Cantrip vs Helvault
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Cantrip
Easily build and manage your Magic: The Gathering decks. Search and filter cards from any set, and quickly add, remove, or sideboard cards with intuitive gestures.
- Powerful deck builder
- Card search and filtering
- Add/remove cards with swipe
- Sideboard management
- Supports all card sets
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Cantrip is an poweful and easy to use deck builder for Magic: The Gathering. With Cantrip you can filter and search for cards from any set. Building decks is quick and easy using Cantrips deck builder which lets you add, remove, and sideboard cards with a swipe.
Helvault
Effortlessly manage your Magic: The Gathering card collection with an AI-powered scanner. Organize, filter, and analyze your cards with detailed stats and pricing information. Sync across devices and export your collection.
- AI-powered MTG card scanner
- Unlimited card collection storage
- Detailed collection statistics
- Card pricing and details
- CSV collection export
- iCloud syncing
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Helvault is a collection manager for Magic: The Gathering players and collectors who want to spend more time enjoying their cards, instead of typing names... With a powerful card scanner featuring an exclusive AI, Helvault is capable of identifying cards from all Magic's history without a hassle. Sort, filter, play and understand your card collection like never before! Key features: - Powerful MTG card scanner - Unlimited cards on your collection - Detailed stats about your collection - Card details, including prices - Export your collection as a CSV file - iCloud Syncing between devices - No ads, forever Helvault brings unlimited card collection management to your mobile device, for free. Some features however are unlocked through NON-RECURRING purchases (they are NOT subscriptions).
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Cantrip at none against Helvault's 6. Cantrip also leads on review sentiment (57% vs 32%). Helvault's advantage is update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and rating (4.2 vs 3.9). On price, ads, device support and iOS requirement 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. Helvault sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Cantrip asks for nothing beyond the download.
Helvault holds the better App Store score, 4.2 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Helvault has 279 ratings behind it against 15, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 57% of Cantrip's written reviews are positive against 32% of Helvault's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.
Cantrip ships an update every 4 months, Helvault fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on September 12, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Cantrip | Helvault |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.9 (15 ratings) | 4.2 (279 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 57.1% of reviews — better | 31.8% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 15 | 279 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 4 months | Fortnightly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 18.6 | 18.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 142 MB | 58 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 9+ |
| Developer | White Bridge Labs | Vitor Cesco |
Customer experience
Cantrip
Helvault
Bugs and requests
Cantrip
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
Helvault
Reported bugs
4 issues- Keypad issues when searching
- Disappearing settings icons
- Incorrect set identification for some cards
- Missing card prices and details
Requested features
5 requests- Deck building and management tools
- Advanced search and filtering options
- Bulk card management and transfer
- Improved support for special card versions and frames
- Seamless data migration from legacy app
In-app purchases
Cantrip
No in-app purchases
Helvault
- Common Donation$0.99
- Rare Donation$4.99
- iCloud Syncing$4.99
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- Advanced Card Export/Import$6.99
- MTG Card Scanner - Lifetime$9.99
- Mythic Donation$9.99
