Comparison

Bazi Compass vs Anush

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

Head to head
About

Bazi Compass

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Discover your personal blueprint through BaZi — the ancient Chinese birth chart system used for centuries to understand personality, timing, and compatibility. Bazi Compass translates the wisdom of the Four Pillars into a beautifully crafted personal reading, written just for you. YOUR PERSONAL READING Enter your birth date and time to unlock a detailed analysis of your Day Master element, personality traits, life trajectory, career strengths, relationship patterns, and health tendencies. Your reading is generated fresh - not a generic horoscope. DAILY, MONTHLY & ANNUAL INSIGHTS See how current energies interact with your birth chart. Get personalized guidance on what to lean into and what to watch for - updated for each period. ASK A PRACTITIONER Chat with an AI practitioner who understands your complete chart. Ask about career moves, relationship dynamics, timing decisions, or anything on your mind. Your chart context is always in the conversation. COMPATIBILITY Add the people in your life - partner, friends, family, colleagues - and discover how your elements interact. See where you strengthen each other and where friction may arise, with relationship-specific insights. GROUP INSIGHTS Create groups for teams, families, or friend circles. Get multi-person analysis and consult on group dynamics, decision timing, and collective strengths. WHAT IS BAZI? BaZi (八字) — literally "Eight Characters" — is a Chinese metaphysical system that maps the Five Elements (Wood, Fire, Earth, Metal, Water) present at the moment of your birth. It has been used for over a thousand years as a framework for self-understanding and life navigation. FEATURES • Accurate Four Pillars chart calculation using Swiss Ephemeris • 8-section personalized narrative reading • Daily, monthly, and annual period insights • AI practitioner chat with full chart context • Compatibility analysis for 4 relationship types • Group creation and group consulting • Shareable identity card • Beautiful, minimal design Note: Bazi Compass is for personal exploration and entertainment purposes. It does not provide medical, legal, financial, or psychological advice. Terms of Use: https://usebazicompass.com/terms

About

Anush

This app offers a unique cup reading experience based on a 1,500-year-old practice. After enjoying your coffee, upload photos of your cup's grounds, and receive a personalized, observational reading. Readings are permanent, private, and available in English and Armenian.

Highlights
  • AI-powered cup readings
  • Based on Armenian tasseography
  • Personalized readings from photos
  • Readings are permanent and private
  • Bilingual (English & Armenian)
  • No ads or social features
Features
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Anush is a small house for a 1,500-year-old practice. After your morning coffee, drink it slow. Turn the cup over on its saucer. When the grounds settle, take three photographs and Anush will read them, the way your tatik would have read them, if she were sitting at the table. This is not a horoscope. It is not a fortune. It is a quiet, observational reading from someone who has been at this for fifty years. The app generates each reading from the photographs of your specific cup, looking at the way the grounds settled, the shapes the cup made of itself, what the rim and the base have to say. Sometimes it is light. Sometimes it has weight. The cup decides. Each reading is yours alone, written once, kept on your shelf forever. You can come back to it tomorrow, next week, on a morning years from now when you want to remember what the cup said the first time you drank it slow. Anush is bilingual. English and Armenian, your choice. The voice does not change between languages. The practice does not either. THE SHAPE OF A READING Every reading carries five movements: the general energy of the cup, the rim and the upper wall (the present moment), the middle (your inner world), the base (what is settling), and the symbols themselves. The app names what it sees, a path forming, a cluster of grounds, a hook, an open shape, and tells you what those would mean to a reader who has done this for decades. The closing line of every reading is something you can save, share, or keep in your pocket for the day. WHAT MAKES ANUSH DIFFERENT · No advertising. No social feed. No streaks. Just the cup. · Readings are immutable once written. We do not let the model second-guess itself, and we do not let the app overwrite what your cup said. · Your photos are not stored. They are sent to the AI in memory only and discarded once the reading is generated. Only the reading text is kept. · Your account belongs to you. Sign in with Apple, with Google, or with your email. Delete your account and everything you made any time, from the Settings tab. · The voice was tuned across many drafts to feel inherited, not generated. It does not sound like ChatGPT. It sounds like a tatik you remember. A SMALL TECHNICAL NOTE Anush uses Anthropic's Claude AI to generate readings. The model is shown the photographs of your cup and asked to read them in the voice and structure of an Armenian tasseography reading. Nothing in the reading is pre-written. The app's design draws from Armenian manuscript traditions. The vordan karmir red comes from the historic dye that gave Armenian rugs and manuscripts their color for over a thousand years. THE SMALL HOUSE Anush exists to keep a practice alive in a form that fits in your pocket. It does not want a lot of your time. It does not want your data. It wants you to drink your coffee slowly and let the cup speak. Once written, kept. For every tatik who read a cup before us. The voice is borrowed; the practice is hers., Vardan Kirakosyan, Los Angeles, California anushcoffee.com · hello@anushcoffee.com

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Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is device support: Anush at 2 against Bazi Compass's —. On price, in-app purchases 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Bazi Compass versus Anush: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBazi CompassAnush
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Ads—No
In-app purchasesNoNo
Monetization—Free
Devices—iPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.0 — better15.1
Further details — not scored
Size24 MB34 MB
Age rating17+9+
DeveloperMei Qian LowVardan Kirakosyan

In-app purchases

None

Bazi Compass

No in-app purchases

None

Anush

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Bazi Compass free?
Bazi Compass is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Anush free?
Anush is free to download, with no in-app purchases.

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