Bugko vs MoxDraft
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Bugko
This fan-made app serves as an all-in-one companion for Magic: The Gathering players and judges. It offers news aggregation, spoiler alerts, deck building tools, and an offline card database with pricing. It also includes specialized features for judges, such as rule references and timers.
- News aggregation from 40+ sources
- Spoiler alerts with push notifications
- Offline card database with syntax search
- Card pricing from TCGPlayer and Cardmarket
- Life counter for 2-8 players
- Deck builder with winning decklists
- Tools for MTG judges (IPG, MTR, timers)
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Bugko is an unofficial app (fan made) all-in-one companion app designed for Magic: The Gathering (MTG) players and judges. Bugko focused on offering unique core features such as news aggregation, spoiler alert, tournament deck list update, card syntax search and many more. Other familiar features like life counter, wish list, collection tracker, offline card search, random card, comprehensive rule, deck building are also built inside Bugko for a complete experience. Bugko will be the first modern designed MTG app you will truly enjoy. Bugko is the only app that bring together all favorite MTG, MTGO and Arena news sources into one place. News channel currently available including Channel Fireball, MTG Goldfish, Mythic Spoiler, Star City Games and 40+ news sources. You can scroll through all news and spoilers happening right now once you open the app. With push notification in app, you surely will never miss a single important news update from your favorite news channels. Latest spoiled card? Bugko got you covered. Bugko is built with a powerful yet offline accessible cards database. You can choose to search through 30,000+ cards using our blazing fast syntax search designed for power users or simply use the search filter available with user friendly interface. With latest card pricing directly from TCGPlayer and Cardmarket, you can check, buy, trade, or track your collection wherever you are. Are you a Magic judge? Bugko has tools specially designed for judges. Scripted draft timer, Infraction Procedure Guide (IPG) reference, Magic Tournament Rule (MTR) document, offline comprehensive rule with complete search functionality inside etc. Many of the features in Bugko are carefully designed to cater to the needs of judges as well. For example, an offline card database, card text in multiple languages, judge blog or news update and more. Great for judges that travel around the world for events. Features: - Latest MTG news and spoiler from 40+ popular news channels with notification alert. - Life counter support 2-8 players, 15 different counters, counter changes history, mana pool and modern design. - Offline complete database including all latest cards printed, promo cards, 11+ printed languages, 20+ formats banlist, card rulings, reserved list and etc. - Powerful card search engine that support syntax search, 25+ card properties filter, random card and etc. - Latest card pricing including all promo cards, foil cards, different art variety directly from TCGPlayer or Cardmarket. - Auto currency converter available in 30+ currencies. - Track your collection, trading and wish list with up-to-date price wherever you go. - Deck builder with winning decklist from Standard, Modern and Legacy formats. - Tools for judges like offline searchable comprehensive rule, MTG, IPG, quick reference, scripted draft timer, decklist counter, offline documents and etc. Disclaimer: Magic: The Gathering (also known as MTG) card design, text, images, expansions, and symbols are trademark and copyright of Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, LLC. Bugko is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored, or specifically approved by Wizards of the Coast LLC.
MoxDraft
Enhance your Magic: the Gathering draft strategy with this app. It provides data-driven insights into card performance, popular archetypes, and format understanding through visualizations. Perfect for players looking to improve their drafting skills.
- Card exploration
- Card performance comparison
- Archetype learning
- Format understanding
- Data visualizations
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Perfect your Magic: the Gathering draft skills! - Explore the cards - Compare card performance - Learn the archetypes - Understand the format with data and visualizations Powered by 17Lands and Scryfall
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: MoxDraft at none against Bugko's shown. MoxDraft also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 73%) and monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). Bugko's advantage is ratings volume (89 vs 7) and update cadence (every 2 weeks vs every 5 weeks). On price, in-app purchases 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
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MoxDraft holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Bugko has 89 ratings behind it against 7, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 73% of Bugko's written reviews are positive against 100% of MoxDraft's.
Bugko ships an update every 2 weeks, MoxDraft every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on September 22, 2026 and August 15, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Bugko | MoxDraft |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (89 ratings) | 5.0 (7 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 73.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 89 — better | 7 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 weeks — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, Mac |
| Requires iOS | 13.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 498 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Keng Siang Ooi | Harley Thomas |
Customer experience
Bugko
MoxDraft
In-app purchases
Bugko
No in-app purchases
MoxDraft
No in-app purchases
