Cascade vs Progress BAR app
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cascade
Manage your Magic: The Gathering card collection with a powerful scanner, deck builder, and finance tracker. Organize your inventory, playtest decks, and stay updated on card prices and spoilers.
- Lightning fast camera scanner
- Organize inventory and collection
- Create and playtest decks
- Customizable wishlists and lists
- Card search and detailed information
- Finance and market tracking
- Spoiler and Secret Lair notifications
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Cascade is a free MTG card scanner, collection and price tracker, and deck builder for Magic: The Gathering™ players and collectors. Scan your cards, see what your collection is worth, and build and playtest decks on iPhone, iPad, Android and the web, with free sync between them. FAST CARD SCANNER • Scan a whole stack with your camera, one card after another • Fix the set or finish right in the scan list • Add the scanned cards to your collection, a deck or a list in one step COLLECTION AND PRICES • Track your whole collection, with no limit on the number of cards • See what it is worth with TCGplayer market and median prices, updated every day • Price history for every card, and the biggest price movers of the day and the week • A watchlist for the cards you want to follow DECKS AND PLAYTEST • Build decks for every format: Standard, Pioneer, Modern, Legacy, Commander and more • Mainboard and sideboard, with format legality checks • Playtest your decks and share them with friends ONE COLLECTION EVERYWHERE • Free sync between your phone, tablet and computer, with no subscription • Build decks on the big screen at cascademtg.com and scan cards on your phone • Moving from another app? Import your collection on the web from a CSV or text file LISTS, SPOILERS AND SECRET LAIR • A wishlist and your own custom lists • Spoiler lists for upcoming sets, with a notification for each new card • Secret Lair drops with their cards and prices • Banlists for every format, with an alert when they change CASCADE PREMIUM (OPTIONAL) Price history for your collection, decks and lists; unlimited lists and wishlist cards; up to 300 watched prices; full deck history, notes and maybeboard; playtest tools; and faster scanning. Premium is a monthly or yearly subscription, with the price shown in the app. Terms: https://www.cascademtg.com/terms Privacy: https://www.cascademtg.com/privacy
Progress BAR app
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Progress BAR helps you turn goals into steady progress. Create goals for fitness, learning, health, creativity, or anything else you want to improve, then track each day from one simple dashboard. Make every goal fit the way you work: • Choose daily, weekly, specific-day, monthly, or custom schedules • Track minutes, hours, steps, pages, reps, sessions, and more • Log progress in just a few taps • Build streaks and see your consistency over time • Review weekly progress, statistics, and calendar history • Set reminders to stay on track • Celebrate milestones and look back on your progress Progress BAR is built for goals that do not fit a one-size-fits-all habit tracker. Whether you are training, reading, learning a skill, building a routine, or working on something completely your own, you decide what progress means. Start small. Track it. Keep moving.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Progress BAR app at none against Cascade's 4. Progress BAR app also leads on iOS requirement (15.0 vs 17.0). 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
Both are free to download. Cascade sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. Progress BAR app asks for nothing beyond the download.
| Parameter | Cascade | Progress BAR app |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.6 (281 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 65.5% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 281 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 55 MB | 4 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Cascade MTG LLC | Jakub Vondra |
Bugs and requests
Cascade
Reported bugs
14 issues- Card scanner misidentifies cards or fails to scan entirely
- Manual entry bug deletes all previously manually-entered cards from scanning session
- Incorrect card name mapping (e.g., Maarika showing as Zangief)
- App crashes or fails to open after adding many cards
- Account access lost after reinstalling app
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- Export to text feature adds random characters and percentage symbols
- Deck copy feature redirects to premium page unexpectedly
- Search function fails to work when opening app directly into a deck
- Cards missing from database despite being released
- Set assignment incorrect for scanned cards
- Foil designation not retained when using cards in decks
- Deleted deck cards remain in inventory
- Slow bulk scanning with required toast notification dismissal
- Poor set assignment accuracy (50% error rate reported)
Requested features
18 requests- Search function within decks
- Average mana value/CMC statistics for decks
- Easier deck identification when viewing cards
- CSV and table format import support
- Duplicate card detection feature
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- Ability to filter inventory by set
- Multiple card set assignment at once
- Deck copying/sharing functionality
- Play testing feature
- Advanced filtering in inventory (color, type, etc.)
- Card image size adjustment slider
- Extended art and borderless card search filters
- Dark mode support
- Deck sorting options
- Collector number sorting
- Magic Online support and ticket pricing
- Export to properly formatted text files
- Ability to add cards with quantity of 0
Progress BAR app
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Cascade
- Cascade Premium - Monthly7 Days trial$4.991 Month
- Cascade Premium – Monthly$6.991 Month
- Cascade Premium - Annual14 Days trial$49.991 Year
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- Cascade Premium – Annual$59.991 Year
Progress BAR app
No in-app purchases
Questions
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