Comparison

Hermes | Astrology Program vs Canopy

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

Head to head
About

Hermes | Astrology Program

This professional astrology calculator offers advanced astronomical precision for consulting astrologers, students, and researchers. It features an eclipse search, gesture-based navigation, and a large database of verified celebrity charts. All calculations are performed locally for complete privacy.

Highlights
  • Advanced astronomical precision
  • Eclipse Search Calculator
  • Gesture-based navigation
  • 15,000+ verified celebrity charts
  • Customizable chart display
  • Dark mode and elegant UI
  • Local calculations for privacy
Features
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Hermes – Professional Astrology Calculator Hermes is a professional astrology calculator for iPhone and iPad, built for consulting astrologers, advanced students and researchers. ——— NEW: PLANET FOCUS Tap a planet and the wheel unfolds into an arc around it. Every aspect is drawn with its exact orb, applying and separating aspects are marked, and one tap on an aspect zooms straight to it. Works on natal, transit, bi-wheel and tri-wheel charts. ——— SWISS EPHEMERIS PRECISION Every chart is calculated with the Swiss Ephemeris across 6,000 years, from 3000 BCE to 3000 CE — natal charts, transits, progressions and returns, all computed on your device. ——— TIME AT YOUR FINGERTIPS Wind the wheel with your finger to move through time by year, month, week, day, hour or minute. One tap locks the wheel, two taps open the magnifier, three taps open the full chart report. ——— ASTROCARTOGRAPHY & RELOCATION See where on Earth each planet rises, sets, culminates and anchors. Planetary AS, DS, MC and IC lines on a map, satellite view or 3D globe — for natal, combined and progressed charts. Move a pin anywhere and watch the relocated chart update live. ——— FIND THE EXACT MOMENT Transit Finder shows exactly when a planet reaches a point in your chart — by conjunction or any major aspect, retrograde passes included. Degree Finder does the same for any degree, no chart needed. ——— PREDICTIVE TECHNIQUES Secondary and minor progressions, solar arc directions, returns for all ten planets, and a Dynamic Report that lists transits, progressions, ingresses, stations and void-of-course Moon periods across any date range. ——— ECLIPSE SEARCH Find solar and lunar eclipses in any period, with type, magnitude, Saros series, contact times and local visibility — then turn any eclipse into a chart. ——— EVERY ZODIAC, EVERY HOUSE SYSTEM Tropical, 19 sidereal ayanamsas, draconic, and the 13-sign constellational zodiac with Ophiuchus. More than 20 house systems, including Placidus, Koch, Whole Sign, Equal, Regiomontanus, Campanus and 13-house constellational systems. ——— DEEP ANALYSIS More than 300 fixed stars and the Star Activation Index, an almuten calculator that marks the almuten on the wheel, declinations with out-of-bounds markers, Arabic parts and your own custom points, heliocentric charts, and over 800,000 downloadable asteroids. ——— 15,000+ FAMOUS CHARTS A built-in library of more than 15,000 famous birth charts with Rodden ratings. ——— SHARE YOUR WORK Share polished chart cards in light or dark style, export reports as professionally designed PDFs, and send charts to other Hermes users as files they can import with one tap. ——— MAKE IT YOURS Customize every part of the wheel — glyphs, colours, orbs, lines, layouts and presets — with a true dark mode. ——— PRIVATE BY DESIGN All calculations run on your device. No account, no ads, no tracking. Your charts stay on your device and, if you turn on iCloud sync, in your own private iCloud. The internet is only used for optional features such as satellite maps and asteroid downloads. ——— HERMES PREMIUM Hermes is free to download. Hermes Premium unlocks advanced features such as all zodiac and house systems, combined charts, progressions and returns, astrocartography, advanced reports, chart appearance settings and iCloud sync. Premium is available as an auto-renewable subscription (1, 6 or 12 months). Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm the purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://hermes.efesirin.com/privacy.html

About

Canopy

Explore ancient Arabian astrology with daily planetary hours, lunar mansions, and natal chart analysis. Discover auspicious timings for important events and understand the influence of fixed stars. This app brings a millennium of celestial wisdom to your pocket for a calm, daily practice.

Highlights
  • Daily planetary hours and lunar mansions
  • Natal chart analysis with traditional techniques
  • Electional timing for auspicious events
  • Talismanic timing with fixed stars
  • 28 Lunar Mansions guidance
  • Fixed star placements
  • Real-time transit tracking
Features
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For more than a thousand years, astrologers from Baghdad to Cordoba read the sky with a rigor that almost no modern app attempts. Canopy brings that tradition to your phone: Ancient Arabian Astrology, calculated properly and kept as a calm daily practice, not a daily prediction. No horoscope hype. iPhone Duo Ready WHAT YOU GET • A 16-section daily reading • A 14-section Natal Fingerprint of your birth chart, rising sign and Moon sign • A timing engine: electional astrology for your plans • Home screen widgets for planetary hours and the lunar mansion YOUR DAY, HOUR BY HOUR Open Canopy in the morning and two things come first: which of the planetary hours (sā'āt al-kawākib) is ruling right now, and which lunar mansion (manzil) the Moon has entered. These are not ornaments but the working instruments of a tradition codified by al-Bīrūnī in the eleventh century. You get the full day and night schedule, the day lord and hour lord, the Moon's condition (void of course, via combusta, afflictions), and what the classical sources hold fit or unfit for the hour. YOUR BIRTH CHART, IN THE CLASSICAL METHOD Your natal chart is cast with traditional technique, not modern shorthand: whole-sign houses, the seven visible planets, essential and accidental dignity, sect, temperament, twelfth-parts, the lunar nodes, and the Arabic Lots (sihām). Every placement opens into a reading of its own. ELECTIONAL TIMING (AL-IKHTIYĀRĀT) Court astrologers were asked one question more than any other: when should this be done? Al-ikhtiyārāt — electional astrology, unbroken since the ninth century — answers it. Canopy scans a date range for windows that suit your intention: a contract, a journey, a conversation, a beginning. Or bring a time you already have in mind and see how it scores. TALISMANIC TIMING The fixed stars held a particular place in this tradition. Canopy watches for moments when a significant star rises or culminates, working from Ghāyat al-Ḥakīm (the Picatrix), the star catalog of 'Abd al-Raḥmān al-Ṣūfī. Each planet and star carries the correspondences, sigils, magic squares, and angelic attributions the texts assign to it. THE 28 LUNAR MANSIONS (MANĀZIL AL-QAMAR) The manāzil al-qamar — the twenty-eight stations the Moon passes through in a month — form one of the oldest sky-watching systems in the Arabian world. Canopy carries the full catalog with daily guidance, marking which mansions the sources count as sa'd (fortunate) and which call for caution. FIXED STARS Thirty-five stars of the classical catalog, fifteen of them the Behenian stars of the talismanic tradition, each under its Arabic name — Regulus (Qalb al-Asad), Antares (Qalb al-'Aqrab), Aldebaran (al-Dabarān), Algol (Ra's al-Ghūl), Spica (al-Simāk al-A'zal), Canopus (Suhayl), and more — measured against your natal chart and against today's sky. TRANSITS Watch the planets move through your natal houses in real time. Canopy shows you not only what is happening overhead, but what the tradition makes of it for your chart. Canopy is traditional astrology built on the Ancient Arabian corpus, and it shows its work: sources named, terms given in Arabic, calculations you can check. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED Canopy requires a Canopy Premium subscription to use the app. Premium is a 1-month auto-renewable subscription — $11.99 USD per month (or local equivalent) after a 7-day free trial — and unlocks the full app, including the daily readings, natal chart analysis, electional timing, talismans, lunar mansions, fixed stars, and transits described above. Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless it is cancelled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription anytime in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://canopyastro.com/privacy_policy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

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Hermes | Astrology Program4 screens
Canopy4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Canopy at 86% against Hermes | Astrology Program's 0%. Canopy also leads on ratings volume (52 vs 1). Hermes | Astrology Program's advantage is monetization model (free with in-app purchases vs subscription) and ads (none vs shown). On price, update cadence, 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. Hermes | Astrology Program sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month and Canopy sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Hermes | Astrology Program holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Canopy has 52 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 0% of Hermes | Astrology Program's written reviews are positive against 86% of Canopy's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Hermes | Astrology Program ships an update weekly, Canopy every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Hermes | Astrology Program versus Canopy: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHermes | Astrology ProgramCanopy
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.8 (52 ratings)
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews86.4% of reviews — better
Number of ratings152 — better
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhone, iPad — betteriPhone
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size446 MB51 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperCareman Consultancy LTDStellar Apps LLC (CA)

Customer experience

Hermes | Astrology Program

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Canopy

All ratings50 ratings
Positive94.0%
Neutral2.0%
Negative4.0%
Written reviews22 reviews
Positive86.4%
Neutral4.5%
Negative9.1%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hermes | Astrology Program

Subscriptions3
  • Hermes Licence7 Days trial$7.991 Month
  • Hermes Licence 6 Months7 Days trial$41.956 Months
  • Hermes Licence 12 months7 Days trial$71.001 Year
3 purchases

Canopy

Subscriptions3
  • Canopy Premium Weekly7 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • Canopy Premium7 Days trial$5.991 Month
  • Canopy Premium Annual7 Days trial$35.991 Year

Questions

Is Hermes | Astrology Program free?
Hermes | Astrology Program is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Canopy free?
Canopy is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Hermes | Astrology Program or Canopy?
Hermes | Astrology Program is rated higher. Hermes | Astrology Program averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Canopy averages 4.8 from 52 ratings.
Do Hermes | Astrology Program or Canopy have ads?
Canopy shows ads; Hermes | Astrology Program does not.
Which is updated more often, Hermes | Astrology Program or Canopy?
Hermes | Astrology Program ships an update weekly, and Canopy every 4 days. Most recently, Hermes | Astrology Program was updated on October 24, 2026 and Canopy on October 25, 2026.

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