The Pattern vs Hand and Stars
The Pattern helps you understand yourself. Hand and Stars helps you act on it.
The Pattern is built around deep, personal insight into who you are and the cycles you move through. Hand and Stars takes your whole chart and turns it into a dated 30 day plan for love and money, for $39 once instead of an app subscription.
The honest difference
The Pattern says it was created to help you feel seen and understood. It explains your personality, your relationships and the timing cycles you are in.
The Manifestation Blueprint from Hand and Stars starts where that leaves off. It reads your whole birth chart and gives you your money code, your love code, your best months, and a 30 day plan where every day has a date and one small action of about 10 minutes. You buy it once and keep it.
What The Pattern does well
- In depth insight into your personality traits.
- Your Transits, an overview of timing cycles in your life, past, present and future.
- Bonds, plus romantic and friendship patterns, to explore your compatibility with the people you care about.
- Discover collections with insights, audio episodes and New Moon guides.
- Connect, a dating feature based on compatibility, and a free natal chart on its website.
Based on The Pattern's own website and its listing on the US App Store, checked November 10, 2026.
Side by side
| The Pattern | Hand and Stars | |
|---|---|---|
| Main focus | Understanding yourself, your relationships and your cycles | A plan to manifest love and money, made from your chart |
| Where it lives | A mobile app, plus a free natal chart on its website | Web and email, no app to download |
| Timing | Timing cycles past, present and future | Your best months, plus a dated day by day plan |
| Dated 30 day action plan | Not described in its App Store listing | Yes, in the Blueprint: one small action a day, about 10 minutes |
| Price | Free app with optional in-app purchases. The US App Store lists Go Deeper+ Monthly at $14.99 and Go Deeper+ Annual at $83.99 (checked November 10, 2026). | Blueprint $39 one time. Optional Circle membership $9.99 a month or $79 a year, with a 7 day free trial. |
Who each one is best for
The Pattern is a good fit if you want to go deep on who you are and why your relationships feel the way they do, and you like reading and listening inside an app.
Hand and Stars is a good fit if you feel understood already and now want to know what to do: a clear plan for love and money, with dates, that you pay for once.
They work well together. Insight tells you who you are. A plan tells you what to do on Tuesday.
Questions
Does Hand and Stars use my whole chart like The Pattern?
Yes. Your chart is calculated from the real sky at the minute you were born. The Blueprint reads your whole chart, not only your Sun sign. If you do not know your birth time, it is built from your Sun, Moon, Venus and Mars.
Is the Blueprint a subscription?
No. The Manifestation Blueprint is $39, one time, and it is yours to keep. A free compatibility reading is included. The Circle is a separate, optional membership with a 7 day free trial.
Can I try Hand and Stars for free first?
Yes. Your birth chart is free and takes about 60 seconds. You see your Sun, Moon, Rising and Venus and the manifesting method that fits you before you decide anything.
Start with your chart. See your Sun, Moon, Rising and Venus and your manifesting method.
Get my free birth chartFree. Takes about 60 seconds. Ready for a plan? See the Manifestation Blueprint.
The Pattern features come from thepattern.com and The Pattern listing on the US App Store. The prices above come from that App Store listing, checked November 10, 2026. Prices can change and can differ by country. The Pattern is a trademark of its owner. Hand and Stars is not affiliated with The Pattern.