Comparison

Mythic Tools MTG vs Scanning cards

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, manage decks, scan cards for prices and rulings, and discover new cards. Offers extensive customization for gameplay and deck building.

Highlights
  • Customizable multiplayer life counter
  • Fast and accurate card scanning
  • Real-time pricing information
  • Up-to-date oracle text and rulings
  • Legality information for all formats
  • EDHREC integration for deck building
  • Deck and playgroup management
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

Scanning cards

Features
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Scanning cards turns the business cards you collect at events, meetings, and conferences into organized, searchable contacts — without typing a single field by hand. SCAN, DON'T TYPE Point your camera at a card and CardKeeper auto-detects the edges, captures front and back, and reads the text with on-device OCR — name, title, company, phone, email, website, and address all filled in for you. QR CONTACT CODES Card has a contact QR code instead? CardKeeper recognizes vCard and MECARD formats automatically and fills in every field from the code — no OCR guessing needed. BATCH SCAN MODE Met a dozen people today? Scan the whole stack back-to-back without stopping to edit each one. Review and clean up everything in one pass afterward — nothing gets lost, nothing slows you down mid-event. VOICE NOTES Just finished a conversation? Record a 15-second voice memo — "Met Sarah at booth 4, interested in enterprise plan, follow up Tuesday" — and it's transcribed straight into the note field. Choose your transcription language in Settings. STAY ORGANIZED • Group contacts into custom categories (Clients, Vendors, Leads...) • Add follow-up tasks with due dates, right from the card • Add free-text notes to any contact • Save any card straight to your iOS Contacts FIND ANYONE, FAST Search understands natural phrasing, not just exact names — try "architects from Ahmedabad" or "people interested in CRM" and CardKeeper searches across name, title, company, address, and your notes. PRIVATE BY DESIGN Your cards and contacts stay on your device. Scanning, OCR, and search all run locally — no account, no sign-up, no cloud sync required. Perfect for conferences, trade shows, sales calls, and any day you come home with a stack of business cards to deal with.

Screenshots

Mythic Tools MTG4 screens
Scanning cards4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Scanning cards at none against Mythic Tools MTG's 9. Mythic Tools MTG's advantage is device support (3 vs 1) and iOS requirement (15.6 vs 17.0). On price 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Mythic Tools MTG sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Scanning cards asks for nothing beyond the download.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mythic Tools MTG versus Scanning cards: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMythic Tools MTGScanning cards
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.7K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.3% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.7K — better—
Update frequencyWeekly—
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFreemium—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size648 MB13 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio MythicPLUS INFOSYS

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

Scanning cards

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

9 purchases

Mythic Tools MTG

Subscriptions2
  • Mythic+$9.991 Month
  • Mythic+$89.991 Year
One-time7
  • Garage the Gathering Theme$2.99
  • Mythic X-MAS!$2.99
  • After Hours$2.99
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  • Mythic Burn$2.99
  • SOLRING Theme$2.99
  • Mythic Toolbox Full Version$4.99
  • DrLupo Life Counter Theme$5.99
None

Scanning cards

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mythic Tools MTG free?
Mythic Tools MTG is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Scanning cards free?
Scanning cards is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mythic Tools MTG or Scanning cards have ads?
Neither Mythic Tools MTG nor Scanning cards shows ads.

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