Free & paid access
In AstroCarto, generating a map, comparing cities, creating a complete report, asking AI, and saving a result are separate actions. When something is locked, check the signed-in account, that action's access, its remaining allowance, and the input or result status. A successful purchase or a positive AI credit balance does not automatically unlock every action.
What can I do without purchasing a plan?
You can generate the core astrocartography map without buying a plan. Some map lines and deeper readings have additional access conditions. Seeing a map, a short overview, or a preview does not mean the complete result has been unlocked.
| Starting point | What you can use | What to check before continuing |
|---|---|---|
| Visiting without signing in | Generate the core map and use available map interactions and remaining free city tools | Some planetary lines, deeper views, exports, and complete reports can remain locked. A guest AI trial, when offered, has its own eligibility and sign-in prompts. |
| A signed-in free account | Save places in My Places and store birth details for one person, alongside available free tools | Saved places and stored people are different objects. Signing in does not grant unlimited city research, complete reports, or unlimited AI questions. |
| Trying city research | Five free city checks and one free city comparison, subject to the remaining allowance | A map's five free location previews are a separate allowance. Do not treat each preview, check, comparison, and AI reading as the same unit. |
| Opening a preview | Read the fields actually offered in that preview | A Personal Report overview, a discovery preview, a shared-place preview, and a timing preview do not contain the same output. |
For a first map, follow Create your first map. For keeping destinations, use Save & revisit places; for the person's reusable inputs, use Save & reuse birth data. Use the remaining allowance or credit balance shown in your current session rather than assuming a new sign-in resets an earlier trial.
Which conditions apply to the action I want to finish?
Start with the name of the action, not just the plan name. In particular, the comparison cards produced by Compare Cities and a complete AI City Comparison Report are different outputs. Access to one does not establish access to the other.
| Action | Access and usage conditions | What you receive or where to continue |
|---|---|---|
| Generate and explore a map | Core map generation is free; some planetary lines and deeper location views require additional access | A map and its available evidence. Use the interactive map guide. |
| Download the map | Sign in and have HD map-download access | An image of the displayed map, not a complete personal report. Read Export maps & reports. |
| Check a city | Use a remaining free city check or access that includes unlimited city checks | A reading for one selected city. Check a city explains its support and cautions. |
| Compare chosen cities | One free comparison is available; further runs need unlimited city-comparison access | Cards and a comparison of two to four cities for one goal. These are not a generated report saved in report history. |
| Generate a complete City Comparison Report | Sign in, have complete-comparison-report access, and have at least 50 AI credits for a new report request | A separate generated report based on the comparison. Read the complete report step. |
| Find My Best Places | Explore the limited discovery preview; sign in and have complete discovery-report access to generate the full report | Candidate places for the selected goal and search scope. See Find best places. |
| Create a complete Personal Astrocartography Report | Sign in and have the matching report allowance; the complete report also needs accurate birth time | A generated Personal Report. Its allowance is separate from AI chat credits. Follow Personal Report. |
| Research places for two people | Sign in; complete shared results require shared-place access and suitable inputs for the selected mode | Shared findings with each person's own support and cautions. A preview is not the complete result. Use Shared places. |
| Find a time to move | Sign in; complete timing needs timing access and an accurate birth time | A result for a selected city, goal, and date range. A limited preview or a completed result with no clear window is not the same as an access failure. |
| Where Planets Work Together | Sign in with an account that includes complete pairing exploration; a visible entry does not establish that access | Planet-and-angle pairs and candidate places. See Where Planets Work Together. |
| Ask AI about a result | Check sign-in or trial eligibility, the relevant chart or report access, and available AI credits | A follow-up answer using that entry's available context. Report access does not make questions unlimited. Read Ask AI about your results. |
| Save places or birth details | Sign in; My Places and the stored-person limit are separate | Destinations in My Places or reusable birth profiles. Saving a city does not create a complete report. |
| Export the current chat | Sign in and have messages to export. Current Pro and Ultimate include chat-export access; Starter's map offer does not | Use Download Chat in that conversation to create a TXT file. This preserves the current messages on your device, not a cloud-history entry. Follow chat export steps. |
| Reopen cloud AI chat history | Sign in with cloud-history access. Current Ultimate includes it; current Pro and Starter do not | Open AI Chat History from the account menu or the chat's history control, then choose the saved conversation. The supported completed conversation must have synced; seeing an answer in the dialog alone is not proof it was saved. See check your saved conversation. |
Before a new purchase, check current plans and allowances for the specific output you need. A map-download offer is not the same purchase as complete-report access. A Personal Birth Chart Reading also has its own report scope; buying a chart report does not by itself grant every astrocartography workflow.
The plan names above describe current offers. An older purchase can include different access; if your signed-in account's access message does not match a current offer, check that purchase rather than assuming its benefits were replaced by today's plan.
What should I check if I have paid but something is still locked?
First identify the message and the blocked action. Payment status, account identity, feature access, remaining usage, input precision, and a report's generation status need different responses. Do not buy again simply because an action has not opened.
| What you see | What to check | Appropriate next action |
|---|---|---|
| A sign-in prompt | Whether you are in the account associated with the purchase or report | Sign in with the intended account, then return to the same action. A payment email and a login email can differ; keep both available for support if needed. |
| Payment is pending, cancelled, failed, or unclear | The checkout result and transaction reference | Check the payment outcome before retrying a purchase. Do not assume that opening checkout completed a payment. |
| An upgrade or access prompt after payment | Whether the purchased offer includes this exact action | Distinguish map download, comparison cards, complete comparison reports, discovery, and other workflows. Older purchases can have different included access from a current offer with the same name. |
| An insufficient-credit message | The required AI credits and your available balance | If feature access is already present, resolve the credit shortfall. More Personal Report allowances or stored-person slots do not replace AI credits. |
| No report allowance remains, or the stored-person limit is reached | Which report type or saved-person limit the message names | Check that specific unit. A large AI credit balance does not itself supply another Personal Report allowance or person slot. |
| An accurate-time or input message | The time status and required fields for the chosen workflow | Correct known input errors or follow unknown birth-time guidance. Buying access cannot make a guessed birth time accurate. |
| Generating, failed, or unavailable | The status of that particular report or result | Use its existing status or return entry. Do not repeatedly create new requests to try to open a report that is still processing. |
Worked example: city cards work, but the complete report does not
Suppose you want to compare Paris, Lisbon, and Berlin for Career & recognition. The following is an access example using hypothetical account conditions, not a generated city ranking.
- Generate your map with the intended birth details, open Compare Cities, select the three city suggestions, and choose the career goal.
- Run the comparison. If you have a remaining free comparison or unlimited comparison access, read the city cards, supporting lines, and cautions.
- If you also want the complete report, use the complete-report action in that comparison. This starts a different access check from showing the cards.
- Read the report action's message before choosing an upgrade, adding credits, or retrying.
| Hypothetical account condition | What the complete-report action needs | What you should conclude |
|---|---|---|
| Unlimited comparison cards and 1,500 AI credits, but no complete-comparison-report access | The report access is missing even though the balance is sufficient | The cards are working as included. Check the offer that explicitly includes the complete report; adding credits alone does not unlock it. |
| Complete-comparison-report access, with 40 AI credits available | At least 50 AI credits for a new complete report | This is a credit shortfall. It is not evidence that the existing report access disappeared. |
| Complete-comparison-report access, with 60 AI credits available | The permission and credit checks are covered; input and generation checks still apply | Submit only the intended request and follow its status. Satisfying these two checks does not mean generation has already finished. |
| The intended report was already generated | Open that saved report from My Astrology Reports in its owning account | Reopening the existing report and generating another are different actions. Do not start a new report just to retrieve the old one. |
After a successful generation, verify the report title, cities, and goal, then use its supported reading, PDF, or follow-up options. A later AI question has its own access and credit conditions. If the result remains unavailable, keep the exact message and follow saved-result troubleshooting.
Where should I go after identifying the cause?
| Your conclusion | Next step | Keep this distinction |
|---|---|---|
| I need an offer covering a named action | Use Plans & pricing and the current pricing page | Check inclusion, report allowances, AI credits, and stored people separately; do not infer all of them from a tier name. |
| I have the output, but cannot find it | Follow Saved data & results | Report history, cloud chat history, stored profiles, and My Places are different destinations. |
| The problem is the input or the workflow | Return to the linked feature guide and correct the named condition | More access does not correct the birth data or recreate a missing result automatically. |
| I cannot explain the purchase, access, or balance state | Contact support with the account email, order or transaction reference if available, blocked action, and exact message | Explain what worked and what failed. Do not post payment details or another person's birth data publicly. |
A useful support description is: “My city comparison cards open, but generating the complete comparison report is blocked. I am signed in to the account used for the purchase. This is the report message and the credit balance shown.” That identifies a specific action instead of treating every locked screen as the same problem.
Return to your map when the named condition is resolved. If the action was already complete, reopen its existing result rather than generating a replacement unnecessarily.
For a usage shortfall, check reports, profiles, and credits. For a missing purchase, match the purchasing account and transaction.
Check Starter's included map actions or Pro's included research workflows against the exact output you need.
For the actual additions and remaining limits, check Ultimate compared with Pro.