Gauntlet vs Championry
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.
Championry
This companion app helps players of a popular mobile game build the strongest possible teams using only the champions they own. It offers detailed explanations for each team's strategy and suggests optimal champion swaps. The app works offline and is kept up-to-date with new game releases.
- Roster-first team recommendations
- Screenshot roster import
- Plain-English team explanations
- Suggested speed order
- Champion swap functionality
- Offline functionality
- Updated champion data
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An unofficial companion for Raid: Shadow Legends players. Every wiki and tier list assumes you own the meta champions. Real players don't. Tell Championry which champions you actually own and it builds the strongest teams you can field right now, for Clan Boss, Hydra, Dragon, Ice Golem, Spider, Fire Knight, Sand Devil, and Arena, and explains why each team works and what it's missing. • Roster-first: recommendations only ever use champions you own • Hydra: three teams, one per weekly key, with no champion used twice • Import your roster from screenshots of the in-game champion grid, no typing • Plain-English "why it works / what it's missing" on every team, plus a suggested speed order • Tap any team member to swap them for the next best, build around them, or see their skills and aura • Find tab: search your roster for the debuff, buff, or role you're missing • Over 1,000 champions, kept current with new releases • Clan Boss is free; one purchase unlocks Hydra, every dungeon and both Arena modes, including future content • 100% offline. No account, no login, no server, no tracking. Not affiliated with or endorsed by Plarium. All champion data is original, text-only; no game art is used.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gauntlet at none against Championry's 1. Gauntlet also leads on ratings volume (309 vs 1). Championry's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs weekly). On price, rating, 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. Championry sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Gauntlet against 5.0 for Championry. 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.
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, Championry every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 22, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Gauntlet | Championry |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (309 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 83.3% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 309 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 — better | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 20 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 9+ |
| Developer | Scott Campbell | Jason English |
Customer experience
Gauntlet
Championry
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
Championry
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Gauntlet
No in-app purchases
Championry
- Unlock All Content$4.99









