Comparison

LORE vs Archetype Decks

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

Head to head
About

LORE

Discover your personalized mythology through AI-generated tarot-style portraits based on your selfie. Explore your core archetype, receive daily readings, and chat with an AI companion that understands your unique story. Your identity is revealed as art.

Highlights
  • Personalized archetype reading
  • 27 unique tarot-style portraits
  • Daily archetype readings
  • AI companion for conversations
  • Shareable portrait deck
  • Privacy-focused data handling
Features
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LORE — Discover the story you've been living. You're not random. You're a character. LORE turns your face, your timing, and your truth into a personalized mythology — a deck of 27 tarot-style portraits that reveal who you are, who you've been, and who you're becoming. Take one selfie. Get pulled into a world built around you. YOUR ARCHETYPE Every person carries one of five core archetypes — The Sovereign, The Ronin, The Oracle, The Outlaw, The Muse. LORE reads yours through a guided onboarding and renders it back to you in a way no quiz, no horoscope, no personality test ever has: as art that looks like you. 27 CARDS. ONE DECK. ALL YOU. Every card in your collection is a tarot-style portrait of you, rendered through the lens of a different psychological moment: • Identity — Prime Portrait. Shadow Self. The Mask. Inner Child. Future Self. • Cinematic — Origin Story. Rising Action. The Standoff. The Fall. Redemption. Final Act. • Moods — Noir. Golden Hour. Neon. Storm. Silence. Fever Dream. • Arcana — The Tower. The Star. The Moon. Death. The Fool. The Devil. • Mirrors — The Rival. The Mentor. The Lover. The Throne. The Weapon. Each card is a different angle on the same story: yours. DAILY READINGS Wake up to a reading written for your archetype, every day. Not generic horoscope nonsense — sharp, specific, sometimes uncomfortably accurate. TALK TO SAGE Sage is your archetype's inner voice — an AI that knows your story, your flaws, your trajectory. Ask it anything. About your life, your fears, the decision you've been avoiding. Sage answers in your voice, not a chatbot's. A DECK YOU CAN SHARE Your cards are made to be shared. Pull "The Tower" and the world sees what you're tearing down. Pull "The Lover" and the world sees what draws people in. This is identity as art. SUBSCRIPTION REQUIRED A subscription is required to generate portraits, unlock readings, and chat with Sage. Subscriptions auto-renew until cancelled in your Apple ID settings. PRIVACY-FIRST Your selfie is used only to generate your cards. We don't sell data. We don't train on your face. Your story belongs to you. You can delete your account and all associated data from Settings at any time. WHAT YOU GET • A personalized archetype reading • 27 unique tarot-style portraits of you • Daily archetype readings • Unlimited conversations with Sage • A growing deck that evolves as you do Some apps try to predict you. LORE shows you who you already are. Pull your first card. See what you've been hiding from yourself. Terms of Service: https://whatsyourlore.com/tos Privacy Policy: https://whatsyourlore.com/privacy-policy

About

Archetype Decks

Features
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Ask the Archetype is a depth psychology field guide. 78 figures from Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, James Hillman, Carol Pearson, and Clarissa Pinkola Estés, one a day, with citations. You draw one card a day. Just one. The deck rests until tomorrow. Each card holds a few things to sit with. A short oracle reading. A scholarly description of the figure, with the thinkers who wrote about it named. A few plain questions in everyday language. A few questions written the way the thinkers wrote them, with citations. A short reading list, if you want to follow a thread further. A note on cultural humility when a figure touches a living tradition. That is the whole app. You pull a card. You read what other people have wondered about it. You leave when you are ready. There are no streaks. No notifications. No badges. No accounts. No data collection. No ads. No subscriptions. The deck does not chase you. If you want to leave a tip, there is a small gratitude jar in Settings. Four tiers, named honestly. A candle for the desk. An afternoon in the stacks. And two for people who really want to send a thank you. 100% of net proceeds go to Nutcracker syndrome research, building toward a dedicated research grant with NORD, the National Organization for Rare Disorders. Nutcracker syndrome is a rare vascular condition most people have never heard of, which is part of why I chose it. Quarterly receipts at sillydroose.com/donations/askthearchetype. All 78 cards are available without paying anything. I built this because I love reading about archetypes, and I wanted somewhere quiet to spend a minute with one each morning. If that sounds like your kind of thing, welcome. Drew

Screenshots

LORE4 screens
Archetype Decks4 screens

Verdict

The call

LORE and Archetype Decks are too close to call on the numbers: across 5 compared parameters — price, ads, in-app purchases and device support among them — neither pulls far enough ahead to decide it. What separates them is feature set and interface, not measurable difference.

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. LORE sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per 7 days and Archetype Decks sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
LORE versus Archetype Decks: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLOREArchetype Decks
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationSubscription—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size42 MB202 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperMetellus Productions LLCDrew Douglass

In-app purchases

2 purchases

LORE

Subscriptions2
  • Lore Pro Weekly$6.997 Days
  • Lore Pro Annual$29.991 Year
4 purchases

Archetype Decks

One-time4
  • A candle for the desk$1.99
  • An afternoon in the stacks$4.99
  • A key to the collection$9.99
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  • A new wing for the library$19.99

Questions

Is LORE free?
LORE is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Archetype Decks free?
Archetype Decks is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do LORE or Archetype Decks have ads?
Neither LORE nor Archetype Decks shows ads.

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