Comparison

Helvault vs Cauldron

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

Head to head
About

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.

Highlights
  • AI-powered MTG card scanner
  • Unlimited card collection storage
  • Detailed collection statistics
  • Card pricing and details
  • CSV collection export
  • iCloud syncing
Features
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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).

About

Cauldron

This app allows users to print game tokens and track life totals using voice commands. It supports various token types and game mechanics, and also includes dice rolling and coin flipping functionalities. Requires a specific thermal printer.

Highlights
  • Voice-activated token printing
  • Life total tracking
  • Commander damage tracking
  • Dice rolling and coin flipping
  • Monarch and status effects
  • Offline speech recognition
Features
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Say the name of a card. It comes out of your printer. Cauldron is the life counter that prints tokens. Hold the microphone, say "goblin" or "4/4 angel with flying" or "treasure," and the card is found, dithered and printed on receipt paper in about a second. LIFE COUNTER • Drag from one seat to another to deal commander damage. Partner commanders are counted apart. • Draw a glyph on a seat to give it the monarch, poison, energy, experience, rads or the city's blessing. • Three fingers across the board starts a new game. Two fingers opens the settings. • Circle the dial to undo and redo. • Supports up to 8 players in a pod (7+ on iPad / tablet only) • Say "2/4/6/8 players" to change the game size. • Archenemy and Treachery, dealt and printed by the app. • This is a full-fledged life counter, without menus. THE PRINTER • Cauldron drives the Phomemo M110, MUNBYN FM226 and NETUM NT-861 over Bluetooth, and the Brother QL-710W and QL-810W over Wi-Fi. • The NT-861 cuts each card off the roll, at real card size or sized to fit a sleeve. • The printers use no ink - merely fast heat transfer to receipt paper, they will not smear. • A print queue lines up as many cards as you like, shows what is left, and can be stopped and carried on. DICE AND COINS AND MORE • Say "roll a d20" or "flip a coin." • Four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty and a hundred sides... • all announced out loud by a voice synthesizer that sounds like it was built in 1982. • "Momir {number}" to get a random creature. Say "Calling Mr. Vig" for a standalone Momir Vig faux-payphone interface. • Say "copy camera" to photograph a card and print it as a copy. THE TOKEN INDEX Say "token index" or hold four fingers on the board to open it. • Browse and search every printable token, by name or by artist, with filters for each kind of token. • Swipe through each token's artwork and print the one you like. • Tap an artwork to keep it out of random picks, or long-press to always print that one. • SHUFFLE, RANDOM and SEQUENTIAL control how artwork is dealt when you ask by voice. • A UB switch keeps Universes Beyond artwork out of random picks. • Create your own tokens, and add your own artwork to or photo library. • Favorites: drag the heart onto artwork you love, then print one, print them all, or share them as an Instagram story. • See any card full screen, with the artist credited u • Tap (i) for a guide to everything. THE CARD INDEX Say "card index" to open it. • Every real Magic card, held on your phone, to search, sort and print. • Browse by set, and print a booster pack. • Print a whole card, or just its art or its words. GAME MODES • Archenemy, Treachery, Planechase • Chaos draft Every token is indexed on your phone, so lookup is quick. Speech is recognised on the device. Nothing about your game is uploaded anywhere. No Accounts. No Signups. WHAT YOU NEED A supported thermal printer and a roll of paper. Cauldron will show you which paper and printer to purchase. Card data and images from Scryfall. Cauldron 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 Apple's Standard Terms of Use apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

Screenshots

Helvault4 screens
Cauldron4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Cauldron at 100% against Helvault's 32%. Cauldron also leads on rating (5.0 vs 4.2) and in-app purchases (none vs 6). Helvault's advantage is ratings volume (279 vs 49). 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

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Helvault sells 6 one-off in-app purchases. Cauldron asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Cauldron holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Helvault has 279 ratings behind it against 49, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 32% of Helvault's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cauldron's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Helvault ships an update fortnightly, Cauldron every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and October 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
Helvault versus Cauldron: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterHelvaultCauldron
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.2 (279 ratings)5.0 (49 ratings) — better
Positive reviews31.8% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings279 — better49
Update frequencyFortnightlyEvery 2 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.016.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size58 MB93 MB
Age rating9+12+
DeveloperVitor CescoJoseph Liechty

Customer experience

Helvault

All ratings279 ratings
Positive79.9%
Neutral3.9%
Negative16.1%
Written reviews107 reviews
Positive31.8%
Neutral6.5%
Negative61.7%

Cauldron

All ratings49 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews15 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and 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

Cauldron

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Helvault

One-time6
  • 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
None

Cauldron

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Helvault free?
Helvault is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Cauldron free?
Cauldron is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Helvault or Cauldron?
Cauldron is rated higher. Helvault averages 4.2 out of 5 from 279 ratings, while Cauldron averages 5.0 from 49 ratings.
Do Helvault or Cauldron have ads?
Neither Helvault nor Cauldron shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Helvault or Cauldron?
Helvault ships an update fortnightly, and Cauldron every 2 days. Most recently, Helvault was updated on October 14, 2026 and Cauldron on October 17, 2026.

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