Comparison

Cantrip vs Saga

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • Powerful deck builder
  • Card search and filtering
  • Add/remove cards with swipe
  • Sideboard management
  • Supports all card sets
Features
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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.

About

Saga

This app helps track life totals and game history for multiplayer card games. It logs every change, allows rewinding to specific moments, and saves game details like winners and deck archetypes. It also includes features for tracking commander damage, poison, and other game states.

Highlights
  • Multi-touch life tracking for up to 6 players
  • Commander damage tracking with automatic elimination
  • Detailed game logs with rewind functionality
  • Save game history with winner and deck archetypes
  • Offline play and local data storage
  • Optional play clock and turn tracking
Features
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Saga is a free life counter built for Commander — and a complete record of every game your pod plays. TRACK THE WHOLE TABLE AT ONCE • True multi-touch life: two players can take damage at the same time • Hold to change life faster — one accelerating adjustment, undoable in a tap • 2–6 players, with panels rotated so everyone reads their life right-side-up • Commander damage per opponent — 21 from one commander eliminates automatically • Poison, energy, experience, monarch, and initiative tracking END LIFE-TOTAL ARGUMENTS • Every change is logged — tap any entry to rewind the game to that moment • Per-player logs with surgical revert • Optional play clock with time limits and penalties, or lightweight turn tracking without one KEEP EVERY GAME • Save games with winner, deck archetypes, and notes • Statistics: win rates by player, commander, and archetype • Replay any saved game event by event • Dice roller and roll-for-first built in YOURS, PRIVATELY • No ads, no subscriptions, no account • Fully offline; your data never leaves your device • Backup and restore your history as a file you control Saga is unofficial Fan Content permitted under the Fan Content Policy. Not approved/endorsed by Wizards of the Coast. Portions of the materials used are property of Wizards of the Coast. ©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Screenshots

Cantrip4 screens
Saga4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Saga at 5.0 against Cantrip's 3.9. Saga also leads on update cadence (fortnightly vs every 4 months) and device support (3 vs 1). Cantrip's advantage is ratings volume (15 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Saga holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 3.9. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cantrip has 15 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Cantrip ships an update every 4 months, Saga fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and September 23, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Cantrip versus Saga: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterCantripSaga
PriceFreeFree
Rating3.9 (15 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews57.1% of reviews—
Number of ratings15 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsFortnightly — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhoneiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS18.615.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size142 MB28 MB
Age rating9+4+
DeveloperWhite Bridge LabsErick Dameron

Customer experience

Cantrip

All ratings15 ratings
Positive66.7%
Neutral20.0%
Negative13.3%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive57.1%
Neutral28.6%
Negative14.3%

Saga

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Cantrip

No in-app purchases

None

Saga

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Cantrip free?
Cantrip is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Saga free?
Saga is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Cantrip or Saga?
Saga is rated higher. Cantrip averages 3.9 out of 5 from 15 ratings, while Saga averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do Cantrip or Saga have ads?
Neither Cantrip nor Saga shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Cantrip or Saga?
Cantrip ships an update every 4 months, and Saga fortnightly. Most recently, Cantrip was updated on October 24, 2026 and Saga on September 23, 2026.

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