New Moon, Full Moon, and Quarter phases * Moon phase notifications so you never miss key lunar moments Zodiac Changes (Ingress Alerts) * Track zodiac sign changes and see what’s next * Zodiac ingress notifications for timely planning Location & Date Controls * Calculate planetary hours for any city you choose * Use GPS for live accuracy, or manual location when preferred * Jump to any date to review both planetary rulers and planetary hours Notifications That Fit Your Routine * Planetary hour notifications with flexible scheduling * Choose specific days (weekdays only, Fridays, or the planet’s ruling day) * When a new planetary hour begins, the app speaks the planet name (e.g., “Jupiter”) * Enable alerts for Moon phases and zodiac changes Widgets & Apple Watch * iOS Home Screen widgets for instant planetary timing * Apple Watch app + Watch widgets * Complications so the current ruler is always on your wrist Life is full of opportunity. The knowledge of planetary hours and days can support better planning and more effective action. Happy planning. Note: Some features may require a subscription. Privacy Policy https://www.phtechnologysolutions.com/apps/Planetary_Times_privacy_policy.html Terms of Use https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
cecco
This app provides a working almanac of magic, cataloging various traditions and their astrological timings. It helps users identify favorable moments for magical practices based on celestial data computed entirely on the device. Users can browse, search, and track workings, finding opportune times for specific goals.
- Working almanac of magic traditions
- Astrological timing for workings
- Planetary day and hour computation
- Moon phase and sign tracking
- Lunar mansion and fixed star data
- Browse and search workings catalogue
- Offline functionality
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cecco is a working almanac of magic. It holds a catalogue of workings from many streams: traditional astrological magic, grimoires, folk magic, and living traditions still practised today. For any moment and place it tells you which workings the sky favours right now, computing the planetary day and hour, the moon's phase and sign, the lunar mansion, and the fixed stars entirely on your device. Whatever a working's origin, cecco pairs it with the astrological timing that favours it, so you can act when the moment is right. It is built to be used, not just read. WHAT IT DOES • Reads the sky for right now: planetary day and hour, moon phase, moon sign, and lunar mansion. • Surfaces the workings whose timing favours the present moment, ranked by how well the sky matches. • Shows the planetary hours of the day on a clear dial, so you can see when each hour opens and closes. • Names what each hour of the day is good for, and shades the whole day by how well it serves one goal. • Finds a window: look ahead for the next favourable time for a goal or a particular working. • Lets you browse and search the whole catalogue, and track the workings you care about. • Your constellation: the whole catalogue laid out as a star field over your own birth chart, brighter where a working suits you and not only the moment. • Ask the sage: describe a situation in your own words and get counsel on when to act, with the hours that suit it and a working to mark the moment. THE SOURCES The workings come from grimoires, folk practice, and living traditions, some centuries old and some still practised today. Some are edited for clarity or adapted from their originals, and where a source attaches a warning, that warning is kept with the entry. They are offered for use, with their context, not as professional advice or a promise of any outcome. A NOTE ON CONTENT This catalogue does not sanitize its sources. Some texts describe practices that are harmful, baneful, or disturbing, including animal sacrifice. They appear as the sources record them. Some workings can be genuinely dangerous, to you and to others. Use your judgement. PRIVATE BY DESIGN cecco needs no account and collects nothing about you. The almanac itself works entirely offline: your location is used on your device to compute sunrise and the planetary hours, and never leaves it. Ask the sage is the one exception, and only when you use it. The question you type and the place cecco is set to are sent to our server and passed to Anthropic, which composes the answer. We do not store either one, neither is tied to your identity, and neither is ever used for advertising, profiling or training. Answers are saved on your device. A one-time purchase, no subscription and no ads. Questions for the sage are sold separately, in packs of one, five or ten, and only if you want them.
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The clearest difference is ads: cecco at none against Planetary Hours & Moon Phase's shown. cecco also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 2 weeks) and monetization model (free vs freemium). Planetary Hours & Moon Phase's advantage is ratings volume (133 vs 16) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating and in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Planetary Hours & Moon Phase sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per 7 days and cecco sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
cecco holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Planetary Hours & Moon Phase has 133 ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planetary Hours & Moon Phase ships an update every 2 weeks, cecco every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planetary Hours & Moon Phase | cecco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (133 ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 60.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 133 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 48 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +17 |
| Developer | PH TECHNOLOGY SOLUTIONS LLC | La Hacienda Servicos de Tecnologia da Informacao LTDA |
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Planetary Hours & Moon Phase
cecco
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Planetary Hours & Moon Phase
- Premium Subscription (Weekly)$7.997 Days
- Premium Subscription (1 year)$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Purchase$49.99
cecco
- 1 sage question$1.49
- 5 sage questions$4.99
- 10 sage questions$7.99
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- Full unlock$9.99
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