Celeste vs Stars**
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Celeste
Access professional-grade astrological insights with detailed natal charts and daily "astro-weather" forecasts. Understand planetary influences beyond just your sun sign to navigate life's opportunities and challenges.
- Natal chart calculation
- Zodiac wheel display
- Planetary positions in signs
- Daily astro-weather forecasts
- Professional astrology tools
- On-the-go astrological insights
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Real astrology at your fingertips, brought to you by Astrolabe, designers of software for professional astrologers since 1979! Celeste allows you to calculate a natal chart, which you can view on a gorgeous zodiac wheel. You also get a description of all the planets in signs, not just the sun sign. With Celeste, you can also tune in to the current "astro-weather" to find out what's happening now! Always know when to act or when to lay low.
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.
- 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
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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
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Stars** at weekly against Celeste's every 28 months. Celeste's advantage is rating (3.8 vs 3.5) and ratings volume (43 vs 2). On price, review sentiment, 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Celeste holds the better App Store score, 3.8 against 3.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Celeste has 43 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 54% of Celeste's written reviews are positive against 60% of Stars**'s, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Celeste ships an update every 28 months, Stars** weekly. The most recent releases landed on September 11, 2026 and August 12, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Celeste | Stars** |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (43 ratings) — better | 3.5 (2 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 53.8% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 43 — better | 2 |
| Update frequency | Every 28 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 6.0 — better | 15.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 1 MB | 27 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Astrolabe | Atle Wilhelmsen |
Customer experience
Celeste
Stars**
Bugs and requests
Celeste
Reported bugs
42 issues- App not working after download
- Jams up on newest Apple iPhone OS
- Recent changes to website cause rapid refresh
- Retrograde planets not displayed
- Nothing within the chart can be changed
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- Stopped letting me adjust time, date and location
- Does not show a table of the main aspects
- Can't select months, days, year or anything
- Last update was 2012, can't use anymore
- None of the inputs work
- Doesn't work since iOS 9 install - date wheels aren't working
- Constantly defaults to east coast, New York time
- Tumbler wheel doesn't allow selection of anything but Alabama for a state
- Won't let me change months, days, years
- Hasn't been working, can't pick a birth month or date
- Repeatedly tells me that I don't have an Internet connection
- Doesn't work offline, needs a wifi connection
- Stopped loading up, white blank screen
- App immediately closes when attempting to use
- Won't open after iOS 6 update
- Keeps crashing back to the home screen
- Won't open on iPhone 5
- Doesn't open with iOS 6
- Does NOT open
- Won't Open in iOS 6
- Keeps closing
- App immediately closes
- Doesn't work in iOS 6 - immediately closes
- App stopped working. Doesn't open.
- Lost the ability to open the app when upgraded to iOS 6
- Doesn't open with iOS 6
- It doesn't want to open
- APP keeps crashing with the new update to Apples operating system
- It does not work with ios6!!!
- Button on the top left is too close to the Info button, app always accidentally closes and opens their site in Safari
- Generates a chart, but that's about it
- No listing/explanation of aspects were given
- Can't see current transits anymore
- Weather button gives explanation for various aspects of daily reading
- Buggy, crashes often
- Too many links to the Astrolabe website
- Slow and unresponsive as it needs to go on line to do every single calculation
Requested features
26 requests- Show retrograde planets
- Ability to save charts
- Include progressions, directions, transits
- Bi-wheel functionality
- Explanations and definitions
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- More locations
- Add/save additional charts
- Display a table of main aspects
- Bi-wheel comparison
- Expand to include progressions, directions, transits, a bi wheel and the ability to save a few charts
- Add interpretation of aspects
- Save charts/database ability
- Offline calculations
- Pop-up interpretations
- Report options
- Ability to email reports to clients
- Rival Kepler on a pad
- Change house system to Koch
- Selectable asteroids
- Variable aspect orbs
- Full interpretations and reports
- Aspect chart
- Astrocartography for around the world
- Transit, progression and synastry with interpretation
- Save a few charts
- Pro version with transits to natal
Stars**
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Celeste
No in-app purchases
Stars**
No in-app purchases
