Comparison

Astro Kit vs Kenshiki Pulse

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

Head to head
About

Astro Kit

This utility app assists in telescope setup by providing essential information like GPS coordinates and universal time. It also includes a compass and calculates the local hour angle for Polaris. Designed for amateur astronomers, it simplifies the alignment process.

Highlights
  • GPS coordinates
  • Compass functionality
  • Universal time display
  • Polaris local hour angle computation
  • Telescope alignment assistance
Features
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Astro Kit is intended to provide useful informations while setting up a telescope. - gps coordinates - compass - universal time - compute polaris local hour angle

About

Kenshiki Pulse

This app uses your phone's sensors and your daily activities to create a unique digital identity. It provides proof of your presence and can help protect against identity theft and account takeovers. It also offers insights into your personal data and daily life.

Highlights
  • Digital identity creation
  • Proof of presence
  • Identity theft protection
  • Account takeover prevention
  • Personal data insights
  • Daily diary and mood logging
  • SIM swap monitoring
Features
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You have a digital self. Meet it. Your name, your number, your address — copied in seconds, and used for identity theft. The one thing a thief can't copy is you, carrying your phone through a real day. Pulse notices that, and turns it into proof. No password to phish. Nothing about you for sale. Just your phone, and you. OPEN IT FOR THE DAY, NOT THE ALARM The weather, checked twice. Your iPhone has a barometer in it. Pulse reads the pressure where you're standing, pulls the report from the reference station miles away, and sets them side by side — two instruments on the same question. Usually they agree. Sometimes they don't, and that's the interesting part. Your age, to the minute. Scan your passport and Pulse counts the days since your birth date, then lays out the ladder — years, months, weeks, days, hours, minutes. Each row says whether it was counted, divided or multiplied — a derived figure shouldn't sit beside a measured one pretending otherwise. The sun at your birth. From that same date: your calendar star sign, and the sign the sun was actually in against the stars. The two were fixed together and have slid apart ever since, about fifty arcseconds a year. Pulse shows you by how much. What's coming. Your next birthday. Your ten-thousandth day. The sky today. What daylight is left. When golden hour starts and last light falls. The moon's phase and when it comes full. What day of the year this is, out of how many. Where your day went. The places you passed through, how you moved, and the ordinary things around you — a TV, a speaker — that make a room recognizably yours. A diary you'll actually keep. Add a moment when something matters: your words, a mood, a photo. The time and place are sealed with it, on this iPhone. Tap any card and it shows its work — the readings underneath, not a summary. Those same readings quietly add up to something else: evidence you were here, living an ordinary day. And at the foot of every day, a line worth keeping: one of a hundred and forty, picked to suit the mood you logged. The same line all day. A new one tomorrow. THAT RECORD IS ALSO YOUR PROOF Knows you're really there. Pulse reads the ordinary signs that you're the one holding your phone — against identity fraud, impersonation and account takeover. The longer you carry it, the stronger that proof gets. Watches your number (US carriers, optional). A carrier check and SIM swap monitor, with a warning the moment something changes — a SIM swap is the first move in most account takeovers. Is ready when it counts. Add the numbers you really call — bank, credit union, SSA. Pulse checks who a number belongs to before calling it verified, asks for your face before it dials, and keeps its own record from your side. Nothing to install on theirs. Opens with your face. Face ID from the first open, with your passcode as backup. Stolen data is a snapshot anyone can hold. Your life is a story only you can live. Pulse tells them apart. A privacy-first identity tool — not a credit bureau, credit repair, financial advice, or a VPN. YOU HOLD THE KEYS Your record lives on your phone, in encrypted storage. Your passport and license stay on this iPhone. One exception, and you make it yourself: if you add your passport photo to something you send, that photo travels with it and is deleted when the share expires an hour later. Nothing else about your documents is ever uploaded. What leaves is small, signed, and logged in the app for you to read. Delete it and it's gone from your phone. What sits on our side is a device credential — proof that a genuine copy of Pulse is running, with no name, number or email attached to it — and it goes when you do. No tracking, no ads, no analytics, no data sold. When you prove who you are — a scanned QR code, a verified call — you share exactly one thing: it's you, here, on this device. Nothing about your day. A call adds where you're standing, shown to you first. That is your call, every time.

Screenshots

Astro Kit2 screens
Kenshiki Pulse4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Kenshiki Pulse at 5.0 against Astro Kit's 4.6. Astro Kit's advantage is ratings volume (51 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Kenshiki Pulse holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Astro Kit has 51 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Astro Kit ships an update every 3 months, Kenshiki Pulse every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Astro Kit versus Kenshiki Pulse: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAstro KitKenshiki Pulse
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.6 (51 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews86.7% of reviews—
Number of ratings51 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 monthsEvery 2 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Apple Watch
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB84 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperJérôme DiazSTEPHEN FISHBURN

Customer experience

Astro Kit

All ratings50 ratings
Positive92.0%
Neutral4.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive86.7%
Neutral13.3%
Negative0.0%

Kenshiki Pulse

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Astro Kit

No in-app purchases

None

Kenshiki Pulse

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Astro Kit free?
Astro Kit is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Kenshiki Pulse free?
Kenshiki Pulse is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Astro Kit or Kenshiki Pulse?
Kenshiki Pulse is rated higher. Astro Kit averages 4.6 out of 5 from 51 ratings, while Kenshiki Pulse averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Astro Kit or Kenshiki Pulse have ads?
Neither Astro Kit nor Kenshiki Pulse shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Astro Kit or Kenshiki Pulse?
Astro Kit ships an update every 3 months, and Kenshiki Pulse every 2 months. Most recently, Astro Kit was updated on November 1, 2026 and Kenshiki Pulse on October 31, 2026.

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