MoniCon vs Card Pager
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
MoniCon
Transform your iPad into an HDMI monitor for console gaming. Features AI-powered super resolution, color filters, and real-time diagnostics. Offers a fluid, nostalgic user interface for an enhanced gaming experience.
- iPad as HDMI console monitor
- AI-powered super resolution (MagicSR)
- Customizable color filters
- Capture and preview video
- Manage resolution and frame rate
- Fullscreen immersive style
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Introducing MoniCon — an app that transforms your iPad into an HDMI monitor! Harness the potent combination of MoniCon’s robust features and a video capture card to effortlessly play your favorite console games on the sleek display of your iPad. MoniCon also brings you mighty utilities such as MagicSR (AI-fueled super resolution), Color Filters, and real-time diagnostic information. All these handy functions are seamlessly packaged into an elegant, fluid, and nostalgically designed user interface that makes your gaming experience even better. Try MoniCon for FREE now! Key Features: • Capture and preview video with UVC compatible capture cards. • MagicSR: AI-powered super resolution enhancing game rendering. • Color Filter: Customize content color to match your taste. • Manage capture resolution and frame rate. • Fullscreen immersive style. Requirements: • An USB-C iPad with iOS 17 or higher. • An UVC compatible capture card. • Any HDMI output device that can work together with the capture card (like gaming console, camera, etc.).
Card Pager
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Find any card in your binder. Instantly! Stop flipping pages. Type a card number - Card Pager shows you the exact page, side, row, and column where it lives. Built for collectors who keep numbered sets in 9-pocket or 18-pocket binder pages and don't want to count slots ever again. WHY CARD PAGER • Type a number, see the location - zero scrolling, zero math • Live visual page mirror highlights the exact slot • Color-coded front/back, page number, row, column, and slot index • Haptic feedback when you cross a page or flip a side HOW IT WORKS Card 1 sits in slot 1, page 1. In 9-pocket mode, card 10 lands on page 2. In 18-pocket mode, card 10 lands on the back of page 1. Card Pager runs the math instantly - even if your binder is hundreds of cards deep. BUILT RIGHT • Works fully offline • Haptic feedback when you cross a page or flip a side TWO LAYOUTS • 9-pocket - single-sided pages, 9 cards per page (3×3) • 18-pocket - double-sided pages, 18 cards per page (front 3×3 + back 3×3) Toggle anytime in Settings. PERFECT FOR • Pokémon TCG masters, regional sets, generation runs • Magic: The Gathering set binders and EDH archives • Yu-Gi-Oh, One Piece, Lorcana, Flesh and Blood collections • Sports cards - base sets, parallels, numbered inserts • Any sequentially numbered set you keep in a pocket binder HOW IT WORKS Card 1 sits in slot 1, page 1. In 9-pocket mode, card 10 lands on page 2. In 18-pocket mode, card 10 lands on the back of page 1. Card Pager runs the math instantly - even if your binder is hundreds of cards deep. BUILT RIGHT • Works fully offline • No account, no sign-in, no ads • No tracking, no analytics, no data collection • Dark, neon-tuned interface designed for late-night sorting sessions Card Pager is a focused tool: one job, done instantly, every time.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: MoniCon at every 2 days against Card Pager's every 5 weeks. On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
MoniCon ships an update every 2 days, Card Pager every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 25, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | MoniCon | Card Pager |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (22 ratings) — better | — |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 22 — better | — |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 5 weeks |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | — |
| Devices | iPad | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 — better | 18.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 8 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | 星佑 李 | David Malson |
In-app purchases
MoniCon
No in-app purchases
Card Pager
No in-app purchases









