Know the cards.
Read the moment.

At a glance

The screenshots were taken from the production build, using a demo account with sample readings. The owner's pages show sample rows and made-up figures, never real visitors' data.

First visit and the daily routine

Welcome. First-time visitors get three short steps instead of a wall of options: choose a star sign, turn today's card for that sign, and choose whether to get a morning reminder.

Today. After that, the home page opens on a four-step routine: turn your sign's card, draw the card of the day, pick today's pile and write one line about the day. Each step ticks itself off where it happens. On phones, a bottom tab bar (Today, Read, Learn, Collection, You) makes the site work like an app. From the second day, the home page shows at most one tip a day about a feature the visitor hasn't tried yet.

Readings

Choosing a spread

The 32 spreads are grouped by what you're asking about: everyday, love, work, decisions, growth, cycles and classic. Each spread page has a guide to its positions, how to lay the cards out, and an FAQ.

Spread finder. Type the question the way you'd ask a friend, and the finder suggests three spreads with reasons. For an "X or Y" question it picks Two Paths and fills in both options as the path names.

Dealing

Write a question if you like, pick a topic and a deck, then shuffle. Reversals, Major Arcana only and quick deal are all settings. Enter my own cards lets someone reading with a physical deck record what they drew.

The written reading

Every card gets text written for its position (The Star in "Past" reads differently from The Star in "Advice") and for the chosen topic. You can draw or enter a clarifier for any position. Below the cards:

• The reading as a whole: how many Major Arcana, which suits and how many reversals came up, how neighbouring positions affect each other, and classic card pairings. It describes possibilities, not verdicts.
• Reflection prompts: up to three questions drawn from these cards, with space for answers and an intention.
• Elemental dignities and timing cues, folded away for readers who want them.
• Court cards as people, when a court card lands in a position about a person.
• Read aloud, Print or PDF, and an AI follow-up that answers questions about the reading (built, waiting to be switched on).

Sharing

Share opens a panel that shows exactly what the recipient will see. The question, option names and your note are off by default, and link previews in chat apps never show them.

Story image makes a tall picture of the spread for Instagram or WhatsApp stories.

Quick draws and daily cards

• Yes or no: one question, one card, and a clear answer (yes, no, maybe or "not yet") with the reason.
• Pick a pile: three face-down piles a day in three topics. Everyone sees the same piles on the same day, so creators can post them and followers can check their pile.

• Daily tarot by sign: each star sign gets its own card every day, read for love, work and advice, and for how the card's element meets the sign's.
• Moon events: each new and full moon has one card for everyone, turned over on the night, with a countdown in between.
• Which tarot card are you?: eight questions that match you to one of the 22 Major Arcana, with a result page and a story image to share.

Birth cards works out your personality and soul cards, and your card for any year, from your date of birth. The date is worked out in the browser and never stored.

Readings with other people

• Compatibility for two: you draw three cards (what I bring, what I need, how I see us) and send a link. The other person draws three on their own phone, then all six turn over for both of you, with a connection meter and a reading for each pair. Neither of you needs an account.
• Someone else draws: make a link for a friend or a client far away. They shuffle and choose the cards on their phone, and the reading goes straight into your journal.

The cards, decks and astrology

Every card has its own page: keywords, upright and reversed meanings, the scene, Waite's 1911 text, its astrology and Hebrew letter, a Listen button, a yes-or-no answer, and private notes for signed-in readers.

Seven historical decks: Rider–Waite–Smith, Marseille, Viéville, Visconti-Sforza, Sola Busca, Oswald Wirth and Soimoi. Each card's description matches how it looks in each deck.

There are pages for the 12 signs, 7 planets and 4 elements, each showing its Major Arcana card, decans, court card and how to read for that sign. Each sign also has a five-card season spread.

Learning tarot

• Flashcards use spaced repetition: five new cards a session, and cards you miss come back sooner. Quizzes mix pictures, keywords, scenes and reversed meanings, and include your own card notes.
• Practice readings: write what a card says in its position, then compare your words with the written reading and mark yourself honestly.

Collection, streaks and rewards

Every card you turn face up joins an album for its deck, and reversed cards count as rarer finds. A streak counts the days you turn at least one card. Every 7 days in a row earns a freeze that covers a missed day. Streaks and albums unlock card backs and colour themes. They change only how the site looks; no part of a reading is ever locked. When a visitor without an account has progress worth keeping, the site suggests making one.

Your account: journal and patterns

Sign in with Google or an email link. Everything here is private to the reader.

On a saved reading, add a note (typed or dictated), a mood with words, tags, a photo of your physical spread, the person it was for, and the situation it belongs to.

A day later, or on the date you chose, the site asks did it come true? (from Missed to Spot on) and what actually happened.

Your own spreads and decks

Design a spread on a grid and choose what each position means. Then read with it, share it, or publish it to the gallery, where others can copy it. You can also photograph your own deck (or an oracle deck), write your own meanings and read with it.

For tarot creators

A reader's page (knowtarot.com/r/yourname) is a link-in-bio page for creators on TikTok, Instagram or YouTube. It shows their card, bio and links, and has an inbox where followers draw three cards and add a question.

Opening an inbox item opens the reading marked "Read by @yourname". Published pages are listed on the readers directory, and visitors can report a page for moderation.

App, notifications and extras

• Installable app: add it to the home screen. It keeps working offline: dealing, meanings and flashcards all work, and saved readings are sent once you're back online.
• Notifications without an account: your sign's card each morning, a streak saver, new and full moons, and an alert when the other person finishes a compatibility reading. Signed-in readers also get evening notes, a weekly digest and a calendar feed.
• Feedback: anyone can send an idea, report a problem or say what they like, from any page.

For the site owner

Two private pages open only with the owner's secret key. Search engines are kept off both.

• Feedback from visitors, newest first, with the page each message came from. Mark it done or delete it.
• Errors in visitors' browsers, grouped by day, page and message, with the browser and stack trace. Noise from browser extensions and dropped connections is filtered out.
• Moderation of readers' pages and gallery spreads. Three reports hide an item automatically. The owner can hide, restore, unpublish or close an inbox.

Return figures show new and returning visitors per day, how many new visitors came back the next day, within a week and within a month, and how often each feature is used. The counts are anonymous daily totals with no IDs or cookies, and browsers that ask not to be tracked are skipped.

Under the hood

• Stack: Next.js 15, React 19, Tailwind 4 and TypeScript on Vercel. Supabase provides accounts, Postgres with row-level security, file storage, and scheduled jobs that send web push.
• Speed: on phones, Lighthouse scores production at 86–95 for performance and 100 for accessibility and SEO.
• Accessibility: automated WCAG 2.1 AA checks on about 40 pages, in light and dark, on desktop and phone, plus keyboard checks.
• Privacy by design: questions and notes never appear in link previews; birth dates stay in the browser; analytics use no cookies and drop query strings; readers can export or delete everything.
• Original content: the text for every card, position and topic is original writing; A. E. Waite's 1911 text is quoted where cited.
• Quality: unit tests, content validators and 39 browser tests run against production builds, and every change goes through a reviewed pull request.