Astro.com vs My Horoscope: an honest comparison (2026)

Astro.com and My Horoscope do different jobs, and many readers will end up using both. Astro.com, run by Astrodienst, is a professional chart workshop: free chart drawing with an extended chart selection, a free personal daily horoscope, ephemerides, and texts by well-known astrologers, in 12 languages. Astrodienst also makes the Swiss Ephemeris, the calculation library much of the astrology world runs on. My Horoscope is a guided daily reading experience: it calculates your chart with that same library, then writes your horoscopes in plain language and adds tarot, dream interpretation, palm reading, and a guide named Astra.

If you want to study a chart, Astro.com is the place. If you want someone to walk you through yours every morning, that’s what we built.

Astro.com is the website of Astrodienst AG, a Swiss company based in Zollikon, near Zürich. Its About page says Astrodienst registered as an enterprise on October 4, 1983, and its privacy page says it has served customers since 1980. That’s more than four decades of chart calculation.

The free section is wide. The site navigation lists chart drawing, an extended chart selection, a personal daily horoscope, a daily love horoscope, a weekly horoscope, short reports, ephemerides, AstroClick portraits, and the Astro-Databank. There are partner horoscopes and composite charts from two sets of birth data, AstroClick Travel for locational astrology, and an Astro Wiki. The homepage lists 12 languages, from English, German, and Spanish to Chinese and Japanese.

The interpretations are assembled by computer from texts written by named astrologers. Astro.com describes them as “interpretations by the world’s leading astrologers Liz Greene, Robert Hand and other authors.” To create and display a horoscope you need a user profile, and a registered profile adds chart storage. The site is web based, with a mobile view. We didn’t find an official app in the App Store or in the site navigation.

My Horoscope is an astrology web app from a small independent team in Prague. The English version is new in 2026, so we’re the newcomer in this comparison by about four decades. You open it in a browser and can add it to your home screen. It isn’t in the App Store or on Google Play.

Our calculation stands on Astrodienst’s work. Planet positions come from the Swiss Ephemeris through a professional astrology data service, with Placidus houses and historical time zones. Your readings are then generated automatically from that data and from traditional astrological symbolism. We’re upfront that technology writes them, not a named astrologer.

What we don’t have: a choice of house systems or chart types, ephemeris tables, a chart database, a library of texts by named astrologers, or 12 languages.

Every Astro.com entry comes from its own website, checked on November 13, 2026. Where we couldn’t confirm something, the table says so.

Yes, most of Astro.com is free, and this is where it’s hard to match. You can draw your chart, open the extended chart selection, and work with many chart types and house systems. You get a personal daily horoscope calculated from your own birth data, a daily love horoscope, a weekly horoscope, and short reports.

The free site carries third-party advertising. Astrodienst PLUS removes it and stores up to 2,000 charts for USD 12.90 a year, which the site works out as USD 1.08 a month. The Extended Daily Horoscope is a separate paid product, and part of it is free every Thursday.

Here’s where we have to be honest about ourselves. On My Horoscope the free plan gives you the daily horoscope for your sign, not for your chart. The personal daily horoscope starts with Star at $4.49 a month, and the birth chart reading with Cosmos at $7.49. If a free chart and a free personal daily horoscope are all you need, Astro.com already gives you both.

On Astro.com, a computer assembles each report from passages written in advance by named astrologers, among them Liz Greene and Robert Hand. You’re reading the considered words of people with long standing in the field, matched to the placements in your chart. The reports use astrology’s own vocabulary, and many people want exactly that.

On My Horoscope, readings are generated automatically from your calculated chart data and from traditional astrological symbolism. No named astrologer wrote your morning text. What you get in exchange is a reading that’s composed fresh for the day, that connects the pieces into one short message, and that you can question: Astra knows your chart and answers follow-ups within your plan’s message limit.

Neither approach can tell you what will happen. Treat both as reflection and entertainment, not as medical, legal, or financial advice.

The planet positions come from the same source. The Swiss Ephemeris is Astrodienst’s own product. Astro.com states that it’s “based upon the DExxx ephemerides from NASA’s JPL,” that since May 2026 it has been based on DE441, and that positions are given to 0.001 arcseconds. My Horoscope uses the Swiss Ephemeris too, through a data service, so your Sun, Moon, and planets should land in the same places on both sites.

Houses can differ. We use Placidus for everyone. Astro.com lets you choose among many house systems, and we couldn’t confirm which one it applies by default. If your rising sign matches on both sites but a planet sits in a different house, the house system is the likely reason. Enter the same birth time on both, too. Our method is laid out in how we calculate horoscopes.

• You want to study astrology. Chart types, house systems, ephemerides, a wiki, and a chart database are all there, mostly free.
• You want a free personal daily horoscope. Astro.com calculates one from your birth data at no charge. Ours is part of a paid plan.
• You want texts by named astrologers. Liz Greene and Robert Hand are among the authors.
• You read more comfortably in German, Spanish, French, Japanese, or another of its 12 languages. We cover five, and only English overlaps.
• You want the lowest ad-free price. USD 12.90 a year is less than three months of our cheapest plan.

• You want your chart explained, not just drawn. Readings come in plain language and start from what today means for you.
• You want a daily habit on your phone. Add the web app to your home screen and get one notification in the morning when your horoscope is ready.
• You want tarot or dream interpretation next to your horoscope. The card of the day and the dream dictionary are free.
• You want to ask questions. Astra answers in chat: 10, 20, or 40 messages a month, depending on your plan.
• You’re new to astrology. You don’t need to know what a house system is to get started.

Astro.com’s prices are as its product pages showed them on November 13, 2026.

On price alone, Astro.com wins for chart work: most of it is free, and going ad-free costs about a dollar a month. Our plans pay for a different thing: daily written readings across astrology, tarot, and dreams, with no ads.

You don’t have to pick. A sensible setup is Astro.com for the chart itself and a daily reading for the morning. To try our side, read today’s daily horoscope, pull a card in the free tarot reading, or look up a symbol in the dream dictionary. The birth chart page explains what’s in a chart, and membership lists every plan with its price.

Related reading: How to read a birth chart, Astrology houses explained, Astrology transits explained, Personal horoscope vs Sun sign horoscope, Cafe Astrology vs My Horoscope.

Astro.com, Astrodienst, and Swiss Ephemeris are trademarks of their respective owners. We use the names only to identify the products. My Horoscope isn’t affiliated with or endorsed by them.