Comparison

Mythic Tools MTG vs New Recruit

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Mythic Tools MTG

Enhance your Magic: The Gathering experience with a comprehensive companion app. Track life totals in duels and multiplayer games, manage your decks, and analyze your game statistics. Instantly scan cards for pricing, rulings, and legality information.

Highlights
  • Customizable life counter with themes
  • Card scanning for price and rulings
  • Deck listing and game statistics
  • Multiplayer game support (poison, commander damage)
  • Card legality and EDHREC integration
  • Real-time pricing information
Features
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NEW: Life counter themes! Customize your life counter and support content creators at the same time with the Mythic Store. Mythic Tools is the ultimate Magic: The Gathering companion app designed to enhance your experience. Create playgroups, add friends, list your decks, track life totals in all your duel and multiplayer games with a beautiful and full-featured life counter, save all your games and get meaningful statistics about your playgroups, your decks and your win rates. Mythic Tools is also a fast and accurate card scanner which will get you price information, oracle and rulings, and a powerful advanced search tool to find all the cards you need. Key Features: Super Fast & Accurate Card Scanning: Instantly identify your cards with our highly optimized scanning technology. Just point your camera at the card, and Mythic Scanner does the rest! Great during games to check rulings. Comprehensive Pricing Information: Stay informed with real-time card prices from multiple sources, including TCGplayer and Cardmarket. Make informed decisions when buying, selling, or trading your cards. Up-to-Date Oracle Text & Rulings: Get immediate access to the latest oracle text, rulings, and card interactions to settle disputes or clarify rules during gameplay. Legality Information: Check a card's legality across all MTG formats at a glance, ensuring your decks are always tournament-ready. EDHREC Integration: Discover related cards and build better decks with seamless access to EDHREC's extensive database of card recommendations. Customizable Multiplayer Life Counter: Track life totals for multiple players with our intuitive life counter interface, perfect for multiplayer games like Commander. Quickly access the card scanner from the game for on-the-fly rulings and card information. Support for poison counters, commander damage, super-simple drag & drop monarch token, and many more convenient and unique game features. Awesome customization options for the Multiplayer Life Tracking feature, custom art backgrounds, fonts, effects and animations. Transform your MTG experience with Mythic Tools, the all-in-one app that takes your gameplay and card management to the next level. Download now and unlock the full potential of your Magic: The Gathering games!

About

New Recruit

This app helps you build army lists for various miniature tabletop games. It also facilitates tournament organization, allows you to track your game statistics, and manage your miniature collection to see what models you need.

Highlights
  • Build army lists for popular games
  • Organize and manage tournaments
  • View player rankings and statistics
  • Track personal game stats
  • Manage miniature collection
  • Customize user interface
Features
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New Recruit is an army list builder for miniature tabletop games such as Warhammer 40k, The Old World, Age of Sigmar, The Ninth Age and many more. But not just that, it comes with a lot more features! - Build your army lists for all popular games - Participate in or organise tournaments, very powerful for tournament organisers, because New Recruit can check list validity for you, saving precious time. - View rankings and tournament statistics, lists played by the best players - Track your own games and view your personal stats to see what armies or units work best for you - List your miniature collection and instantly see if a list is playable or what models you need to buy - Highly customizable user interface, make your on themes - New Recruit is in active development and new features are coming regularly! Terms and conditions https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Mythic Tools MTG4 screens
New Recruit4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is ads: Mythic Tools MTG at none against New Recruit's shown. Mythic Tools MTG also leads on ratings volume (3.2K vs 255). On price, rating, review sentiment and update cadence 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. Mythic Tools MTG sells 8 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month and New Recruit sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $35.00 per year. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Mythic Tools MTG against 4.9 for New Recruit. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mythic Tools MTG has 3.2K ratings behind it against 255, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews are what separate them: 86% of Mythic Tools MTG's written reviews are positive against 89% of New Recruit's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Mythic Tools MTG ships an update weekly, New Recruit every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
Mythic Tools MTG versus New Recruit: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMythic Tools MTGNew Recruit
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.2K ratings)4.9 (255 ratings) — better
Positive reviews85.8% of reviews88.6% of reviews — better
Number of ratings3.2K — better255
Update frequencyWeeklyEvery 5 days — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod
Requires iOS15.614.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size635 MB95 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio MythicVincent, Gatien,Alphonse MASSIAS

Customer experience

Mythic Tools MTG

All ratings3,197 ratings
Positive96.5%
Neutral1.6%
Negative1.9%
Written reviews204 reviews
Positive85.8%
Neutral7.4%
Negative6.9%

New Recruit

All ratings255 ratings
Positive97.6%
Neutral0.0%
Negative2.4%
Written reviews79 reviews
Positive88.6%
Neutral1.3%
Negative10.1%

User reviews

Mythic Tools MTG

From 3.2K App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Smooth and responsive
  • 👍 Intuitive and user-friendly
  • 🔒 Secure and reliable
  • 💡 Comprehensive set of features
  • 🚀 Fast card scanning

Room to improve

  • 🐛 Occasional crashes and bugs
  • 🔍 Clunky deck building experience
  • 💰 Wish for more customization options
  • 🔍 Navigation and UI could be improved
  • 🔍 Inconsistent card recognition

New Recruit

From 255 App Store ratings

What we love

  • 🚀 Excellent app performance
  • 👍 Seamless integration with website
  • 👍 Useful for Warhammer army building
  • 👍 Great mobile version of a popular tool

Room to improve

  • 🔍 Potential data sync issues between mobile and web
  • 🔍 Menus can be deep for certain actions

Bugs and requests

Mythic Tools MTG

Reported bugs

4 issues
  • Deck stats disappearing
  • Imported decks not transferring correctly
  • Crashes when updating deck lists
  • Inconsistent behavior with card scanning

Requested features

6 requests
  • Shared deck library for play groups
  • Ability to track games with guests
  • Manual game entry option
  • Sorting and filtering by card properties
  • Integration with external deck building tools
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  • Customizable price sources for card values

New Recruit

Reported bugs

1 issue
  • No reported bugs

Requested features

2 requests
  • Improved data sync between mobile and web
  • Streamlined menu structure for common actions

In-app purchases

8 purchases

Mythic Tools MTG

Subscriptions2
  • Mythic+$9.991 Month
  • Mythic+$89.991 Year
One-time6
  • Mythic X-MAS!$2.99
  • After Hours$2.99
  • Mythic Burn$2.99
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  • SOLRING Theme$2.99
  • Mythic Toolbox Full Version$4.99
  • DrLupo Life Counter Theme$5.99
3 purchases

New Recruit

Subscriptions3
  • Mortal Supporter$35.001 Year
  • Immortal Supporter$69.001 Year
  • Godlike Supporter$143.991 Year

Questions

Is Mythic Tools MTG free?
Mythic Tools MTG is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is New Recruit free?
New Recruit is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Mythic Tools MTG or New Recruit?
New Recruit is rated higher. Mythic Tools MTG averages 4.8 out of 5 from 3.2K ratings, while New Recruit averages 4.9 from 255 ratings.
Do Mythic Tools MTG or New Recruit have ads?
New Recruit shows ads; Mythic Tools MTG does not.
Which is updated more often, Mythic Tools MTG or New Recruit?
Mythic Tools MTG ships an update weekly, and New Recruit every 5 days. Most recently, Mythic Tools MTG was updated on September 23, 2026 and New Recruit on September 23, 2026.

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