Venus Tracker vs Ourcana
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Venus Tracker
This app provides real-time astronomical and astrological data for Venus, including its phase, position, and cultural significance. It features an augmented reality sky finder and a detailed synodic calendar, offering a deep dive into Earth's brightest planet.
- Live Venus phase and illumination
- Augmented reality sky finder
- Venus synodic calendar
- Cultural history of Venus
- Zodiac and astrological house positions
- Real-time astronomy news
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Venus Tracker is a precision astronomy and astrology companion dedicated entirely to the planet Venus. Built using live astronomical data, the app combines real-time planetary measurements, an original Venus synodic calendar, augmented reality sky-finding, and deep cultural history into a single focused experience. CURRENT VENUS STATUS See Venus exactly as it is now for your location: • True illumination phase disc • Morning Star or Evening Star designation • Elongation from the Sun • Apparent magnitude • Altitude and azimuth • Distance in astronomical units • Current zodiac position All calculations are based on professional ephemeris data. VENUS SYNODIC CALENDAR Explore a 585-day Venus year anchored to the heliacal rise. • 13-month structure • Eight astronomical holidays • Retrograde tracking • Intercalary adjustment • Full year and month views • Gregorian date mapping SKY FINDER (AUGMENTED REALITY) Point your phone at the sky and see it come alive: • Live camera viewfinder with compass and altitude guidance • 288 bright stars and all 88 constellations drawn in real time • Mercury, Mars, Jupiter, and Saturn alongside Venus • Tap any star or planet to identify it • An on-screen arrow leads you to Venus when it is out of frame • Moon and Sun positioning • Capture and share photos with the sky overlay • Precision sidereal time calculations GUIDE & CULTURAL HISTORY Explore Venus across civilizations: • Sumerian Inanna / Ishtar • Greek Aphrodite • Roman Venus • Maya Venus cycles • Egyptian traditions • Vedic Shukra • Chinese Tai Bai Jinxing • Norse Freyja • Yoruba Oshun • Islamic Golden Age astronomy Also includes Venus through the twelve astrological houses. NEWS Stay current with astronomy and astrology developments related to Venus, updated in real time. PRIVACY • Location is used only on device • No analytics • No tracking • No advertising • No account required Venus Tracker is designed for observers, astrologers, students of mythology, and anyone who wants to understand the rhythm of Earth’s brightest planet with clarity and depth.
Ourcana
Manage your collection of original characters and personalities with this system tracker. Log journals, design rich profiles, and track relationships between members. The app features a unique theme inspired by tarot and alchemy, with customizable terminology.
- Character and member tracking
- Fronting status management
- Markdown journaling
- Rich profile design
- Relationship tracking
- Customizable terminology
- Import from SimplyPlural/PluralKit
- Offline data management
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Ourcana ("Our Arcana") is a Plural System tracker app for managing a collection of members (which can be alters, original characters, personalities, etc). Track your system members, which of them are fronting (if any, or even all of them!), and use markdown to log journals, design rich profiles (with formatting, style elements, and inline media) and track relationships and interactions between all your system's members. Import from SimplyPlural, import and sync data (or active members) with PluralKit, or manage all your data entirely offline with exported copies of your whole "deck"! Ourcana has been tested with up to 20 thousand members. Ourcana's design and UX allude to classic card decks, fantasy fortune-telling, and medieval alchemy and magic with the "Tarot" and its "Major Arcana" cards as a for-fun, lighthearted theme to manage character, system, member, and group data. One can change all the terms inside the app however they'd like in settings such as "deck, "member", "system", "fronting", etc. Color highlights, accents, light and dark mode, and more are all customizable in-app with a rich UI. PluralKit and SimplyPlural color settings transfer automatically! Import from SimplyPlural, import and sync data (or active members) with PluralKit, or manage all your data entirely offline with exported copies of your whole "deck"! PluralKit synchronization is a first-class feature, with sufficient functionality to completely replace the PK dashboard down the line. Deeper PluralKit-specific integration features will launch with our 1.0.0 online update, so stay tuned! This application is made with accessibility and ergonomics in mind. I've developed it for my own online community first and many others adjacent to it all over the net known as the "plural" community. As a journal and personal tracking app, Ourcana keeps all your data private, personal, and offline-first by design. Journals are only stored on the device itself, and the sync settings allow one to choose which other data (if any) to share with PluralKit. Ourcana is priced at $1 USD (or regional) to support the development team, but can be found for free, forever through our community resources. You can try the web app at https://ourcana.space/ before getting the app! Transfer data between devices with the import/export feature. Our End-User License Agreement for Ourcana Online is the same as Apple's default and can be found at the link below. https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Venus Tracker at 5.0 against Ourcana's 4.3. Venus Tracker also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 2). Ourcana's advantage is ratings volume (43 vs 1) and update cadence (weekly vs monthly). On price, ads, monetization model and iOS requirement 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
Venus Tracker costs $0.99 and Ourcana $0.99 up front. Ourcana sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $3.99 per month. Venus Tracker asks for nothing beyond the download.
Venus Tracker holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Ourcana has 43 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Venus Tracker ships an update monthly, Ourcana weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.
| Parameter | Venus Tracker | Ourcana |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $0.99 | $0.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better | 4.3 (43 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | — | 71.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 43 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | — | #27 — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Apple Watch — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 3 MB | 88 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | +4 |
| Developer | Joshua Harrington | Isaac Aronson |
Customer experience
Venus Tracker
Ourcana
In-app purchases
Venus Tracker
No in-app purchases
Ourcana
- Ourcana Online!$3.991 Month
- Apple Watch Companion$9.99









