Comparison

Numbers, Dates vs Astro

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

Head to head
About

Numbers, Dates

Features
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Discover what happened on any day in history. With Numbers, Dates, you can explore remarkable historical events, famous birthdays and notable deaths from around the world for any day of the year. Simply choose a day and month, select your preferred language, and the app retrieves historical information from freely available knowledge sources. The content is clearly organized into Events, Births, and Deaths for easy reading. Whether you're a history enthusiast, student, teacher, or simply curious, **Numbers, Dates** makes history accessible, educational and enjoyable. Features • Select any day and month with an intuitive date picker • Explore historical events from many centuries • Discover famous birthdays of notable people • Learn about important historical deaths • Multilingual content (English, German, French, Spanish and many more) • Clean and distraction-free interface • Fast and easy to use • Perfect for education, quizzes and daily learning • Optimized for iPhone and iPad Every day has a story. Explore history, expand your knowledge and discover fascinating facts from every day of the year.

About

Astro

Visualize planetary influences on a 3D globe and world maps using precise astrological calculations. Explore how locations align with different aspects of your life, from career to relationships. Save and export your personalized charts with ease.

Highlights
  • Interactive 3D globe and 2D maps
  • Personal birth chart visualization
  • Location comparison for travel
  • Planetary encyclopedia with animations
  • Real-time timeline scrubbing
  • Save and export charts
  • Focus modes for life areas
Features
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Your birth chart, drawn on the world. Astro-Cartography draws the lines where each planet was rising, setting, overhead and underfoot at the minute you were born, and shows which cities sit on them. YOUR LINES • Ten bodies, four lines each: MC (overhead), IC (underfoot), ASC (rising) and DSC (setting) • A globe drawn from the app's own coastlines, or a flat map to scrub through time • Parans: the latitudes where two planets are on angles at the same moment • Tap a line to read what the sky was doing there, and how astrocartography traditionally reads it • One scale for how close is close, in miles or kilometers BEST PLACES FOR YOU • Pick Love, Career, Home or Growth to see the cities near the lines astrocartography traditionally reads for each • Your chart cast for any city: its rising sign, Midheaven and houses SHARE • Cards of your whole map, your chart wheel, one line or a list of places, for a story or a post • Your birth date, time and place stay off the card unless you add them ALSO • Travel: your lines near each city on a trip, and the sky during your dates • Events: the sky event whose line runs closest to home, on its own map, and your own saved moments • Eclipses: the real path of every solar eclipse for the next ten years, drawn over your own lines • Sky calendar: Moon phases, retrogrades, sign changes and eclipses, in your time zone • Birthday map: the moment of your solar return each year, its map, and the cities on its lines • Places in your life: where you were born, lived and visited, with the line nearest each, on your map • Learn: all forty of your lines by distance from home, and a page for every planet • Eight themes, from paper and ink to dark, in a serif or a pixel style Planet positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris. One purchase. No account, no ads, no subscription. -- Web: https://dro1dlabs.com Privacy Policy: https://dro1d.org/astro-cartography.html#privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Numbers, Dates4 screens
Astro4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Numbers, Dates at Free against Astro's $12.99. Astro's advantage is update cadence (every 10 days vs every 5 months) and chart position (#181 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.

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

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Numbers, Dates is free to download; Astro costs $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Numbers, Dates ships an update every 5 months, Astro every 10 days. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences Ā· 5 level
Numbers, Dates versus Astro: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterNumbers, DatesAstro
PriceFree — better$12.99
Positive reviews—0.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 5 monthsEvery 10 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Paid
Best chart rank—#181 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.018 — better
Further details — not scored
Size7 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperGerhard LentschikDRO1D LABS LIMITED

In-app purchases

None

Numbers, Dates

No in-app purchases

None

Astro

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Numbers, Dates free?
Numbers, Dates is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Astro free?
Astro costs $12.99, with no in-app purchases.
Do Numbers, Dates or Astro have ads?
Neither Numbers, Dates nor Astro shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Numbers, Dates or Astro?
Numbers, Dates ships an update every 5 months, and Astro every 10 days. Most recently, Numbers, Dates was updated on October 30, 2026 and Astro on October 30, 2026.

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