Tarot Sanctum
Contents

The iPhone app

Settings (More)

Everything configurable in the app is in the More tab, along with your account, your subscription and the ways of contacting us. This page walks every row.

Settings are per device and take effect immediately — there is nothing to save and no way to lose a change by leaving a screen.

The main screen

Screenshot pendingThe More tab.
The More tab.
  • ReadingsLink

    Reversals, haptics, online readings, how you are addressed, and the reading style.

  • Audio & AccessibilityLink

    Spoken readings, voice, narration volume and reading text size.

  • LearnLink

    All 78 card meanings, searchable.

  • LanguageLink

    The app's language and the downloadable packs.

  • AppearanceLink

    Background animation, card shine and card animations.

  • Buy tokensButton

    Opens the token purchase sheet.

  • SubscribeButton

    Opens the subscription plans sheet.

Readings

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More → Readings.
  • Include reversalsToggle

    Whether cards can land upside down and be read with a shifted emphasis. Turn it off to read upright only.

    LimitsOn by default
  • HapticsToggle

    The small physical taps as cards flip and reveal.

    LimitsOn by default
  • Online readingsToggleOracle and up

    Whether the plans that include online interpretation use it. Off, every reading is written on your device — private, but shallower.

    LimitsOn by default
  • Address genderSegmented control

    Neutral, feminine or masculine — how a reading grammatically addresses you. This matters in gendered languages and does nothing in English. The tarot figures always keep their own traditional gender regardless.

  • Reading styleLink

    Opens the style picker, showing the current voice.

Reading style

The reading style changes the voice of an interpretation — how it talks to you. It never changes which cards you drew or what those cards mean.

Screenshot pendingThe reading style picker.
The reading style picker.
  • Style rowButton

    Five voices: Tarot Reader, Joyful Fortune Teller, Fierce Fortune Teller, Wickedly Blunt, and Custom. Tapping one selects it; a tick marks the current choice.

  • Preview (play / stop)Button

    Speaks a short sample in that style, with that style's delivery, so you can hear the difference before committing.

  • Edit custom styleLink

    Only when Custom is selected. Opens the editor for writing your own.

  • Custom style textText box

    Describe the voice you want readings written in. A live counter shows how many characters remain.

    LimitsUp to 500 characters
  • Restore defaultButton

    Returns to the standard Tarot Reader voice.

The preview buttons speak each style with that style's own delivery, which is a much better guide than the descriptions. They need spoken readings switched on.

Audio & Accessibility

Screenshot pendingMore → Audio & Accessibility, with spoken readings on.
More → Audio & Accessibility, with spoken readings on.
  • Spoken readingsToggle

    Turns on the Listen buttons throughout the app. Everything below appears only once this is on.

    LimitsOff by default
  • VoiceLink

    Opens the voice picker for the current reading language.

  • Narration volumeSlider

    How loud the narration is relative to the rest of the system.

    Limits0.2 to 1.0
  • Preview / StopButton

    Speaks a sample line so you can judge the voice and volume together.

  • Reading text sizeSlider

    Scales the reading text, with a live sample paragraph above it. This multiplies with the system text size rather than replacing it, and iPad gets a further increase on top.

    Limits0.85 to 1.45, in steps of 0.05

The voice picker

  • No voiceButton

    The first row. Turns narration off without turning spoken readings off entirely.

  • Voice rowButton

    The voices available for your reading language, each labelled with its locale and whether it is an Enhanced or Premium quality voice.

  • Download voicesButton

    Opens iOS Settings, where Apple's higher-quality voices can be downloaded free. This is the single biggest improvement you can make to spoken readings.

The stock system voice is noticeably robotic. Downloading one of Apple's free Enhanced or Premium voices — iOS Settings → Accessibility → Spoken Content → Voices — transforms spoken readings, and the Download voices button takes you straight there.

Language

36 languages, each downloaded once as a pack and then available offline. Readings in a supported language are written in that language, not translated afterwards.

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More → Language.
  • CurrentRead-only

    The language in use, with a Switch button back to English.

  • AvailableButton

    Every language, each row showing what it needs: Download, Update, Switch, or Active.

  • Swipe an installed packGesture

    Reveals a Delete action to reclaim the space.

  • Pull down to refreshGesture

    Re-fetches the list of available languages and their versions.

If some text still appears in English after switching, the pack has an update waiting. Pull down to refresh and tap Update if it is offered.

Appearance

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More → Appearance.
  • Background animationToggle

    The slowly drifting background. Off is calmer and kinder to the battery, and it also drives the app's reduced-motion behaviour throughout.

    LimitsOff by default
  • Card shineToggle

    The moving highlight across card faces.

    LimitsOn by default
  • Card animationsToggle

    Whether cards that have a generated loop play it. Turning this off does not lose the animations you have paid for — it just shows the still artwork.

    LimitsOn by default

Account

  • Sign inButton

    Opens the sign-in sheet: Sign in with Apple, or email and password.

  • Sign outButtonSign-in required

    Signs out and clears account-specific state. Your journal stays on the device.

  • Delete accountButtonSign-in required

    Asks for confirmation, then permanently deletes your account. Your journal entries stay on the phone; anything held on our servers goes, including readings you had saved online.

  • Save readings onlineToggleSign-in required

    Off by default. On, your journal is kept on your account as well as the phone: it opens on any device you sign in on, and on this site under Journal. Turning it on uploads the readings you already have. Turning it off stops new ones going up and leaves what is already there.

  • Your filmsLinkSign-in required

    Every reading film the account has made, newest first, playable in place — including ones made on another device. Films are deleted from our servers 30 days after they are made unless you published them to the gallery; each row says which.

Signing in grants no plan by itself — see plans & tokens.

Subscription

This section shows your current plan, its tagline, the price from the App Store in your own currency, and a ticked list of what it includes. It is a summary rather than a control — changing plans happens in the Subscribe sheet.

Privacy and support

The privacy section is three plain statements about what the app does and does not do with your readings. Below it are the ways to reach us.

  • Visit the siteLink

    Opens this website in your browser.

  • PrivacySheet

    The privacy summary, in the app.

  • Send feedbackSheet

    A message box that opens an email to us with your app version and device attached. If no mail app is set up, it shows the address with a copy button.

  • Terms of UseSheet

    The terms, in the app.

  • Terms online / Privacy onlineLink

    The same documents on this website.

Learn

Learn is the reference for the cards themselves: all 78, grouped into the Major Arcana and the four suits, each with upright and reversed meanings.

  • Search — filters by card name and by keyword, so “grief” finds the cards that carry it.
  • Card grid — five columns of artwork from your active deck. Tapping one opens its meaning.
  • Upright / Reversed — a segmented control on the card page that swaps the meaning, the keywords, and the way the artwork is rotated.
  • Tap the artwork — full screen, where pinch zooms up to five times and a double tap toggles between fit and close.
  • Listen — reads the meaning aloud.
  • Share — renders the card and its meaning as an image.