Comparison

Liminal Tarot vs Tend Journal

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

Head to head
About

Liminal Tarot

This app serves as a private tarot journal for daily reflection and exploring recurring questions. It focuses on present insights rather than future predictions, allowing users to record readings with digital or physical decks and organize them into thematic chapters.

Highlights
  • Daily card drawing and reflection
  • Digital or physical deck readings
  • Organized reading history
  • Chapter grouping for related readings
  • Pro membership for advanced features
  • Daily prompts and deeper reflections
Features
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Liminal Tarot is a private tarot journal for reflection, daily practice, and the questions that keep returning. It is not built to predict your future. It is built to help you look at what is already here. Draw a daily card, ask a focused question, read with a digital deck or your own physical cards, and keep the readings that matter. Over time, Chapters gather related readings around a period of your life — a career shift, a relationship question, a decision, a season of change — so the thread does not get lost. What's inside: - A daily card and a place to leave a reflection - Readings in a grounded, non-predictive voice - Digital deck or your own physical deck, position by position - A private history of everything you've drawn - Chapters to group readings around what you're working through - Notes at the card, reading, and chapter level Pro membership unlocks the full practice: - Unlimited readings and full history - Chapter synthesis — patterns surfaced across readings, weighted by your own notes - Daily prompts and longer reflections - Practice Depth — visual progression as you keep showing up Liminal Tarot is for adults who use tarot as structured self-reflection. The cards do not decide for you. They give your attention a shape. Your readings and notes are private to your account. Account deletion is available in the app under YOU tab → Delete Account. Liminal Tarot is not medical, legal, financial, or mental health advice. If you are in crisis, please contact a local emergency service or crisis line.

About

Tend Journal

This app offers a private journaling experience with on-device AI to help you reflect on your thoughts and identify patterns. It allows for free writing, mood tracking, tagging, and photo attachments, with optional advanced AI insights and cross-device sync.

Highlights
  • On-device AI reflection
  • Mood tracking and tagging
  • Photo and location attachments
  • Pattern identification insights
  • Goal setting and progress tracking
  • Private and secure local storage
Features
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Tend is a journal that stays on your device and actually helps you think. Write freely, knowing your words are private. Tend uses Apple's on-device AI to reflect back what you're saying, surface patterns you might miss, and ask the questions you didn't think to ask yourself. No account. No servers of mine. No one reading over your shoulder. WRITE YOUR WAY Start with a sentence or fill a page. Tend meets you where you are, with a daily prompt if you want one and a blank page if you don't. Track your mood, tag your entries, attach photos, and save your location. AI THAT HELPS YOU REFLECT After you write, Tend's on-device AI offers reflection questions based on what you actually said. Not generic prompts, but responses that feel like they listened. Want to go deeper? You can optionally send a single entry to Claude for a richer conversation. SEE YOUR PATTERNS Insights shows you the shape of your month: mood trends, your most-used words, and when you tend to write. The calendar gives you a visual map of your emotional life over time. SET INTENTIONS, NOT OBLIGATIONS Tend's intentions aren't todo items. They're directions you want to grow toward. Link entries to intentions and watch your progress unfold naturally. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your entries are stored locally and encrypted by iOS. There's no account to create, no analytics, and no ads. Cross-device sync is off unless you turn it on, and it runs through your own iCloud account, which I have no access to. The only time anything reaches an outside server is when you explicitly tap "Go Deeper," and even then your name is stripped and nothing is retained. PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Free includes on-device AI reflections, unlimited entries, and every core journaling feature, all fully local. Premium is $6.99/month, auto-renewing, and adds unlimited Go Deeper conversations with Claude, iCloud sync across devices, import and export, historical insights, and memory. Your journal should be the one place where you don't perform. Tend is that place. Privacy Policy: [your URL] Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Liminal Tarot4 screens
Tend Journal4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: Tend Journal at every 2 days against Liminal Tarot's every 8 days. Liminal Tarot's advantage is iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.5). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. Liminal Tarot sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $9.00 per month and Tend Journal sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Liminal Tarot against 5.0 for Tend Journal. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Liminal Tarot ships an update every 8 days, Tend Journal every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 16, 2026 and October 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Liminal Tarot versus Tend Journal: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterLiminal TarotTend Journal
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings)
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyEvery 8 daysEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemiumFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.0 — better17.5
Further details — not scored
Size115 MB2 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperChing Hong TanDaniel Davenport

Customer experience

Liminal Tarot

Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Tend Journal

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Liminal Tarot

Subscriptions2
  • Liminal Tarot Pro Monthly$9.001 Month
  • Liminal Tarot Pro Annual$79.001 Year
1 purchases

Tend Journal

Subscriptions1
  • Tend Premium$6.991 Month

Questions

Is Liminal Tarot free?
Liminal Tarot is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Tend Journal free?
Tend Journal is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Liminal Tarot or Tend Journal?
Liminal Tarot and Tend Journal are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 1 and 1 ratings respectively.
Do Liminal Tarot or Tend Journal have ads?
Neither Liminal Tarot nor Tend Journal shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Liminal Tarot or Tend Journal?
Liminal Tarot ships an update every 8 days, and Tend Journal every 2 days. Most recently, Liminal Tarot was updated on October 16, 2026 and Tend Journal on October 5, 2026.

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