Guide
The complete manual
This is the full reference for Tarot Sanctum: every screen in the iPhone app and on this website, every button, slider, text box and setting on those screens, what each one does, and what — if anything — it costs.
If you only want the short answers, the help page covers the common questions in a couple of minutes. This is the long version.
Where to start
If you want to read cards
Start with Today for the daily draw, then Readings for the 44 spreads and how a reading actually unfolds.
If you want to make a deck
Start with generating a deck, then editing one — that is where the 78 cards get from “nearly right” to right.
Video tutorials
Prefer to watch? Each film below is a narrated desktop walkthrough of one part of the site, three to four minutes long. Start with the welcome film for the whole tour.
Welcome to Tarot Sanctum
Create decks, draw readings, watch them become films.
Spreads
Forty-four ways to lay the cards, and how to pick yours.
Readings & follow-ups
From question to interpretation, and the conversation after.
Generating a deck
One description in, seventy-eight cards out.
Your decks
Where seventy-eight cards live, and everything you can do with them.
Advanced card editing
Versions, regeneration, the object brush, crops and animation.
Card backs & sharing
The one design every reading shows, and how to show off the rest.
Reading videos
Your reading, rendered and narrated as a short film.
Advanced video inputs
Ten dials and one sentence: full creative control of your films.
The gallery
Readings, published as films — and how yours joins them.
The marketplace
Browse by style, preview every card, and make a deck yours.
Tokens & pricing
What's free, what costs, and exactly how much.
The iPhone app
The app is where you read. It works with no account and no connection: the Free and Seeker plans write their interpretations entirely on your phone, and decks you own are stored on the device.
- App overviewThe five tabs, what needs an account and what doesn't, and how the app is laid out.
- TodayThe daily card: drawing it, revealing it, listening to it, saving and sharing it.
- ReadingsChoosing a spread, asking a question, revealing cards, follow-ups, and reading videos.
- Decks & Deck StudioBrowsing, claiming and buying decks, generating your own, and editing individual cards.
- JournalSaved readings, reflections, and videos that finished after you closed the app.
- Settings (More)Every setting in the app, row by row, including voice, language and appearance.
- Plans & tokensSubscription tiers, buying tokens, restoring purchases, and deleting your account.
The website
The website is where you make things. Deck generation, card editing, the marketplace and buying credits all live here, on a screen big enough to see what you are doing. Anything you create shows up in the app under the same account.
- Website overviewWhat the website does that the app doesn't, and how the two share one account.
- Generating a deckQuality tiers, the deck title, and writing a style brief that actually works.
- Editing a deckThe style guide, regenerating cards, painting out objects, and version history.
- Draw & readingsAll 44 spreads in the browser, turning the cards, follow-up questions and reading videos.
- GalleryPublishing a reading video, what becomes public, and how the feed works.
- MarketplaceFinding decks, buying them, and listing your own for sale.
- Account & creditsYour profile, credit balance, topping up, and your purchase history.
Reference
Tables to look things up in, rather than pages to read through.
- Every spreadAll 44 spreads, what each position means, and which plan unlocks it.
- Every priceWhat each action costs in tokens, and how tokens are sold on each platform.
- Video controlsThe ten animation dials, what each one changes, and their default settings.
- GlossaryTokens, credits, tiers, quality names, and the other words this manual uses.
How to read this manual
Every screen in the manual is laid out the same way, so you can skim to the part you need.
- • A screenshot of the screen, with numbered markers where a control needs pointing at.
- • A list of every control on it — what kind of control it is, what it does, any limits, what it costs, and what you need in order to use it.
- • What it costs, where money is involved.
- • Common problems, where a screen has any.
This manual is written in English only. The app itself is translated into 36 languages — see Settings for how to switch.