VisualAstro vs Odysseus®
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
VisualAstro
Explore precise astrological analyses with detailed charts, transits, and progressions. Analyze relationships with synastry and composite charts, and delve into vibrational astrology with advanced visualizations. Features include customizable settings and privacy-focused on-device processing.
- Accurate astrological charts
- Transit and progression analysis
- Synastry and composite charts
- Vibrational astrology reports
- Interactive chart visualizations
- Customizable house systems and orbs
- On-device Apple Intelligence processing
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VisualAstro brings a modern and very intuitive Astrology analysis to your device — and it's free. Easily explore harmonics, midpoints, fixed stars, anticia, golden mean midpoint and pattern highlights with professional‑grade chart accuracy. And much much more: - Accurate charts: Swiss Ephemeris, time‑zone rules by date/place (including pre‑standard offsets), and an offline world‑cities database. Includes Topocentric calculation for all objects and Planet's True Positions. Precision up to the second of arc. 0-4000 AD. - Read chart data from photo for your commodity. Use your camera to capture name, date, time and location from sources like AstroDataBank and other reference software for your commodity. Simple and agile. - Transits: fast lookups for any aspected related pair of objects date/time; dynamic step by year/month/day/hour/minute with transits-natal, transits-transits and ingresses in sign/houses. - Secondary Progressions: fast lookups for any aspected related pair of objects date/time; dynamic step by year/month/day/hour/minute with progression to natal, lunation, ingresses and retrograde cycles. - Synastry and Composite Davison Method: bi‑wheel overlays to compare two charts; create Davison composites for relationship analysis. Davison Chart for the Transits. - Vibrational Astrology: Vibrational Charts and secondary vibes, midpoint structures, golden‑mean midpoints, aspect strength/highlights, clear visuals for discovery. Full Vibrational Chart Reports with customisable vibe ranges, advanced rating system for score ranking, spotlights on quincunxes, 11/24, 4 or more conjunction and Isotraps below 1 minute. Interactive spectrum graph analysis with all the feature in the Vibrational Report plus Fractals and Prominent Primes highlights and multiple filters for the astrological explorer. - Easy visualisation: clean charts, click-to-highlight features in the chart, color‑coded aspects, retrograde markers, smart labels with contextual information, light/dark mode. Single chart with dual layout for your preference. - Antícia, Fixed Stars and Golden Mean Midpoint with orb customisable conjunction detection. - Customisation: multiple house systems (12 to choose from), flexible orb settings for individual technique, Tropical, Sidereal and Heliocentric Zodiac Type. Customise your work area with sections reordering. multi-language (english and portuguese) and time‑format options, tags/type for chart classification and exploratory research. Notes to organize work and keep track of notable insights. Topocentric and True planetary positions at your service. - NEW FEATURE: Apple Intelligence Vibration Synthesis in circuits, isotraps, midpoint structures and Vibrational Chart Report vibrations: Private and runs only in-device. Data is not sent out to online LLMs. - NEW FEATURE: Time-Continuum for primary chart. Dynamically updates calculations and allows Chart Rectification with the help of Transits and Progressions. - Privacy‑first: no account required; calculations run on‑device; optional iCloud Sync stores your charts in your private iCloud. - Works anywhere: offline cities and built‑in time‑zone data. Optional inexpensive add‑ons (via in‑app purchase): Synastry, Davison Composite, Transits, Progressions, Vibrational Chart Reports and Vibrational Chart Spectrum .
Odysseus®
This app is a comprehensive tool for Uranian Astrology, offering features for drawing astrological charts, calculating various astrological events, and learning through interactive quizzes. It supports multiple dial types and includes a vast array of celestial bodies and points for detailed analysis. Users can also save interpretations and search for meanings of astrological elements.
- Draw astrological themes on various dial types
- Display numerous celestial bodies and points
- Read aspects, half-points, and planetary figures
- Calculate solar/lunar revolutions and eclipses
- Generate planetary curves and ephemerides
- Interactive educational quizzes
- Customizable learning filters
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Odysseus® is the ideal tool for all astrologers, whether they are beginners or confirmed. Designed to make Uranian Astrology (or "Hamburg School Astrology") more accessible, Odysseus® allows you to: • Draw your themes on 360º, 90º, 22º30, 5º37 or 1º24 dial • Display the immaterial points that are the Ascendant, the Middle of Heaven, the Vernal Point, the Lunar Nodes, the stars that are the Sun, the Moon, Mercury, Venus, Mars, Jupiter, Saturn, Uranus, Neptune and Pluto, but also the 8 trans-Neptunian planets of the School of Hamburg, Cupid, Hades, Zeus, Kronos, Apollo, Admete, Vulcan and Poseidon, and many optional bodies (Ceres, Juno, Pallas, Vesta, Hygiea, Diana, Chiron, Pholus, Nessus, Chariclo, Eris, Sedna, Haumea, Makemake, Local Meridian, Advanced Meridian, Local Ascendant, Advanced, Vertex, Black Moon) • Read aspects, half-points, planetary figures / sensitive points, houses and all possible definitions • Automatically calculate solar and lunar revolutions, eclipses, moons, the theme of the day, generate planetary curves and ephemeris, read axis symmetries, triple patterns... • Generate group themes or set up a custom theme • Take notes, write your own interpretations and save the dates of important events • Quickly search for the meaning of planetary symbols, midpoints, figures, signs/houses and planets in signs/houses. • Train with a series of educational quizzes covering the different reading levels: planet → definition, definition → planet, midpoints, figures, etc. • Customize the filters to adapt the learning sessions according to your preferences. • Read in day or night mode, in French or English. • And a lot of other things, for a complete and easy practice!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: VisualAstro at 100% against Odysseus®'s 0%. VisualAstro also leads on price (Free vs $79.99) and rating (5.0 vs 3.0). Odysseus®'s advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 9) and device support (4 vs 2). On update cadence and ads 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
VisualAstro is free to download; Odysseus® costs $79.99 up front. VisualAstro sells 9 one-off in-app purchases. Odysseus® asks for nothing beyond the download.
VisualAstro holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: VisualAstro has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of VisualAstro's written reviews are positive against 0% of Odysseus®'s.
VisualAstro ships an update every 10 days, Odysseus® every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 28, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | VisualAstro | Odysseus® |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $79.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (5 ratings) — better | 3.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 0.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 10 days — better | Every 2 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod, Mac — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 15.6 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 389 MB | 465 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nelson Jorge Vieira Ramos | Kevin Meunier |
Customer experience
VisualAstro
Odysseus®
In-app purchases
VisualAstro
- Small support donation$1.99
- Small Donation to the Project$1.99
- Composite$3.99
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- Vibrational Chart Spectrum$3.99
- Synastry$3.99
- Davison Composite Charts$3.99
- Transits$8.99
- Progressions$8.99
- Vibrational Chart Report$8.99
Odysseus®
No in-app purchases









