Deckforger vs Card Binder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Deckforger
Easily create and manage decks for your favorite trading card game. Search for cards, view their details, and analyze your deck's statistics. Includes a life counter for two players and the ability to test sample hands.
- Deck creation and management
- Extensive card search filters
- 2-player life counter
- Card statistics analysis
- Sample hand and mulligan testing
- Up-to-date card database
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A simple deck-building app for your favorite trading card game. Simply create a deck, search for cards, and add them to the deck. Includes a 2-player life counter. View details on any card and search by name, rules text, type, color, cost, set, format, and more. Share your deck via e-mail, message, and more. Check out statistics on your deck by its cards' colors, types, and cost. Draw sample hands and test mulligans. Look up card rulings and prices. Card database always up to date. 100% free. No ads, no in-app purchases.
Card Binder
Manage your Magic The Gathering card collection by scanning and saving cards. View detailed card information, build and validate decks, and track card prices in real-time. Your collection syncs across devices and can be exported.
- Scan and save cards to collection
- Real-time card price checking
- Detailed card information (legality, editions)
- Build and validate decks
- Commander deck support
- Cross-device collection syncing
- Export collection to CSV
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The ultimate Magic The Gathering app. Quickly scan and save all your cards into your Binder collection, check each card price in real-time. You will be able to see a lot of details for each card: legality, all the card editions, first appearance date, and more! Features: - Build your collection quickly scanning all your cards. - Explore card details including the legality, price, editions, and much more. - Build amazing decks with support for sideboard and maybeboard. - Support for commander decks. - Validate your deck and ensure it is legal for any format. - All content is live and automatically updated. - Collection stored and shared between all your IOS devices. - Search for any card, even if it is not in your collection. - Get to know more cards using the explore tab. It will show random cards to you. - No adds, forever. - Dark mode support. - Export and share your collection using .csv files. If you have any question or feedback we'd love to hear from you at support@cardbinderapp.com
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Card Binder at 4.5 against Deckforger's 3.8. Card Binder also leads on ratings volume (537 vs 17). Deckforger's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (10.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, update cadence and ads there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Card Binder sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Deckforger asks for nothing beyond the download.
Card Binder holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Binder has 537 ratings behind it against 17, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 67% of Deckforger's written reviews are positive against 59% of Card Binder's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Deckforger ships an update fortnightly, Card Binder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 1, 2026 and September 18, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Deckforger | Card Binder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.8 (17 ratings) | 4.5 (537 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews — better | 59.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 17 | 537 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 10.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 32 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Gabriele Pregadio | Nicolas Yuste Tirados |
Customer experience
Deckforger
Card Binder
Bugs and requests
Deckforger
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Card Binder
Reported bugs
4 issues- Inability to recognize certain card names
- Disappearing foil card data
- Deck building issues with commander cards
- Inconsistent set recognition
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to filter cards by set
- Option to add custom tags to cards
- Bulk card addition to decks
- Wishlist functionality
- Improved sorting and organization tools
In-app purchases
Deckforger
No in-app purchases
Card Binder
- Space for 100 cards$0.99
- Space for 1000 cards$4.99
