MoxDraft vs Archivist
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoxDraft
Enhance your Magic: the Gathering draft strategy with this app. It provides data-driven insights into card performance, popular archetypes, and format understanding through visualizations. Perfect for players looking to improve their drafting skills.
- Card exploration
- Card performance comparison
- Archetype learning
- Format understanding
- Data visualizations
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Perfect your Magic: the Gathering draft skills! - Explore the cards - Compare card performance - Learn the archetypes - Understand the format with data and visualizations Powered by 17Lands and Scryfall
Archivist
Digitize your Magic: The Gathering card collection quickly and easily. Scan cards to read details, organize your collection, build decks, and track prices. Connect with other collectors and manage your wishlist.
- Scan cards with camera
- Organize by box, condition, foil, language
- Build decks with mana curve
- Track card prices and set alerts
- Wishlist cards with TCGplayer integration
- Follow other collectors
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Archivist is the fastest way to digitize your Magic: The Gathering collection. Point your phone at any card and the scanner reads the name, set, and collector number in under a second. WHAT YOU CAN DO • Scan cards with your camera — works in most lighting • Organize by box, condition, foil, and language • Build decks with section-aware quantities and a live mana curve • Track card prices and get alerts when a card hits your target • Wishlist cards and check out on TCGplayer in one tap • Follow other collectors and see their public lists ARCHIVIST PLUS Cloud sync across iPhone, iPad, and Mac. Per-card price alerts. Upgrade suggestions for any Commander deck powered by EDHREC. Plus is available as an auto-renewing subscription — Monthly ($4.99) or Yearly ($39.99) — or as a one-time Lifetime purchase ($99.99). Subscriptions renew unless cancelled at least 24 hours before the period ends. Magic: The Gathering, its logos, mana symbols, and card text are trademarks and copyrights of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Archivist is unofficial Fan Content permitted under Wizards' Fan Content Policy and is not approved or endorsed by Wizards. Terms of Use: https://getarchivist.app/terms Privacy Policy: https://getarchivist.app/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: MoxDraft at none against Archivist's 3. MoxDraft also leads on ratings volume (8 vs 1). Archivist's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 75%) and update cadence (every 9 days vs every 5 weeks). On price, 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. Archivist sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per month. MoxDraft asks for nothing beyond the download.
Archivist holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.8. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: MoxDraft has 8 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of MoxDraft's written reviews are positive against 100% of Archivist's.
MoxDraft ships an update every 5 weeks, Archivist every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoxDraft | Archivist |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (8 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 75.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 8 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 weeks | Every 9 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Mac — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 12 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Harley Thomas | Ryan Fontenot |
Customer experience
MoxDraft
Archivist
In-app purchases
MoxDraft
No in-app purchases
Archivist
- Archivist Plus (Monthly)$4.991 Month
- Archivist Plus (Yearly)$39.991 Year
- Archivist Lifetime$99.99
