Tarot Line vs Skein
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Tarot Line
This app helps you discover your destiny by interpreting Tarot cards. It automatically recognizes cards, offers readings with various spreads, and provides a learning database for card meanings. An AI-powered feature allows you to ask questions and receive interpretations.
- Automatic card recognition
- Card interpretation
- Multiple spread options
- AI-powered readings
- Tarot card learning database
- Customizable spread fields
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Do you want to discover your destiny? Tarot Line will answer all your questions. The first app that automatically recognizes the Tarot cards, provides an interpretation and saves the result. You can perform the spreads with the Rider-Waite or Crowley (Thoth) decks. You can also create spread fields for you and your clients. Predict your future with our spreads: • Daily Card • AI Tarot • Love • Career • Health • Money • Yes or No • Card advice • 2026 Tarot Learn the Tarot card meanings using our database (78 cards with a unique description of each card). Ask any question you are interested in with our AI-powered Tarot Reading. Discover the magical world of Tarot and take your first steps toward understanding card meanings with our new Tarot learning course.
Skein
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For people who already read. Skein doesn't deal you a card or tell you what it means. It records the cards you draw — from your own deck or in the app — and turns months of that into something you can actually look at. The reading is yours. Skein keeps the record. PATTERN MIRROR — MONTHS OF YOUR PRACTICE, IN ONE VIEW Everything here is arithmetic on entries you made. Nothing is predicted, nothing is interpreted: • Which cards keep returning — and which you have never drawn • Suit balance and reversal rate across weeks • A calendar of every day you showed up • Per-deck breakdown, physical decks included • Filter by theme, deck, or your own keywords YOUR DECKS, TRACKED If you read with real cards, Skein is built for you: • Register the decks you own and log which one you used • Pick the cards in the order you drew them, photograph the spread • Write what each card meant to you, today, in your words • Per-deck stats show which decks you actually reach for — and which ones sit on the shelf THE DAILY CARD — LOGGED, NOT DEALT • Record the card you drew this morning from your own deck • No deck to hand? Draw one in the app instead — your choice, your entry • One card a day, kept as a clean series so the patterns above have something honest to read A JOURNAL THAT REMEMBERS • Free-form entries for thoughts, intentions, dreams • Photo attachments for the moments that matter • Voice-to-text when typing breaks the flow • Chronological timeline, fully searchable • Offline-first — your practice stays on your device THE NIGHT SKY A quiet daily ritual that isn't a reading. Catch the star that drifts across your sky and it stays there, joining a constellation you weave one night at a time. Miss a night and nothing is taken away — the thread simply runs unlit through the gap. Alongside it, the observable sky: moon phase and illumination, planets in retrograde, upcoming eclipses. Facts, not forecasts. NO AI. NONE. Card meanings are static reference — traditional keywords and symbolism, the same text every time. Skein never generates an interpretation, a reading, or a prediction. No horoscopes. No personalised forecasts. If you want to know what a card means to you, you write it. PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No advertising, no profiling, no third-party trackers • Sign-in is optional — without it, everything stays on your device • Sign-in adds cloud backup and sync across your devices • Export your whole archive as CSV or PDF — yours to keep WRITE HOWEVER SUITS YOU • Voice-to-text in every reflection field — speech is transcribed on your device and never leaves your phone • Supports larger system text sizes • Animations can be calmed down in Settings MAKE IT YOURS • Journal cover themes — leather, botanical, academic, witch, stellar • Four illustrated archetypal card decks • Customisable card backs, table surfaces, reveal effects • Cosmetics unlocked through practice milestones SKEIN PLUS — OPTIONAL • Unlimited cloud sync across your devices • Pattern Mirror Pro — extended history, deck cohorts, card combinations • Journal search & filters • Unlimited decks tracked • CSV / PDF export Pull the thread. Skein keeps the record. Privacy Policy: https://getskein.app/privacy Terms of Service: https://getskein.app/terms Support: https://getskein.app/support
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Skein at every 3 weeks against Tarot Line's every 2 months. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Tarot Line sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month and Skein sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Tarot Line ships an update every 2 months, Skein every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 3, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Tarot Line | Skein |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (19 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 70.4% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 19 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 14.0 — better | 15.1 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 86 MB | 82 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | First Line | Roman Nikitin |
In-app purchases
Tarot Line
- Love Pyramid spread$1.991 Month
- Man Tarot spread$1.991 Month
- Daily Reading spread$1.991 Month
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- Love Relationship spread$1.991 Month
- Colleague Tarot spread$1.991 Month
- Career Tarot spread$1.991 Month
- Money Tarot spread$1.991 Month
- Education$8.991 Month
- Package of spreads$9.991 Month
- Purchase 10 coins$1.99
Skein
- Skein Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Skein Plus (Yearly)$44.991 Year
- Golden Sparks$0.99
- Moonlight Glow$0.99
- Celestial Fire$1.99
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- Mystic Smoke$1.99
- Forest Whisper$2.99
- Witch's Grimoire$2.99
- Dark Academia$2.99
- Botanical Herbalist$2.99
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