ARCANA · TAROT SCHOOL
Had the deck for months and still checking the little booklet for every card?
A lesson path that never loses its order, a review system that brings each card back right before it fades, and both decks —Marseille and Rider-Waite— side by side from the very first lesson.
No card. No trial that expires. The 22 Major Arcana are yours forever.
Lessons, the Seer, games and the cards coming to life — all in one place.
It isn't that "tarot isn't for you". It's that nobody gave you a method that works the way memory works. Books contradict each other. Courses lose their thread. And whatever you don't review, fades.
I studied The Hermit on Tuesday. By Friday I couldn't tell if it meant solitude or wisdom.
It isn't your memory. Studying without a review system is writing on water.
I opened three books and got three different readings of the same arcanum.
Tarot has traditions that clash. Without a frame that compares them, every new book adds noise instead of clarity.
I paid for a course that promised everything in four weeks. I quit halfway through.
A course with no progression isn't a course, it's stacked content. You didn't quit for lack of commitment.
Marseille and Rider-Waite feel like two languages. I don't know which one to study first.
They are two different logics. Learning them without comparing them is studying grammar without knowing the language.
Some days I work on the Majors, other days on the suits. I never know if I'm making progress.
That feeling of standing still doesn't come from not moving: it comes from not seeing the path.
I practice alone, but when someone asks me, I close the cards and say nothing.
Between knowing a card and being able to speak it there is guided practice. Without it, freezing up is inevitable.
And if nothing changes, a year from now you'll know roughly what you know today: the deck in the drawer, the booklet beside it, and the same excuse when someone asks you for a reading.
Every one of these problems has a concrete answer inside Arcana. Not promises: mechanics.
Arcana uses spaced repetition: the same technique used to study languages and medical vocabulary. It isn't a tarot app with a list of meanings: it's a school with a deliberate order.
25 lessons in order of progression. You start with the Major Arcana, the ones that give the most context, and move forward with structure. Never again "where do I pick up today?".
Every card you learn enters the spaced repetition system. It comes back when it's about to slip away, not once you've already forgotten it. No paper flashcards, no lists.
Every card appears in Marseille and in Rider-Waite, side by side, upright and reversed, with a mode that highlights the differences. You choose your system with your own judgement, not because someone told you which one.
Four mini-games turn review into something you open because you want to. And when you feel ready, the Seer gives you a place with no witnesses to practice spreads before reading for someone else.
Opening it, walking the path, opening a card and turning it over. Recorded from the real app, no cuts, no touch-ups.
The Marseille Hermit is geometry and open symbol. The Rider-Waite one is a full scene that tells you a story. They aren't two versions of the same drawing: they are two ways of thinking. In Arcana you see them together from the first lesson, upright and reversed, with a mode that marks what changes between them.
The full meaning from day one, so no card catches you off guard in a spread.
General, love, work and spirituality. The same card says different things depending on what you ask.
One tap and the app marks what changed between the two decks.
It's a school, an oracle and four games in one app.
All 78 cards in Marseille and Rider-Waite, upright and reversed.
25 lessons that unlock one by one, plus three paths: love, work and spirit.
Spaced repetition: every card comes back right before you forget it.
Your birth arcana, your card for the year and today's energy with the moon phase.
Readings interpreted with AI, plus four guided spreads.
Your astrological chart properly calculated and a weekly horoscope from real transits.
A card every morning and a place to write down what happened with it.
Arcana Tetris, Oracle Roulette, Time Trial and Mystery Client.
22 animated Major Arcana that unlock with the stars you earn.
Daily streak, quests, XP, weekly league and hall of records.
14 key symbols explained right on the illustration where they appear.
You listen to every card and every reading. For studying on the bus.
What two cards say together. All 3,003 pairs, calculated with the method in plain sight.
You write your interpretation and get told what you missed. One a day, free.
We didn't invent spaced repetition: it's what language learners and people memorizing pharmacology use. What changes in Arcana is that the review is played. The symbolism stays intact; what improves is that you remember it.
Fit the cards by element before they pile up. Blazing fast for locking in suits and correspondences.
Rounds with goals, bosses and upgrades. Spin the wheel and bet what you know about each card.
How many cards you recognize before time runs out. The most honest thermometer of how you're doing.
You take on querents generated by AI, lay the cards and interpret. A teacher gives you back the correction.
Three cards come up along with a real question. You write your interpretation —no help, no multiple choice— and only then does Arcana show you what you read well, what you missed and what you read backwards.
It's the difference between knowing the cards and being able to read them. You can finish all four paths, memorize the 78, and still not dare to speak in front of someone. The Workshop is what closes that gap.
One correction a day, free.The Celtic Cross, the Tree of Life, the Horseshoe, the Star of David, the astrological spread of the twelve houses. For each one you'll know what it's for, what every position asks and —what almost nobody tells you— when not to use it.
And what isn't a spread but changes any reading: how long something takes according to the suit, when to lay the cards with a question and when in silence, when to use only the Major Arcana.
Three small things that ask nothing of you and bring you back.
One card for closed questions. The answer comes from the card and its orientation, never from a coin toss, and it always shows you why.
Which phase falls on each day of the month, what each one is good for, which sign the Moon is in and which Major Arcanum it rhymes with.
The library tells you what a card means. Here it works the other way around: you type “a move”, “waiting” or “a betrayal” and it tells you which cards speak about that.
The Moon next to the Star doesn't say the same thing as the Moon next to the Tower. Almost every app hands you the 78 meanings on their own and leaves you there — but a spread isn't a list of cards, it's what forms between them.
Every possible two-card combination. There's no hand-written list: it's calculated, which is why they're all there.
Elemental dignities, greater and lesser scale, number and cross-referenced keywords. You see the reasoning, not just the result.
It's tradition applied, not generated text. The same pair always gives you the same reading, and you can check it.
Two arcana come out of your date of birth: your personality one —how you move through the world— and your soul one —your underlying engine. They predict nothing. They describe you. And every day, the moon phase is read alongside your card of the day: the moon says when, the card says what.
Your birth arcana and today's energy: free.
We're not going to invent ten thousand downloads or paste screenshots of testimonials that don't exist. It has eight ratings, all eight of them five stars, and five written reviews. That's all there are, and here they are in full:
Really good app for learning tarot!! It's built like a Duolingo, super easy to learn the meanings and very teachable. I recommend it!
Really good app for learning tarot, it's Duolingo-ish. For someone like me who knows nothing, very handy and almost all of it is free.
Highly recommended, coming in with no knowledge at all it helps a lot to understand what the cards mean and how to interpret them
I like it because you really can learn from scratch and it explains everything very well
beautiful app! I loved it, I'll keep trying it out
What we can show you is further up: the method, both decks, the videos of the app working. And what can't be argued is that trying it costs you nothing.
Everything in the free plan, plus:
Spiritual wellbeing apps charge between US$ 9.99 and 14.99 a month, every month, forever. Here the whole year costs what they charge for three or four months. And none of them lets you pay once and keep it.
You download the app and use the whole free plan without entering a single payment detail. If one day you go Premium and change your mind, you cancel from your Apple account settings in two taps. Refunds are handled by Apple.
Because a book doesn't know when you're about to forget The Hermit, and Arcana does. Spaced review works even when you don't remember to review. And because the 22 Major Arcana are free forever: there's nothing to quit after paying for it.
You don't have to decide. The first time, Arcana takes you by the hand: it shows you the map, stops you to do a real first lesson —three cards, five minutes— and only then walks you through the rest, section by section, explaining what's in each one. When it ends, you already know three cards and you know where everything is. If you'd rather look around on your own, one tap exits.
That's a fair doubt. Gamification is the study method, not the content. The meanings, the symbolism and the differences between traditions are all complete. The only thing that changes is that now you retain them.
Not exactly, and we'd rather say so. A teacher reads you, corrects you and adapts to you. Arcana doesn't replace that. What it does is give you the 78 cards in the spare moments you have —ten minutes on the bus— and keep the review going so you reach that teacher already knowing the cards, instead of starting from zero with them.
You don't need to choose before you start: you see them together from the first lesson. By the time you finish the Majors you'll be able to choose with your own judgement.
Spaced review is made exactly for that: it tells you what you have left to review when you come back, instead of forcing you to start over. The streak does break if you stop showing up —we won't lie to you— but your progress is never lost.
No, and that's on purpose. They interpret the cards that came up and give you back symbols to think with, never statements about what will happen or about what another person feels. If you're looking for predictions, this isn't your app.
From your Apple or Google Play account settings, like any subscription. No phone calls, no forms. And if you cancel, the 22 Major Arcana are still yours.
Yes. Arcana is on Google Play and the App Store, in 148 countries, with the same content and the same account on both.
It takes ten minutes. You come out knowing three cards you won't forget, with the review already running so they're still there in a month.
No card · iPhone and Android · The 22 Major Arcana, free forever
