Planetary Hours by Planetaro vs cecco
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Planetary Hours by Planetaro
This app calculates planetary hours based on your location, dividing each day into unequal segments ruled by classical planets. It helps you align activities with celestial energies and track moon phases. Widgets and notifications keep you informed.
- Planetary hours and moon calendar
- Lock and home screen widgets
- Apple Watch complications
- Notifications for selected hours
- Calendar syncing
- Live Activities integration
- Multiple themes
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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 • Siri and Shortcuts – ask for the current planetary hour, Moon phase, void of course or your best hours, hands-free • 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. — Terms & Conditions https://planetaro.com/terms-and-conditions/ Privacy Policy https://planetaro.com/planetaro-planetary-hours-widget-privacy-policy/
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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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: cecco at every 2 days against Planetary Hours by Planetaro's every 3 weeks. cecco also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Planetary Hours by Planetaro's advantage is ratings volume (1.7K vs 16) and device support (3 vs 1). On price, rating, ads 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 by Planetaro sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month 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 by Planetaro has 1.7K ratings behind it against 16, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Planetary Hours by Planetaro ships an update every 3 weeks, cecco every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 29, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Planetary Hours by Planetaro | cecco |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (1.7K ratings) | 5.0 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 70.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 1.7K — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +17 |
| Developer | Muhammed Tanriverdi | La Hacienda Servicos de Tecnologia da Informacao LTDA |
Customer experience
Planetary Hours by Planetaro
cecco
Bugs and requests
Planetary Hours by Planetaro
Reported bugs
2 issues- Planetary days/hours displayed incorrectly
- Subscription issues and refund problems
Requested features
4 requests- Add moon phase information
- Expand calendar view to weekly/monthly
- Improve planetary hour notifications
- Provide option for free/one-time purchase
cecco
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Planetary Hours by Planetaro
- Monthly Plan$2.991 Month
- Annual Plan7 Days trial$14.991 Year
- Lifetime Pro$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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