Fortune Apps Are Already Selling You 2027

Korea's Jeomsin PRO pushed an update on the morning of Oct. 21 (Beijing time) that opens its 2027 New Year fortune and swaps "2026" for "2027" in the app's name. Two days earlier, Hellobot, a Korean fortune app with more than 125,000 ratings, shipped its own 2027 reading. Apps in Vietnam, Brazil and the English-language App Store did the same in mid-October.

New Year's Day is more than two months away. In saju, the Korean name for BaZi, the new year doesn't start until Ipchun, the solar term that falls around Feb. 4, which is more than three months off. In several apps the year is now the loudest part of the name, and the yearly reading itself is changing shape: some now come as a book with a cover and chapters, some can be played like audio, and some mark good and bad days one by one. None of the apps has shared sales figures or said why it moved this early. What follows is what their store pages show.

In Korea, the year shows up in the name first. Hellobot has already renamed itself "Hellobot: 2027 New Year Fortune, Saju, Tarot," and its listing claims 3.16 million users to date. IPAPAS, which makes saju and compatibility apps, has added "2027" to the names of four of them, including Jeongtong Saju, which has more than 5,000 ratings. The Jeomsin family is moving at two speeds: the PRO edition has switched to 2027, while the main app, with more than 110,000 ratings, still carried "2026" in its name on the morning of Oct. 21.

Hellobot sells 2027 by the day. Its Oct. 19 release notes say the new reading mixes saju with spirit divination, lets you check which days are lucky and which to avoid one day at a time, and adds an in-depth consultation once a month. Just as prominent on the listing: love readings that promise to work out a wedding date and the neighborhood where you might meet the person.

Others are turning the year into a book. Sajuworld, a Korean birth-chart calendar app, launched its 2027 reading on Sept. 22, and the release notes say next year's themes, money, work, love and study, plus a month-by-month chart, now come in a single volume. Its screenshots lay the reading out as chapters one through seven. The cover has already moved to 2027; the chapter titles in the table-of-contents screenshot still say 2026. LoveLab, a horoscope app sold in several languages, did nearly the same thing on Oct. 17: its Year tab now has a cover, chapters, planetary themes and a calendar of key dates, which the update notes say should feel like "a book written for you."

Some apps will read the year to you. Soulloop, an astrology and meditation app, added its Astroforecast 2027 on Oct. 20, to be read chapter by chapter or played aloud in a calm voice, even with the app in the background. In Vietnam, the Tu Vi app Thai Am renamed itself "Thai Am - Van So Tu Vi 2027" in mid-October and sat at No. 10 on Vietnam's top-grossing Lifestyle chart on Oct. 21. Its screenshots show chart readings in a player with a speed button, like a podcast episode. The Oct. 17 release updated a "Master Tue Minh" feature, which the screenshots show as a timed chat with 28:28 left on the clock. The listing doesn't say whether the master is an AI. Horos 365, which bills itself as "AI Tu Vi," updated its 2027 readings in early October, and Xem Boi, Tuong So, Tu Vi 2027 followed on Oct. 18.

A small Japanese tool keeps a different calendar. Shichu Suimei Kantei Note, a Four Pillars notebook app, added a "fortune of the year" card to the top of its fortune tab on Oct. 19, but says 2027's stem, branch and life-stage readings won't be available until November, and the card will flag the switch at Risshun, the Japanese name for the same early-February solar term. A sister app for sanmeigaku, a Japanese fate system, uses its card to tell users that 2026 through 2027 is a two-year "void" period. Both have two ratings each and, judging by their screenshots, are built for people who cast their own charts and keep notes.

2027 hasn't started, but inside these apps it already has a cover, a table of contents and a narrator. With Ipchun still three months away, that's enough of a book to last from autumn into winter.