Comparison

Gauntlet vs LoreScan

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

LoreScan

Features
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Scan a Lorcana card. See what it's worth. Keep your whole collection valued, live. LoreScan is an independent, unofficial card scanner and price checker for the Disney Lorcana trading card game. It runs entirely on your iPhone. Point the camera at any card, from The First Chapter to the newest set, and get the card, its number, rarity, ink and market value in about a second. No scan limits. No account. Nothing leaves your phone. WHY COLLECTORS PICK LORESCAN • Unlimited scanning. No daily caps. • Honest prices: TCGplayer market values for every card, refreshed on our own feed, with a price history that grows every day. • Recognition trained on thousands of real card photos, on-device. Works through binder sleeves, on foils and Enchanted cards. • Private by design: no login, no cloud, no tracking. WHAT YOU GET • Card value and price for every English card, plus 7-day, 1-month and 3-month charts. • Collection tracker: your binder valued live, set by set, with what you own and what's missing. • Set completion for every set and promo, from The First Chapter to Attack of the Vine! and Illumineer's Quest, Enchanted cards included, with what it costs to finish each set. • Filters by ink, rarity and set. Search by name, character or number. • Storybook: every Disney story in the game, with the characters you've collected, the ones still to find and the card you choose for each one. • Share cards: a clean image of your pull with its price, ready for Instagram and TikTok. • Price alerts and a Sunday recap: what you added, what moved and what your collection is worth. • Widgets with your collection value on the Home Screen. • iPhone Duo: closed, it scans; open, your collection becomes a binder, every set a page. LORESCAN PRO (optional) • Burst Mode: scan card after card, no stopping. Every card lands in your collection with its price. • Price history: 6-month and 1-year charts, growing every day. The scanner, prices and collection work without Pro. Pro is an auto-renewable subscription, monthly or yearly. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://lorcanascan-data.netlify.app/ LEGAL LoreScan is an independent, fan-made app created by a collector. It is not affiliated with, endorsed, sponsored or approved by Disney or Ravensburger. Disney Lorcana, its logo, characters, card names and artwork are trademarks and copyrights of Disney Enterprises, Inc., used under license by Ravensburger. The name "Lorcana" is used only to describe which cards the app recognizes. Card images are shown solely to identify the cards in your collection. Rights holders can reach us at lorescan@hotmail.com.

Screenshots

Gauntlet4 screens
LoreScan4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Gauntlet at none against LoreScan's 2. Gauntlet also leads on update cadence (weekly vs monthly) and iOS requirement (16.4 vs 26.0). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. LoreScan sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Gauntlet asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Gauntlet ships an update weekly, LoreScan monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Gauntlet versus LoreScan: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterGauntletLoreScan
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (309 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews83.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings309 — better—
Update frequencyWeekly — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS16.4 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size18 MB28 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperScott CampbellLucas Alvarenga

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

LoreScan

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

None

Gauntlet

No in-app purchases

2 purchases

LoreScan

Subscriptions2
  • Pro Monthly$4.991 Month
  • Pro Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year

Questions

Is Gauntlet free?
Gauntlet is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is LoreScan free?
LoreScan is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Gauntlet or LoreScan have ads?
Neither Gauntlet nor LoreScan shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Gauntlet or LoreScan?
Gauntlet ships an update weekly, and LoreScan monthly. Most recently, Gauntlet was updated on October 25, 2026 and LoreScan on October 31, 2026.

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