Mana Count vs Card Binder
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Mana Count
Track mana and storm counts for card games. Customize visible mana colors and easily reset counts by shaking your device.
- Mana tracking
- Storm count tracking
- Customizable mana colors
- Shake to reset functionality
- Supports multiple mana colors
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Running a storm deck or a deck that floats a lot of mana per turn? Use this app to keep track of any color of mana or storm count that you use. Control which colors appear in the Settings app, and simply shake the device to reset them at the end of the turn.
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 Mana Count's 3.6. Card Binder also leads on ratings volume (537 vs 9) and update cadence (every 3 weeks vs every 2 months). Mana Count's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2) and iOS requirement (9.0 vs 17.6). On price, review sentiment, ads 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. Card Binder sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. Mana Count asks for nothing beyond the download.
Card Binder holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 3.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Binder has 537 ratings behind it against 9, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 57% of Mana Count's written reviews are positive against 59% of Card Binder's.
Mana Count ships an update every 2 months, Card Binder every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 9, 2026 and October 14, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mana Count | Card Binder |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (9 ratings) | 4.5 (537 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews | 59.4% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 9 | 537 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 2 months | Every 3 weeks — better |
| 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 | 9.0 — better | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 17 MB | 132 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Brandon Slaght | Nicolas Yuste Tirados |
Customer experience
Mana Count
Card Binder
Bugs and requests
Mana Count
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
Mana Count
No in-app purchases
Card Binder
- Space for 100 cards$0.99
- Space for 1000 cards$4.99
