Comparison

VisualAstro vs Per Astra

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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 .

About

Per Astra

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Per Astra is a marketplace for one-to-one sessions with verified human guides. Your natal chart and Human Design decide which guides you see first: we compare your chart against theirs and rank them by how they align. Per Astra offers content for personal awareness and entertainment, and is not a substitute for medical, legal, financial or psychological advice. Most apps in this category hand you a paragraph written for everyone born in the same month. Here there is a named person on the other side, and they were chosen because their chart fits yours. HOW IT WORKS 1. Enter your exact birth date, time and place. We compute your chart from real ephemeris data, not a lookup table. 2. We compare it against the chart of every approved guide and show you the ones you align with. 3. Describe your situation in your own words and commission the work — a written reading, or a private voice session. YOUR GUIDES ARE REAL PEOPLE Every guide applies inside the app, uploads government photo identification, declares their services, pricing and working hours, and signs our practitioner agreement. Each application is approved or rejected by a person on our team, and no guide can accept a single order before that happens. Guides are paid for the work they do, through their own earnings ledger and payouts to their own bank account. You can message a guide directly, book a private voice session, and read reviews left by other clients before you commission anything. WHAT YOU CAN COMMISSION Natal Chart — your planets, houses and aspects, computed from your exact birth moment. Human Design — your type, strategy, authority, profile and defined centres. Synastry — the angles between two charts, scored and explained side by side. Numerology — life path, expression and personal year, derived step by step. Tarot and Katina — structured spreads with an interpretation for every position. Palm, Cup and Water Readings — photo-based, answered in writing. Aura and Energy — a reflective portrait of how you meet the world. Soulmate Portrait — a symbolic illustration, never a likeness of a real person. The Universe — one open question, one considered answer. Each of these is a service in the catalogue. Guides declare which of them they practise in and set their own prices, and any result can be carried straight into an order to a guide you have matched with. AI, LABELLED AS AI Automated interpretations carry an AI badge wherever they appear. You can rate any answer and report it in one tap, and reports go to a moderation queue handled by people. Nothing here pretends to be a person it is not. YOUR DATA Birth details and readings stay in your account. A photo you upload for a reading is analysed and discarded, unless you explicitly ask for it to be kept so your guide can see it — and then it is deleted on a fixed schedule. You can delete your account, and everything in it, from inside the app. THREE LANGUAGES English, Turkish and German — the whole app, including the readings themselves. ENERGY AND PRO Sessions and readings are paid for with Energy, purchased inside the app and shown in your local currency. Energy is not refundable, not transferable between accounts and cannot be exchanged for money. Per Astra Pro is an auto-renewing subscription available monthly, quarterly and yearly. It renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the current period ends. Manage or cancel it any time in your Apple Account settings. Every result screen carries a written reminder that the content is for personal awareness and entertainment. Per Astra is for people aged 18 and over.

Screenshots

VisualAstro4 screens
Per Astra4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: VisualAstro at every 10 days against Per Astra's monthly. Per Astra's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 18.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. VisualAstro sells 9 one-off in-app purchases and Per Astra sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $8.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VisualAstro ships an update every 10 days, Per Astra monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
VisualAstro versus Per Astra: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVisualAstroPer Astra
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (5 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings5 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 10 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPod
Requires iOS18.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size389 MB76 MB
Age rating9+17+
DeveloperNelson Jorge Vieira RamosPHETRA LLC

In-app purchases

9 purchases

VisualAstro

One-time9
  • 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
8 purchases

Per Astra

Subscriptions3
  • 1 Months$8.991 Month
  • 3 Months$24.993 Months
  • 1 Year$59.991 Year
One-time5
  • 100 Energy$3.99
  • 250 Energy$7.99
  • 600 Energy$14.99
Show 2 more
  • 1200 Energy$34.99
  • 2500 Energy$44.99

Questions

Is VisualAstro free?
VisualAstro is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Per Astra free?
Per Astra is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do VisualAstro or Per Astra have ads?
Neither VisualAstro nor Per Astra shows ads.
Which is updated more often, VisualAstro or Per Astra?
VisualAstro ships an update every 10 days, and Per Astra monthly. Most recently, VisualAstro was updated on October 24, 2026 and Per Astra on October 31, 2026.

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