Score Realms vs Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Score Realms
Effortlessly tally your points in Fantasy Realms with this scoring app. Simply point your device's camera at your cards, and it automatically calculates your total score. Supports the English and German versions, including the Cursed Hoard expansion.
- Automatic card scanning
- Point calculation
- Supports English and German versions
- Includes Cursed Hoard expansion
- Easy to use
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Score Realms helps you to count your total points at the end of a game of Fantasy Realms. Simply hold your cards in front of the camera and Score Realms is doing the rest. Score Realms only works for the English and German version of Fantasy Realms and the expansion Cursed Hoard. Thanks to Bruce Glassco and WizKids for such a beautiful game. Score Realms is not an official product by the game designer and/or publisher.
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Automate scoring for the board game Forest Shuffle™ by scanning your cards. This app handles multiple scans, allows for editing, and supports cross-device QR code sharing. It also includes a card glossary and saves past game sessions.
- Scan trees through the camera
- Automatic score counting
- Merge scans from multiple devices
- Archive previous sessions
- Card glossary access
- Cross-device QR code sharing
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This app allows you to speed up the scoring process of the printed version of the game Forest Shuffle™. By scanning the cards on your table after a just finished game you can automate the scoring of your laid out cards. The App can handle up to 5 scan results per scoring process. The scanning process is comfortable and you can also fastly edit your scan results. It is possible to exchange the scan results by QR Code between your devises. Sessions can be stored and edited. There is also a complete glossary of cards available. As this app is free you definitely need to give it a try... you will be surprised how easy the scoring can get. Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter Features: - Scan trees through the camera - Count your score automatically - Merge scans from multiple devices - Share your results to social media - Archive your previous sessions - Quick access to the appendix - English, German, French and Italian interface - Scan is language independent - Supports exclusively the version Forest Shuffle™ - Supports all Forest Shuffle™ expansions/promos
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter at 4.9 against Score Realms's 4.1. Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter also leads on in-app purchases (none vs 4) and update cadence (every 10 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, review sentiment, ratings volume and ads 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. Score Realms sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter asks for nothing beyond the download.
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 24 and 61 respectively. Written reviews complicate that: 78% of Score Realms's written reviews are positive against 74% of Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Score Realms ships an update every 3 weeks, Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter every 10 days. The most recent releases landed on September 21, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Score Realms | Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.1 (24 ratings) | 4.9 (61 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 78.3% of reviews — better | 74.2% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 24 | 61 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 10 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.1 | 13.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 28 MB | 445 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Marcus Katscher | DIGIDICED |
Customer experience
Score Realms
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Bugs and requests
Score Realms
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
Reported bugs
17 issues- Cannot scan trees with more than 4 cards
- QR code player scanning not working
- Does not recognize cards 95% of the time
- Does not consider multiple cards on the same side of a tree
- Steinmarder (stone marten) scoring incorrect
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- Siebenschläfer (dormouse) text/scoring incorrect
- Silver Fir tagged Peacock butterfly not selectable
- Deer scoring messed up
- Holzbiene (wood bee) not recognized/implemented
- Zitronenfalter (common brimstone butterfly) missing
- Kröten (toads) and Rehe (deer) cannot be entered for multiple spots
- App not in French as advertised
- Scan function not working for some users
- App takes longer than manual scoring for some
- Does not correctly capture all card constellations
- Ignores lower cards
- Does not count cards from the cave
Requested features
9 requests- Add support for Dartmoor expansion
- Add support for Mischwald Dartmoor
- Add support for Exploration expansion
- Add support for new caves
- Automatic photo capture
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- Add automa mode for solo play
- Add summary of points breakdown
- Add French language support
- Add support for more languages
In-app purchases
Score Realms
- One cup of coffee$1.99
- Cursed Hoard$2.49
- Two cups of coffee$3.99
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- Three cups of coffee$5.99
Forest Shuffle™ Smart Counter
No in-app purchases
Questions
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