kalliope
A few days ago I started a thread asking about updated Galaxy Tone apps, and was told to check back soon. Late last night I checked the Google Play store, and saw they have just released a Wild Unknown Tarot app!!
Pardon my excitement, but I love using apps, and just LOVE the Wild Unknown. Just the other day I was thinking that the creator should make an app, and was even considering contacting her through her website to say so!
The layout is simple, and I think the graphics do the deck justice. When you click on a card, you see it in full screen without a notification bar at the top. The cards still have the same power and impact. The images really shine on a backlit screen, especially since she uses the suggestion of glowing illumination, or light vs. shade, so much in the deck. When the cards have color, they're even more beautiful and dramatic.
I don't have the Wild Unknown companion book, but I'm assuming that the included text is taken from it. The text for each card is a short, with just a few keywords and a brief interpretation paragraph. Although I find the deck very intuitive, evocative, and readable simply by gazing at the images, I'm enjoying getting to see where she was coming from with her take on each card.
The deck includes a Yes/No spread, which is isn't something I've seen in other good tarot apps, and it was a surprise that it would be included for this deck. But it's actually really great, and works very well. The spread seems to use the majors only and has additional interpretations written for each. From what I have seen in my limited tests, most of the cards do not, in fact, give a clear yes or no. Many of the interpretations are along the "you need to give this more time, things aren't that clear yet" or "you already know what the answer is!" variety. But Strength, for example, was a lovely "Yes" message.
As always there are several settings that allow you to choose if you want the app to pick cards for you, or if you want to shuffle and select them yourself. You can always skip the shuffle & pick just once in any given spread, too.
There also seems to be a new-ish feature that I like a lot: when you exit out of a spread, you'll be asked to confirm, and are also given the choice to save the spread into your journal. I think that's a nice compromise between having to remember to save (in the old versions of Galaxy Tone apps), and having everything automatically saved in the Fool's Dog apps (which for me ends up being cluttered with lots of one-card draws.)
Anyway, if you're a lover of this deck and have an Android phone, go get this app! Galaxy Tone has done a wonderful job with it, and I can't imagine anyone would regret it. I look forward to having the cards with me all the time.
I've attached a couple of screenshots from my smartphone. I'm sure it will be even more striking on my tablet once I install it there, too!
Pardon my excitement, but I love using apps, and just LOVE the Wild Unknown. Just the other day I was thinking that the creator should make an app, and was even considering contacting her through her website to say so!
The layout is simple, and I think the graphics do the deck justice. When you click on a card, you see it in full screen without a notification bar at the top. The cards still have the same power and impact. The images really shine on a backlit screen, especially since she uses the suggestion of glowing illumination, or light vs. shade, so much in the deck. When the cards have color, they're even more beautiful and dramatic.
I don't have the Wild Unknown companion book, but I'm assuming that the included text is taken from it. The text for each card is a short, with just a few keywords and a brief interpretation paragraph. Although I find the deck very intuitive, evocative, and readable simply by gazing at the images, I'm enjoying getting to see where she was coming from with her take on each card.
The deck includes a Yes/No spread, which is isn't something I've seen in other good tarot apps, and it was a surprise that it would be included for this deck. But it's actually really great, and works very well. The spread seems to use the majors only and has additional interpretations written for each. From what I have seen in my limited tests, most of the cards do not, in fact, give a clear yes or no. Many of the interpretations are along the "you need to give this more time, things aren't that clear yet" or "you already know what the answer is!" variety. But Strength, for example, was a lovely "Yes" message.
As always there are several settings that allow you to choose if you want the app to pick cards for you, or if you want to shuffle and select them yourself. You can always skip the shuffle & pick just once in any given spread, too.
There also seems to be a new-ish feature that I like a lot: when you exit out of a spread, you'll be asked to confirm, and are also given the choice to save the spread into your journal. I think that's a nice compromise between having to remember to save (in the old versions of Galaxy Tone apps), and having everything automatically saved in the Fool's Dog apps (which for me ends up being cluttered with lots of one-card draws.)
Anyway, if you're a lover of this deck and have an Android phone, go get this app! Galaxy Tone has done a wonderful job with it, and I can't imagine anyone would regret it. I look forward to having the cards with me all the time.
I've attached a couple of screenshots from my smartphone. I'm sure it will be even more striking on my tablet once I install it there, too!