Labyrinthos teaches tarot the way a language app teaches vocabulary. Short quizzes drill the meanings of the tarot, Lenormand, and runes. Finishing lessons unlocks tarot-card avatars and moves you along the fool’s journey. Around that game loop sits a full reading app: more than 50 spreads, a journal for saving readings with your own notes, and a feature called Your Mirror that totals up your saved readings and shows your most common card, suit, number, and share of reversals. The app is ad-free, supported by optional purchases of AI readings and printed decks.
That structure clicks if you like learning in small, scored bursts. If you would rather read at your own pace, the same features can feel like homework. The tarot-app shelf is crowded, and several apps teach the same 78 cards through completely different loops. Here are seven of them, compared by teaching method instead of star ratings.
How Labyrinthos teaches, in one paragraph
Open the app and you get a meanings library for every card, short-form quizzes that test you on those meanings, and digital readings across dozens of spreads: single card, past-present-future, Celtic Cross, a moon-phase spread for each of the eight phases, plus love, career, and spiritual spreads. You can log readings in a journal and add your own questions and notes. Your Mirror then aggregates everything: which card appears most, which suit dominates, how often reversals show up. The loop is read, quiz, draw, journal, review.
Seven alternatives, compared by teaching method
Golden Thread Tarot: Lessons in tarot philosophy paired with a minimalist black-and-gold digital deck. Digital readings, guided readings with your physical deck, journal, pattern tracking. Free app; physical deck sold separately.
Biddy Tarot: Community learning with weekly group readings and monthly energy updates. Reading logs and community connection. Free tier available.
Tarot Journal: Learn from your own history. Record, search, and analyze past readings. Multiple decks, custom themes, scan a physical deck into a digital one. Free, no ads; donations optional.
Tarot!: Self-directed practice with classic spreads. 1-card, 3-card, zodiac, and Celtic Cross spreads, custom layouts, clarifying cards, automatic journal. One-time purchase.
Linestrider Tarot: Minimalist line-art deck by Siolo Thompson. 20 built-in spreads, free-form layouts, detailed journal, custom card meanings. Paid app.
Learn Tarot: Free browser course covering all 78 cards with detailed symbolism. Study-focused. Free.
The Good Tarot: Modern rework by Colette Baron-Reid with present-tense affirmation-style messages. Several reading types, saved readings, full-deck browser, built-in guidebook, daily reminder. Paid app.
Matching the app to your learning style
If you liked the quizzes but found Labyrinthos’s art too busy, Golden Thread Tarot is the closest switch. It comes from the same maker, keeps the lessons and the pattern tracking, and strips the cards down to black and gold. Readers who want less noise often do their best work with three-card spreads here, since a minimalist deck gives you fewer visual cues to lean on.
If your favorite Labyrinthos feature was Your Mirror, Tarot Journal is the upgrade. It treats your saved readings as the textbook: search them, summarize them, and watch your own patterns emerge over months. It is free, carries no ads, and can even scan your physical deck into a digital one.
If you want people around while you learn, Biddy Tarot’s weekly group readings and monthly energy updates give you a classroom feel that a solo app cannot. If you want the opposite, a private workbook, Tarot! keeps it simple: classic spreads, custom layouts, clarifying cards, and an automatic journal for a one-time purchase.
Linestrider Tarot suits readers who find illustrated decks distracting. Siolo Thompson’s line-art deck frames the familiar Rider-Waite-Smith scenes in a few strokes, which pushes you to read from memory and instinct rather than from the picture. The Good Tarot goes further in the modern direction, replacing the traditional suits with the four elements and writing every card as a present-tense statement.
And if you would rather study the cards with zero app involved, Learn Tarot is a free course that walks through all 78 cards with their symbolism explained. Pair it with any deck you own, physical or digital.
Picking the one you will actually open
The best teaching method is the one you return to. Quiz lovers should stay close to Labyrinthos or Golden Thread. Journal keepers should try Tarot Journal. Minimalists should look at Linestrider. When you are ready to buy a physical deck to go with your practice, read our guide on how to choose your first tarot deck before you spend anything. And if you want an astrology app with the same daily-check rhythm, our Co-Star alternatives guide covers the closest options.
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