SnapDrafter vs MTG Signet
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
SnapDrafter
Digitally save, organize, and share your Magic: The Gathering draft decks with ease. Instantly import cards by snapping a photo, track your performance, and access card rulings. Enjoy an ad-free experience for all your drafting needs.
- Instant photo deck capture with OCR
- Organized digital deck library
- Track deck performance and stats
- Export decklists as text
- Quick card ruling lookups
- Basic land calculator
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SnapDrafter turns your paper Magic: The Gathering decks into clean, organized digital decklists in seconds. • Snap a photo, get a digital decklist. Point your camera at your decklist and SnapDrafter's on-device OCR reads every card name, fuzzy-matching it against the full Magic card database. Review matches with confidence scores, tap to correct with autocomplete, and save. All processing happens locally on your device without an account. • A toolkit built for draft and cube players. Visualize your deck with mana curve and color distribution charts. Tap any card for its oracle text and official Gatherer rulings. Use the smart basic land calculator, weighted by mana cost, ramp, and fixing. Keep every token your cards create at your fingertips. • Your drafts, archived. SnapDrafter remembers every deck with its date, set or cube, and win-loss record. Filter, sort, revisit your history, and back everything up in one tap. • Share and export. Send your play group a beautiful decklist image with card art and your record, ready for social media. Or copy your deck as a standard text list to import into Cubecobra, Moxfield, Archidekt, and any other tool you love. No ads. No tracking. No cloud. SnapDrafter is local-only and free, supported by donations from players like you. If it makes your draft nights better, consider donating to show your support.
MTG Signet
This app helps Magic: The Gathering Commander players track life totals, commander damage, counters, and dice rolls for multiplayer games. It also includes a deck library with version history and supports various formats, with real-time syncing between players' devices.
- Life totals tracking
- Commander damage tracker
- Counter management
- Dice roller
- Deck library with version history
- Real-time pod syncing
- Game history and stats
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Signet is a pocket life-tracker for Magic: The Gathering Commander pods. Built for 2–6 player tables, it keeps every number you need in one place — life totals, commander damage, counters, dice rolls — and syncs between phones in your pod so the table phone isn't doing all the work. GAME-DAY ESSENTIALS • Life totals with rapid press for ±1 and hold for ±5 • Commander damage tracker with focal-player view (tap to swap) • Counters: poison, energy, experience, storm, commander tax — all in one drawer • Dice roller: d4 through d100, with crit/fumble visuals • Random first-player picker • End-of-game review with rematch, save-copy, or back-to-lobby DECK LIBRARY • Paste in a deck list (plain text), Signet validates every card via Scryfall • Per-deck version history — never lose an older build • Commander · 100 Singleton · Pauper · Brawl format support • Offline-tolerant: a local card cache keeps lookups working in spotty venues POD LIFECYCLE • Host a pod, share a join code or QR • Realtime lobby — see who's joined and what deck they're bringing • Once everyone's ready, the host's phone runs the game (host-local, no juddery sync mid-play) HISTORY • Every game saves to your history with winners, turn counts, final life totals • Per-player stats: wins, average turns, most-used decks • Multi-select delete · per-user clear · attribution by display name PRIVACY-FIRST • Passwordless email sign-in — no passwords • No analytics, no ads, no third-party tracking SDKs of any kind • Delete your account at any time from inside the app • Full privacy policy at mtgsignet.app/privacy Signet is an independent fan-made tool. Magic: The Gathering and Commander are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Signet is not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast or Hasbro.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: MTG Signet at 16.4 against SnapDrafter's 18.0. 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for SnapDrafter against 5.0 for MTG Signet. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 1 respectively.
| Parameter | SnapDrafter | MTG Signet |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly | — |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 45 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Dorian Brown | BRADLEY BROWN |
In-app purchases
SnapDrafter
No in-app purchases
MTG Signet
No in-app purchases
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