Mythic Tools MTG vs Cauldron
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!
Cauldron
This app allows users to print game tokens and track life totals using voice commands. It supports various token types and game mechanics, and also includes dice rolling and coin flipping functionalities. Requires a specific thermal printer.
- Voice-activated token printing
- Life total tracking
- Commander damage tracking
- Dice rolling and coin flipping
- Monarch and status effects
- Offline speech recognition
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Say the name of a token. It comes out of your printer. Nobody can have every token handy when the situation calls for it. Cauldron is a life counter / token-printer. Hold the microphone, say "goblin" or "4/4 angel with flying" or "treasure," and the card is found, dithered and printed on receipt paper in about a second. LIFE COUNTER • Drag from one seat to another to deal commander damage. • Draw a glyph on a seat to give it the monarch, poison, energy, experience, rads or the city's blessing. • Three fingers across the board starts a new game. Two fingers opens the settings. • Supports up to 8 players in a pod (7+ on iPad / tablet only) • Say "2/4/6/8 players" to change the game size. • This is a full-fledged life counter, without menus. THE PRINTER • Cauldron drives the Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 over Bluetooth. • The printers use no ink - merely fast heat transfer to receipt paper, they will not smear. • The batteries last several days on a single charge over USB-C. DICE AND COINS AND MORE • Say "roll a d20" or "flip a coin." • Four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty and a hundred sides... • all announced out loud by a voice synthesizer that sounds like it was built in 1982. • "Momir {number}" to get a random creature. say "Calling Mr. Vig" for a standalone momir vig faux-payphone interface. THE TOKEN INDEX Say "token index" or hold four fingers on the board to open it. • Browse and search every printable token, by name or by artist, with filters for each kind of token. • Swipe through each token's artwork and print the one you like. • Tap an artwork to keep it out of random picks, or long-press to always print that one. • SHUFFLE, RANDOM and SEQUENTIAL control how artwork is dealt when you ask by voice. • A UB switch keeps Universes Beyond artwork out of random picks. • Add your own artwork to any token from your camera or photo library, with or without the token's text printed under it. • Favorites: drag the heart onto artwork you love, then print one, print them all, or share them as an Instagram story. • See any card full screen, with the artist credited underneath. • Tap (i) for a guide to everything. Every token is indexed on your phone, so lookup is quick. Speech is recognised on the device. Nothing about your game is uploaded anywhere. No Accounts. No Signups. WHAT YOU NEED A Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 printer and a roll of thermal paper. Cauldron will show you which paper and printer to purchase. Card data and images from Scryfall. Cauldron is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC. Apple's Standard Terms of Use apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cauldron at none against Mythic Tools MTG's 9. Cauldron also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 85%) and rating (5.0 vs 4.8). Mythic Tools MTG's advantage is ratings volume (3.3K vs 21). On price, update cadence, 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. Mythic Tools MTG sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per month. Cauldron asks for nothing beyond the download.
Cauldron holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Mythic Tools MTG has 3.3K ratings behind it against 21, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 85% of Mythic Tools MTG's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cauldron's.
Mythic Tools MTG ships an update every 6 days, Cauldron every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 13, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Mythic Tools MTG | Cauldron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (3.3K ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 84.9% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 3.3K — better | 21 |
| Update frequency | Every 6 days | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.6 — better | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 636 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Studio Mythic | Joseph Liechty |
Customer experience
Mythic Tools MTG
Cauldron
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
Cauldron
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Mythic Tools MTG
- Mythic+$9.991 Month
- Mythic+$89.991 Year
- 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
Cauldron
No in-app purchases









