Moxtopper vs MTG Scanner
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Moxtopper
This app helps track life totals and commander damage for multiplayer card games. It supports up to 10 players and offers customizable layouts and digital playmats. Features include turn clocks, AirPlay streaming, and detailed game statistics.
- Life total tracking
- Commander damage tracking
- Supports 1-10 players
- Customizable seating arrangements
- Digital playmats
- Turn clocks
- AirPlay streaming
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No game of Commander is complete without Moxtopper on your table. EASY TO USE • Keep track of every player’s life total with tasty text and chonky buttons. • The user interface is designed to be usable from all viewing directions. Just place your iPhone or iPad in the middle of your play surface and you’re good to go. • Multiple-touch support. Your whole play group can use it at the same time. TRACKS COMMANDER DAMAGE • We know that tracking commander damage is a *huge* pain. With Moxtopper, it couldn’t be easier. At any time a player can swipe horizontally on their play area to see how much commander damage they’ve taken from all the other players’ commanders. • Commander damage is tracked per *commander*, so it works great with partner commanders, too! • If you’re using partner commanders, just swipe down on your play area and press the “Partners” button to toggle partner commander mode on or off. GREAT FOR EVERY PLAY GROUP • Moxtopper is optimized to work great not just for 4 player games, but also for any game of 1 to 10 — yes, ten! — players. That means it’s right at home during one-on-one games of Friday Night Magic as well as gigantic Multiplayer Planechase House Rules Banlist Slugfests. • Configurable with a total of 32 possible seating arrangements so that layout of play areas on the screen always comfortably matches the way your play group likes to sit around the table. UPGRADE YOUR EXPERIENCE • Customize each player’s area with awesome digital “playmats”, similarly to how you are probably rolling out full art playmats on your game table in real life. • Comes with five free digital playmats • Additional digital playmats can be unlocked via in-app purchases, including one that lets you import any photo you want from your Photos library. Thanks ahead of time for supporting Moxtopper through these must-have upgrades! • In addition to the playmats, there are bonus themes in fun, readable colors. OTHER COOL FEATURES • STATS-S-S-S-S-S — Keep track of in-game numbers like commander tax, infect, storm, experience, energy, mana pools, and more using the player options menu (swipe down on your player to see these options). • TURN CLOCKS — Turn on Turn Clocks to help folks stay mindful of how long their turns are. Just like chess clocks, they tick down the seconds from your customizable start time. Moxtopper ensures only one player can be active at a time. • AIRPLAY — Stream your game locally via AirPlay to a compatible Apple TV by enabling Screen Mirror and using the app like you normally would. Great for going top-eight at your Local Game Store! • CHARTS — Share and remember your splashiest games with cool charts that show the roller coaster ride of life totals as they change over the course of a game. Requires iOS/iPadOS 16 or later. • HIGH ROLL — Save time by high-rolling to see who plays first with just a single tap. • APP ICONS — Bling out your homescreen with a bunch of alternate app icons. • SCRYFALL — Scryfall search box integrated into the main options menu. • MADE BY A FAN — Moxtopper is made by a fan of the game, just one guy (me, the one writing this, howdy) who really really likes artisanal, hand-made, bespoke, fussy, delightful little apps with big dreams. Seriously I appreciate all the support ya’ll send my way. WHAT IS COMMANDER? Just in case you didn’t already know, in the “Commander” format of Magic: the Gathering, you and your friends battle each other with legendary creatures, huge decks of crazy cards, making splashy plays until there’s only one player left standing.
MTG Scanner
This app helps Magic: The Gathering players manage their card collection and build decks. It offers fast searching, intuitive deck building with legalities checks, and collection organization. Discover new cards and build powerful combos with this comprehensive companion.
- Card collection management
- Intuitive deck building
- Fast and flexible search
- Format legality checks
- Card information and rulings
- Collection organization
- Discover new cards
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Scan, collect, build, and playtest your Magic: The Gathering cards in one beautiful, native app. Lion’s Eye is the fast, flawless MTG companion for collectors and deck builders. NEW: Playtest your decks with friends over FaceTime, search in your own words, and find the combos hiding in your collection. PLAYTEST WITH FRIENDS — FREE Start a FaceTime call and play your decks head to head with SharePlay. Draw, shuffle, mulligan, and play out your hand on a real tabletop. No friends online? Practice against a bot (beta). SEARCH IN YOUR OWN WORDS Type or say what you want, like “goblins with haste under 3 mana,” and Lion’s Eye builds the search for you. Full support for Scryfall search syntax, with suggestions that find the exact card name without guesswork. Add cards to your collection or a deck right from the search results. BUILD BETTER DECKS Drag-and-drop deck building with easy menus for moving and editing cards. Real-time checks for format legality, commander color identity, ban lists, and companion rules. Commander, Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Pauper, and more. Export to Moxfield in one tap. YOUR COLLECTION, BEAUTIFULLY ORGANIZED Automatically sorted by color, type, mana value, rarity, set, and format. Sort by recently added, quantity, name, release date, set number, rarity, color, mana value, type, or price. Group cards in your collection and decks, and see your collection at a glance with charts and statistics. DISCOVER Featured stories, Legend Builds, color spotlights, and new deck ideas. The latest Magic news and articles, with every card they mention. The top 50 cards in each format by price. EVERY DETAIL OF EVERY CARD Card info, related cards, every printing, legalities, and rulings. Flip double-faced cards with a gesture, and rotate Battles and other horizontal cards. A one-of-a-kind foil effect that catches the light as you tilt your phone. Show off that foil mythic you love. BUILT FOR APPLE DEVICES Native on iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Siri and Shortcuts actions for card images, oracle text, and rulings. Full Dynamic Type and VoiceOver support. Mana symbols are read aloud, and charts support Audio Graphs. LION’S EYE PLUS Take your collection further: Card scanner with Auto Scan: Scan cards fast, with collector number detection to find the exact printing. Combos: See the combos your collection and decks can already make, powered by Commander Spellbook. EDHREC recommendations: Upgrade your Commander decks with built-in synergy suggestions. Collection Tracker: See which cards you already own while you build and search. Unlimited decks: Build as many decks as you want. Smart Lists and Saved Searches: Auto-updating lists of your cards, powered by Scryfall syntax. Advanced Search and Custom Syntax: Build precise searches, online or offline, including Lion’s Eye’s own Scryfall-style filters. Deck Legality Warnings: Get legality, commander, and companion alerts as you build. Tags: Organize and personalize with tags. Group, select, and filter by tag. Deck and card customization: Bulk swap cards, rate them, track condition, and add notes and photos. The full Discover experience, including News & Articles. Download Lion’s Eye free and start building your collection today. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MTG Scanner at every 10 days against Moxtopper's every 3 months. MTG Scanner also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Moxtopper's advantage is review sentiment (88% vs 68%) and ratings volume (1.1K vs 131). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases 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. Moxtopper sells 2 one-off in-app purchases and MTG Scanner sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.6 for Moxtopper against 4.5 for MTG Scanner. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Moxtopper has 1.1K ratings behind it against 131, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 88% of Moxtopper's written reviews are positive against 68% of MTG Scanner's.
Moxtopper ships an update every 3 months, MTG Scanner every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on October 26, 2026 and October 27, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Moxtopper | MTG Scanner |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (1.1K ratings) — better | 4.5 (131 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 88.0% of reviews — better | 68.1% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 1.1K — better | 131 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 — better | 26.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 84 MB | 48 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Nice Boy LLC | Orlando Gabriel Herrera |
Customer experience
Moxtopper
MTG Scanner
User reviews
Moxtopper
From 1.1K App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Wonderful app
- 👍 Lovely sounds
- 👍 Great UI
- 👍 Easy to understand and use
- 👍 Aesthetically pleasing
Room to improve
- 💰 Charging for backgrounds
- 🐛 Display errors
- 🐛 No damage history
- 🐛 No indicators to add or subtract life
- 🐛 Commander damage tracking bug
MTG Scanner
From 131 App Store ratingsWhat we love
- 👍 Great app for organizing the collection
- 👍 Wonderful app, full of features
- 👍 User-friendly and visually appealing
- 👍 Fantastic scanner, best on iOS
- 👍 Responsive and helpful developer
Room to improve
- 🐛 Crashes constantly on macOS
- 🐛 Buggy and glitchy
- 🐛 Scanner issues, pairs wrong cards
- 🐛 Performance issues, lags and freezes
- 💰 Subscription model, no one-time purchase
Bugs and requests
Moxtopper
Reported bugs
4 issues- Display errors
- No damage history
- No indicators to add or subtract life
- Commander damage tracking bug
Requested features
7 requests- Add commander tax and poison tracking
- Ability to skip tutorial
- Transition or GIF support for backgrounds
- Turn tracker
- Dice roll animation
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- Partner commander damage tracking
- Poison counter tracking
MTG Scanner
Reported bugs
3 issues- Scan feature automatically adds cards
- Incorrect card prices, especially for foils
- Crashes on load, camera issues
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to change card variants
- Improved deck building experience
- More comprehensive card database
- Better collection analytics and reporting
- Dark mode option
In-app purchases
Moxtopper
- Big Moods Playmat Set$0.99
- Custom Playmats$4.99
MTG Scanner
- Most Flexible$0.997 Days
- Monthly$2.991 Month
- Pay-As-You-Go$2.997 Days
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- Unlimited Annual14 Days trial$29.991 Year








