Tarot Sanctum
Contents

The website

Draw & readings

You can draw in the browser at /reading, with the same 44 spreads, the same reading voices and the same reading videos the app has — dealt in any deck you own.

Two things differ from the app, both because the website sells no subscription. Every spread is open to everyone rather than unlocked by a plan; and where the app includes readings in that plan, here you pay 1 token to have one written, with your first one free.

Drawing a reading, in sixteen seconds.

Drawing

The draw page before a reading.Callout 1: 1
The draw page before a reading.
  • Search spreadsText field

    Filters all 44 spreads by name, subtitle or theme. Clearing it returns to the themed tabs.

  • Theme tabsButton

    The 8 groupings the spreads are arranged in: Classic & General, Decision-Making, Love & Relationships, Career & Money, Self & Spiritual, Time & Cycles, Astrological, Situational.

  • Spread rowButton

    A diagram of the layout, its name, a one-line description and the number of cards. No padlocks — the website has no plans, so every spread is open.

  • QuestionText box

    What you want guidance on. Entirely optional — leaving it blank draws the cards without a stated question.

    LimitsOptional, up to 500 characters
  • DeckButton

    Which deck's artwork the cards are dealt in: your own decks, the free deck, and anything you have bought. A part-generated deck can be read with — cards without art yet appear as plain named cards.

  • Reading styleSheet

    A collapsed panel holding the five voices: Tarot Reader, Joyful Fortune Teller, Fierce Fortune Teller, Wickedly Blunt, or a custom one you describe. Style changes tone only — never the cards or their meanings.

  • BeginButton

    Shuffles and deals, in your browser. Nothing is sent anywhere and nothing is charged.

    CostFree
The shuffle happens in your browser, seeded per reading, so the same reading always redraws identically from its permalink. Your question is not sent anywhere by the draw itself — only generating a video sends it, and only then.

Laying a reading yourself

Build your own, at the top of the spread list, skips the draw entirely. 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. The diagram beside the form is the real composition, laid out by the same code the table uses.

What you write is the reading: it is complete and saved before anything is paid for. Expand my reading then costs the same single token an interpretation does, and does something different with it — your reading of each card is elaborated rather than replaced, and your own words stay on the page under “Your own reading”.

A hand-built reading behaves like any other afterwards: it turns up in the journal, takes follow-up questions, and can be made into a film. Nothing about it is dealt, so there is nothing to turn over — it opens face up.

Turning the cards

The cards arrive face down in the spread's own layout — the Celtic Cross as a cross and a staff, the Zodiac as a ring — and you turn them one at a time, in the spread's order. A counter above the table tracks how far through you are.

  • Tap a face-down cardGesture

    Turns it over. Cards reveal in the spread's own order — the next one is the only one that responds, and it is outlined in gold.

  • Tap a revealed cardGesture

    Opens it full screen with its position and meaning. Swipe or use the arrow keys to move between cards; tap anywhere, press Escape or swipe down to close.

  • Turn them allButton

    Reveals the remaining cards at once, for when you would rather not turn ten by hand.

  • Pinch to zoomGesture

    Enlarges the spread once every card is revealed. Up to four times, or six on spreads of five cards or more. Scroll with Ctrl held does the same on a desktop.

  • Two-finger dragGesture

    Pans a zoomed spread. One-finger taps still select cards, so panning never fights with revealing.

  • Expand / CollapseButton

    Grows the table to fill more of the screen, or returns it. Useful on the ten- and twelve-card layouts.

Cards reveal in order, so the one waiting for you is the next in the sequence, not the one you tapped. Zoom only unlocks once every card is face up — mid-reveal, a stray pinch was the gesture most likely to knock a card over by accident.

A finished reading

Once every card is turned, the reading appears: each position with the card that landed there and whether it came up reversed, followed by the interpretation.

Every reading is written twice over. The first is composed on your own device the moment the cards are dealt — free, offline, and always there. The second is the one you pay for.

A finished reading.
A finished reading.
  • Interpret this readingButtonSign-in required

    Has the reading written properly — the cards weighed against each other, in the voice you chose. Appears under the offline reading once every card is turned.

    Cost1 token, or your free reading
  • Follow-up questionText box

    Asks something further, answered against the cards already on the table. It never deals new ones. Answered in the voice the reading was written in, even if you change the setting later.

    LimitsNo cap — each one is paid forCost1 token each
  • Synced / Saved on this deviceRead-only

    Whether the reading has reached our servers. Readings drawn offline sit as “saved on this device” until a connection returns.

  • Sync nowButton

    Pushes a pending reading immediately rather than waiting. Only shown while one is pending.

  • Permalink to this readingLink

    A stable address for this reading you can bookmark or return to.

If the interpreter cannot be reached, the offline reading stands and you are not charged — the token, or your free reading, goes back.

The reading video panel

At the bottom of every finished reading is the option to turn it into a narrated vertical film built from the cards you drew. It is the most expensive thing on the website, so the panel is deliberately explicit about what you are about to spend.

The reading video panel with the animation dials open.Callout 1: 1Callout 2: 2Callout 3: 3Callout 4: 4Callout 5: 5
The reading video panel with the animation dials open.
  • Quality pillsButton

    Standard, Master or Masterpiece. This sets the per-second rate and therefore the whole price.

    Cost10 / 20 / 40 tokens per second at 1080p
  • Length pillsButton

    How long the finished film runs: 8, 16, 32, 64 seconds. The 32 and 64 second options appear only on readings with more than one card.

  • Resolution pillsButton

    1080p or 720p. 720p is cheaper on Standard and Master; Masterpiece renders at 1080p either way and the pills are hidden.

  • AnimationSheet

    A collapsed panel holding the ten dials. The header says “customised” in gold when any dial is off its default.

  • The ten dialsSlider

    Glitter & Sparkle, Motion Energy, Camera Movement, Character Movement, Environmental Movement, Transformation, Atmospheric Effects, Lighting Drama, Card Fusion and Surrealism. Each shows its value and an intensity word beside it.

    Limits0–9 each, defaults between 3 and 5
  • Reset to defaultsButton

    Returns all ten dials to their starting values.

  • Creative directionText box

    A free-text note about how the film should look or feel. It takes top priority when the film is written.

    LimitsOptional, up to 2,000 characters — anything beyond is trimmed as you type
  • Generate videoButtonSign-in required

    Starts the render, showing the cost on the button. Takes a few minutes; the panel polls and updates itself.

    CostQuality rate × length; charged on success only
  • ShareButton

    Shares the finished file through your browser's share sheet, or offers it as a download where that is not supported.

  • Generate anotherButton

    Returns to the options so you can render the same reading again at a different length or setting.

  1. Pick a quality and a length. The button shows the exact cost before you commit.
  2. Optionally open Animation and set the dials — see video controls for what each one does.
  3. Optionally add creative direction.
  4. Press generate and leave it. Rendering takes a few minutes.
If the render fails you are told so and not charged. The most common cause is the video model's own content filter refusing a prompt derived from the artwork — retrying often succeeds, because the filter is not deterministic.

Your journal

Every reading you draw is kept in your journal with its cards, its interpretation, any follow-ups and any video, and each has a permalink you can return to.

Readings are stored in your browser, not on your account — the same way the app keeps its journal on your phone. They are yours, they never sit on a server, and the practical consequence is that the journal is per-browser: clearing your browsing data clears it, and another device has its own.

What works offline

Once you have visited the site, drawing works with no connection at all. The card data, all 44 spreads and the offline interpretation engine are in the browser, and readings are stored locally and pushed up when you are back online.

  • • Works offline: choosing a spread, dealing, turning the cards, the offline reading, your journal, and permalinks to readings you have already drawn.
  • • Needs a connection: having a reading written, follow-up questions, reading videos, other people's deck artwork, deck generation, the marketplace, buying anything.