Welcome

The Draw pairs a traditional tarot pull with your birth chart, so the card you draw gets read through your own sun and moon sign, not a one-size-fits-all meaning.

Every reading is built around whatever you're hoping to navigate — a category (Love, Family, Career, or something you'd rather keep private) and, if you want, a specific question. The goal is reflection, not prophecy: a reading gives you a perspective to sit with, never a verdict on your health, someone else's choices, or anything final.

Getting started

The very first time you open the app, a short welcome screen plays once — after that, you go straight to building your profile.

1. Your name — just a name is enough to create a profile.
2. Your birthday (optional) — what your sun and moon sign are calculated from. Without it, readings use each card's general meaning.
3. Birth time (optional) — sharpens your moon sign and, with your birth place, adds your rising sign.
4. Birth place (optional) — needed with your birth time for your rising sign.
5. What you're hoping to explore — pick a category: Love, Family, Career, or Prefer not to say.
6. Your question (optional) — anything specific on your mind. You can leave this blank and just draw.

Tap Begin when you're ready. If a birth detail is missing, the app lists what each one adds and lets you add it now or continue anyway. With no name at all, you can still continue without a profile and create one any time from the You tab.

Your profile lives on the You tab. It's shown read-only; tap Edit profile to change it, and the app confirms what changed before saving.

Free and Wisher both include one profile per install — Wisher stays at one profile permanently, by design. Multiple profiles are planned for a future plan, with no date set yet.

Card of the Day

One free pull a day, waiting on the Today tab the moment you open the app.

Card of the Day needs no setup — it's there even before you've created a profile. After you create a profile on The Draw, you can personalize the reading, which is framed by the card's own general meaning for 1 Wish, through your own sun and moon sign instead of the generic note.

Only one pull a day; personalizing it doesn't change or reset the result.

Reading for yourself, or someone else

This choice is about whose chart frames the reading — not who the question is about.

If your question happens to involve someone else — "will things improve with my partner?" — that's still a reading for you: it uses your own chart, and your question can be about anyone or anything.

Someone else is a different, narrower thing: a quick read specifically about a third party, with no chart at all — no birth data, no profile, nothing saved about them once the reading ends. You fill in your relationship to them, what you're hoping to explore about them, and your question about them, all in your own voice. They never see this screen, and the reading always speaks about them in the third person.

Example: choose Someone else, enter "my partner" as the relationship, and ask "Will they get a promotion this year?" — the reading speaks about your partner in the third person, not to them directly.

Drawing a card

Shuffle your own physical deck and tell the app what you drew (highly recommended), or let the app shuffle and draw for you.

If you're on the Free Tier plan, you can unlock the Single spread for free by watching a short rewarded ad instead of spending a Wish. Bigger spreads, however, are Wishes only.

Once the spread is unlocked, there's a short "take a moment" pause before the shuffle — a beat to actually hold your question before the cards come up.

Reading your result

Each card is explained on its own, then tied back to your birth chart, and woven into one overall synthesis.

The reading opens with two short takeaways. Tap Read the full reading for the rest — each card's name, and its meaning where the reading uses it, is bold and underlined so you can see which part of the explanation belongs to which card.

To share it, Share this reading offers text or a shareable page: your cards, the two takeaways, and a one-line In Short.

From there, you can keep the conversation going one of two ways:

You can also share a reading from the result screen — as plain text, or as a clean image showing the card, the two-line summary, and the reading's closing takeaway.

Wishes, explained

Wishes are what nearly everything in the app costs — and there's more than one way to earn them without spending real money. Hooray.

Rewards

Ads, ratings, and reflections all draw from one shared pool of up to 10 Wishes a day. Your daily login bonus doesn't count against that pool, so opening the app is always rewarded. In Offline mode, ratings and reflections earn nothing, since offline draws are already free: only the daily login (with its streak bonus) and watching ads still earn Wishes.

Wish Making

Buying more

Plans: Free and Wisher

Wisher is a $9.99/month subscription that hands you Wishes automatically — everything else about the free tier stays the same.

The morning card notification is a Wisher extra: once a day, first thing, a notification tells you what your Card of the Day is. It's off until you turn it on in You → Reminders, and it stops if your subscription lapses.

If you've subscribed to Wisher or bought a Wish pack before — on another device, or after reinstalling — tap Restore purchases on the Plans screen to get it back. Manage or cancel subscription, on the same screen, opens your App Store or Google Play subscription settings.

The Journal

Saving readings to your Journal is free on every plan — the free tier's limit is how long you can see an entry, not whether you can save it at all.

On the free plan, a saved entry stays fully visible through the end of the month you saved it in — once the calendar rolls into a new month, it locks. After that, you can still unlock it one at a time for 1 Wish, or subscribe to Wisher for unlimited history from day one.

Once a month, if you have entries that have aged out this way, the app asks you directly: keep the whole batch for 8 Wishes, or let it go. Nothing expires silently. Your very first batch is cheaper — 3 Wishes — if it's made up of readings from the month you first installed the app.

Tap Show cards on an entry to see its cards, and tap a card to see it larger.

Tap a date to see that day's readings. Tap a second date to pick a range: on Wisher, the Recap box can then generate a full AI-written recap for 3 Wishes, drawing out the actual pattern across those readings instead of just counting them, or Draw a card for this period for 1 Wish, a single card read against that stretch and saved to your journal. On the free plan, the range still lists every reading in it; the recap itself is a Wisher feature.

Reading with your past

If you've saved readings in the same category before, the Draw screen will offer to include them — but only if you choose to.

This is only available if your past readings match the exact category of your new question. When it does, you'll see the number of the related readings found right away — Skip is the default; nothing is sent unless you explicitly choose Include.

Your Year Book

One card per month, covering the whole calendar year — including months already behind you or ahead.

Open it from the Journal tab (Open Your Year Book). As with any other draw, you're asked first whether you're laying out your own physical cards or want The Draw to draw them for you.

Drawing your year lays out all twelve cards face-up straight away — seeing the shape of the year is free. Reading a single month costs 12 Wishes for a full, personalized interpretation, or unlock all twelve at once for 100 Wishes — cheaper than month by month, and it adds the full year's synthesis. Months before the current one are framed as a reflection rather than a forecast. You can also pick another year: the Year Book covers ten years back and ten years ahead, kept close to now so each reading stays as personal to you as it can be. Years you've already saved are listed under Your Year Books on the Journal tab and always stay in the year list; a saved year further out than that opens to reread, but new readings for it aren't available yet.

There's also a Year Summary for 12 Wishes — three cards on the shape of the whole year as one arc: where it began, where it stands, where it's headed. It's a different lens from unlocking months, not a cheaper version of it — a broad read on the year itself rather than a close look at any one month — so you can add it at any point, before or after you've unlocked months or the whole year.

Everything you unlock here is saved and revisited from the Year Book screen itself — tap a revealed month to reopen it, or use View your Year Summary for the year read. Year Book readings live here rather than in your regular Journal list, so the list stays a record of your everyday draws.

Your data

Nothing requires an account. Your data is kept on your device and backed up to our server under an anonymous ID.

• Your profile, journal, and Wish balance are stored on your phone, and backed up to our server under an anonymous ID with no email attached.
• Adding your email under You → Cloud backup is optional. Send yourself a link and your data can follow you to a new device or survive a reinstall, without ever forcing you through a full account signup. Without an email, uninstalling the app loses your way back to that data on Android. On iPhone, reinstalling on the same phone usually brings it back, because iOS keeps your sign-in after the app is deleted; it still won't follow you to a new phone.
• Your phone shows only the 50 most recent Wish history transactions. If you've added your email, you can request your full history any time by emailing thedrawtarot@gmail.com from that address.
• Delete all my data (or Delete my account, once you've added an email), under You → Cloud backup, permanently removes everything from your phone and our server. Do this before uninstalling if you want the server copy gone too.
• Offline mode means no AI readings: the app skips the AI entirely and uses each card's general meaning plus your zodiac sign instead. It doesn't take the app offline. While your phone has a connection, ads still show and the backup still runs; only with no connection at all (for example, airplane mode) do those stop too. The app works either way. Draws in Offline mode are free, since no AI reading is made. Because of that, Offline mode earns no bonus Wishes for rating or reflecting on a reading: only the daily login and watching ads still earn Wishes.
• When a reading does call the AI, your question, category, and chart details are sent only to generate that one reading — never used for anything else. The first time, the app asks your permission before sending anything: Allow, or Use offline readings, which turns Offline mode on. You can switch Offline mode on or off any time under You.

A note on the cards

A reading is a perspective, not a prediction.

Every card note connects back to your own chart — most often your sun and moon sign, occasionally your rising sign if you've chosen to share it.

Whatever your signs, the app will never hand you a definitive claim about your health, someone else's choices, or anything final — just something worth sitting with.