HoraWatch vs Startek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
HoraWatch
This app helps you align your daily activities with Vedic astrology principles. It provides insights into ruling planets, auspicious and inauspicious times, and recommended actions for each hour of the day. Plan your days for success by understanding the energetic influences of time.
- Time Shakti insights
- Ruling planet identification
- Recommended activities
- Planetary Mantra audio
- Auspicious/inauspicious activity guidance
- Astronomical data (sunrise, sunset, Rahu Kalam, etc.)
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Now you can stay connected with the energies of time, called Time Shaktis in Sanskrit, wherever you go! This application is a great tool to help you get the most out of your day, and plan your days for success. This is a time management application based on Vedic Astrology Science. It displays each (hour), ruling planet, and recommended activities for any date and time. This fun and easy way to connect with the planets helps you make the most of every day. We put all you need in the palm of your hand with our application. Features: Listen to each Planetary Mantra Auspicious and inauspicious activities In addition you can view astronomical information for your city for any date: Sunrise time Sunset time Rahu Kalam (inauspicious time for important activities) Yama Gandam (inauspicious time for important activities) Gulikai (auspicious time for important activities) Vara (day of the week) Tithi (moon phases) Nakshatra (star group/constellation) Yoga (relationship between the sun and the moon) Karana (half of a Vara) Choose a city from our extensive database of over 5,000 cities worldwide.
Startek
This app provides a professional platform for astrological charting and analysis. It offers accurate astronomical calculations and a flexible interface for users to explore their birth charts interactively. Customize visuals, access advanced tools, and gain deeper insights into astrological data.
- Interactive birth chart exploration
- Accurate astronomical calculations
- Full visual customization
- Multiple charting approaches
- Advanced timing and forecasting tools
- Export charts as high-resolution PNGs
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Startek is a complete astrology workshop: every professional chart, timing technique, and map in one app. Built by a working astrologer, designed so beginners can use it too. Most astrology apps give you a horoscope. Startek gives you your full chart, the techniques astrologers actually use, and readings built from your own placements, not just your Sun sign. YOUR BIRTH CHART, FULLY INTERACTIVE • Tap any planet, sign, house, or aspect to see what it means in your chart • Reply to any reading to ask follow-up questions and go deeper • Read your full natal story: ascendant ruler, every placement by sign, house, rulership, and aspect • Move the chart by minutes, days, or years, or hold to animate through transits • Planetary day and hour on every chart • Share your chart or your Big Three as a clean image DAILY HOROSCOPES BUILT FROM YOUR CHART • Six daily readings: self, love, work, money, health, and family • Each reads the rulers of the houses involved, not just your Sun sign • Choose your voice: Literal (technical, with degrees), Spiritual (personal growth), or Bestie (casual) • Add your relationship, career, and life context so readings reflect your real life • Short-term and long-term transits, with how long each one lasts SEE WHAT'S COMING A full year of your personal astrology in one calendar: • Transits, transits to your natal chart, and ingresses • Retrograde stations and shadow periods • Eclipses, lunar events, and lunar returns • Time lord activations and zodiacal releasing periods • Search any transit to see when it hits PRO TOOLS • Biwheels and triwheels for transits and synastry • Composite charts • Secondary progressions • Solar, lunar, Mercury, and Saturn returns • Essential dignities table • Annual and monthly profections, with your time lord highlighted on the wheel • Zodiacal releasing, levels 1–4, from Spirit, Fortune, and Eros, with peak periods marked • Firdaria, circumambulations, and primary directions ASTROCARTOGRAPHY ON A 3D GLOBE • Your planetary lines on a 3D globe, with transit lines by date • Tap any line for a reading, or any city for its relocated chart • Parans, local space, and geodetic lines • Cyclocartography: find the best cities for love, career, growth, and home on any date CALCULATED YOUR WAY • Tropical or sidereal (Fagan-Bradley, Lahiri, De Luce, Raman) • Whole Sign, Placidus, Koch, Porphyry, Regiomontanus, Campanus, and Equal houses • Lock a whole sign chart to any rising sign for forecasts • Custom orbs for every aspect and planet • Geocentric or heliocentric; true or mean node • Asteroids, Hellenistic lots, and fixed stars DESIGNED BY YOU • Edit every color on the chart, with hex codes and an eyedropper • Wheel, Euro, or table layouts • Multiple glyph sets, fonts, and wallpapers, or use your own photo • Choose how retrogrades are marked YOUR CHARTS, ORGANIZED • Every person is a file: natal, progressions, and returns saved together • Import AstroGold and Solar Fire charts • Sign in with Apple, Google, or email and your charts follow you • Bookmark any reading to come back to it Start free. Upgrade to Premium for unlimited saved charts and the full set of pro tools. New features ship every week. Terms of Use: https://www.startek.world/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.startek.world/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Startek at Free against HoraWatch's $0.99. Startek also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 6 months) and rating (4.9 vs 4.6). HoraWatch's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 16.0). On ratings volume, ads and device support 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
Startek is free to download; HoraWatch costs $0.99 up front. Startek sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. HoraWatch asks for nothing beyond the download.
Startek holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 131 and 345 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 76% of HoraWatch's written reviews are positive against 88% of Startek's.
HoraWatch ships an update every 6 months, Startek weekly. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 30, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | HoraWatch | Startek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (131 ratings) | 4.9 (345 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.5% of reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 131 | 345 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 6 months | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 38 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Vaaak Sounds Inc | Cameron White |
Customer experience
HoraWatch
Startek
Bugs and requests
HoraWatch
Reported bugs
13 issues- Alerts stop working daily
- Settings automatically disabled
- No support email or contact number
- No Lock Screen widget option
- Doesn't show current hora's auspiciousness
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- Sound is garbled
- Audio issues
- Cannot play in background or while screen is locked
- Does not include most UK locations
- Cannot plan ahead for the next day
- App does not work with Arabic language
- App is crashing from the second time onwards
- UI could be improved/modernized
Requested features
10 requests- Add notification when hora starts
- Add Lock Screen widget
- Add support email or contact number
- Auto location option
- Apple Watch notifications and compatibility
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- Optimized for iPhone X and above
- Scrollable calendar view
- Customizable reminder function (e.g., specific planets)
- Add more mantras
- Improve graphics and UI
Startek
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
HoraWatch
No in-app purchases
Startek
- Pro Access One Month7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Pro Access One Year$99.001 Year
