Comparison

Hearthlight 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

Hearthlight

Features
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Some moments don't need a quick fix. They need a wiser companion. Hearthlight is a quiet space to bring whatever is sitting with you — a feeling you can't shake, a situation you don't know how to react to — and hear how thirteen of humanity's great schools of thought might respond. Stoicism. Buddhism. Taoism. Existentialism. Aristotelian Virtue Ethics. Christian Wisdom. Sufism. Confucianism. Stoic-Cynic counsel. Epicureanism. Rationalism. Empiricism. Pragmatism. Each one speaks in its own voice, with its own concerns, its own framing of what matters. You'll hear agreement, disagreement, and sometimes a perspective that quietly changes the question itself. WHAT YOU CAN DO · Share a feeling or describe a situation in plain words · Receive thirteen distinct perspectives, streamed in one by one · Continue the conversation with any single school for a deeper, more concrete answer · Watch a quiet hearth glow over time — one ember for each pattern in how you think and feel, drawn only from your own past readings WHY "HEARTHLIGHT" The hearth is the oldest gathering place — the warm, steady center where people came to share stories, weigh decisions, and pass down hard-earned wisdom. Hearthlight is that quiet center, in your pocket. WHAT THIS APP IS NOT Hearthlight is a tool for reflection, not a replacement for a therapist, doctor, or crisis line. If you're in immediate distress, please reach out to a trained human. WHAT STAYS PRIVATE · No accounts, no email, no login · Your readings live only on your device · Your hearth is stored in your phone's keychain · Our server keeps nothing — your messages aren't logged or saved · One-tap "erase everything" if you ever want a clean slate Some questions are old enough that someone, somewhere, has already thought carefully about them. Hearthlight is how you ask them.

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

Hearthlight4 screens
The Luck Guide4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Hearthlight at 15.1 against The Luck Guide's 18.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Hearthlight sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month 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

Hearthlight ships an update every 3 weeks, The Luck Guide every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
Hearthlight versus The Luck Guide: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHearthlightThe 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, iPodiPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS15.1 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size51 MB58 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperAdhyaan LLCClover Media LLC

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Hearthlight

Subscriptions3
  • Hearthlight Pro Lite$1.991 Month
  • Hearthlight Pro$2.991 Month
  • Hearthlight Pro Unlimited$4.991 Month
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 Hearthlight free?
Hearthlight 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 Hearthlight or The Luck Guide have ads?
Neither Hearthlight nor The Luck Guide shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Hearthlight or The Luck Guide?
Hearthlight ships an update every 3 weeks, and The Luck Guide every 2 weeks. Most recently, Hearthlight was updated on October 25, 2026 and The Luck Guide on October 14, 2026.

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