Stack Master vs Scan Cards
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Stack Master
Master your favorite card stacks with this mobile training application. It offers multiple training modes and challenges to analyze your weaknesses and improve your learning curve. Supports various pre-set and custom stacks.
- Multiple training modes
- 18 funny challenges
- Supports pre-set stacks
- Create custom stacks
- Publish scores and compare with friends
- Specialized training modules
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Stack Master is a stack training application. To learn a stack, best option from my perspective, are the flash cards. There are some awesome flash cards applications but I wanted something "stack oriented", easy and fun, that runs on my mobile phone ; a simple mobile application that analyzes my weaknesses and "trains" me accordingly, remembering my "weak cards" and my learning curve. Stack Master offers you to study your stack without pain, using 9 clever training modes and 18 funny challenges. Stack Master supports multiple stacks (Mnemonica, Aronson, Osterlind, Redford, Si-stebbins, Rix...) and you can add and create custom ones, directly from the application. You can even publish your score challenges and compare them with those of your friends! Besides the 18 funny challenges and the 4 training modules, 5 special training modules are available as well: * "The core", if you bought this nice routine of Pitt Hartling, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Perfect hit", if you wish to improve your practice of effects like "Mnemonicosis" of the master Juan Tamariz, then this module is for you. * "Miracaan", if you bought this nice ACAAN of Dorian Caudal, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Decimals of Pi", if you bought this effect of Vincent Hedan, you'll be able to train yourself with this dedicated module. * "Sandbox", if you only need to experiment something with a virtual deck of cards, be my guest!
Scan Cards
This app simulates a magic trick where your smartphone appears to analyze a deck of cards. It can reveal the number of face-down cards, count specific card colors, and even identify exceptions in a mixed deck.
- Simulates card deck analysis
- Reveals number of face-down cards
- Counts cards by color
- Identifies specific card exceptions
- Performs brain reading illusions
- Counts cards in spectator's hand
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ScanCards App allows you to make a magic trick that gives the illusion of turning your smartphone into a card game analyzer, filling in data that seem impossible to obtain normally: A deck of cards is mixed and handed out to a spectator who is asked, out of sight (under the table) to cut the deck as much as he wants. Then the spectator will have to take three cards, one after the other, from the top or at the bottom of the deck and put them back UPSIDE DOWN in various places in the package. The deck of cards is then placed back in its case, and the smartphone is placed on its case. A "scan" button is visible on the screen. After clicking on a scanning animation appears and, 5 seconds later, the button "results" appears in turn. The screen displays the following sentence "There has three cards face down. " Then on the next screen we discover three cards, and it turns out that the three cards match those that were put face up. The magician offers to renew the experience by mixing the game so as to get cards with their faces up and cards with their faces down. The viewer does it by random cuts and then mixes the deck to get faces up and faces down. The result is an absolute chaos of cards, some with their faces up others with their faces down. The same smartphone is placed on the deck of cards. The "scan" and "results" buttons are pressed in turns and we discover a first sentence on the screen: "There are 19 cards face down". We check the cards whose faces are down and it matches. Another click on the screen will show a new sentence: "There are 9 black cards". We check and indeed it is the case. With again another click, a new sentence will show up: "All the red cards are number cards" We check and we realize that there are only cards with numbers, apart from a face who is the queen of hearts. Then, one last final,click on the screen will display"Except the queen of hearts". with the version 2 you can count the card in the hand of the spectator and read in the brain with your smartphone End of the card trick !
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Scan Cards at $12.99 against Stack Master's $24.99. Scan Cards also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 83%) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). Stack Master's advantage is chart position (#200 vs unranked) and iOS requirement (11.0 vs 13.0). On ads, in-app purchases, monetization model and device support 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
Stack Master costs $24.99 and Scan Cards $12.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
Stack Master ships an update every 3 weeks, Scan Cards every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 7, 2026 and September 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Stack Master | Scan Cards |
|---|---|---|
| Price | $24.99 | $12.99 — better |
| Rating | 3.8 (9 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Paid | Paid |
| Best chart rank | #200 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 11.0 — better | 13.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 36 MB | 89 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Devious-Monkey | sebastien macak |
Customer experience
Stack Master
Scan Cards
In-app purchases
Stack Master
No in-app purchases
Scan Cards
No in-app purchases









