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Astra - Life Advice

Astrology & Compatibility

Vert Ventures
Surprise charges — Reports of unexpected charges
App Store rating4.7★39.3K ratings
PriceFreeListed price
Age9+Store age rating
Size205 MBiPhone download
CategoryLifestyle
DeveloperVert Ventures

At a glance

Full report

From our automated analysis, 11 Oct 2026. Every label links to its evidence in the full report below.

This analysis describes version 3.12.66 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 3.12.69, updated 2026-10-12.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 3.12.66, not the version now listed on the store.

The developer’s release notes for the newer versions, where we hold them, are in Versions and dates analysed.

Preview

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Store screenshots supplied by the developer.

About this app

Work through life challenges. Talk about compatibility with friends and romantic interests. Discuss personal growth. Learn about your dreams. All of this and more is at your fingertips with Astra!*

If you have any questions comments or feedback, please email us [email protected]

Terms: https://consequentlyjubilant.github.io/astraapp/terms.html

*Access to Astra requires a paid subscription

From the developer’s store description.

For developers and the curious

The full report

The evidence, sources, measurements and versions behind every label above.

Findings and evidence

1 published · 4 shown, not confirmed

Things to watch for 1

Findings that met the published evidence standard.

Reports of unexpected charges

Reported by 32 users

Surprise charges: raised by 32 distinct reviewers (6.1% of 523 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
User reports only. Published because the review evidence cleared this label’s own reviewer threshold.
Where measured
From App Store reviews
Reported by
Raised by 32 distinct reviewers — 6.1% of the 523 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).
Published threshold
31 reviewers and 2.47% of at least 500 reviews
Definition

A large number of reviewers report being charged when they did not expect it — including being charged after cancelling during a free trial, or when a trial turned into a paid plan without warning. We cannot see anyone's billing, so this is published as an attributed user report: what reviewers say, and how many of them said it.

Open evidence

One source only — shown, not confirmed 4

Open observations that have not cleared the evidence bar.

Trial converts to a charge

One source only

Trial converts to a charge: raised by 13 distinct reviewers (2.5% of 523 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The free trial demands a payment method up front and/or rolls into a paid subscription with no usable warning.

Open evidence

Paywall blocks the basics

One source only

Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 15 distinct reviewers (2.9% of 523 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.

Open evidence

Usable without an account

One source only

The store privacy disclosure (4 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.

Sources
The store privacy disclosure
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From the App Store privacy disclosure

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.

Open evidence

Hard to cancel

One source only

Hard to cancel: raised by 12 distinct reviewers (2.3% of 523 reviews scanned)

Sources
User reviews
Agreement
Only one kind of source so far. Shown, not counted.
Where measured
From App Store reviews

This observation has not cleared the required evidence standard.

Definition

Cancelling the subscription is blocked, hidden, multi-step, or simply does not take effect.

Open evidence

What reviewers report

523 reviews read · 4 review-based observations

523 reviews read for this analysis. Each observation keeps the sample and store it was based on.

Reports of unexpected charges

Published finding

Raised by 32 distinct reviewers — 6.1% of the 523 reviews scanned on this store leg (App Store).

Payment issues — I cancelled my subscription back in January of this year due to me getting double charged by the app. Yet I am still getting a weekly charge without having an active subscription. I have tried getting in contact with the…

1★ · App Store · 2026-07-23

SCAM — THIS APP IS A SCAM! They will keep charging you a monthly fee even if you don’t sign up or approve it! I can’t figure out how to cancel this and have been fighting with my credit card company about getting it cancelled. No help…

1★ · App Store · 2026-05-22

stealing my money — i canceled this app months ago and theyre still taking from my bank account 😭 im not sure what to do

1★ · App Store · 2026-04-22

Trial converts to a charge

Shown, not confirmed

Fraud — Do not get this app or the FREE trial they charge you anyway and you won’t have access to the month they charged you for and you won’t get your money back. This is a huge scam!! Oh and the app is probably the WORST Astrology app…

1★ · App Store · 2026-06-20

Charged without approval — I used the free trial and I was charged $6.99 for the app. There is no way to get a refund

1★ · App Store · 2026-03-10

$6.99 a week??? — I didn't even have a chance to look around at the app, I wasn't even going to claim my free trial knowing I would be charged to $6.99 a week? That is insane.

1★ · App Store · 2026-02-15

Paywall blocks the basics

Shown, not confirmed

YOU HAVE TO PAY FOR EVERYTHING — I can’t even open the app without being attacked by their subscription, and there’s no way to close it so I just have to close the app and hope the next time I open it I have a second to peek at my chart…

1★ · App Store · 2026-10-03

Sad to see — Everything is behind a paywall now which sucks. Features like the ask me anything aren’t even free anymore. This app had pretty accurate advice, sucks to see this happening

1★ · App Store · 2026-08-18

I liked it when it was free… — To start I do like this app. I would go on there and learn about myself, and really start to learn about Astro-cartography in a nutshell. Not sure when it happened but now you have to pay to use the app, and…

1★ · App Store · 2026-03-27

Hard to cancel

Shown, not confirmed

Didn’t sign up and my credit card got charged from information taken from Apple — I didn’t sign up for this app and now I’m being charged for it with no way to cancel and nobody to contact. The support link on here takes you to a…

1★ · App Store · 2026-04-13

Scam — This app forces you into a subscription and you can’t cancel it with apple because it’s a third party. So they repeatedly charge you for something you canceled and there’s no way to contact them.

1★ · App Store · 2026-03-02

DO NOT USE UNABLE TO CANCEL SUBSCRIPTION — This App is ripped off and I’m unable to cancel te subscription after the initial 7 days it keep getting billed.

1★ · App Store · 2026-02-21

A sampled review illustrates one person’s experience. It does not establish a finding on its own.

Measurements

5 measured · 3 not assessed

Supporting measurements. They are not a complete list of possible harms or positives. “Not assessed” means we could not measure it — never zero, never a pass.

From store data and reviews

Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
3 or more themes reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.

In the app package we scanned

No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence, not a finding.

Sensitive permissions
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Analytics or tracking SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app
Advertising SDKs in the scanned package
Not assessed
No package has been scanned for this app

Measurement vocabulary 1.4 · how these are measured

Versions and dates analysed

Assessed 11 Oct 2026

This analysis describes version 3.12.66 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-11 . The app may have changed since.

The store currently lists version 3.12.69, updated 2026-10-12.

The app has been updated since this analysis. The findings on this page describe version 3.12.66, not the version now listed on the store.

Release notes for the newer versions, in the developer’s own words:

Version 3.12.69 · 2026-10-12
Bug fixes and improvements.

Store update history

Each store’s release notes, as the developer wrote them. They are the developer’s words, not ours.

App Store

Version 3.12.69 · 2026-10-12
Bug fixes and improvements.
Version 3.12.66 · 2026-10-02
Bug fixes and improvements.

Assessment record

Status
Automated analysis
App identifier
astra-apple-6473748536
Assessment date
11 Oct 2026
Sources used
3 independent signals: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure
Reviews read
523
Package examined
No package scan
Measurement vocabulary
1.4
Human inspection
Not completed

Assessed 2026-10-11 from 523 user reviews, the store listing and its privacy label. We have not scanned the app's package, so nothing on this page was read from inside the app itself.

How this page was produced

Analyzed 2026-10-11 Version analyzed: 3.12.663 independent signals523 reviews scannedConfidence: LowNot human-reviewedVocabulary v1.13Methodology v1.3
Signals run: user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure. Not yet checked: SDKs in the app package, the app's own on-screen text and the app manifest.

Store facts

App Store

What the stores publish. Store ratings are the stores’ numbers, not Appworthy’s, and are never averaged across stores.

App Store

Store rating
4.72 ★ · 39,345 ratings
Version
3.12.69
Updated
12 Oct 2026
Price
Free
Age rating
9+
Size
205 MB
Open in App Store
Developer
Vert Ventures
Category
Lifestyle
Listing price
Free

No itemized purchase list is available for this listing.

Method and limits

What this report can and cannot show

How the automated analysis works

This assessment is produced automatically. Three independent signals are read — user reviews, the store listing and the store privacy disclosure — and each candidate finding is filed under the sources that support it.

No charge stands on one kind of evidence — with one published exception. A finding is either a measured fact that anyone can reproduce (an ad SDK is in the package; every subscription bills weekly; the privacy label omits a tracker we can see), or it is an interpretation — and an interpretation needs independent sources to agree before it reaches the catch list. The exception is a harm only users can see: a charge may publish from reviews alone, as “Reported by N users”, once enough reviewers raise it to clear that charge’s own published bar. That agreement rule is what replaced the human reviewer, not a model’s confidence.

There is no overall score, on purpose. A 0–99 number was published here until 2026-09-15. It was withdrawn because it discriminated too weakly to be the instrument — 44.7% of every pair of apps tied — and because a single number is a verdict where a count is an observation. What publishes instead is a row of measurements, each of which says what was counted and, where we could not look, says that instead.

Findings under One source only are real reports we do not stand behind as findings. They are shown because withholding them entirely would hide a genuine complaint, and labelled because publishing them as charges would be an accusation off a single source.

Limits of this report

  • A package scan is static. It identifies code and text in one Android build. It does not measure a live ad session, test a deletion request, or count the steps needed to cancel.
  • Reviews keep their sample. A review-only charge shows distinct reviewers, the share and the sample size, and is published only once it clears that label’s published threshold. Calibration labels are machine-drafted and not yet confirmed by a person.
  • Not assessed is a state. It is never a zero and never a pass.
  • A missing label is not a clean bill of health. It means the evidence did not support one, not that the app is problem-free.
Not yet human-reviewed. A hands-on test can confirm or contradict a finding and adds its own measurements; it does not change a measurement row. Hands-on inspections are not yet open.

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