Comparison

My Star Mate vs Quiet Sky

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

Head to head
About

My Star Mate

Explore your birth chart and the actual sky with real people as stars. This app offers detailed astrological readings, relationship compatibility analysis, and a unique social feed based on lunar cycles. It provides in-depth astrological calculations and interpretations without AI or generic readings.

Highlights
  • Living map of the sky with real people
  • Detailed birth chart and ephemeris calculations
  • Relationship compatibility analysis (synastry)
  • Search members by astrological placements
  • Live transits and daily astrological notes
  • Tropical and sidereal chart options
  • Numerology readings
  • Lunar-cycle-based social feed
Features
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My Star Mate is a living map of the sky with real people in it. A complete ephemeris, built from the same orbital data astronomers use, runs entirely on your device. It computes your birth chart, tonight's actual sky, and the geometry between you and anyone you care about. No canned readings, no AI, no borrowed engine. Everything is calculated, and everything is explained. TONIGHT'S SKY, WITH PEOPLE IN IT Open the app to the real sky overhead. Ten people appear each night as stars, placed where their charts actually touch yours. Read someone's full chart, keep their star, or let them set with the night. A new sky rises every day. SEARCH BY THE SKY Ask questions no other app can answer. Who has Venus in Scorpio? Whose Mars makes a trine to my natal Venus? The Compass searches real members by placement and by aspect. And with just a birthday, Check Anyone gives you a complete relationship reading for anyone in your life: a partner, a parent, a friend, a coworker. A VERDICT WITH A RECEIPT The compatibility engine judges two charts the way a working astrologer would. It prices every contact by classical condition: sect, essential dignity, mutual reception, retrogrades, and the receiving chart's own capacity, so the same contact lands differently on different people. It reads geometry most professional software never surfaces: declination parallels, antiscia mirrors, the composite chart of the relationship itself, the Vertex and Sun/Moon midpoint axes, minor harmonics. Then it shows you the reasons in plain language. The scale is calibrated against thousands of computed pairings, so a high score is rare because it is real. A separate friendship lens reads the same two charts by different rules, because a lasting friendship is not a romance with the volume turned down. YOUR CHART, ALL THE WAY DOWN Your natal chart with its full written reading. Live transits and a daily note composed from the actual astronomical day: eclipses from our own eclipse engine, stations, lunations, exact contacts to your chart. Progressions, profections, Arabic Lots, fixed stars, asteroids, house rulers, and an eclipse calendar computed from lunar theory. FOUR SYSTEMS, ONE ENGINE The tropical chart. A full sidereal chart with your choice of Lahiri or Fagan-Bradley ayanamsa. A complete numerology reading built from your birth name and date. And the relational readings between two people. Each is its own hand-built engine with its own hand-written interpretations: more than five megabytes of original prose, selected by computed geometry, never generated. A FEED PAGED BY MOONS Share thoughts with your circle under a timeline organized by lunar months. Every post carries the computed sky of the moment it was written, and on new and full moon days the feed opens with a prompt tied to where that lunation falls in your own chart. HONEST BY DESIGN No fortune telling and no predictions. The writing describes computed structure and states its own limits: anything that depends on an exact birth time says so, and steps back when the time is unknown rather than guessing. Turn on Airplane Mode and your chart, transits, and readings keep working, because the astronomy never touches the network. Some features are part of the Cosmic membership. The sky is free. Your chart is already written. Come meet the people standing under it. SUBSCRIPTION My Star Mate Cosmic is an auto-renewing subscription: $14.99 per month, or $89.99 per year, which is $7.50 per month billed yearly. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. It renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period, and your account is charged within 24 hours before renewal. Manage or cancel anytime in your App Store account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.mystarmate-support.com/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Quiet Sky

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Quiet Sky is a calm, precise horoscope app for people who actually read charts. Instead of generating fortune text, it calculates planetary positions, aspects and houses accurately and leaves the reading to you. THE SKY NOW • The current planetary positions on a chart wheel • Step time forward or back by a minute, an hour, a day, a week or a month • Tables of positions, aspects and houses • Retrograde planets and daily motion • Any place and time zone in the world NATAL CHARTS • Create a chart from a name, birth date, birth time and birthplace • Search 4,169 built-in cities or enter coordinates directly — no connection needed • Unknown birth time is never replaced with noon: you get the planets and how far each moves that day • House systems: Placidus, Koch, Whole Sign, Equal, Campanus, Regiomontanus • Adjustable orbs UNLOCK EVERYTHING (ONE-TIME PURCHASE) • Transits: a bi-wheel with any date's planets around the natal chart • Analysis: essential dignities, chart shape and element balance • Returns: solar returns, lunar returns and planetary synodic cycles • Synastry: bi-wheels, aspect grid and composite charts for two people • Save as many charts as you like Not a subscription. Buy once and you will never be charged again. Every locked feature explains what it does before you buy. FREE • The whole Sky screen • One saved chart with its wheel, positions, aspects and houses ACCURACY Positions are apparent positions including aberration and nutation, in the tropical zodiac. The validated range is 1900–2100, and results are checked against published reference values to within one arcsecond. PRIVACY • No account, no ads, no tracking • The only network use is App Store purchase and restore • Charts are saved as JSON files in the "Quiet Sky" folder of your iCloud Drive, visible in the Files app and synced across devices (stored on the device if iCloud is off) iPhone and iPad. English and Japanese.

Screenshots

My Star Mate4 screens
Quiet Sky4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Quiet Sky at 18.0 against My Star Mate's 26.0. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support 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. My Star Mate sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $14.99 per month and Quiet Sky sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

Scorecard1 real difference · 8 level
My Star Mate versus Quiet Sky: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMy Star MateQuiet Sky
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings) — better—
Number of ratings2 — better—
Update frequency—Every 2 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad — better
Requires iOS26.018.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size27 MB3 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperJEREMY STEVEN VEGAFumiya Sekiguchi

In-app purchases

4 purchases

My Star Mate

Subscriptions2
  • Cosmic Monthly$14.991 Month
  • Cosmic Yearly$89.991 Year
One-time2
  • Flash Boost$1.99
  • Constellation Scan$7.99
1 purchases

Quiet Sky

One-time1
  • Unlock All Features$9.99

Questions

Is My Star Mate free?
My Star Mate is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Quiet Sky free?
Quiet Sky is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do My Star Mate or Quiet Sky have ads?
Neither My Star Mate nor Quiet Sky shows ads.

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