Comparison

Mythic Tools MTG vs Mana Trove

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

Mana Trove

Features
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Mana Trove identifies the exact printing of a trading card for Magic: The Gathering — not just the card's name, but which set it came from and which collector number it carries — in about a second, from your phone's camera. Most scanners tell you that you are holding a Lightning Bolt. There are more than a hundred printings of Lightning Bolt. MTGScan tells you which one. SCAN Hold a card in front of the lens. When the app is sure, it banks the card and you move on to the next one — no tapping, no shutter button. When it is not sure, it says so and asks, rather than guessing: a card it cannot place is flagged for you to finish, never filed under the wrong printing. Recognition runs entirely on this device. The card database ships inside the app, so scanning works with no signal at all. YOUR COLLECTION Every card you scan lands on a wall of full card faces. Sort by set, by name or by what you added last. Filter by colour, card type, rarity, finish and set, with a live count on every option so you can see how much you own before you tap. Mark copies as foil or etched. See what a printing is worth today. IMPORT WHAT YOU ALREADY HAVE Already have your collection in a file? MTGScan reads CSV exports from Binder, Moxfield, ManaBox and Archidekt, and falls back to a generic reader for anything else — then tells you, row by row, exactly what it matched, what it could not, and why. Nothing is imported silently. DECKS Build decks from the cards you own. Every deck shows how much of it you actually have, card by card, and marks the ones you are missing. Pick a format and the card list narrows to what that format allows. See your mana curve, your colours and your card types. Deal an opening hand and take a mulligan before you sleeve anything up. PRIVATE BY DESIGN There is no account, no sign-in and no sync. Your collection is a file on your own device. Camera frames are read in memory and are never uploaded, never written to disk and never sent anywhere. MTGScan collects no data of any kind and contains no analytics, advertising or tracking of any sort. The only thing it ever fetches from the network is card artwork and current prices, and it asks for those by card, never by person. FREE Mana Trove is free, with no purchases, no subscription and no advertising. — MTGScan 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. Card data and images courtesy of Scryfall. MTGScan is not produced by, endorsed by, supported by, or affiliated with Wizards of the Coast or Scryfall.

Screenshots

Mythic Tools MTG4 screens
Mana Trove4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Mana Trove 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, update cadence 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. Mana Trove asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly weekly. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 15, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
Mythic Tools MTG versus Mana Trove: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMythic Tools MTGMana Trove
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.8 (3.6K ratings) — better—
Positive reviews84.2% of reviews—
Number of ratings3.6K — better—
Update frequencyWeeklyWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size647 MB104 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperStudio MythicROY THOMAS RUSSELL

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

Mana Trove

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

Mana Trove

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Mythic Tools MTG free?
Mythic Tools MTG is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Mana Trove free?
Mana Trove is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do Mythic Tools MTG or Mana Trove have ads?
Neither Mythic Tools MTG nor Mana Trove shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Mythic Tools MTG or Mana Trove?
Mythic Tools MTG ships an update weekly, and Mana Trove weekly. Most recently, Mythic Tools MTG was updated on October 25, 2026 and Mana Trove on October 15, 2026.

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