Comparison

Gauntlet vs TrailGlyph

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • 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
Features
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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.

About

TrailGlyph

Design and follow custom running and walking routes, perfect for creating GPS art or repeatable training paths. Save, share, and export your routes with detailed stats and a clean visual presentation.

Highlights
  • Draw custom routes on map
  • Use built-in templates
  • Preview road-network match
  • Create GPS art
  • Save activity records
  • Share routes with friends
  • Export GPX files
Features
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TrailGlyph is a route planner for runners and walkers who want their routes to look as good as they feel. Draw a route on the map, start from a built-in template, preview a road-network match, then head outdoors and follow your design. TrailGlyph helps you plan repeatable routes, create GPS art, save activity records, and share the finished shape with friends. PLAN RUNNING AND WALKING ROUTES Sketch directly on the map or use a template to start faster. Edit points, move the whole shape, resize it, rotate it, and choose whether to save a freeform route or preview a road-network match before saving. TURN ROUTES INTO GPS ART TrailGlyph keeps the creative shape of your route visible from planning to completion. Follow the route outdoors and watch your live GPS trail build toward the design you created. SAVE AND SHARE YOUR ROUTES Review distance, pace, speed, elevation gain, route progress, and the completed route shape. Create a clean share card with route artwork, stats, a link, and a QR code. EXPORT AND REPEAT Export GPX from route details or activity history when you need a portable route file. Friends can open public route pages and, if TrailGlyph is installed, launch the route in the app. TRAILGLYPH PRO TrailGlyph is free to start with monthly limits for route creation, route favorites, template use, and GPX export. TrailGlyph Pro unlocks unlimited use for those features. No account is required. PRIVACY-FIRST BY DESIGN TrailGlyph does not require sign-in. Routes are saved with an anonymous local identity, and activity history is centered on records created by TrailGlyph. TrailGlyph is for runners, walkers, designers, map lovers, and anyone who wants a planned route to become something worth completing and sharing. Terms of Use (EULA): https://trail-glyph.glamdring.work/terms Privacy Policy: https://trail-glyph.glamdring.work/privacy

Screenshots

Gauntlet4 screens
TrailGlyph4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gauntlet at none against TrailGlyph's 2. Gauntlet also leads on ratings volume (309 vs 1). On price, rating, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TrailGlyph sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Gauntlet against 5.0 for TrailGlyph. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gauntlet has 309 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gauntlet ships an update weekly, TrailGlyph every 8 days. The most recent releases landed on November 6, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Gauntlet versus TrailGlyph: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGauntletTrailGlyph
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (309 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings309 — better1
Update frequencyWeekly — betterEvery 8 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB88 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott Campbell博文 徐

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
Show 14 more
  • 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

TrailGlyph

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gauntlet

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

TrailGlyph

Subscriptions2
  • TrailGlyph Pro Monthly$2.991 Month
  • TrailGlyph Pro Yearly7 Days trial$19.991 Year

Questions

Is Gauntlet free?
Gauntlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TrailGlyph free?
TrailGlyph is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gauntlet or TrailGlyph?
TrailGlyph is rated higher. Gauntlet averages 4.9 out of 5 from 309 ratings, while TrailGlyph averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Gauntlet or TrailGlyph have ads?
Neither Gauntlet nor TrailGlyph shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gauntlet or TrailGlyph?
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, and TrailGlyph every 8 days. Most recently, Gauntlet was updated on November 6, 2026 and TrailGlyph on October 31, 2026.

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