ScoreKeep Pro vs CanastaMagic
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both games, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
ScoreKeep Pro
Easily track scores for any game, from board games to backyard tournaments. Save game history, player records, and create custom templates. Share final scorecards or export data.
- Set up scorecards in seconds
- Real-time leaderboard updates
- Save and search game history
- Track player records and head-to-head stats
- Create custom game templates
- Share scorecards as images or CSV
- Offline functionality
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Keep score for any game — then keep the score. Cards, board games, trivia night, backyard tournaments. Set up a scorecard in seconds, and when the game ends, ScoreKeep Pro remembers it. That is the part a paper scorepad has never managed. SET UP IN SECONDS Pick the number of rounds, name them whatever the game calls them — Deal 1, Front Nine, Bid — and start playing. Up to 12 players and 30 rounds. Playing something where the lowest score wins? One toggle. TAP A CELL, TYPE THE SCORE A big keypad, one player after the next, and Undo for when a thumb slips. Totals and the leader update as you type, so nobody has to add up a column mid-game, and nobody has to trust the person who is winning to do the arithmetic. YOUR GAMES, ON THE SHELF Give a setup a name — its rounds, round names, scoring direction and usual players — and it becomes a box on your shelf, in its own colour. Open the box and start. The games you play most rise to the top, and you can change a box's colour or contents whenever your house rules do. GAME HISTORY Every finished game is saved: who played, every round, the final scores, and who won. Search by player or by game, and open any scorecard again months later. RECORDS AND HEAD-TO-HEAD Wins, win rate, current and best streak, and your best score and average at every game. Then the interesting part: a head-to-head record against everyone you play. Who actually wins most is no longer a matter of opinion. YOUR PLAYERS, SAVED Keep the people you play with on a roster, so their names are one tap instead of retyped every session — and so their records follow them from game to game. Someone joining for one night can play as a guest without cluttering the roster. Played a few games before saving someone? Link them to those games afterwards and their record catches up. SHARE THE SCORECARD Send the final scorecard to the group chat as an image, or export it as a CSV to do your own damage in a spreadsheet. PUT IT DOWN, PICK IT UP Save & exit keeps the game you are in the middle of, and it is waiting on the Home screen when you come back. Nothing is lost if your phone dies mid-round. IPHONE AND IPAD Laid out for both, and built to work with the largest text sizes and with VoiceOver. WORKS ANYWHERE No connection needed, ever. The kitchen table, the back of a cabin, a plane. PRIVATE BY DEFAULT No account. No sign-in. No ads. No tracking, and no third-party code of any kind. Everything you enter stays on your device. Free, with no subscriptions and no paywalls.
CanastaMagic
This app simplifies scoring for Modern American Canasta. It offers camera-based scoring for closed canastas, open melds, and leftover cards, or a free manual scoring option. Track games with friends, review history, and manage special hands, bonuses, and penalties.
- Camera scoring for cards
- Manual score entry
- Friend tracking and stats
- Game history and saved rounds
- Special hands, bonuses, and penalties
- Subscription for advanced features
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Stop counting cards by hand. CanastaMagic is the smartest way to score Modern American Canasta. Camera Scoring: Use your camera to score closed canastas, open melds, and leftover cards by simply pointing your camera at these parts of your hand and tapping the camera shutter. Manual Scoring: Prefer to enter scores yourself? The full manual scoring flow is always available for free. Input closed canastas, open melds, and leftover cards with a clean, intuitive interface designed for fast entry, and the app will simply calculate your total score according to the rules and provide a clear summary to ensure you never miscount again. Play With Friends: Add friends and track games together. If you are making wagers the app will track the value per point and compute payouts as well. See who's on top in the dedicated "Stats" section where you can filter your own game states by partner and opponents. Game History: Every round and game is saved automatically. Review past scores, track winning streaks, and continue paused games with ease. Special Hands, Bonuses and Penalties: All 11 special hands are built in. Apply them in the scoring flow or browse the full reference guide anytime from the menu. Bonuses and Penalties are applied to your team's cards without any calculation required. Subscription: Camera scoring requires a subscription after 6 free scans. Manual scoring is always free. Subscriptions are billed monthly and can be cancelled anytime through your Apple ID settings. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: ScoreKeep Pro at none against CanastaMagic's 4. CanastaMagic's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). On price, rating, ratings volume and ads 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. CanastaMagic sells 4 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. ScoreKeep Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for ScoreKeep Pro against 5.0 for CanastaMagic. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.
ScoreKeep Pro ships an update monthly, CanastaMagic every 2 days. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | ScoreKeep Pro | CanastaMagic |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (1 ratings) | 5.0 (2 ratings) |
| Number of ratings | 1 | 2 — better |
| Update frequency | Monthly | Every 2 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Free — better | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.6 | 17.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 4 MB | 13 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Samuel Smith | Ceramic Global LLC |
Customer experience
ScoreKeep Pro
CanastaMagic
In-app purchases
ScoreKeep Pro
No in-app purchases
CanastaMagic
- Premium Bronze$1.991 Month
- Premium Silver$3.991 Month
- Premium Gold$6.991 Month
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- Premium Platinum$12.991 Month








