Samsung Galaxy / Lifestyle / ZANTHIUM — THE FORTUNE TELLER
REVIEW
Zanthium is a novelty fortune-teller that knows exactly what it is.
An indie horoscope curio on the Galaxy Store with no ambitions beyond a quick laugh. Score it for what it tries to be, not what it isn't.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 10, 2026 · 3 MIN READ
Zanthium — The Fortune Teller
FLORIN STOICA
OUR SCORE
6.4
SAMSUNG GALAXY
★ 5.0
PRICE
Free
Zanthium — The Fortune Teller is the kind of app the Galaxy Store quietly fills its Lifestyle aisle with: a one-developer novelty from an independent publisher, free, with a clear single purpose and no plan beyond it. Florin Stoica’s listing doesn’t oversell itself, doesn’t promise daily horoscopes or astrological depth, and doesn’t try to be a wellness platform. It is a fortune-teller in your pocket, and that is the whole pitch.
Reviewing an app like this fairly means grading it against what it sets out to do, not against the apps three pricing tiers up. Zanthium is competing with a coin, a Magic 8-Ball, and the friend at the table who already volunteered an opinion. On that scale, the question isn’t whether it’s deep — it’s whether it’s quick, harmless, and a small bit of fun.
Zanthium is the kind of app you open at a bar to settle an argument, then close and never think about again. There is a real place for that on a phone, even if it isn’t the kind of place that earns Editor’s Pick.
Zanthium is the kind of app you open at a bar to settle an argument, then close and never think about again.
FEATURES
Zanthium is a single-purpose fortune-teller app — tap, get a reading, close the app. The Galaxy Store listing puts it in Lifestyle, which is where horoscope and oracle apps end up by default, and that classification gets at the shape of it: a small entertainment tool, not a tracker or a journal.
The developer, Florin Stoica, is an independent publisher and Zanthium reflects that scale. There is no account, no subscription, no daily-streak hook, no in-app purchase ladder to climb. You install it, you get your reading, the app gets out of the way. That restraint is rarer in this genre than it should be.
Galaxy Store distribution makes it a curiosity by default — Samsung's storefront sees fewer of these novelty Lifestyle apps than Google Play does, which is the only real reason to notice it sitting on the shelf at all.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
Zanthium succeeds by refusing to overreach. A fortune-teller app does not need notifications, a cloud sync, or a premium tier, and Zanthium has the discipline to skip all three. The Galaxy Store is full of Lifestyle apps that bolt push reminders and subscription paywalls onto trivial features; this one doesn't.
As a free novelty from a small developer, it also doesn't pretend to be anything else. The honesty matters. You know within ten seconds whether the app is for you, which is more than most apps in this category manage.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The flip side of "small and honest" is "thin." There is no replay value past the first session, no thematic depth to the readings, no reason a returning user would prefer Zanthium over a coin flip or any of the dozen broadly identical horoscope apps on the same storefront. A handful of reading styles, a written archive, or even a basic daily-card hook would give it something to come back to.
The asset story is also light. Without screenshots or a featured graphic in the store listing, the app relies entirely on the user trusting the icon and the name, and the Samsung Galaxy Store crowd is not famous for that kind of patience.
CONCLUSION
Install Zanthium if you want a free, no-strings fortune-teller on a Samsung phone and you're done in two minutes. Skip it if you wanted a horoscope companion with daily cards, journaling, or a personality. For the indie scale it's working at, it does the job it set itself — but the job is small.