Best tarot reading app: which one fits the way you read

How we compared these tarot apps

Each fact comes from the app's own store listing or website, checked on Oct 9, 2026. We compared the deck, the spreads, learning tools, a journal, AI, the free plan and privacy. A tick in the table above means the listing states the feature; a dot means we did not find it there, which is not the same as proof it is missing. No ratings, download counts or prices, because they change too often to stand behind.

A tarot app, or a tarot reading app as many listings call it, does one of three jobs: it teaches you the cards, helps you read for yourself, or reads for you, with AI or a person. The best ones are clear about which job they do. Soulether is our own app and is marked as ours; it is judged by the same rules.

• ✦All 78 cards, with reversed meanings.
• ✦Real spreads with named positions, not only a single card.
• ✦Meanings you can look up, so you can check what a reading leans on.
• ✦A way to save readings and see patterns over time.
• ✦A plain statement of how cards are drawn and who, or what, writes the reading.

The 6 tarot apps, one by one

Each app in a few lines: what it is, who it is for, and what to know before you install it.

• ✦Labyrinthos: a learning app with lessons, a reference for all 78 cards, more than 70 spreads and a journal, on iOS, Android and the web. Best for anyone learning to read for themselves. Know first: its AI readings are an optional extra, separate from the lessons.
• ✦Galaxy Tarot: a long-running Android app with a classic Rider-Waite deck and a card encyclopedia. Best for readers who want the traditional images and set meanings. Know first: Android only, and the journal is in the paid version.
• ✦Trusted Tarot: ready-made readings such as the Celtic Cross, a daily and weekly card and a meanings library, on iOS and Android. Best for a classic reading without AI. Know first: unlimited premium and Ask a Question readings are a subscription.
• ✦Nebula: a card of the day and free tools, with paid live chat with tarot readers, astrologers and palmists. Best if you want a person to read for you. Know first: it is a live-reader app first, with few self-reading tools.
• ✦Sanctuary: a daily draw and horoscopes, with live readings by chat or voice, on iOS and Android. Best for a live reading by phone. Know first: billing is by the minute once the intro session ends.
• ✦Soulether (ours): a web app with a daily card for a question you set and a weekly five-card spread, read by AI with your birth chart. Best for a short reading written for you. Know first: no live readers, no journal and one deck.

What the free version of each tarot app includes

Every app here is free to download. What the free part covers varies a lot, paraphrased from each listing:

Best tarot app for learning the cards

Labyrinthos is built for learners. Its listing describes short practice lessons built on the Fool's journey through the Major Arcana, a reference for all 78 cards (plus runes and Lenormand), more than 70 spreads with custom spreads on top, and a journal where you can log readings you drew with your own physical deck. A mirror report sums up your most common cards and suits over time.

Galaxy Tarot is a long-running Android app built around the Rider-Waite deck, which suits learners because most books use the same images. It covers single cards and classic spreads such as the Celtic Cross and explains each card's symbols upright and reversed. If you remember Golden Thread Tarot: its maker stopped updating it and points users to Labyrinthos, which is why it is not in the table.

Best tarot reading app for a question you have right now

If you want a reading rather than a lesson, the choice is a classic reading, AI or a person. Trusted Tarot offers ready-made readings such as the Celtic Cross and an "Ask a Question" reading, with set interpretations per card. Labyrinthos sells AI readings for specific questions. Soulether is built around them: a card each morning for a question you set and a five-card spread each week, read together with your birth chart.

Before trusting any AI reading, check that it shows the cards it is reading and that you can look up their meanings. In Soulether, code draws and stores the cards before the AI writes anything, so the model cannot quietly swap in a friendlier card. To try that pattern now, the AI tarot reading page has a free three-card draw.

Best free tarot app, and what it leaves out

Labyrinthos is the most generous free tarot app here: lessons, spreads and the journal without a subscription. Trusted Tarot's free part covers its Celtic Cross and a daily and weekly reading. What usually sits behind a payment is more spreads, a full journal, extra decks, AI-written readings and live readers.

If you want to start without installing anything, the free tarot reading on this site lays a three-card spread with traditional meanings, and the card meanings library covers all 78 cards.

What AI changes in a tarot app

AI changes who writes the reading, and that raises three questions worth asking of any app. First, who draws the cards? The fair answer is code, before any text exists; a model that picks cards can drift toward comforting ones. Second, how is it paid for? Credit packs charge per reading or per follow-up and can run out mid-answer; a subscription or a flat price does not. Third, does the app say what is AI? A reader with a name and a portrait should still tell you plainly that it is software.

AI does not change the meanings. A good AI tarot app reads the same 78 traditional cards a book does and shows you which ones it drew, so you can check its words against them. If an app hides the cards or cannot say how they were drawn, the AI is doing a job it should not.

Tarot apps without AI

Plenty of people want a tarot app that does not use AI, either because they prefer meanings written by a person or because they want to do the interpreting themselves. Galaxy Tarot's and Trusted Tarot's listings describe no AI, and Labyrinthos's lessons, spreads and journal all work without its optional AI readings. Nebula and Sanctuary's live readings are with people.

If AI is the problem, tap the AI column in the table above: the apps without AI come first. Or pick "Card meanings and lessons" and "Reading journal" in the chooser: Galaxy Tarot and Labyrinthos cover both, and Labyrinthos's AI readings are optional. Soulether does use AI for its written readings and says so plainly; the free tools on this site do not.

Best psychic app or a tarot app?

Searches for the best psychic app usually mean an app with live readers, which is a different product from a tarot app. Nebula and Sanctuary are the two best known in our table. A live reader can respond to you in ways an app cannot, and some people value that a lot. Check the per-minute rate and any introductory offer before you start, and set a budget in advance.

Are tarot apps truly random?

A good one uses a random number generator for every shuffle, which is as unpredictable as a hand shuffle and harder to bias. Soulether uses the cryptographic random generator built into browsers and servers, the kind used for security keys. A daily card is then fixed for the day, so asking again does not re-roll it.

What you cannot check from outside is whether an AI app lets the model pick the cards. A quick test: draw many single cards and count the Major Arcana. A fair deck gives about 22 in 78. If nearly every card is a Major, something other than a shuffle is choosing.

Privacy: what a tarot app knows about you

The questions people ask tarot are often the most private things they type anywhere: an affair, a diagnosis, a breakup. Read how an app stores them, whether a person ever reads them, and whether you can delete your history. Apps with live readers necessarily share your questions with that reader.

In Soulether, your question is stored with its reading and sent to the AI model that writes it. Nobody at Soulether reads it to answer you.

How Soulether's tarot app works, and what it lacks

Soulether runs in your phone's browser rather than from an app store. Members get one card each morning for a question they choose, and once a week a five-card spread with positions for what is behind you, where you are, what is coming, what is in the way and what to do. The AI reads the cards with a line from your birth chart and the current sky.

It is not the right pick for everyone. It has no live readers, no journal for your own physical readings and no choice of decks. If you want to learn tarot by hand, start with Labyrinthos. If you want a short, personal reading written for you each day, that is what Soulether does.

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