Comparison

Poket Deck vs Explain The Card

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

Head to head
About

Poket Deck

Features
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THIS IS NOT A GAME. This app is a fan-based creation and is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by The PokΓ©mon Company. The PokΓ©mon Company owns all rights to the PokΓ©mon Trading Card Game and related trademarks. This ultimate companion app helps you track progress, manage your collection, and get personalized recommendations for booster packs to open to complete your sets. Perfect for beginners and seasoned trainers, this app ensures you never miss out on a rare card again. Features: - Track Your Collection: See your progress at a glance. - Booster Pack Recommendations: Get insights on which packs to open to complete your collection. - Missing Cards Highlights: Identify which cards you need to finish your missions and earn rewards. - User-Friendly Interface: Enjoy a clean, intuitive design that makes managing your collection a breeze.

About

Explain The Card

This app uses AI to help Magic: The Gathering players understand cards, build decks, and manage their collections. It offers features like card scanning for rules and prices, AI-powered deck construction, and collection valuation.

Highlights
  • AI-powered card explanation
  • Rules question answering
  • Commander deck builder
  • Collection scanner and manager
  • Card price and legality check
  • Combo discovery
  • Pre-grade centering analysis
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Explain The Card is your AI co-pilot for Magic: The Gathering. Point your camera at a card and find out what it really does. Ask a rules question and get a straight answer. Build a Commander deck in minutes, keep your whole collection in your pocket, and check a card's centering before you send it off for grading. UNDERSTAND ANY CARD Scan a card, no shutter and no typing, and see its Oracle text, rulings, prices and legality right away. When the wording gets tricky, one tap explains it in plain language. Scan two cards to see how they work together, or whether one quietly shuts the other down. ASK THE RULES, GET A REAL ANSWER "Can I respond to this?" "Does my creature survive?" Ask the way you'd ask a friend at the table. Every answer is grounded in the actual card text, official rulings and the Comprehensive Rules, not internet guesswork, and comes back in the language you play in. BUILD A COMMANDER DECK IN MINUTES Pick a commander, choose a power bracket and a budget, and describe the deck you want in your own words: "goblin tribal", "lands matter", "pillow fort". You get a complete, legal 100-card list sorted by role, with a game plan for how it wants to win. Build from the cards you already own, if you like. DISCOVER COMBOS Search thousands of Commander combos by card name or in plain English, like "infinite mana", and see step by step how each one plays out. YOUR COLLECTION, SCANNED Fan your cards past the camera and each one lands with the right set and printing. Anything the camera isn't sure about waits for a quick check. Keep a binder and want lists right here, or export your cards for ten popular deck and collection sites, each in its own format. See what your collection is worth and how that has changed, down to a single box or binder, and share a dated valuation report when you need one. Scanning, exporting and value history are all free, with no card limit. PRE-GRADE BEFORE YOU SUBMIT Thinking about sending a card off to be graded? Photograph its front and back, and Pre-Grade measures the centering and shows the best grade that centering allows under each major grading company's published standards. Nudge the guides if they're off, and save the gradings you want to keep. It's free and works on any card, owned or not. ALWAYS WITH YOU The full Comprehensive Rules work offline, and widgets, Siri and Spotlight keep any card or rule a moment away. A NOTE ON AI AI features are powered by Google's Agent Platform (Gemini). Nothing is sent until you opt in, and you can turn it off any time in Settings. Scanning, card data, combos, Pre-Grade and your collection all work without AI. LEGAL Privacy Policy: https://rosalabs.app/etc/privacy.html Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Explain The Card 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. Β©Wizards of the Coast LLC.

Screenshots

Poket Deck4 screens
Explain The Card4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Poket Deck at none against Explain The Card's 3. Poket Deck also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 days) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.1). On price, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Β· Rating Β· Positive reviews Β· Number of ratings Β· Update frequency Β· Ads Β· In-app purchases Β· Monetization Β· Best chart rank Β· Devices Β· Requires iOS

CostPrice Β· In-app purchases Β· Ads Β· Monetization

Both are free to download. Explain The Card sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Poket Deck asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Poket Deck ships an update every 2 days, Explain The Card every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 27, 2026 and November 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences Β· 5 level
Poket Deck versus Explain The Card: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterPoket DeckExplain The Card
PriceFreeFree
Positive reviewsβ€”100.0% of reviews
Update frequencyEvery 2 days β€” betterEvery 4 days
AdsYesYes
In-app purchasesNo β€” betterYes
Monetizationβ€”Free with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod β€” betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 β€” better26.1
Further details β€” not scored
Size36 MB56 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperJuan ChavarroDanny Hollek

In-app purchases

None

Poket Deck

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Explain The Card

Subscriptions2
  • Premium Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Premium Annual$19.991 Year
One-time1
  • 50 Credits$0.99

Questions

Is Poket Deck free?
Poket Deck is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Explain The Card free?
Explain The Card is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Poket Deck or Explain The Card have ads?
Both Poket Deck and Explain The Card show ads.
Which is updated more often, Poket Deck or Explain The Card?
Poket Deck ships an update every 2 days, and Explain The Card every 4 days. Most recently, Poket Deck was updated on October 27, 2026 and Explain The Card on November 1, 2026.

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