Purplemana vs Deckitect
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Purplemana
Instantly identify and price your trading cards from over 70 games. Track your collection's value over time without spreadsheets and make informed decisions for buying and selling.
- Instant card pricing
- Collection value tracking
- Fast card scanning
- Support for 70+ games
- Informed buy/sell decisions
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Turn every pull into clarity—know what your trading cards are worth instantly. Purplemana helps you scan, price, and track your trading card collection across 70+ games, so you can buy smarter, trade confidently, and never lose track of value. KEY BENEFITS • Get instant card prices so you can negotiate trades with confidence • Track your collection’s value over time—without spreadsheets • Scan faster, even with cards in sleeves, to add cards in seconds • Collect across games in one place (Magic, Pokémon, One Piece, and more) • Make better buy/sell decisions with reliable, up-to-date pricing data HOW IT WORKS Scan a card with your camera to identify it and pull the latest market price. Add it to your collection to track what you own and watch your total value update as prices move. WHO IT’S FOR Collectors, traders, and players who want a fast trading card scanner, accurate TCG pricing, and a simple way to manage a growing collection. Download Purplemana and scan your first card now.
Deckitect
This app helps you build Commander decks for Magic: The Gathering. It can create a deck based on any theme you can imagine, drawing from a vast library of cards.
- Commander deck building
- Theme-based deck creation
- Supports vast card library
- Magic: The Gathering focus
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Magic: The Gathering has over 30,000 cards and a constant supply of new material. Deckitect will build a Commander format deck for you based on any theme you can imagine.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Deckitect at 5.0 against Purplemana's 4.2. Deckitect also leads on monetization model (free vs ad-supported) and device support (3 vs 1). Purplemana's advantage is update cadence (every 2 days vs every 4 months) and ratings volume (5 vs 1). On price, ads, in-app purchases and iOS requirement 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.
Deckitect holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.2. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Purplemana has 5 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Purplemana ships an update every 2 days, Deckitect every 4 months. The most recent releases landed on October 30, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Purplemana | Deckitect |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.2 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 50.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 5 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 2 days — better | Every 4 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Ad-supported | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad, iPod — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.4 | 15.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 230 MB | 5 MB |
| Age rating | 17+ | 12+ |
| Developer | PMX Labs Inc | Justin Guy |
Customer experience
Purplemana
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In-app purchases
Purplemana
No in-app purchases
Deckitect
No in-app purchases
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