Comparison

ShadowWrite vs The Luck Guide

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

Head to head
About

ShadowWrite

Features
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ShadowWrite is a private journal for noticing the patterns behind your reactions, relationships, boundaries, and self-talk. Choose a guided question or write freely, then record how you feel before and after the reflection. A calmer way to reflect - Follow a compact seven-day reflection path - Explore 100+ prompts across eight themes - Open any prompt straight in the journal - Track your mood before and after writing - Search, edit, favorite, export, or delete past entries - Keep entries on your device and protect the journal with the private lock Free includes 20 prompts and up to three entries each week. ShadowWrite Premium unlocks unlimited entries, every prompt category, history search, and export. ShadowWrite is a reflective journaling tool, not therapy, diagnosis, treatment, or crisis support. Privacy Policy: https://frexx.top/shadowwrite/privacy.html Terms of Use: https://frexx.top/shadowwrite/terms.html Apple Standard EULA: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Support: https://frexx.top/shadowwrite/support.html

About

The Luck Guide

Explore ancient wisdom and celestial patterns for modern self-growth. This app offers a live guide to the night sky and a daily framework for reflection, grounded in Stoic philosophy and classical scholarship. Understand yourself, your relationships, and the cycles of time.

Highlights
  • Live night sky map
  • Daily reflection framework
  • Personalized character study
  • Classical tradition learning
  • Relationship compatibility analysis
  • On-device AI assistant
Features
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The Luck Guide is the astrology app that tells you what to do, when, and why — computed from your exact birth chart, on your device, from the real positions of the planets. Nothing here is randomly generated. Every word you read is calculated from live orbital data and your natal chart — accurate to a hundredth of a degree, using the same NASA/JPL-derived planetary data professional astrologers rely on. This is astrology the way it was originally practiced: a technical craft of measurement and timing, grounded in the classical tradition and rigorously computed. FORECASTS KEYED TO YOUR ACTUAL CHART Your daily, fortnightly, three-month, and yearly readings aren't written for a sign — they're computed for you, and they name the real machinery of your moment: • The exact transits crossing your chart, read by the house they fall in • Your time-lord chapters (zodiacal releasing) and annual profections, anchored to your real solar return • Solar and lunar returns, secondary progressions, eclipses that strike your natal points, and fixed-star contacts When several independent techniques point to the same theme at once, the app tells you — two agreeing is meaningful, three is loud, four is once in a lifetime. Every reading is written by hand — thousands of authored passages, chosen by your chart's exact geometry and phrased in plain language rather than technical jargon. The four cadences are threaded together, so the shape of your year and the detail of your day tell one continuous story, each development covered once, at the scale where it matters. A LIVE MAP OF THE SKY ABOVE YOU Rendered in real time for your exact location: • The sky shifts color through the day with the Sun's true altitude — deep blue by day, violet at sunrise and sunset, black at night — quietly tracking the real sky outside your window. • Every planet sits at its true altitude and azimuth, with real rise, set, and culmination times, and the planetary hour you're in right now. • Hold your phone up and point it at the sky, and the dome follows — what's on screen matches what's really in front of you: the planets, the constellations, what's above the horizon and what's below. FEATURES • Personalized daily, fortnightly, monthly & yearly horoscopes • Full natal birth chart with a reading that explains itself • Hour-by-hour timing guide for when to act • Birth-chart compatibility (synastry) for the people in your life • A live, location-accurate sky map with sunrise, sunset & planetary hours • Ask questions about your chart, answered on-device — with reasoning, not a one-line verdict • Classical tools: fixed stars, lots, profections, returns, and more PRIVATE BY DESIGN The Luck Guide has no backend and no account. Your birth details and chart never leave your phone, are never sold, and are never shared — even the AI runs entirely on-device. No servers. No ads. Usage analytics are anonymous. SPEAKS YOUR LANGUAGE Available in 20 languages, translated on device using Apple's built-in machine translation — so your learning reads naturally in your own language while your data stays private on your phone. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

ShadowWrite4 screens
The Luck Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

ShadowWrite and The Luck Guide are too close to call on the numbers: across 6 compared parameters — price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. ShadowWrite sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $19.99 per year and The Luck Guide sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

ShadowWrite ships an update every 3 weeks, The Luck Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and September 28, 2026 respectively.

ScorecardNo meaningful differences
ShadowWrite versus The Luck Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterShadowWriteThe Luck Guide
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Free
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.0 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size1 MB58 MB
Age rating4+4+
Developer杰 向Clover Media LLC

In-app purchases

1 purchases

ShadowWrite

Subscriptions1
  • Premium — Yearly3 Days trial$19.991 Year
5 purchases

The Luck Guide

Subscriptions4
  • Luck Guide Lite (Monthly)$4.991 Month
  • Luck Guide Pro (Monthly)$9.991 Month
  • Luck Guide Lite (Yearly)$49.991 Year
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  • Luck Guide Pro (Yearly)$99.991 Year
One-time1
  • Luck Guide Pro (Lifetime)$149.99

Questions

Is ShadowWrite free?
ShadowWrite is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Luck Guide free?
The Luck Guide is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do ShadowWrite or The Luck Guide have ads?
Neither ShadowWrite nor The Luck Guide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, ShadowWrite or The Luck Guide?
ShadowWrite ships an update every 3 weeks, and The Luck Guide every 2 weeks. Most recently, ShadowWrite was updated on October 7, 2026 and The Luck Guide on September 28, 2026.

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