App: Mars & Astrology and More
Developer: Michael Adams
Genres: Lifestyle

The app gives Sun, Moon, Mercury, Mars and Venus sign readings using the ghost writings of Crowley, a chart room with planets, aspects, transits with both orb and time of day including minor aspects if on. and houses with both tropical and sidereal calculations possible, reactive charts that update when settings change, Mars and Venus themed art over the centuries, and Mars rover photos plus the astronomy picture of the day. Chart room and readings work offline.

The Sun, Moon, Mercury, Venus and Mars readings use material by Evangeline Adams with ghost writer Aleister Crowley for any date from a classic 1930 work, Your Place in the Stars. There is also a charts tab. More on that below.

Mars rover photos on the Space Tab update daily with five pictures from each rover each day and at top of Space tab is an option to see the Astronomy Picture of the Day.

The Art tab features five pictures a day each of Mars and Venus themed art spanning centuries from classical to impressionists from a famous New York museum which has put them in public domain. Users can save images they like to their library. All image data, including Space daily images, is saved in jpeg format to reduce space. 

On the chart tab there are choices of Planets now or natal as well as an entered person’s Transits for any date/time. Both orbs and an options to see transits by time of day are given.  The date picker defaults to the present to make it easiest to get a persons current transits. The transit string will be prefixed by Applying if the transit is applying.  The names of people or charts entered display on right side of chart room and just tap to move between them.  The aspects now or for a person entered can also be given. 

There is a choice in Chart Settings of Wide, Medium or Narrow orbs for Aspects and Transits and an option to see Minor Aspects.  When transits are shown by orb, there is an option to list the transit times of day in local time for that date choice.  If location data, pick from a list of birth cites, and an exact time are given for a birth entry, Houses can be shown with choice of system. There is also a Planets tab to get the Planets and Aspects on any date/time without creating a birth entry. All chart data is saved only locally on the device and is deleted if app uninstalls.

The app is reactive and if a user goes into chart settings and changes bodies to show or changes minor aspects on or not, all charts in the Chart and Planets Tab will update allowing the user to filter up or down on the existing charts they are working with. 

Charts are given in text, not chart wheels. There’s a choice of planetary bodies to show in Chart Settings as well as house system to use. There is also a toggle for Tropical on or off - off is sidereal and a choice of sidereal system will show. There is a resources view to help people learn more about the information in the chart room who are newer to Astrology.

On the Planet's tab there is a mundane option to show Planetary and Lunar transit times of day, when planets change sign, and move between days. This uses the user's bodies to show choices and will include minor aspect times as well if they are enabled in Chart Settings.  On Chart tab when transit times are shown, the mundane information is shown below the transits times for that person on that day.

I hope to expand or refine app features as I hear feedback  Mars and More is Swiss Ephemeris inside and open source, more info on our Support Page.

Release notes:
bug fixes for transit finder
speeded up the transit finder by a factor of three