Comparison

Horaly vs Meshk

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

Head to head
About

Horaly

This app provides traditional astrology timing based on planetary hours, day rulers, and moon phases, calculated live for your location. It offers features like live hora countdowns, meeting planners, and customizable alerts to help you stay in sync with celestial cycles. Available on iPhone and Apple Watch with various widgets and complications.

Highlights
  • Live planetary hour tracking
  • Day ruler and moon phase information
  • Meeting planner with shared windows
  • Apple Watch companion app
  • Customizable alerts and notifications
  • Home and Lock Screen widgets
Features
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Horaly is a daily companion for traditional astrology timing - planetary hours, day ruler, and moon phase, calculated live for your location. Each layer works together: planetary hours shift by season and sunrise, the day ruler sets the overall tone, and the moon adds phase and zodiac context. Horaly keeps all three in sync so you always know where you stand in the day. PLANETARY HOURS Follow the current hora with a live countdown and progress indicator. Browse the full day schedule across day and night flows. Get notified when the hora changes so you never miss a shift. On Apple Watch, the Wheel view shows the full 24-hour cycle at a glance. The List view gives a quick hora-by-hora breakdown with a NOW indicator. Best/Avoid tells you what the current hora is best - and worst - used for. DAY RULER & MOON See today's ruling planet and the week's rulers at a glance. Explore moon phase, illumination, zodiac sign, degree, lunar day, and age - updated live. LUNAR MANSIONS Follow the Moon through the 28 Arabic lunar mansions (manazil al-qamar), used alongside planetary hours since the Picatrix. See the current mansion with its meaning and Arabic name, when the Moon enters the next one, and what tradition says each mansion favors or hinders. MEETING PLANNER Compare planetary hour quality across two cities to find stronger shared windows. Four views - Week Heatmap, Best Slots, Timeline, and Compare Now - help you decide before you schedule. Add selected windows directly to Calendar. APPLE WATCH A full companion app lives on your wrist: Dashboard, Wheel, List, Day Ruler, Moon detail, Best/Avoid guidance, and Watch face complications showing the current hora and countdown. WIDGETS Current Hora, Now + Next, Upcoming Horas List, Today Timeline Strip, Moon Snapshot, Moon Phase Calendar with lunar day view, and Best Window Today - across Lock Screen, Home Screen, and Apple Watch complications. ALERTS & NOTIFICATIONS Stay in rhythm without having to check the app. Horaly can notify you at the start of each new hora so you never miss a shift. Fine-tune your alert schedule with lead time, and set quiet hours so notifications pause during the night - or any window you choose. Filter by daytime and nighttime alerts, or toggle individual planets on and off to receive only the horas that matter to you: Sun, Moon, Mars, Mercury, Jupiter, Venus, or Saturn. A live preview shows your upcoming alert schedule before you commit to any changes. Built natively for iPhone and Apple Watch. Some features, such as the Meeting Planner, the Moon almanac and most widgets, require Horaly Pro. --- Horaly provides traditional timing guidance for personal planning and reflection. It is not medical, legal, or financial advice. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://rainbow-heather-30a.notion.site/Privacy-Policy-e7c2add29c024f1e81ec228b4d3f12fa Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Meshk

Master handwriting and calligraphy with a comprehensive trainer. It guides your pen strokes, scores your writing in real-time, and supports over 130 writing systems, from ancient scripts to modern calligraphy styles.

Highlights
  • 139 writing systems supported
  • Real-time stroke scoring
  • Animated stroke guides
  • Structured courses, lessons, and exams
  • Arabic calligraphy with 5 historical styles
  • Kids Zone for playful tracing
  • Import custom fonts as SVG
Features
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Learn to write by hand — really write. Meshk is a handwriting and calligraphy trainer that guides your pen stroke by stroke, scores every stroke in real time, and covers 139 writing systems in one app. From Latin cursive and Arabic calligraphy to Chinese hanzi, Japanese kana, Korean Hangul, Devanagari, Tamil, Thai, Cherokee, Ge'ez and N'Ko — 73 scripts in living use today, 66 historic ones, 169 practice packs and 13,256 characters, every one with authentic stroke order. WHAT YOU PRACTICE 139 writing systems Latin (print, cursive, formal script, school manuscript) and Cyrillic · Arabic, Hebrew, Syriac and Thaana · Chinese Simplified and Traditional, Japanese kanji and kana, Korean Hangul and hanja, Bopomofo · 39 Brahmic scripts including Devanagari, Bengali, Tamil, Telugu, Kannada, Malayalam, Gujarati, Gurmukhi, Odia, Sinhala and Tibetan · 17 Southeast Asian scripts including Thai, Lao, Khmer, Burmese, Javanese, Balinese and Baybayin · African scripts including Ge'ez, N'Ko, Tifinagh, Vai, Adlam and Bamum · Armenian, Georgian and Greek · and 66 historic scripts from Egyptian-era alphabets to Runic, Gothic, Glagolitic, Old Turkic, Brahmi, Linear B and Cuneiform-era writing. Hat — classical Arabic calligraphy Five historical styles taught the traditional way: Naskh, Thuluth, Diwani, Ruq'ah and Kufi, with right-to-left guides and reed-pen (qalam) simulation that reproduces the angled nib of a real calligrapher. Hat Studio Meşk the way calligraphers learn it: 896 Arabic compositions, from single words and joined words to full lines, stacked compositions, panels, the tughra and mirrored writing, each written stroke by stroke with a reed pen. Eight more pen hands (Foundational, Uncial, Cyrillic and Greek broad pen, Hebrew Ashuri, Hangul Panbonche, Chinese Kaishu, Japanese Kaisho) and a drawing shelf of 84 exercises in line, ellipse, form, perspective, value, contour and construction. Real stroke scoring Not tracing theatre. Every stroke is compared with the master stroke for direction, order, shape and placement, then scored. Hints show exactly where your stroke went off. Animated stroke guides Watch each character written stroke by stroke, replay at your own speed, then write it yourself over a dotted outline, on lines, or on a blank page. Courses, lessons and exams Every script has a structured course: single letters, lowercase and uppercase, connecting letters, words, then an exam that scores you and awards stars. Kids Zone Playful, age-appropriate letter tracing for children — shapes, letters, words, badges and streaks, with a progress map they want to finish. Your own practice material Add your own words, your own texts and blank practice papers. Meshk builds lessons from whatever you want to write — a name, a poem, a vocabulary list. Import your own fonts Bring any writing style in as SVG and Meshk turns it into a guided, scored course. THE PEN RACK 81 pens, open in every lesson: Apple's eight inks and 73 reeds, nibs, brushes, leads and charcoal on ten shelves. Each has its own cut, angle and ink load, so a Thuluth reed behaves like a Thuluth reed. On iPad the rail sits on whichever side you hold the tablet. MADE FOR APPLE PENCIL Low-latency ink, pressure and tilt response, paper-texture haptics and hover support. It feels like a pen on paper, not a finger on glass. Works on iPhone too. PERFECT FOR • Adults fixing their handwriting • Language learners who want to write, not just type • Calligraphy beginners and enthusiasts • Children learning their first letters • Teachers and tutors running handwriting classes • Anyone learning a new alphabet before a trip, a course or an exam MESHK PRO Meshk Pro opens connecting letters, word lessons, unlimited exams and your own words, texts and practice papers in every course. Download Meshk and write your first letter today.

Screenshots

Horaly4 screens
Meshk4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Meshk at 4.0 against Horaly's 3.0. Meshk also leads on update cadence (every 5 days vs every 3 weeks) and ratings volume (11 vs 2). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Horaly sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days and Meshk sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Meshk holds the better App Store score, 4.0 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Meshk has 11 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Horaly ships an update every 3 weeks, Meshk every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 9, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Horaly versus Meshk: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHoralyMeshk
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.0 (2 ratings)4.0 (11 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—75.0% of reviews
Number of ratings211 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, Apple WatchiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size30 MB35 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperHuy NguyenCihat Salik

Customer experience

Horaly

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

Meshk

All ratings11 ratings
Positive72.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative27.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Horaly

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly Plan$1.997 Days
  • Yearly Plan$14.991 Year
One-time1
  • Horaly Pro Lifetime$29.99
3 purchases

Meshk

Subscriptions2
  • Meshk Pro — Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Meshk Pro — Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • Meshk Pro — Lifetime$49.99

Questions

Is Horaly free?
Horaly is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Meshk free?
Meshk is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Horaly or Meshk?
Meshk is rated higher. Horaly averages 3.0 out of 5 from 2 ratings, while Meshk averages 4.0 from 11 ratings.
Do Horaly or Meshk have ads?
Neither Horaly nor Meshk shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Horaly or Meshk?
Horaly ships an update every 3 weeks, and Meshk every 5 days. Most recently, Horaly was updated on November 5, 2026 and Meshk on November 9, 2026.

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