The tradition
Palmistry
Nothing here can be checked against the sky, so the honesty has to be in the method — EnteAstro asks rather than asserts, and refuses whole categories of claim outright.
It asks; it does not assert
EnteAstro's guided reading is a structured questionnaire. You look at your own hand and answer eight questions, and it interprets what you reported. Nothing is claimed to have been detected, because nothing was.
Every answer carries its own confidence, sitting beside it rather than buried at the end. “I can't make it out” is offered as plainly as any other answer, and a feature you could not see produces no interpretation at all — a reading with a gap in it is more use than one with a guess in it.
What it will not say
No medical reading. No lifespan. No fertility. No criminality. No mental-health inference. These readings exist in the popular literature and they are not in this product, in any framing.
In particular: the length of the Life Line does not indicate how long anybody will live. It is the single most widely repeated claim in popular palmistry and EnteAstro refuses it explicitly, in the reference data itself, with a test that fails the build if a future edit drops the refusal. The line's arc is read, for vitality and appetite — never its length.
Photographs
A palm photograph is biometric, and EnteAstro treats it that way. You can photograph your palm, and the tracing runs on your own phone — the picture is drawn into a canvas, the pixels are read there, and nothing is uploaded, stored or sent. Closing the screen is the end of it.
It does not work well enough yet, and we would rather say so than let you find out. Tested against two dozen real photographs it produced a usable tracing for four of them — it loses the hand against a pale wall, and it mistakes skin texture and shadow for creases. The approach it was built on cannot be tuned into working, so it is being rebuilt on hand-landmark detection rather than patched.
Until that lands, the guided reading is the one to use. It asks you eight questions about what you can actually see in your own hand, which is how a reading was done for several thousand years before a camera existed, and it is the more honest of the two in any case: you are the one looking at the hand, and where you are unsure it carries the uncertainty rather than smoothing it over.
What the photograph mode is meant to do, and will when it is rebuilt: find the palm inside the hand, follow the creases, and say which of them look like the Heart, Head, Life and Fate lines — then draw them back over your photograph so you can see whether it got them right. It never produces a reading on its own. It fills in the same eight questions as a first draft, and you confirm or correct each one before a word is interpreted.
That distinction is doing real work rather than being modest. Palm lines are low-contrast creases on a curved, shiny surface photographed by whoever is holding the phone, and any honest pipeline over that input is wrong a fair share of the time. On a single open palm, fingers up, in even light, it traces the three major lines well. Held sideways, two hands in frame, or in hard sun, it refuses and tells you how to retake it rather than guessing. The guided questionnaire remains the dependable route and is still what the product recommends.
No staff role can read a palm photograph or a palm reading — the database has no policy that would allow it.