Published 10 August 2026 by Pacefyx, Inc. We make Muhura, which is one of the apps below. We have tried to write the comparison we wanted to read.
There is no single best kundli app. Most of the big ones are places to book an astrologer, and that is a real service. If what you want is a jyotish tool that keeps your birth details on your phone, Muhura is the one built for that.
Below is what each of the well known Vedic astrology apps is good at, how each one makes its money, and how to check any app's privacy yourself in about thirty seconds.
| App | Good for | How you pay | Need an account? |
|---|---|---|---|
| AstroSage Kundli | One free app that covers all of it: kundli, matching, panchang, dasha | Free with ads, paid reports | Check the listing |
| AstroTalk | Talking to a real astrologer, at any hour, in your language | Per-minute calls, wallet top-up | Yes |
| Astroyogi | Free tools and bookable astrologers in the same app | Free with ads, paid readings | Yes, to book |
| GaneshaSpeaks | Reading astrology: daily, weekly and yearly writing, and long reports | Free with ads, paid reports | Yes, to buy |
| mPanchang | The panchang itself: tithi, choghadiya, festivals, muhurat tables | Free, with paid extras | Check the listing |
| Muhura | A private jyotish tool: your kundli worked out on your phone, showing what each reading came from, with nobody to book | Free every day, extras are one-time, no subscription | No |
Prices, plans and sign-up rules change. Check the app's own page in the store before you buy, and read its privacy section while you are there.
AstroSage Kundli is the app most people in India already have, and it covers nearly all of jyotish for free. Janam kundli, kundli milan, panchang, dasha periods and a large library of reading, in several Indian languages. AstroSage says the app has passed 70 million downloads.
If you want one free app that does everything, AstroSage Kundli has the longest track record of anyone here.
AstroTalk is the biggest place to reach a real astrologer. You pick a person, you see their languages, their experience and their rate, and you speak to them by the minute.
A person can hear the question behind your question, which no app can do. That is worth paying for, and a lot of people do: AstroTalk reported about 1,176 crore rupees of revenue in the 2025 financial year.
Astroyogi puts free tools and paid astrologers in one place. You can cast a kundli and read the panchang yourself, then book a person when you want a second opinion. Astroyogi says it has served more than 3 crore users.
If you want both halves in one app, Astroyogi is the tidiest version of that.
GaneshaSpeaks is one of the oldest Indian astrology names on the web, and its strength is writing. Daily, weekly and yearly horoscopes, articles, and long reports written by its own astrologers.
If you would rather read astrology than operate a chart tool, start with GaneshaSpeaks.
mPanchang does one job and does it directly: the panchang. Tithi, nakshatra, yoga, karana, choghadiya, festival dates and muhurat tables for the day and place you choose.
If all you want is today's panchang and the date of the next festival, mPanchang is the shortest route to it.
Muhura is a jyotish tool with no marketplace attached. It works your kundli out on your phone, shows you what each reading was built from, and has nobody to sell you. We make it, so read this section with that in mind, and check the claims.
Every reading has a button that says "Show what this reading came from". Tap it and you get a list of what the reading was built on. Most astrology apps will not tell you, so you either believe them or you do not.
Muhura is sidereal, with the Lahiri ayanamsa, and it works the positions out on your phone. You get the nine grahas, the bhavas, the nakshatras and the varga charts. Rahu and Ketu use classical madhya positions by default, and you can switch to spashta if your tradition prefers it.
You can read your chart in the North Indian or the South Indian style, and switch whenever you like. There is a full ashtakavarga table you can tap through, with the score for each graha and the totals. If you would rather read a list than a diagram, Muhura will show you the placements as a list instead.
Muhura has no astrologers, no calls and no chat, no per-minute billing, no wallet to recharge and no ads. It also prescribes no remedies, no gemstones, no poojas and no yantras, and sells none of them.
That last part is deliberate. A lot of this market runs on selling a fix for a fear the reading just created, and Muhura is built not to do that.
Muhura shows a dosha as something to understand about a chart, not as a judgement on a life. Guna milan gives you the kootas and what each one weighs, without saying that a marriage is good or bad. Muhura will not hand you a verdict that you are Manglik.
Free in Muhura: your janam kundli and its reading, your daily rashifal, your year at a glance, and the panchang for the place you are actually in. Guna milan readings for two people and muhurta guidance are one-time purchases, with an unlock for all of them. Nothing renews and there is nothing to cancel.
Muhura is written in six languages, each in its own script: English, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. It works with the internet turned off.
Muhura, of the apps here, because it collects nothing. Its App Store privacy label says "Data Not Collected", it has no account and no server of ours behind it.
Do not take that from us. Every app's store page has a privacy section written by its own developer, and reading it takes about thirty seconds. We wrote a separate guide to checking any kundli app yourself, including the one thing those labels leave out.
You can change a password. You cannot change where and when you were born. Your birth date, your exact time and your place stay true about you for life, and together they point at one person quite precisely.
A kundli app ends up holding more than the chart. It holds who you are thinking of marrying, who your family is, and what you are worried about. Most apps know what you tapped. A kundli app knows what you are afraid of.
If a company never received your data, they cannot sell it. Nobody can buy it. Not even by buying the whole company.
Open the app's page in the store and read the privacy section, which is what the developer told Apple or Google about their own app. It takes about thirty seconds, and it is better evidence than any marketing site, including this one.
Those labels have one hole worth knowing about. There is no label category for an app that sends your details to an outside service to have your reading written, so a label can look modest either way. Read the app's privacy policy for named outside companies, and use the offline test.
Muhura has no astrologers to book, no calls and no chat, no per-minute billing and no wallet to recharge. Most of the big Indian astrology apps are consultation marketplaces, which is a different product and one many people genuinely want.
Muhura has no subscription. Your janam kundli and its reading, your daily rashifal, your year at a glance and your panchang are free, and anything extra is a one-time purchase.
Muhura works with the internet turned off, because it works everything out on your phone. The offline test is a good check on any app: one that needs a connection before it will show you a chart is sending something somewhere.
Most will not. Muhura, and its sibling apps Undersky for Western astrology and Gilsung for Four Pillars, all have a "Show what this reading came from" button that lists what the reading was built from.
Muhura is written in six languages, each in its own script: English, Hindi, Bangla, Tamil, Telugu and Gujarati. AstroSage Kundli and Astroyogi also cover several Indian languages.