MTG Scanner User Reviews

Customer Experience

Positive experience44.4% of reviews
Neutral11.8% of reviews
Negative experience43.8% of reviews

~ Based on 322 written reviews from the US App Store.

What users say

Is MTG Scanner Safe?

MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield appears safe based on user ratings. AppsHunter Safety Score for MTG Scanner is 92/100.

This assessment is based on 3,742 user ratings, with an App Store average of 4.6/5.

Safety Analysis

91.1% of ratings point to a safe experience
3.3% of ratings suggest some concerns
5.6% of ratings point to a risky experience

~ Based on 3,742 App Store ratings for MTG Scanner.

Is MTG Scanner Legit?

MTG Scanner - Dragon Shield appears to be a legitimate app. AppsHunter Legitimacy Score for MTG Scanner is 100/100.

Based on 100 of 100 points across 7 verification signals from App Store and developer data.

Top reviews

Scanner is Fixed

You have the scan the card by lining up two boxes perfectly. It has to be at a certain height. Kinda annoying if you’re using your card scanner box, it won’t work. You can’t scan the card because your phone has to be 2 inches from the card. If I have to manually hold the card and my phone, the app isn’t really designed for streamlined methods, I would just rather manually type it in and search that way. Rendering the scanner useless.
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Boo!!!

This App WAS Phenomenal!
They moved everything to Sorted, which is horrible!
I moved my collection to Mana Box which is superior!

Good fundamentals but lacking certain features

Card scanning is really fast and accurate and the organisation systems are pretty good.
Needs feature to allow adding cards straight from collection to decks.
Needs would be nice if we could save the actual photographs of the cards to ensure buyers can inspect condition before purchase.
Needs feature to allow sorting by set and add to set based folders.
Without these features it is not worth the price.
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Phenomenal! A+++

The Scanner in this app works so well that it will even identify cards in a Manga book! I have been reading a series of manga called "Destroy All Humans! They Can't Be Regenerated" which centers on MTG in the late 1990's. The books are a story of players that play MTG in Japan and the culture of MTG at the time and depict actual cards from MTG. The cards in the book are in black and white and sometimes too small difficult to discern what card is being shown. This app will scan and identify the card in spite of these differences. The only time I ever have trouble scanning a card is when there is too much glare.
I also use it to keep inventory of my cards, which is easy to do since I don't have to type any cards in, I just scan and save!
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Scanner is troublesome

The scanner has a huge problem with scanning cards with a lot of black in them. Seems to just fail randomly when scanning cards. You can line the thing up perfectly, clearly able to see all the text and it won’t scan. Go with manabox, you’ll be much happier.

requiring a mandatory account

last update just deleted my collection and inventory where I used to track my personal collection and expensive card prices and it is forcing me to create an account

Gescante Karten verschwunden

Ich habe mehrere Stunden Karten gescant und meiner Sammlung in verschiedenen Ordnern hinzugefügt. Alle gescanten Karten sind aus den Ordnern verschwunden und sind nicht mehr Teil meiner Sammlung. Absolute Zeitverschwendung.

Quick but confusing

The scanner quickly picks up most cards even in sleeves, the UI is sleek, and I like how it integrates the card art into its aesthetic. However, I have two major gripes.

The lack of integration between the deck scanner and collection scanner is a major oversight. Scanning a card in the deck section should add it to the collection automatically if it’s not already present. I tried to get around having to scan cards twice using the export/import feature, but get an error when trying to import the app’s own exported file to the collection.

My second issue is the lack of deck customization. Either I’m missing something or the app does not allow me to designate a deck type—commander, modern, legacy, etc. This seems like a missed opportunity to support players who enjoy different formats.

I was looking forward to the shop integration, but without these basic features of deck management I think I’ll need to look elsewhere.
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best sleeves, but no format

The app has extreme format/display issues when browsing the library. Cards regularly overlap, then as you scroll down further, undo the overlap, pushing you back up somehow. Extremely annoying to use, can‘t see prices most of the time, nor read card effects. App was used in vertical screen if that helps identifying issues.
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Glitch or intentional paywall model?

Was the best app. Supper fast and only gave me an ad between every 6-12 scans. No big deal.

But now there seems to be a glitch where I will scan one card, then try to scan the next but the first one pops up automatically again. The app will do this again and again until the ad appears.
Only after the ad can I scan a follow-up card.

So I'm basically getting an ad after every single card scan in the form of a glitch that repeats one scan multiple times over.

Been using it for years but this kills it for me. Need to find another scanner.
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Depressed to write this

This app used to work great, I used it for years and recommended it to everyone I could. Unfortunately it’s gone down hill over the last year. As of right now I have had a support ticket open for a month, requesting updates regarding my problem weekly. I heard back once and responded back in a hour to try to fix a problem that has made the app virtually unusable for me, and got no reply. At this point dragon shield has lost my faith and support
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Meh

They fixed the problem where you can’t enter new cards. We pay good money for this app, the updates shouldn’t break it! List of remaining problems:
Bulk scanner can’t handle black cards. Expect to use the pro scanner separately.
Bulk scanner auto corrects the first entry of a card in the database, resulting in the wrong artwork most of the time.
Database of cards often lags a few weeks behind release. Promos, variants, etc always take a long time to get updated.
Bulk scanner is glitchy, sometimes it won’t recognize a new card, sometimes it goes nuts adding copies of the same card until you intervene.
Bulk scanner can’t recognize anything that deviates slightly from an old time frame. So sagas, showcases, full art, most of these will have to be scanned separately.
Token support lags way behind the main set, sometimes by weeks.
Double sided cards are broken now. Flip button does nothing.
For a subscription app, I expect better. Guess it beats Excel.
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Premium Not working

My wife and I are using the app to scan our collection. We have paid for premium and it says that it is good until March 1st but we keep getting notifications that we should try premium and bulk scan will not work. It was fine 3 weeks ago, now in the last couple of weeks it has not worked. We have tried resetting phone, logging out/logging in, restore purchases and noting works.
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Best collection/scanner

Really good at scanning cards and keeping track of your collection. I refuse to use any other card app!

Broken

Ever since the last update, cannot add any cards, the button to add a card just brings up the folder controls. App is useless right now

Increasing Performance Issues

This app started out really well and I’ve recommended it a bunch! In the last 6 months to a year, however, there has been a great increase of random crashes and scanning issues. I’m writing this now because the app has crashed on me at least 15 times over the past hour or so, on top of the scanner getting stuck on the last-scanned card until restarting. I’m on an iPhone SE 2020 but iOS is up to date and I didn’t have any of these issues starting out, so I’m very disappointed in how the app has developed.
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Missing the mark with the scanner.

It can identify cards really well, but can do a quick scan like ManaBox.

App Buggt

Eigentlich eine super App. In letzter Zeit buggt sie bei mir jedoch ordentlich. Nachdem ich eine Karte gescannt habe, wird immer wieder dieselbe Karte erkannt, obwohl eine neue Karte darunterliegt. Ich habe die App bereits gelöscht und erneut heruntergeladen, das hat den Fehler aber nicht behoben. Vielleicht können mir ja die Entwickler weiterhelfen. Wenn der Bug gefixt ist, ist das eine 5-Sterne-App.
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Filters doesn’t work

Paid subscription is worthless given the filters doesn’t work properly.

Incomplete for an European collector

When will this app detect card language??? And choose price source (like card market)