Maphrodite vs Startek
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Maphrodite
This app visualizes your unique astrological planetary lines on a world map to reveal connections between you and any location. Plan travel, understand relationships, and discover optimal places for living and working based on celestial influences.
- Visualize planetary lines on world map
- Plan multi-city trips with astrological precision
- Harmonize two birth charts for relationship insights
- Discover optimal locations for travel, love, work, and family
- Receive daily location recommendations
- Create shareable astrocartography map images
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Maphrodite plans trips around your birth chart. It draws your planetary lines across a high-precision world map, then works out where they land and when to be there. PLAN THE TRIP Journey turns a list of cities into a dated itinerary. For each city it finds the planetary line running nearest, then scans the months ahead for the transits that activate it — so every stop gets dates, not just a pin, and the card tells you which transit chose them. Don't like a date? Each stop carries the other favorable windows found for it, and you can move the stay onto one. Then take the trip with you: send it to your calendar, export a printed itinerary, or share the timeline as an image. READ THE MAP Zoom into any city to see which of your lines run through it — Midheaven, Nadir, Ascendant and Descendant — and how far each one sits from you. Power Place: a location drawn from the day's transits, with the planetary hours that go with it. Modes: filter the map for travel, relocation, love, work, family or pets. TRAVEL TOGETHER Overlay a second birth chart and see where both people's lines run close — for when the trip has to suit two of you. WHERE THE NUMBERS COME FROM Positions are computed with the Swiss Ephemeris from your birth date, time and place. Every line, distance and date on the screen is calculated from that chart. Download Maphrodite and plan the trip your chart has been pointing at. The official digital companion to Astrocartography (DK Publishing, 2025) by Clarisse Monahan.
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 Maphrodite's $29.99. Startek also leads on review sentiment (88% vs 67%) and ratings volume (345 vs 8). Maphrodite's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and chart position (#66 vs unranked). On update cadence, 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; Maphrodite costs $29.99 up front. Startek sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Maphrodite asks for nothing beyond the download.
Startek holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Startek has 345 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Maphrodite's written reviews are positive against 88% of Startek's.
Maphrodite ships an update every 9 days, Startek weekly. Both last shipped on October 30, 2026.
| Parameter | Maphrodite | Startek |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $29.99 | Free — better |
| Rating | 4.6 (8 ratings) | 4.9 (345 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 87.8% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 | 345 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 9 days | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Freemium — better |
| Best chart rank | #66 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 56 MB | 103 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 17+ |
| Developer | Clarisse Monahan | Cameron White |
Customer experience
Maphrodite
Startek
In-app purchases
Maphrodite
No in-app purchases
Startek
- Pro Access One Month7 Days trial$12.991 Month
- Pro Access One Year$99.001 Year
