There’s no shortage of sites claiming to offer a free tarot reading online. But most of what ranks today for that phrase isn’t tarot. It’s digital noise wrapped in mystic wallpaper, engineered to herd you into psychic upsells. If you’ve searched ‘free tarot reading’ expecting depth, truth, or at least a well-crafted simulation of it, you’ve likely been disappointed.
This page reviews the most visible players in this niche, not to dis, but to understand what the landscape has become—and why Tarotsmith stands apart.
Whereas other sites prioritise revenue funnels, Tarotsmith delivers instant insight. In this online tarot comparison, we review each major free tarot source and rate them on mobile-friendliness, spread variety, interpretation depth, speed, intrusion (ads and stuff), design, and upsell aggression.
- Common pitfalls of ‘free‘ tarot sites: forced email/signup, pages of affiliate ads, minimal card meanings, or outright schemes for psychic hotlines.
- Tarotsmith’s difference: no forms, no upsells, and in-depth interpretations based on esoteric tradition.
Below we inspect every top competitor and then present a feature-rating matrix. You’ll see why Tarotsmith delivers the genuinely best no-cost tarot reading experience.
Facade.com
Facade is an old-school Swiss Army knife of divination. Its UI is cluttered but comprehensive: it lets you choose from 20 decks (Phoenix, Russian, Voodoo, etc.) and several good spreads (Celtic Cross, Hagall, Relationship, etc.). You can enable reversals or a significator. In practice Facade’s site feels like visiting a dusty, 1990s library of tarot. The spreads are basic and fast: cards are dealt and each position is listed with a brief meaning. The explanations are decent—you get a quick insight into your situation, but little narrative depth.
The biggest issue is UX: Facade’s design is outdated and not mobile-responsive (it hasn’t been updated in decades). Ads and affiliate links (e.g. to buy decks) pepper the site. Facade is rich in options (and free to use), but the experience is old-fashioned. Card interpretations are serviceable but skimpy, so sessions are quick. If you know what you’re doing, Facade provides honest, elementary readings. But if you want a modern, smartphone-friendly interface or deep insights, Facade will frustrate you. After the past two decades of obsolescence, it’s still one of the best free tarot sites around, which is why it tops our list. It’s a shame this site has not been considered a contender by top search engines for many years.
Tarot.com
Tarot.com has one of the most glossy interfaces in the niche, and recently rolled out a mobile-friendly 3-card version of a Celtic Cross. The big positive: their free reading is well-styled and works on any device. You shuffle and see three cards (representing part of the Celtic Cross spread) and can even continue with more cards. In theory this looks promising; in practice, it’s mostly a tease. Tarot.com funnels you immediately into its ecosystem: it prominently promotes signing up or upgrading for full readings. As one reviewer notes, you often see the cards on screen but can’t read their meanings without an email (the meanings are e-mailed or locked behind registration).
So, although the front-end is slick and quick, the reading itself is frustrating. You get to see the cards on-site, and then a hard roadblock. The site is packed with ads for apps and membership. In short, Tarot.com looks professional (it lets you ‘continue the reading’), but practically, it’s disappointing. You only get the free sample cards but no interpretations. If you prize streamlined design and multi-device support, Tarot.com is solid. But for a free reading with no catches, it’s underwhelming; the card meanings are essentially rented, not given.
Labyrinthos.co
Labyrinthos (the Labyrinthos app/site) takes the opposite approach: it’s minimalistic, modern, and geared to learners. It offers three tarot spreads and two single-card draws and a handful of cleanly drawn decks. The interface is cool: you actually tap cards to flip them with an animation. It feels nice and authentic. The design is fully mobile (it’s essentially an app), so navigation is fluid on phones and tablets. All basic readings are free and unlimited, and you can customise reversals or save readings by creating an account.
Interpretation depth is modest. Labyrinthos prides itself on concise, beginner-friendly meaning snippets. Each card has a quick summary geared to new students of tarot. This brevity means readings are fast. You won’t have to read through dense paragraphs. But it also means a Labyrinthos session feels shallow. The site even advertises itself as ‘easy-to-understand … accessible for beginners’. In short, Labyrinthos is user-friendly and polished. But it lacks variety and depth: only a few spreads and very short interpretations. Plus, the animations, while beautiful, slow the app down. It’s perfect as a free tarot tutorial/mobile experience, but it doesn’t satisfy a seasoned reader seeking rich content.
TrustedTarot.com
TrustedTarot.com wears a misleading name; its site is functional but basic. The free reading offers essentially one option: a 10-card Celtic Cross. The UI tells you to ‘select 10 cards from the deck’. This is implemented by clicking cards one by one; it’s slow but effective. The site uses the classic Rider–Waite deck. Card meanings are helpful and position-specific (the page even explains ‘every card has a different meaning depending on its position’), but they appear as you click, one card per page. In practice, a single reading spawns ten separate pages to load—and guess what? Each page often carries an ad interstitial.
Where TrustedTarot really stands out is upsell pressure. Right on the homepage it flashes a call-to-action: ‘Want a real Tarot reading? Step 1: Select your star sign… and I’ll interpret your cards!’. In other words, the site’s main purpose is to lure you into paying for a live psychic reading based on your zodiac. The free reading itself is serviceable but ordinary, nothing fancy in spreads or art. The design is functional but dated. In summary: TrustedTarot delivers a textbook free reading (complete with meditation copy and decent card text), but it tests your patience with slow loads and ads, and it aggressively promotes paid psychic sessions at every turn.
Evatarot.net
Evatarot.net (by ‘Eva’) is one of the most original free-reading sites we found. Instead of a standard tarot spread, it’s built around a 10-card ‘Major Arcana’ draw. You pick 10 out of the 22 major-arcana cards (Rider–Waite images). Then the site asks you to split those into three triads and discard one card as the ‘missing significator’. The psychological choices help interpret your personality and future.
The result is a very personal-sounding, narrative reading. EvaTarot’s output uses long paragraphs, flattery, and gentle life guidance. For example, one portion says things like ‘The cards suggest new challenges in your life… yet you have the potential to get there.’ It reads almost like a horoscope built from your words of encouragement. The interpretations are quite verbose (much more so than Facade or Tarot.com), even if some of the advice is generic (‘you mustn’t doubt it… you’ll earn appreciation’).
Evatarot’s production has some cool graphics, and it delivers an unusually introspective free reading. The trade-off? It’s basically a funnel for email sign-ups. In the middle of the reading it offers: ‘To find out more, I can send you a free tarot reading by e-mail… enter your email address’ (plus a big ‘I want to receive tarot readings’ button). In short, EvaTarot’s method is fresh and interesting, far more engaging than a random single-card pull, but it ultimately behaves like the others, asking for your contact info to upsell paid readings. Also, it turns out that at least one other top-ranking site has cloned EvaTarot’s one-of-a-kind method, turning an intriguing hybrid into an invasive species.
MicheleKnight.com
MicheleKnight.com is all about Psychic Michele Knight (and her phone line). The free tarot is almost an afterthought here. The one-card and three-card pages are filled with psychic branding and ads. Right at the top of every page: a flashing phone number (‘Calls cost £1.53/min + …’) begging you to book a reading. The text speaks directly to ‘your wonderful soul’ but offers only very basic guidance and positive vibes. When you click a card, you’ll get a one-sentence snippet or so. The only goal is to get you to dial a hotline for a detailed psychic phone reading.
UI-wise, Michele’s site is colourful but cluttered. It has some nice deck art, but navigation is heavy (lots of links, widgets, newsletter sign-ups). After any quick tarot or oracle draw, it immediately pitches its extras (as seen by the lengthy ‘Want to go deeper? Subscribe now for more… [astrology reports]’ note). In summary, MicheleKnight’s free ‘readings’ are superficial—if you can call them that—and the meanings are shallow. They’re just bait on a psychic upsell hook. There are no annoying logins or page reloads, but no meaningful insight either. We can only roll their eyes at this site appearing as a top contender.
Free-Tarot-Reading.net (Lotus Tarot)
Lotus Tarot (located at free-tarot-reading.net) markets itself as ‘Absolutely FREE Tarot readings—no nonsense!’. In reality, it’s an SEO monster. The site is utterly focused on one spread: a 6-card layout from the Major Arcana (the ‘LT’s World Famous Universal 6 Card Spread’). You must select six cards. The site then spits out a reading. There is only this one spread and four basic decks.
There’s a lot of preamble and ‘how to’ stuff (pages of breathing exercises and tips before you click), then the positions are explained (‘Card 1 = how you feel now,’ etc.) The actual card interpretations are fairly deep for a free site: each card has a specific meaning per position. Surprisingly, it goes beyond a one-liner. (The site even boasts the spread has been used ‘200 million times since 2002’, a McDonald’s-inspired claim obviously for SEO.) The main deck’s art is a mixture of photographs and manipulations, which some users find visually interesting.
This site is every search engine’s most embarrassing shadow. It’s held top rankings for decades, not because it serves the intent of searchers, but because it feeds the algorithm. In sum, it has four decks, one spread, and a parade of keywords dressed as paragraphs.
Upsides: no ads or signup pop-ups are shown during the reading (they claim ‘no ads’). Downsides: only one spread, so it has a mystical but limited feel. Also, the card descriptions are longer than Facade’s, but the writing is generic. The whole thing feels like it was built solely to rank on Google for ‘free tarot reading’. Despite the deep (if bland) meanings, this site reeks of blatant black-hat SEO rather than genuine spiritual practice.
7Tarot.com
7Tarot.com is basically a clone of Evatarot. It uses the same unusual 10-card draw mechanism, except with French Tarot (Marseille-style) artwork instead of Rider–Waite. The homepage even tells you to ‘Select 10 cards from the deck below’ (just like Eva’s site). In fact, the user flow is nearly identical—the difference is only in card images and some labelling of card spots. Where 7Tarot shines is in design: it has better graphics and unique reading options (a ‘Crystal Ball’ spread, an ‘Angel Tarot,’ a 32-card ‘classic’ reading, etc.). But those extras are mostly teasers; the core free tarot uses the 10-card draw.
The readings themselves are similar to Eva’s: you get several paragraphs of interpretation for grouped cards. 7Tarot’s writer adds some theatrical flair (‘Trust in the help of your angel…’ in their love reading blurb), but the pattern is the same: uplifting life advice based on your picks. 7Tarot also plays little tricks. For example, at the end it asks you to discard one card, but then highlights that discarded card as the final ‘outcome’ and significator—a psychological sleight-of-hand. The upshot: 7Tarot feels a bit more polished than Evatarot, and the Marseille art is a nice change of pace. But it’s still a variant of the same gimmick. You get no more free insight than on Evatarot, just a different packaging. And the intrusion of this not-truly-tarot reading method into the mainstream keyword searches is no longer a query-deserves-diversity one-off, it’s an invasion of one category by another.
TellMyTarot.com
TellMyTarot.com is run by an author named Charmaine, and its free reading is a 6-card Past/Present/Future layout. The interface is fairly modern. You draw 6 cards (2 for Past, 2 for Present, 2 for Future). The site is heavy on content: Charmaine provides long, in-depth card interpretations—even including meditation questions and her personal ‘take’ on each card. For example, the site advertises ‘tarot card meanings provide in-depth information… including … the author’s own thoughts’. Indeed, the card text can read like a mini-essay and is far more elaborate than on most free sites.
UI/UX is okay but not great. The loading animations are a bit slow, and the graphics are ordinary. TellMyTarot started as a tarot blog, so the reading feels like reading a Tarot encyclopaedia entry for each draw. It’s thoughtful and beginner-friendly, but it doesn’t feel very interactive—more like reading text after drawing cards. One glitch: the card meanings are clearly copied from another site that uses the Marseille deck—as it’s referred to in the card meanings. In terms of upsells, it’s mild. The site does plug Charmaine’s paid readings and other content, but not as aggressively as others. In short, TellMyTarot is rich in supportive commentary (which suits tarot students), but the actual free ‘spread’ experience is fairly run-of-the-mill.
Llewellyn.com (Llewellyn Worldwide)
Llewellyn is the major New Age publisher, and they offer a basic free tarot app on their site. It works in steps: select a deck (use Llewellyn’s own Tarot deck, etc.), pick a spread (a few choices, e.g. Celtic Cross, 3-card), and draw. The UX is standard (cards fanned on screen, click to flip). The art is high-quality—Llewellyn decks tend to be very pretty—so the experience feels nice visually. However, the readings themselves are quick and shallow. Each card position only gets one or two lines of meaning. (For example, their ‘Meanings: Good news. Invitation. A trusting heart…’ type style on a site snippet.) Because of that, a reading finishes fast but has no depth. It’s basically a fun novelty to see nice card images with one-liner meanings—now buy a deck.
No big surprises on Llewellyn. It’s reputable and safe, but it’s designed for casual users. There are no flips, no major interactive features—it’s just classic ‘select cards from an array’ procedure. You won’t see any hardcore occult stuff, just straightforward new age buzzwords. In short: nice artwork and a few spread options, but very minimal interpretation. It’s fine for a quick tarot hit, but nothing you couldn’t get from a pet deck and a Google search.
Horoscope.com
Horoscope.com is a giant horoscope/astrology site, and its tarot pages reflect that audience. The UX is polished and branded like all their horoscope tools. Their Daily Tarot Reading page (shown at right) shows you a 3-card draw (Love/Mood/Career) and a featured ‘Card of the Day’. The visuals are clean (see the Sun card from their deck above). However, don’t be fooled; the focus is not tarot. This site’s tarot section is really just cross-promotion for its astrology and psychic services.
For one thing, all readings lead to one-card draws despite the menu fuss about spreads. And every tarot page screams ‘Keen.com Psychic Readings’. For example, at the top you see ‘Psychics Free 3-Minute Reading’ with links to phone/chat readings. In effect, Horoscope.com frames tarot in horoscope terms. The interpretations are extremely generic (‘You’ve earned it, feel free to breathe a sigh of relief’ from The Sun). Each card’s description is only a paragraph at most. And after the (mobile-friendly) card shuffle, it often nudges you towards more horoscope content or paid psychic consultations. In short: Horoscope.com’s tarot pages feel decent visually, but they prioritise upsell to its astrologer network. It’s far from the ‘best no-cost tarot reading’—more like a horoscope site with tarot-coloured decorations.
Why Tarotsmith Doesn’t Belong in This List (But Has To Be)
Tarotsmith was never built to compete with lead magnets or whitewashed mysticism. It’s not polished, not mainstream, and not here to hand-hold. It offers:
- Multiple original and artistically intense decks
- Readings with no editorial filter, just the artists’ card descriptions
- Spreads designed for introspection, shadow work, and consciousness expansion
- No upsells, no signup traps, no readings that load mutiple pages
- No card animations, prioritising page load speed over theatrics
- A plethora of other divination methods and self-introspection tools
We don’t flatter. We don’t lead you to a psychic hotline. We don’t rank: because search engines don’t reward honesty, depth, or respect for esoteric tradition. A sign of its company’s values, they reward ad funnels that pretend to be sacred tools—when there’s an actual industry of real sites that offer automated readings for free without having to lean on the fact that they are indeed free. Sites like Facade.com: why can’t they rank if they are the ones serving the actual search intent? Come on; nobody searches ‘free tarot reading’ hoping to find a bunch of sites aggressively asking for money. Give us a break.
Still, if you’re looking for a free tarot reading without being insulted or seduced, we invite you to try what we’ve built: tarotsmith.com/reading.
Feature Rating Matrix (Scale of 1–5)
| Site | Mobile | Spreads | Depth | Speed | Intrusion | Design | Upsell |
| Facade | 1 | 4 | 3 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 3 |
| Tarot.com | 5 | 3 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 4 | 3 |
| Labyrinthos.co | 5 | 2 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 4 | 2 |
| TrustedTarot | 2 | 1 | 2 | 2 | 1 | 2 | 1 |
| Evatarot.net | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 2 | 2 |
| MicheleKnight | 4 | 2 | 1 | 4 | 1 | 3 | 1 |
| Lotus Tarot | 1 | 1 | 3 | 4 | 3 | 2 | 2 |
| 7Tarot | 3 | 3 | 3 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 2 |
| TellMyTarot | 4 | 2 | 4 | 2 | 4 | 3 | 3 |
| Llewellyn | 3 | 3 | 2 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 4 |
| Horoscope.com | 5 | 1 | 1 | 5 | 2 | 3 | 2 |
| Tarotsmith | 5 | 5 | 5 | 5 | 4 | 4 | 5 |
FAQ (Online Tarot Comparison)
- What is the best free tarot reading site? The answer depends on your priorities. If you want no-strings-attached insight, Tarotsmith tops the list. It has no signup walls and actually delivers full readings with various options rooted in tarot tradition, and its depth is unmatched. Most other top-ranked sites are not truly free (they break their readings with multiple page loads, sign-up forms, or constant upsells). For an unbiased, in-depth reading, Tarotsmith is by far the best no-cost tarot reading option. And after the past few decades, Facade.com is still one of the top options available.
- How can I get a tarot reading online with no signup? In 2025, this is surprisingly rare. Every site above either requires a registration or pushes you to pay for extra. Tarotsmith, however, doesn’t ask for anything. You simply select your deck and spread, and then see your spread and meanings. So, if you’ve been searching for ‘no-signup tarot’, Tarotsmith is your answer.
- How does this online tarot comparison help? We’ve evaluated each service’s UI, spread variety, interpretation depth, speed, mobile-friendliness, and aggressive marketing. Unlike generic roundups, this review cites live data and experiences. You can use our matrix and write-ups to quickly see which site’s approach matches what you want.
Each competitor has its value, but none combine the virtues of a genuinely free, no-nonsense tarot service because they serve only one higher purpose, to act as a sales funnel.
Final Word
It’s easy to look like a tarot site. It’s harder to be one.
What the top-ranking pages offer is not insight, but exposure—designed to move you further down a sales funnel.
If what you’re seeking is real readings, unfiltered symbolism, and interpretations that respect the darkness as much as the light, the current search results won’t help you. But you’re here now. You made it past the noise.
Stay.
