Mythic Tools MTG vs New Recruit
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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.
- 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
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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!
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.
- 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
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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/
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Verdict
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
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.
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.
Mythic Tools MTG ships an update weekly, New Recruit every 5 days. Both last shipped on September 23, 2026.
| Parameter | Mythic Tools MTG | New Recruit |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.2K ratings) | 4.9 (255 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 85.8% of reviews | 88.6% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.2K — better | 255 |
| Update frequency | Weekly | Every 5 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 | 14.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 635 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Studio Mythic | Vincent, Gatien,Alphonse MASSIAS |
Customer experience
Mythic Tools MTG
New Recruit
User reviews
Mythic Tools MTG
From 3.2K App Store ratingsWhat 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 ratingsWhat 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
Mythic Tools MTG
- Mythic+$9.991 Month
- Mythic+$89.991 Year
- 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
New Recruit
- Mortal Supporter$35.001 Year
- Immortal Supporter$69.001 Year
- Godlike Supporter$143.991 Year
Questions
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