Gauntlet vs Scry One
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Gauntlet
This app helps Magic: The Gathering players track game lives, build and customize decks, and record game history. It offers detailed stats for players and decks, supports multiple players, and includes a powerful hand simulator.
- Life tracking for up to 6 players
- Deck building and importing
- Game history and stats
- Hand simulator
- Deck customization with card art
- Deck organization with folders
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Gauntlet is the most feature packed Magic: The Gathering utility app available. It’s a life tracker, deck builder and record keeper of your games. THE BEST LIFE TRACKER: • Select your deck and the decks your opponents are playing. Player tiles will be updated with the cover art of each deck. • Save the results when the game is over. Select a winner, and each player will have their career and deck stats updated immediately. • Full support for up to 6 players with custom life totals, and a turn randomizer to determine who plays first. • Other features include 21 unique tile colours, 15 unique counters, rolling D6, and a game timer. THE BEST MOBILE DECK BUILDER: • Brew on the go or import your decks from other deck building sites. • Customize your deck with art from any card in the multiverse. • Pick a format and your deck screen adapts to show things like your commander or your signature spell. • Bling out the cards in your deck with foils. • Shuffle up and draw an opening 7 with a powerful hand simulator. • Stay ahead of your competition with deck list data. View your mana curve, pip breakdown, and more. • Export your deck lists as text, or share a link to your profile on social media. • Keep your decks organized with folders, and sort them by name, games played, wins, and format. YOUR GAME HISTORY IN DETAIL: • Every game is saved making it easy to go through previous games and see who played, who won, and which decks came to battle. • Track wins and losses for each deck, and see how your career wins and losses change over time. • Follow your friends to stay up-to-date with their latest brews, deck performance, and game history.
Scry One
Display artwork from random Magic: The Gathering cards directly on your homescreen. Customize the displayed art by selecting your preferred playing format. This unofficial fan content app brings your favorite game's visuals to your device.
- Random MTG card art display
- Homescreen widgets
- Format selection for artwork
- Unofficial fan content
- Customizable display
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Simple widgets that display artwork from random Magic: The Gathering cards. Tap and hold on the random card widget to choose the playing format you want to see artwork from. Scry One is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gauntlet at none against Scry One's 4. Gauntlet also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 5 months) and ratings volume (309 vs 8). Scry One's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, 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. Scry One sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.
Gauntlet holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.6. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gauntlet has 309 ratings behind it against 8, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 83% of Gauntlet's written reviews are positive against 100% of Scry One's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, Scry One every 5 months. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gauntlet | Scry One |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (309 ratings) — better | 4.6 (8 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 309 — better | 8 |
| Update frequency | Weekly — better | Every 5 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 15 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Scott Campbell | John Davis |
Customer experience
Gauntlet
Scry One
Bugs and requests
Gauntlet
Reported bugs
5 issues- Developers have seemingly given up (according to one review)
- App ruined for jailbroken phones (iOS 14 and up)
- Board scrolls every time life or counters are moved
- Does not track win-rate for the deck not shown as primary in a match
- App is very small on iPad Pro
Requested features
19 requests- Scan cars to make adding decks easier
- More precise search engine
- Faster card loading times
- Display card prices
- Scan cards in deck building
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- Add Android support
- Add tournament bracket functionality
- Deeper stat tracking
- Leave notes about each deck
- Leave notes about individual cards
- In-app purchases for donations
- Add play test cards
- Better layout for exporting decks to text
- Feature to track win/loss ratios without starting a game
- Option for locking board scrolling
- Android release (mentioned as desired)
- Manual change of player names when playing 'against yourself'
- Add friends who don’t use the app to games
- Add full deck lists
Scry One
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gauntlet
No in-app purchases
Scry One
- Common Tip$0.99
- Uncommon Tip$1.99
- Rare Tip$2.99
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- Mythic Tip$4.99
