Deluxe Moon Pro • App & Widget

I am a long time user of this app and have purchased the full app + plugins several times, including gifting it to other accounts. I have also recommended this app to quite a few people over the years. I have enjoyed the full app and the paid plug-ins have been a good value. Unfortunately, it now looks as though this app is now moving to a monthly subscription model. While I understand the proposed benefits of this model, I can’t justify another monthly fee, and I cannot recommend other to do so. There are quite a few moon apps out there but, I have always tried to support this one. Unfortunately, if this goes through with the monthly licensing model change, I will probably decide to explore/recommend other options that are more cost effective in the long term (even if it means less features). I understand that the loss of a few customers is inevitable and no big loss compared to the potential revenue of monthly subscriptions. Just thought I would offer my opinion as a long time customer who has purchased the app and add-on’s several times. I would even have considered a lifetime purchase price option. It’s a good app, but I shift to a monthly subscription is just something I can’t justify.

...are all that keep this from being my all time perfect moon app. One, it doesn’t howl at the full moon, as another reviewer mentioned. But two, and more telling, it doesn’t have the lunar calendars of different historical, ethnocultural and religious groups available for application, so for example I must do tedious counting from the autumnal equinox to ascertain the Harvest Moon or Hunters Moon. And three, most irritating, it doesn’t offer alternatives to the calendar month for identifying a “Blue Moon”, such as the second full moon in the same zodiac sign or the fourth full moon since the previous solstice or equinox. The latter two are the reasons I cannot rate this app a five-star entry in the App Store. With those two features, this would be incontrovertibly the best moon app I have ever seen. Recent additions, such as the planetary hours, have definitely upped this app’s game. I am more impressed than I was previously, and previously I was quite impressed. But I still need the app to be able to apply different historical, ethnocultural and religious lunar month names and to provide and apply the “Blue Moon” alternatives mentioned above which do not rely upon the common Gregorian calendar to work in order for me to give it five stars. With the addition of those features, there would be nothing else the app needs to be the absolutely all-time best-possible moon app. Currently it remains tantalizingly close but not quite there.

And before you start yes we are all aware that the moon isn’t really a planet. However My zodiac sign is Cancer and it is my ruling heavenly body. Cancers are a cardinal sign. A water sign. The ruling zodiac sign. And if you are really into the moon or affected by the moon or just like to watch the moon this app is tons of fun. I can actually trace how I’m feeling by where the moon is and I have a special connection to water as well so this is a very fun app if you’re really into the moon, but you do have to know what you’re looking at in order to get the most use out of it. People that say they don’t get it or give bad reviews, don’t understand the various cycles, or how to use the app and what it’s showing you. The moon is constantly moving through different signs of the zodiac as it goes around the earth and the earth goes around the sun. Familiarize yourself with the cycles and you will have a lot more fun with this application and you’ll find yourself checking it daily.