Comparison

Space QwArk vs My Star Mate

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

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About

Space QwArk

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Here's the thing about self-help: it's very hard to help yourself when you're the one who got you into this mess. So we hid it inside a story about a dirt farmer on Mars who gets told to build an enormous ark and save every living creature. He didn't apply. He isn't qualified. The raccoons have already started sabotaging the airlock. Space QwArk is a 40-day guided journal. Each day you open the app, read a short chapter, reflect on a prompt, do one small real-world task, and write in a private journal. A few minutes. Then you close it and go live your life. You can't skip ahead. The Moon won't allow it. While you're laughing at a goat delivering divine messages and an AI called Barry who's having an existential crisis, you forget to be afraid of the blank page. You write things down. You name the dream. You start building. Every day, you receive six things: A transmission from the Moon - a new chapter in the story Greg's Briefing - a reflection prompt, delivered with gentle anxiety The Building Task - one small, real thing to do today Norb's Note - encouragement from someone who genuinely thinks you're brilliant Builder's Tea - a quiet moment to breathe Your Journal - a private space to write what's actually true Why a story? Because your inner critic knows how to shut down a self-help book by page three. But it has no idea what to do with a telepathic mouse. While it's confused, you slip past it. No ads. No data collection. No social features. No streak counters making you feel guilty. Just a cup of tea and whatever's true today. Based on the novella by Tonzy Stone. 40 days. 40 cups of tea. One impossible Ark.

About

My Star Mate

Explore your birth chart and the actual sky with real people as stars. This app offers detailed astrological readings, relationship compatibility analysis, and a unique social feed based on lunar cycles. It provides in-depth astrological calculations and interpretations without AI or generic readings.

Highlights
  • Living map of the sky with real people
  • Detailed birth chart and ephemeris calculations
  • Relationship compatibility analysis (synastry)
  • Search members by astrological placements
  • Live transits and daily astrological notes
  • Tropical and sidereal chart options
  • Numerology readings
  • Lunar-cycle-based social feed
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My Star Mate is a living map of the sky with real people in it. A complete ephemeris, built from the same orbital data astronomers use, runs entirely on your device. It computes your birth chart, tonight's actual sky, and the geometry between you and anyone you care about. No canned readings, no AI, no borrowed engine. Everything is calculated, and everything is explained. TONIGHT'S SKY, WITH PEOPLE IN IT Open the app to the real sky overhead. Ten people appear each night as stars, placed where their charts actually touch yours. Read someone's full chart, keep their star, or let them set with the night. A new sky rises every day. SEARCH BY THE SKY Ask questions no other app can answer. Who has Venus in Scorpio? Whose Mars makes a trine to my natal Venus? The Compass searches real members by placement and by aspect. And with just a birthday, Check Anyone gives you a complete relationship reading for anyone in your life: a partner, a parent, a friend, a coworker. A VERDICT WITH A RECEIPT The compatibility engine judges two charts the way a working astrologer would. It prices every contact by classical condition: sect, essential dignity, mutual reception, retrogrades, and the receiving chart's own capacity, so the same contact lands differently on different people. It reads geometry most professional software never surfaces: declination parallels, antiscia mirrors, the composite chart of the relationship itself, the Vertex and Sun/Moon midpoint axes, minor harmonics. Then it shows you the reasons in plain language. The scale is calibrated against thousands of computed pairings, so a high score is rare because it is real. A separate friendship lens reads the same two charts by different rules, because a lasting friendship is not a romance with the volume turned down. YOUR CHART, ALL THE WAY DOWN Your natal chart with its full written reading. Live transits and a daily note composed from the actual astronomical day: eclipses from our own eclipse engine, stations, lunations, exact contacts to your chart. Progressions, profections, Arabic Lots, fixed stars, asteroids, house rulers, and an eclipse calendar computed from lunar theory. FOUR SYSTEMS, ONE ENGINE The tropical chart. A full sidereal chart with your choice of Lahiri or Fagan-Bradley ayanamsa. A complete numerology reading built from your birth name and date. And the relational readings between two people. Each is its own hand-built engine with its own hand-written interpretations: more than five megabytes of original prose, selected by computed geometry, never generated. A FEED PAGED BY MOONS Share thoughts with your circle under a timeline organized by lunar months. Every post carries the computed sky of the moment it was written, and on new and full moon days the feed opens with a prompt tied to where that lunation falls in your own chart. HONEST BY DESIGN No fortune telling and no predictions. The writing describes computed structure and states its own limits: anything that depends on an exact birth time says so, and steps back when the time is unknown rather than guessing. Turn on Airplane Mode and your chart, transits, and readings keep working, because the astronomy never touches the network. Some features are part of the Cosmic membership. The sky is free. Your chart is already written. Come meet the people standing under it. SUBSCRIPTION My Star Mate Cosmic is an auto-renewing subscription: $14.99 per month, or $89.99 per year, which is $7.50 per month billed yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged within 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.mystarmate-support.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Space QwArk4 screens
My Star Mate4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Space QwArk at none against My Star Mate's 4. Space QwArk also leads on device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.0 vs 26.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. My Star Mate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month. Space QwArk asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 5 level
Space QwArk versus My Star Mate: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSpace QwArkMy Star Mate
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—2 — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
Monetization—Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.0 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size40 MB27 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperAntonia SjoestroemJEREMY STEVEN VEGA

In-app purchases

None

Space QwArk

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

My Star Mate

Subscriptions2
  • Cosmic Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Cosmic Yearly$89.991 Year
One-time2
  • Flash Boost$1.99
  • Constellation Scan$7.99

Questions

Is Space QwArk free?
Space QwArk is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is My Star Mate free?
My Star Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Space QwArk or My Star Mate have ads?
Neither Space QwArk nor My Star Mate shows ads.

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