Guide · Updated September 2026
Apps like Co-Star, matched trait by trait
"Something like Co-Star" means six different things depending on which bit you liked. Rather than another ranked list, here is each part of Co-Star and what actually replaces it.
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Co-Star worked because four unrelated things happened to be in one app: an aesthetic nobody else would commit to, notification copy that read like a callout, real astronomical data, and a social layer for comparing charts with friends. Most "alternatives" lists ignore this and rank apps as though they were interchangeable. They are not. Find the trait you are actually missing.
Context: Midjourney acquired Co-Star, as reported in July 2026. If you want the straightforward ranked list instead, it is on our Co-Star alternatives page.
If you liked: the blunt daily push notification
Co-Star's notifications were famous for being borderline rude, and that was the appeal: a jolt rather than a horoscope.
Closest match: Toe Bean's Salty Bean delivers a deadpan daily roast that is meaner and funnier than anything Co-Star sent. If you want the jolt without the astrology, that is your match.
If you liked: the stark black-and-white design
Nothing else in the category committed to an aesthetic that hard.
Closest match: Golden Thread is the closest in spirit: spare, geometric, gold-on-black, and equally uninterested in looking like a wellness app.
If you liked: comparing charts with your friends
The genuine innovation, and the hardest to replace.
Closest match: Nothing has rebuilt the social graph, and we are not going to pretend otherwise. Sanctuary and The Pattern both do compatibility well without turning it into a network. What Artemis does instead is Your world: the people you actually write about get their own pages, built from your own words, with today's sky read against their chart and yours. It is not a friend feed, it is the private version, and it holds what you have said about someone over a year rather than a compatibility score.
If you liked: transit data that is actually accurate
Co-Star ran on NASA ephemeris data and was not making the sky up.
If you liked: something to read in four seconds
Short, sharp, done before the lift arrives.
Closest match: The Pattern is the usual move, though it runs longer. Artemis's daily card is a genuine four-second read if that is all the time you have. The difference is that it is still there in your journal in October.
If you liked: feeling personally attacked by an app
The signature Co-Star experience.
Closest match: Artemis does this differently, and arguably worse for your composure. It is not a clever generated line, it is your own history quoted back. Being told you have pulled the Tower four times since June, always after midnight, lands harder than any notification copy.
The thing none of them fix
Co-Star, The Pattern, CHANI and Moonly all share one structural limit: they talk, and you listen. You are a reader of a feed. Nothing you do inside them accumulates into anything, and after three years of daily use you have precisely nothing to show for it.
That is the gap Artemis was built for. It is astrology and tarot together, keyed to the live sky, but the point is the record: every reading saved with your question and your notes, patterns surfaced across months, a check-in weeks later asking whether it settled, and your own physical deck photographed straight into the journal.
Common questions
What app is most like Co-Star?
There is no single replacement, because Co-Star combined four unrelated things: stark design, terse daily prompts, real transit data, and a social friend graph. CHANI is closest on writing and transits, The Pattern on depth, and nothing has replaced the social layer.
Is there an app like Co-Star with tarot?
Co-Star has no tarot at all. Artemis blends tarot with astrology keyed to the live sky, and keeps a journal of every reading. Aurae and Taroscoper also combine the two.
Are there free apps like Co-Star?
Yes. The Pattern and Taroscoper have free cores, CHANI has a free tier, and aimag.me needs no account at all.
Why do people say Co-Star is mean?
The notification copy was written to be blunt and slightly confrontational, which is why it got screenshotted constantly. It was a deliberate voice, and a large part of why the app spread.
Stop reading a feed. Start keeping a record.
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