Tarot Card Meanings vs Taro Reader
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tarot Card Meanings
Explore traditional tarot card meanings with this stylish and user-friendly reference app. Get quick access to brief and full meanings, keywords, and hidden interpretations for each card, including reversed positions. Personalize your device with beautiful tarot card designs as wallpapers.
- Traditional tarot card meanings
- Keywords for each card
- Brief and full card meanings
- Reversed card interpretations
- Hidden meanings revealed
- Card background wallpapers
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Traditional tarot card meanings are made simple to find and learn with this stylish and easy to use tarot card reference app. Handy hints, hidden meanings, brief card meanings and full meanings make learning about tarot cards quick and effortless. The beautiful tarot card designs can also be used as your background wallpaper. Anyone who has ever tried to read tarot cards, knows how important it is to firstly fully understand and learn the meaning of each individual tarot card. With the swipe of a finger this tarot app gives fast access to tarot meanings compiled from some of the best and well known, traditional tarot meaning sources available. There is a handy hint for each card in both its upright and reversed (upside down) position to aid learning. As well as this, each card has a section on keywords, a brief meaning, a full meaning and general card information. All of this is also included when the card appears upside down or reversed. Some of the more common hidden meanings of the cards are also revealed. To access a tarot card's meaning simply choose your card then tap the meaning to see it, or rotate the card with your finger to see the reversed or upside down meaning. This app is compatible with any standard 78 card deck and the cards are from the 'Tarot Lovers' modern take on the traditional Marseilles style deck due for release shortly. For this reason this app is an essential companion guide for anyone looking to learn in-depth tarot meanings. This app gives fast access to: * Traditional tarot card keywords * A brief meaning of each card * A more in-depth meaning of each card *Reversed (upside down) meanings of each card * General information about each card including: numerical value, element, tetragrammatron, life aspect, card number, spiritual name, key number, astrological associations and more... *Some of the common hidden meanings of the cards Users can also select any card to be the background image for their iPhone, iPad or iPod Touch. Tarot Lovers has been developed by Paranormality.com, one of the Internet’s most popular websites for tarot card meaning information and resources. This application and the information that it contains is strictly for entertainment purposes only.
Taro Reader
Access meanings for all 78 tarot cards on your devices. Explore your intuition and understand card spreads with a comprehensive library and AR features for enhanced readings. Syncs across Apple devices.
- All 78 tarot card meanings
- Keywords and textual descriptions
- AR reader with real-time labels
- iCloud sync across Apple devices
- Support for Rider-Waite deck
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Have you ever found yourself in the middle of a tarot card reading and relentlessly looking up each card's meaning on the internet? What if you had access to all of the card's meanings on each and every device you own? Introducing: Taro Reader! Taro Reader gives you the tools to better understand your Tarot Card spread, and ultimately, explore your intuition to find your path forward in life. Features: - AR Reader: Displaying real-time AR labels on top of physical Tarot Cards with the using your device's camera (iPhone/iPad only) - Library: All 78 cards are listed here, with complete access to every card's keywords, meanings, and textual description. - Access Everywhere: Your data syncs across your Mac, iPhone, and Apple Watch using iCloud! Here at Taro we are committed to making your Tarot Card reading experience as fruitful as possible. With that said, we sincerely hope that you find this tool helpful. If you have any questions, comments, compliments, complaints, or any kind of issues at all, please don't hesitate to send Brianna an email in the app or on this page for support! Happy readings. -The Taro Team PLEASE NOTE: This requires physical access to the Rider-Waite Tarot Deck. Currently, this is the only deck supported by Taro. We are working hard on adding more decks!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Taro Reader at Free against Tarot Card Meanings's $1.99. Taro Reader also leads on rating (4.4 vs 3.7) and update cadence (monthly vs every 72 months). Tarot Card Meanings's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 6) and ads (none vs shown). On review sentiment 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
Taro Reader is free to download; Tarot Card Meanings costs $1.99 up front. Taro Reader sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Tarot Card Meanings asks for nothing beyond the download.
Taro Reader holds the better App Store score, 4.4 against 3.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 5 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 59% of Tarot Card Meanings's written reviews are positive against 60% of Taro Reader's.
Tarot Card Meanings ships an update every 72 months, Taro Reader monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tarot Card Meanings | Taro Reader |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $1.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 3.7 (20 ratings) | 4.4 (5 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 58.8% of reviews | 60.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 5 |
| Update frequency | Every 72 months | Monthly — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 9.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 33 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Paranormality Limited | Brianna Zamora |
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Tarot Card Meanings
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In-app purchases
Tarot Card Meanings
No in-app purchases
Taro Reader
- Ace of Insights$0.79
- Five of Insights$2.99
- Ten of Insights$5.99
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- Quarter Deck$13.99
- Half Deck$29.99
- Full Deck$49.99
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