Comparison

HexWave vs The Drawn Card

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

Head to head
About

HexWave

Discover your unique I Ching identity based on your birth date. Explore your core hexagram, growth edge, and future self, along with daily readings and astrological insights. Connect with others through relationship maps.

Highlights
  • Birth Hexagram Triad
  • Daily hexagram and reading
  • Chinese Zodiac and Five Elements
  • Full library of 64 hexagrams
  • Mutual Hex Maps and Bond Levels
  • Poetic interpretations
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HexWave turns your birth date into a living I Ching identity. Enter the day you were born and instantly meet your Birth Hexagram Triad: your Primary Hexagram (who you are), your Changing Line (your growth edge), and your Resultant Hexagram (who you are becoming). It is calculated deterministically from the 3,000-year-old Plum Blossom method, so the same input always yields the same reading. Every day brings a new hexagram from the Gan Zhi cycle, with a personal reading drawn through your own chart. Discover your Chinese Zodiac animal, Five Elements, and full BaZi Four Pillars. Explore all 64 hexagrams of the King Wen sequence. Connect with people you know through Mutual Hex Maps and named Bond Levels that reveal the pattern between you. FEATURES - Your Birth Hexagram Triad, calculated from your birth date - A daily hexagram and a personal daily reading - Chinese Zodiac, Five Elements, and Four Pillars (BaZi) identity - The full library of 64 hexagrams - Mutual Hex Maps and Bond Levels with the people you add - Beautiful, poetic interpretations, and no ads ever HexWave is a mirror, not a fortune teller. It reflects the archetypes of the I Ching to help you see yourself clearly; it does not predict the future. Premium unlocks deeper interpretations, full mutual maps, and unlimited people. Core readings are always free. — Terms of Use (EULA): https://hexwave.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://hexwave.app/privacy HexWave Premium is an auto-renewable subscription ($12.99/month or $129.99/year). Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings after purchase.

About

The Drawn Card

Learn to interpret tarot cards with narrated lessons and interactive practice. This app offers a comprehensive guide to understanding card meanings, spreads, and reversals, with a journal to log your readings. It works offline and provides personalized feedback on your interpretations.

Highlights
  • Narrated tarot lessons and card readings
  • Interactive practice partner for interpretation feedback
  • Offline functionality for lessons and card readings
  • Journal to log readings with reflection prompts
  • Support for various tarot spreads
  • Guidance on reversals and card combinations
Features
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Most tarot apps teach you to memorize. This one can teach you to read. Fourteen lessons and all seventy-eight cards, written out in full and read aloud — not by a synthesized voice, by a working reader. SHE READS IT TO YOU Every lesson and every card entry is narrated in her own voice, and the words on screen follow her while she speaks — the paragraph being read is the paragraph lit up, timed to her actual recording rather than to an estimate. Put the phone in your pocket and listen, or read along and see where she puts the weight. IT WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL Save the narration to your phone — the fourteen lessons and the seventy-eight card readings separately, with the size written on the button before you press it. On a plane, on the underground, in a basement with no bars: her voice, and the words still following her. THE LESSONS Fourteen of them, starting with where tarot actually came from (almost everything people repeat about that is invented) and ending with one whole reading start to finish, including the part where the first interpretation turns out to be wrong. Questions worth asking. Every spread from a single card to the Celtic Cross, and when not to use it. Reversals without the dread. Cards in combination, which is where beginners actually get stuck. THE PRACTICE PARTNER Write your own interpretation of a card in a situation, and get told what you caught, what you missed, and another way to read the same card. Not a quiz on definitions — feedback on your reading. It is the difference between knowing what the Tower means and being able to say something useful when it turns up. The practice partner needs a connection; everything else here works from what you have already saved. LAY A SPREAD One card up to the ten-card Celtic Cross. Shuffle your own deck, place what you drew, and every position tells you what it is asking before the card goes down. A position you cannot articulate produces an interpretation you cannot defend. The whole reading saves as one thing, because that is how you read it. A JOURNAL THAT IS ACTUALLY YOURS Log the cards you pull, with a reflection prompt written for that specific card, upright or reversed — not the same question every time. Your entries can sync across your devices, and you can download all of them or delete all of them whenever you like. THE SUBSCRIPTION One subscription covers all of it — the lessons, the cards, the spreads, the practice partner, the journal — with weekly, monthly and yearly options. Whatever is added while you are subscribed is included, and nothing that is included today moves behind a second payment later. Readings are offered for insight and reflection. They are not a substitute for medical, psychological, legal or financial advice, and nothing here predicts the future. SUBSCRIPTION The Course is an auto-renewing subscription: one week $4.99, one month $14.99, or one year $111.99. Payment is charged to your Apple Account when you confirm. It renews automatically at the end of each period unless auto-renewal is turned off at least 24 hours beforehand, and you can manage or cancel it in your Apple Account settings. Privacy Policy: https://www.thedrawncard.com/policies Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

HexWave4 screens
The Drawn Card4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: The Drawn Card at 100% against HexWave's 0%. The Drawn Card also leads on rating (5.0 vs 2.0) and update cadence (every 5 days vs fortnightly). HexWave's advantage is monetization model (freemium vs subscription). On price, ratings volume, 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. HexWave sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and The Drawn Card sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

The Drawn Card holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 2.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 1 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 0% of HexWave's written reviews are positive against 100% of The Drawn Card's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

HexWave ships an update fortnightly, The Drawn Card every 5 days. The most recent releases landed on October 7, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard4 real differences · 6 level
HexWave versus The Drawn Card: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHexWaveThe Drawn Card
PriceFreeFree
Rating2.0 (1 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews0.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings11
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFreemium — betterSubscription
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size97 MB17 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperAsaf EliyahuERICA SUZANNE MARTINEZ

Customer experience

HexWave

All ratings1 ratings
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative100.0%

The Drawn Card

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

2 purchases

HexWave

Subscriptions2
  • Monthly$12.991 Month
  • Annual$129.991 Year
3 purchases

The Drawn Card

Subscriptions3
  • The Course, Weekly$4.997 Days
  • The Course, Monthly$14.991 Month
  • The Course, Yearly$111.991 Year

Questions

Is HexWave free?
HexWave is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is The Drawn Card free?
The Drawn Card is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, HexWave or The Drawn Card?
The Drawn Card is rated higher. HexWave averages 2.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while The Drawn Card averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do HexWave or The Drawn Card have ads?
Neither HexWave nor The Drawn Card shows ads.
Which is updated more often, HexWave or The Drawn Card?
HexWave ships an update fortnightly, and The Drawn Card every 5 days. Most recently, HexWave was updated on October 7, 2026 and The Drawn Card on October 10, 2026.

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