Comparison

BotBox vs Decksmith

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

Head to head
About

BotBox

Simulate opening Magic: The Gathering booster packs and gain insights into card values. Explore sealed products, track prices, and make informed decisions before purchasing. Enjoy the thrill of cracking packs with real-world financial data.

Highlights
  • Booster pack simulation
  • Card value tracking
  • Sealed product exploration
  • Detailed statistics
  • Smart purchasing decisions
Features
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BotBox is a Magic: The Gathering pack simulator that combines the excitement of opening boosters with real value insights. Explore sealed products from across sets, track card values, and see detailed statistics before you buy. Whether you’re a player, collector, or investor, BotBox helps you enjoy the thrill of cracking packs while making smarter decisions with your money. BotBox 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 the Coast LLC.

About

Decksmith

Effortlessly manage your Magic: The Gathering collection with real-time card scanning and price tracking. Build and validate decks for various formats, analyze their composition, and connect with a community of players. Enjoy offline access and robust privacy controls.

Highlights
  • Real-time card scanning
  • Automatic price tracking
  • Format-aware deck building
  • Collection inventory management
  • Offline access
  • Community features
  • Privacy controls
Features
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Your entire Magic collection, in your pocket. Decksmith turns your iPhone into a card scanner, a price tracker, a format-aware deck builder and a social hub for players — wrapped in a fast, beautiful, native interface. Point your camera at a card and it is recognised in real time. Name, set, rarity, artwork and current market price are filled in automatically. No typing. No spreadsheets. — SCAN. TAP. COLLECTED. — • Real-time card recognition straight from the camera — no manual entry • One-tap confirm adds the card, its artwork and its full data to your collection • Pick the exact printing you own, set foil or non-foil, and track multiple copies • Every card image is stored on device, so your collection stays gorgeous offline — KNOW WHAT IT'S WORTH — Live market prices in USD or EUR. Decksmith keeps the price you paid alongside today's value, for every single card, so you can see at a glance what your collection has done — card by card and as a whole. Refresh whenever you want an update. — A DECK BUILDER THAT KNOWS THE RULES — Build for Standard, Modern, Pioneer, Legacy, Vintage, Commander, Pauper or Casual. Decksmith enforces deck size and copy limits for the format you chose, gives Commander its own dedicated slot, and tells you the moment a deck is legal. — SEE THE SHAPE OF YOUR DECK — An automatic mana curve, card-type distribution and average mana value for every deck you build. Spot the missing two-drop before your opponent does. — FIND ANY CARD, INSTANTLY — Search the full Magic card database or your own collection. Filter by colour, rarity, card type, set, mana cost, foil finish and double-faced cards. Sort by name, price or date added. Switch between grid and list whenever it suits you. — SMART LISTS — Build lists that fill themselves. Save any combination of filters as a smart list — trade binder, EDH staples, everything foil under €5 — and it updates itself as your collection grows. Or curate a list by hand. Give each one its own icon and colour. — YOUR CARDS, FULL SCREEN — A gallery mode built for staring at cardboard. High-resolution art, glowing foil borders on your foils, pinch to zoom into the tiniest detail, swipe from card to card. Double-faced cards flip with a tap. — EVEN BETTER TOGETHER — Join the Decksmith Community and the app opens up: publish decks with one tap, collect likes and comments, follow the players whose brews you love, browse their collections and decks for inspiration, send friend requests, and keep up with everything in a live activity feed. — PRIVACY YOU ACTUALLY CONTROL — The whole app works offline, with no account and no sign-up — your collection lives on your device. Create an account only if you want cloud sync across your iPhone and iPad, or the community features. Then decide exactly what is visible: profile visibility, whether you are discoverable, and whether new decks default to public or private. Block anyone. Export or delete your data at any time. — IMPORT AND EXPORT, NO LOCK-IN — Bring your collection with you via CSV from the popular collection and deck-building sites, or restore a full Decksmith backup — collection, decks and lists included. Export your data to a single file whenever you like and share it via AirDrop, mail or cloud storage. — BUILT LIKE AN APPLE APP — Written from scratch in SwiftUI. Dark from the first pixel, tuned for 120 Hz, alive with haptics, and quick everywhere it counts. No subscription. No ads. No account required. Card data and images provided by Scryfall. Decksmith is an unofficial fan app and is not affiliated with, endorsed or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast. Magic: The Gathering is © Wizards of the Coast LLC. Start scanning. Start building.

Screenshots

BotBox4 screens
Decksmith4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Decksmith at 5.0 against BotBox's 4.1. Decksmith also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 75%). BotBox's advantage is ratings volume (14 vs 1). On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Decksmith holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.1. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: BotBox has 14 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 75% of BotBox's written reviews are positive against 100% of Decksmith's.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
BotBox versus Decksmith: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterBotBoxDecksmith
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.1 (14 ratings)5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews75.0% of reviews100.0% of reviews — better
Number of ratings14 — better1
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS17.6 — better18.0
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB24 MB
Age rating4+9+
DeveloperEthan MaxeyWaldemar Schneider

Customer experience

BotBox

All ratings12 ratings
Positive91.7%
Neutral0.0%
Negative8.3%
Written reviews4 reviews
Positive75.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative25.0%

Decksmith

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

BotBox

No in-app purchases

None

Decksmith

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is BotBox free?
BotBox is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Decksmith free?
Decksmith is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, BotBox or Decksmith?
Decksmith is rated higher. BotBox averages 4.1 out of 5 from 14 ratings, while Decksmith averages 5.0 from 1 ratings.
Do BotBox or Decksmith have ads?
Neither BotBox nor Decksmith shows ads.
Which is updated more often, BotBox or Decksmith?
BotBox ships an update every 3 weeks, and Decksmith every 3 weeks. Most recently, BotBox was updated on October 6, 2026 and Decksmith on October 4, 2026.

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