“Going Down — This used to be my favorite app for what you could still do with the free features. However the app, every single TIME i log in it prompts me to upgrade and pay. Every single time. There’s so much on this app that used to not…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 500 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★44,127 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
201 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Welcome to Sanctuary, your guide to unlocking your most fulfilling life. Experience personalized psychic readings, tarot card insights, and detailed horoscopes from real experts—not algorithms! Make the most of every moment with conversations and advice tailored to your situation. Choose from experienced experts to help you find what you’re looking for. Sanctuary is the groundbreaking astrology app that offers an interactive birth chart and live, on-demand readings with professional astrologers, tarot readers, and psychics.
WHY SANCTUARY? 100K+ psychic readings 50K+ satisfied customers 15M+ horoscopes delivered
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Preview
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Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
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Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 7.25.2 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 7.25.2, updated 2026-09-18.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States a price and a 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 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 about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: Upgrade prompts use guilt-trip wording
Declining an upgrade is written as a loss ('No thanks, I don't want to improve'), or users report being repeatedly pushed to subscribe during normal use.
What we saw: Constant upsell pressure: raised by 7 distinct reviewers (1.4% of 500 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Aggressive ad load
Advertising volume or placement that interrupts normal use: ads between every action, unskippable or forced full-screen ads.
What we saw: Aggressive ad load: raised by 10 distinct reviewers (2.0% of 500 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 17 distinct reviewers (3.4% of 500 reviews scanned)
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Too many typos — The typos on this application really bother me. I hate being pestered to buy a reading.”
“Love the idea of the app — But in practice, it’s awful. If you want a pop up encouraging you to pay and subscribe literally every time you toggle into another page, by all means, this is the app for you! I get it, you want us to pay. I…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 7.25.2.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.