Sanctuary vs My Horoscope: an honest comparison (2026)

If you’re deciding between Sanctuary and My Horoscope, the short answer is that they sell different things. Sanctuary is a marketplace for live psychic, tarot, and astrology readings, with free horoscopes and a free birth chart around it. You pay a reader by the minute, at rates listed from $4.99 to $19.99 a minute. My Horoscope is a daily reading experience written from your birth chart: horoscopes, tarot, dream interpretation, and a guide named Astra, for a flat $4.49 to $9.49 a month, with a free plan. There’s no human reader on our side.

Below are the facts for both, including where Sanctuary is the better choice.

Sanctuary describes itself as a place for live psychic, tarot, and astrology readings. The app comes from Sanctuary Ventures Inc and first appeared in the App Store on October 24, 2018. Its store name today is “Sanctuary Psychic Reading,” and its homepage leads with reader profiles and their per-minute rates. It runs on iOS, Android, and the web.

The model is simple. You pick a reader, start a chat or a call, and pay for the minutes you use. Reading types listed on the site are astrology, psychic, tarot, energy healing, mediumship, human design, and past life. You need an account for a reading. The daily horoscopes on the website are free to read without logging in.

Around the marketplace there’s a free layer. Sanctuary’s FAQ lists what the app gives you at no charge: “daily and monthly horoscopes, transits, crystals, tarot cards, moon cycles, and unlimited birth chart details.” The paid subscription, Sanctuary+, adds an Explore library, a 5-minute reading, expanded horoscopes, a yearly forecast, and unlimited use of the compatibility calculator. The App Store lists it at $14.99 a month or $49.99 a year, and the FAQ says it can currently be bought only in the iOS app.

Sanctuary’s App Store description says its readings come from real experts, not algorithms. We couldn’t confirm on their site who writes the free horoscopes, or which ephemeris and house system the birth chart uses, so we won’t guess.

Some recent App Store reviews mention that features which used to be free now need unlocking, or that a paid reading didn’t connect. Others praise the free birth chart and the rising sign horoscopes. That’s a small recent sample, not a verdict.

My Horoscope is an astrology web app from a small independent team in Prague. The English version is new in 2026. 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.

It starts from a calculation. Your birth date, time, and place go through the Swiss Ephemeris, the library professional astrology software runs on, with Placidus houses. Your readings are then generated automatically from that data and from traditional astrological symbolism. We’re upfront that technology writes them, not a person.

What we don’t have: live human advisors, psychics or mediums, a native app in the stores, or Sanctuary’s track record in English.

Every Sanctuary entry below comes from its own site, FAQ, or store listings, checked on November 13, 2026. Where we couldn’t confirm something, the table says so.

This is the question most people arrive with, so here are the numbers as Sanctuary publishes them. Its FAQ gives reader rates of “$4.99-$19.99/min,” and the reader cards on the homepage showed rates across that same range when we checked. The App Store lists fixed packages too, including “Tarot Reading 10 min $29.99” and “Psychic Reading 10 min $49.99.” Google Play lists in-app purchases at “$19.99 - $199.99 per item.”

New customers get a lower price to start. The FAQ says new users get their first 5 minutes for $4.99, and the homepage banner advertised a first reading for $1 a minute. The offers we saw weren’t identical from page to page, so check which one applies when you sign up.

After the intro, the math is easy to do yourself. At the listed rates, ten minutes with a reader runs from about $49.90 to $199.90. A per-minute price isn’t a trick. It’s how you pay for a person’s time. It does mean the total depends on how long you talk, so set a budget before the session starts. Sanctuary’s FAQ says refunds have to be requested within 2 days of the session.

My Horoscope prices the other way around. A plan is $4.49, $7.49, or $9.49 a month, and each says up front what’s in it. When you use up a monthly limit, one extra reading costs $1.99, shown on the button before you pay. What you don’t get, at any price, is a human being.

This is the real difference, and it’s a matter of what you need, not which product is better.

A live reader can hear your tone, ask what you meant, and stay with a hard question. If you’re facing a breakup or a loss and want another person in the conversation, software doesn’t replace that. Sanctuary is built for that moment.

A written reading from your chart does a different job. It’s there every morning without booking anything, it’s built from the same inputs every time, and it stays in your history so you can go back to it. Astra sits in between. She’s a digital guide, not a person, and we say so plainly. She knows your chart, remembers what you told her last week, and answers follow-up questions within your plan’s message limit.

Whichever you choose, treat it as reflection and entertainment. Neither kind of reading predicts events, and neither replaces a doctor, a lawyer, a financial adviser, or a therapist.

• You want a live human reader. This is Sanctuary’s whole point, and we don’t offer it.
• You want a psychic, medium, energy healing, or human design reading. Sanctuary lists all of these. We don’t.
• You want a free interactive birth chart. Sanctuary’s is free with unlimited details. Ours comes with a paid plan.
• You want a native app from the App Store or Google Play. Sanctuary has both. We’re a web app you add to your home screen.
• You have one big question, not a daily habit. A single session with a good reader can be the right tool, and you pay only when you use it.

• You want a horoscope written from your own chart every day. Star gives you personal daily, weekly, and monthly horoscopes built from your birth chart and the current transits.
• You want a fixed monthly cost. $4.49, $7.49, or $9.49 a month, the same on every device, and you can cancel anytime in Settings.
• You want to ask follow-up questions. Astra answers in chat within your plan: 10, 20, or 40 messages a month.
• You’re curious about your dreams or your palms. The dream dictionary is free, personal dream interpretation comes with Oracle, and palm reading comes with Cosmos.
• You’re fine with a digital guide. A reading generated from your chart data is what we do. If that doesn’t appeal, Sanctuary’s human readers are the better fit.

Sanctuary’s prices are as its store listings and FAQ showed them on November 13, 2026.

The two columns aren’t the same product. Our plans cost less, but they don’t buy you a person. If a person is what you want, compare Sanctuary with other live reading services, not with us.

Plenty of people will use both: a written reading for the daily rhythm, and a live session for the rare question that needs a person. To see our side, read today’s daily horoscope, pull a card in the free tarot reading, or look up a symbol in the dream dictionary. None of them needs an account. The birth chart page explains what’s in a chart, and membership lists every plan with its price.

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Sanctuary and Sanctuary+ 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.