# Baseball Card Viewer — user reviews > 33 indexed App Store user reviews of Baseball Card Viewer by Strat-O-Matic, rated 2.07/5 from 30 ratings. - Source: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baseball-card-viewer/id1200443312/reviews - App overview in markdown: https://appshunter.io/ios/app/baseball-card-viewer/id1200443312.md - Rating breakdown: 5★ 4 · 4★ 3 · 3★ 2 · 2★ 3 · 1★ 18 ## Newest reviews (12 of 33) ### 1/5 — Gouging your customers *2021-04-22* It’s amazing to me that this app is $5 per month or the bargain price of $50 per year. This despite the fact that every year customers spend $50-$100 on the new game and the old seasons. Just can’t believe the lack of respect for those who have been most loyal. I purchase card images for the computer game, yet I can’t get them on my phone unless I pay $50 more per year? Really ridiculous. ### 2/5 — Way too expensive *2018-04-01* Come on Strat. Spend around $100 or so every year for computer software and updated rosters, now looking to charge us another $50 to have digital copies of our cards? Outrageous. Really taking advantage of your loyal community. That being said, app seems good quality, if a bit cumbersome. ### 1/5 — Quick trigger on upcharges *2018-03-30* Only had the app installed 5 minutes before it hit me with a pop up window and looked to have me sign up for a very expensive annual or monthly deal. Strat is usually an expensive product, but this seems much harsher than usual. Waited a long time to see them with a quality mobile option, such a shame it is a bait and switch right out of the gate. Quite a disappointment because some of the features seemed worth exploring. ### 1/5 — App Not Accurate &Strat Refuses to fix game *2017-06-10, version 1.0.0* Cards are not accurate. J Jay of Chicago currently has a HR roll against RHP but has not hit one so far this year. Also, what good is it when stratomatic refuses to invest in fixing their Windows game. Year after year they say they are working on it. Buy buy this for $50.00 per year. They have as much chance of me doing that as I have of them fixing their lousy product. ### 1/5 — App isn't "free" *2017-06-04, version 1.0.0* What a joke.. you have to pay now for either a monthly or yearly subscription?? That doesn't sound free to me!! Already deleted!! ### 2/5 — Cool app, should be free *2017-06-02* I really enjoyed this when it was free, but after downloading it I was informed that they were going to start charging. I don't appreciate the bait and switch. And since its just a reference I don't think they should be charging. Realistically no one is going to roll a game of Strat using this app. It's too cumbersome for that. I really liked looking up seasons and players and checking out stats (like the pre 87 steal numbers that were updated for Advance!), i was looking for seasons to purchase. And now I can't. Coupled with the outrageous prices they charge for shipping, I wonder if Strat just assumes that they can gouge their community. This is a really great tool to introduce people to Strat, but charging for it doesn't make sense. ### 1/5 — Out-of-app Purchases! Beware! *2017-05-31, version 1.0.0* I'm a casual/lapsed Strat player and I downloaded the app figuring that, as no in-app purchases were noted, this would be a great way to check out and remember cards I've played with that are boxed in storage. Well... to see even one card, you get pushed to the SOM website, where you must pay for a subscription - either $4.99/month or $49.99/year. So, don't be deceived into thinking this is a free app, because it's not. Hey, SOM, people have to buy a set to get all the charts, and have to have the seasons to get ballpark factors and what-not. $50 for a year of rights to just look at cards is pretty savagely steep. I'm still a Strat fan but I'm no fan of this app! At least be up front and let people know they'll be expected to shell out more money to get any sort of use out of the app!!! ### 2/5 — What's the point? *2017-05-31, version 1.0.0* I love Strat but I'm not sure why I should pay money to look at cards without being able to play with them. About the app itself, it's really laggy with lots of long load times (to load a simple image, not sure what's going on there). It crashes a lot. It plays a sound effect on loading, which pauses anything you're already listening to. Cards for players with lots of positions cut off some of the important fielding info. Lots of players have listings for lineouts without the corresponding fielder reference. Some stat lines don't match the stats (I noticed 19th century players with slugging percentages equal to BA even though they hit doubles). Basically a ton of stuff that could use work and not much appeal for me. It's a nice idea but the appeal wears off quickly because it doesn't really have a function. ### 1/5 — I would love to try this… *2017-05-24, version 1.0.0* …but it says my username or password is invalid, which, after testing it, I know to be untrue. ### 1/5 — Can't Log In *2017-05-24, version 1.0.0* Keep getting invalid user ID and password where it works just fine on their website. Very disappointed ### 1/5 — "User name already in use" *2017-05-24, version 1.0.0* Won't allow me to create a username b/c it says it is already in use. Once this bug gets fixed and I'm allowed on, can't wait to use! ### 1/5 — Crash *2017-05-23, version 1.0.0* Really looking forward to this app but it is currently freezing on the initial splash screen. Please fix. ## Most critical reviews (10 lowest-rated) ### 1/5 — Great when I could access it *2025-04-19* Even though I pay for this, I no longer am able to access it, as I constantly get a user error message when trying to log in. This, despite continually resetting my password. Beyond frustrating. ### 1/5 — Can’t log in most of the time *2024-12-28* The app crashes regularly. Great when it works but the quality is poor. Terrible customer service. Don’t waste your money. ### 1/5 — App never works *2024-08-14* Constantly crashes and log in never works. DO NOT PURCHASE CARD VIEWER! It’s not worth it! ### 1/5 — Awful *2024-06-21* The app would be amazing if the developers weren’t busy eating crayons. Bought a subscription and less than 24 hours and it won’t let me login. What a complete joke ### 1/5 — Bad *2024-06-16* The app crashes regularly. Great when in work but the quality is poor. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2024-06-16* Terrible app. Half the time I can’t log in. Customer support is a joke. Hasn’t been updated in years. ### 1/5 — Issue with the card viewer *2023-01-21* iPhone 7 user: On the landscape card view, the useless green banner at the top of the screen blocks 20% of the screen, which cuts off the bottom portion of the cards. I can’t even scroll to see more of the card. Looks like 1 month and done for me. ### 1/5 — Terrible *2022-05-29* I paid for an annual plan but can only “see” two seasons when they promised that you can see every card ever made. Repeated emails to their tech support go answered. This is rip-off. ### 1/5 — Works just fine... oh wait no it doesn’t. *2021-11-26* So I bought a subscription on my phone and use this app on my phone and it works just fine. But not on the tablet? Doesn’t make any sense to me. ### 1/5 — Not good *2021-11-19* Got the new update today,and now everything is oversized and can see the fielding ratings ## Most praised reviews (10 highest-rated) ### 5/5 — Great research app *2017-05-31, version 1.0.0* Instead of getting a whole season you can look up the teams you like. ### 5/5 — Classic *2017-05-29* What a way to see the teams you missed because you were too cool and in college or something. Welcome to my life 01 Mariners. So many things to do. Long live Strat ### 5/5 — A gift from the Strat gods! *2017-05-25* For those of us who still play with cards and dice, this is amazing! I can now play with Negro League and Nippon League guys for whom physical cards have not been released. ### 5/5 — Draft League Team on iPhone! *2017-05-23* Just downloaded the app and loaded my draft league team into it. The card presentation is awesome! I will never be without my SOM league cards again! A bit of overlap of on-screen text between player names and stats when in list view, but nothing to dissuade me from loving the app! BTW, if you're looking for a face-to-face league to join in the Chicago area, check out CAABL on the Strat-O-Matic website's league registry! ### 5/5 — I'm first to review it! *2017-05-23, version 1.0.0* Looks really cool! Looking forward to subscribing. A must for Strat fans! ### 5/5 — Pretty cool! *2017-05-23* Just a first glance but pretty awesome. Can view any card from any set. Also from a baseball perspective I can look up basic stats for any player for a particular season with great ease. Lots of great search features. Love that I can view Passed Ball, Wild Pitch/Balk ratings for cards/sets that I own, but are not printed with those values. Strat-o may have hit a grand slam with this app. I'll have to dive in deeper now. Not sure what happens after the "free" first week trial. ### 3/5 — Your app needs some work *2022-04-05* I won’t go into the cost aspect of the app because it is what it is. With that said, if you charge customers per month to use your app it needs to work well. The app constantly crashes and frequently just won’t find any players / won’t load anyone in the search feature. It would also be nice if basic card info was available. ### 3/5 — Lots of problems *2022-01-22* It’s nice having all the info of all these rosters on the app. But the app is clunky. It runs slow. Many times, the swipe feature fails to work for whatever reason. And the biggest issue is that as of 2 months ago, the text doesn’t even fit on the cards in the card viewer. Either hits runs off the bottom or player/position info runs off the top. They should probably fix this. ### 2/5 — Updates? *2025-03-10* When will it Update? I like the ability to look at cards, but I still don’t see the updated cards for the newest releases. Is it necessary to uninstall and reinstall? This app is one I keep, but it never gets any better with regard to issues it sometimes has. ### 2/5 — Fun when options are available *2024-01-11* This app is great when it works but some menu options are not available and can take several weeks to resolve. “Match-up selection” will often not show results for the players selected. Definitely needs a software update. --- *Data collected daily from the US App Store and indexed by [AppsHunter](https://appshunter.io/). User reviews are verbatim App Store reviews. Ratings, prices and chart positions refresh continuously; this snapshot is from 2026-06-10.*