The iPhone app
Readings
A reading has four stages: pick a spread, ask a question, reveal the cards one at a time, then read the interpretation. Nothing in that sequence costs tokens on any plan.
This is the longest screen in the app and the one with the most gestures, so it is worth knowing what responds to what.
Choosing a spread
The Reading tab lists all 44 spreads across 8 themes: Classic & General, Decision-Making, Love & Relationships, Career & Money, Self & Spiritual, Time & Cycles, Astrological, Situational. Each row shows a diagram of the layout so you can recognise a spread by its shape.
- Spread row
One row per spread, showing a small diagram of the layout, its name, a one-line description and the number of cards. Tapping it opens the setup screen.
- Padlock badge
On a spread your plan does not include, with the plan name that unlocks it. Tapping the row opens the website rather than the spread.
How many spreads each plan opens
| Plan | Spreads |
|---|---|
| Free | 4 of 44 |
| Seeker | 21 of 44 |
| Oracle | 44 of 44 |
| Professional | 44 of 44 |
Every spread, its positions and what each position means are listed in the spread reference.
Laying a reading yourself
Build your own, at the top of the Reading tab, skips the draw. You name each position, choose which of the 78 cards sits in it and which way up, and write what you make of it — up to ten positions, which is as many as a reading film can hold. It opens face up: there is nothing to turn over when you chose the cards yourself.
What you write is the reading, and it saves to the journal, shares and films like any other. Building one is free on every plan and does not use your daily reading allowance — nothing is generated. Expand my reading does use the cloud, so it needs an Oracle or Professional plan; it elaborates your reading of each card rather than replacing it, and your own words stay on the screen underneath.
Asking a question
- Question
What you want to ask. Grows to five lines as you type. Entirely optional — a blank question draws the cards on their own terms.
LimitsOptional - Begin
Shuffles and starts the reading.
CostFree on every plan - Privacy badge
States whether this reading will be written on your device or online, before you commit to it.
- Close
Abandons the setup and returns to the spread list.
The shuffle wait
After a lot of readings in one day, a short countdown appears before the cards are dealt. It exists to keep a reading feeling like an occasion rather than a slot machine, and it resets every day.
| Readings so far today | Wait |
|---|---|
| 1–13 | None |
| 14–20 | 10 seconds |
| 21–27 | 20 seconds |
| 28–34 | 30 seconds |
| 35 and beyond | 5 minutes |
The Professional plan never waits, at any count. The Free plan never sees this at all — it is limited to one reading a day instead.
Revealing the cards
The cards arrive face down in the spread's own layout. You turn them one at a time, in order, and a counter under the spread tracks how far through you are.
- Tap a face-down card
Reveals it. Cards are revealed in the spread's own order — the next one is the only one that responds.
- Tap a revealed card
Brings it forward on its own, with its position name and meaning.
- Spread / Positions
Two small buttons switching between the visual layout and a plain list of positions. Both share the same reveal state, so you can start in one and finish in the other. Multi-card spreads only.
- Pinch to zoom
Enlarges the spread once every card is revealed. Up to four times, or six on spreads of five cards or more. Card captions stay the same size as you zoom.
- Two-finger drag
Pans a zoomed spread. One-finger taps still select cards, so panning never fights with revealing.
- Expand / collapse
Grows the spread area to fill the screen, or returns it. Useful on the ten-card layouts.
- Scatter (hand icon)
Opens a physical table where the cards fall under real gravity — tilt the phone to move them, drag to fling one. Purely for play.
- Interpret
Appears once every card is revealed. Writes the interpretation of the whole spread.
CostFree on every plan - Retry
Shown if the interpretation fails. Nothing is lost — the same cards are re-interpreted.
- New reading
Ends this reading and returns to the spread picker.
Follow-up questions
Once the interpretation has been written, the Oracle and Professional plans can ask further questions about it. The answer is written against the cards you actually drew, not as a fresh reading.
- Follow-up question
Asks something further about the reading, answered in the context of the cards already on the table. Grows to three lines.
- Send
Submits the follow-up. Greyed out while the box is empty.
Limits2 per readingCostFree - Remaining counter
How many follow-ups you have left on this reading.
Two per reading, on both plans. On the plans without them, an upgrade row appears in the same place instead.
Turning a reading into a video
The film icon in the toolbar at the bottom of a finished reading builds a narrated vertical video from the cards you drew. It is the same feature, with the same options, as on the website.
- Quality
Standard, Master or Masterpiece — the per-second rate.
Cost10 / 20 / 40 tokens per second at 1080p - Length
8, 16, 32, 64 seconds. The two longest appear only on readings with more than one card.
- Resolution
1080p or 720p. Hidden on Masterpiece, which is 1080p only.
- Animation
A collapsed section holding the ten dials that shape how the film moves.
LimitsTen sliders, 0–9 each - Reset to defaults
Returns all ten dials to their starting values. Greyed out when nothing has been changed.
- Creative direction
An optional note about how the film should look or feel. It takes priority over everything else when the film is written.
LimitsUp to 2,000 characters - Generate
Starts the render, with the exact token cost on the button.
CostQuality rate × length; charged on success only - Share
Shares the finished film. It is saved to the reading automatically — there is no save button because there is nothing to press.
- Done
Closes the sheet. Safe to press mid-render: the video is attached to the reading in your Journal when it finishes.
- Pick a quality and a length; the cost appears on the generate button.
- Optionally open Animation and set the ten dials — see video controls.
- Optionally write a line of creative direction.
- Press generate. You can close the sheet and carry on — the finished video attaches itself to the reading in your Journal.
Common problems
“One reading per day”
The Free plan's daily limit. Every paid plan removes it.
The reading is shallower than usual
On Oracle or Professional this means it fell back to the on-device engine — usually a weak connection, sometimes online readings being switched off in Settings.
A card will not turn over
Cards reveal in order. The one waiting for you is the next in the sequence, not the one you tapped.
Pinch to zoom does nothing
Zoom only becomes available once every card in the spread has been revealed.
There is no video button
It only appears when you are signed in.