Comparison

Gauntlet vs TacRight

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

TacRight

Streamline your business operations by creating detailed quotes, managing jobs from start to finish, and generating professional invoices. Track expenses, labor, and profit with AI-assisted receipt scanning and a comprehensive material catalog. Gain valuable business insights to optimize performance.

Highlights
  • Detailed quote building
  • Job tracking from quote to completion
  • Professional PDF generation
  • Expense recording with AI receipt scanning
  • Material and fastener catalog
  • Labor and profit tracking
  • Business insights and performance review
Features
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With TacRight, you can: • Build detailed quotes using labour, materials, expenses, tax, and profit • Turn approved quotes into active jobs • Track jobs from quote to completion • Generate professional quote and invoice PDFs • Save customer information for future work • Record expenses and scan receipts with AI-assisted extraction • Search a regional material and fastener catalogue • Track labour hours, costs, and projected profit • Customize your currency and tax rate • Review business insights and job performance Material prices, tax calculations, currency conversions, and AI-generated information should always be reviewed before use. TacRight handles the paperwork so you can spend more time fabricating and less time managing spreadsheets. Terms of Use (Apple Standard EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ TacRight Terms of Use: https://tacright.ca/terms/ Privacy Policy: https://tacright.ca/privacy/

Screenshots

Gauntlet4 screens
TacRight4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gauntlet at none against TacRight's 4. Gauntlet also leads on rating (4.9 vs 4.5) and ratings volume (309 vs 4). TacRight's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 83%). On price, update cadence, 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. TacRight sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per 7 days. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Gauntlet holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Gauntlet has 309 ratings behind it against 4, 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 TacRight's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gauntlet ships an update weekly, TacRight every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Gauntlet versus TacRight: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGauntletTacRight
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (309 ratings) — better4.5 (4 ratings)
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings309 — better4
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFreemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS16.415.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB91 MB
Age rating4+17+
DeveloperScott CampbellRYLEN LEO THOMPSON

Customer experience

Gauntlet

All ratings299 ratings
Positive97.7%
Neutral1.0%
Negative1.3%
Written reviews30 reviews
Positive83.3%
Neutral6.7%
Negative10.0%

TacRight

All ratings4 ratings
Positive75.0%
Neutral25.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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

TacRight

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gauntlet

No in-app purchases

4 purchases

TacRight

Subscriptions4
  • TacRight Pro Weekly3 Days trial$2.997 Days
  • TacRight Pro Monthly3 Days trial$9.991 Month
  • TacRight Pro Monthly3 Days trial$14.991 Month
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  • TacRight Pro Annual3 Days trial$99.991 Year

Questions

Is Gauntlet free?
Gauntlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is TacRight free?
TacRight is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Gauntlet or TacRight?
Gauntlet is rated higher. Gauntlet averages 4.9 out of 5 from 309 ratings, while TacRight averages 4.5 from 4 ratings.
Do Gauntlet or TacRight have ads?
Neither Gauntlet nor TacRight shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gauntlet or TacRight?
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, and TacRight every 4 days. Most recently, Gauntlet was updated on October 25, 2026 and TacRight on October 26, 2026.

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