Dreamborn.ink Companion vs Cauldron
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Dreamborn.ink Companion
Effortlessly catalog your Disney Lorcana card collection by scanning them with your device's camera. The app instantly identifies cards, verifies them against a comprehensive database, and syncs them to your online collection. Supports multiple languages and works offline.
- Instant card identification via camera
- Syncs directly to dreamborn.ink collection
- Smart recognition for accurate matching
- Multi-language card support
- Offline queue saving
- Browse and filter Lorcana catalog
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The fastest way to get your Disney Lorcana collection into dreamborn.ink -- just point your camera and scan. Dreamborn.ink Companion uses your iPhone's camera to instantly identify Lorcana cards and sync them directly to your dreamborn.ink collection. Whether you're cataloging a massive new haul or tracking down a single missing card, getting cards into your collection has never been this effortless. SCAN SEVERAL CARDS AT ONCE Lay out a few cards and capture them all with one tap -- each card is outlined as it's recognised. Prefer one at a time? Turn on auto mode and the app captures each card as you hold it up, no tapping required. Review your queue before anything reaches your collection. RECOGNIZES THE CARD, NOT JUST THE TEXT Cards are identified by their artwork using recognition that runs right on your phone -- fast, and reliable even in tricky lighting. The app reads each card's print code to pick the exact printing and the language it was printed in. If it isn't sure, it shows you the best candidates to choose from instead of guessing. EVERY LANGUAGE Scanning French, German, Italian, Spanish, Japanese, or Chinese cards? Just scan them -- each card is added in the language it's printed in. Mix languages in the same session if you like. BROWSE YOUR FULL COLLECTION View every card in the Lorcana catalog and filter by set, color, rarity, type, or franchise. See your quantities and card prices at a glance, and tap any card to update your counts directly from your phone. SEAMLESS DREAMBORN.INK SYNC Scanned cards are queued locally and uploaded to your collection in a single batch whenever you're ready. Your queue is saved automatically, even if you force-quit the app. ---------------------------------------- Requires a free dreamborn.ink account. Sign in with your existing dreamborn.ink credentials, your Google account, or Sign in with Apple.
Cauldron
This app acts as a life counter for tabletop games, allowing users to print tokens, dice, and cards directly from their device. It supports multiple players, various game modes, and integrates with compatible thermal printers and e-ink displays.
- Voice-activated token and card printing
- Integrated life counter for up to 8 players
- Supports Commander damage and monarch mechanics
- Bluetooth and Wi-Fi printer compatibility
- E-ink display support for tokens
- Dice rolling and coin flipping
- Token and card index with search and filtering
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Say the name of a card. It comes out of your printer. Cauldron is the life counter that prints tokens. Hold the microphone, say "goblin" or "4/4 angel with flying" or "treasure," and the card is found, dithered and printed on receipt paper in about a second. LIFE COUNTER • Drag from one seat to another to deal commander damage. Partner commanders are counted apart. • Draw a glyph on a seat to give it the monarch, poison, energy, experience, rads or the city's blessing. • Three fingers across the board starts a new game. Two fingers opens the settings. • Circle the dial to undo and redo. • Supports up to 8 players in a pod (7+ on iPad / tablet only) • Say "2/4/6/8 players" to change the game size. • Archenemy and Treachery, dealt and printed by the app. • This is a full-fledged life counter, without menus. THE PRINTER • Cauldron drives 7 different printers over Bluetooth, and two others over Wi-Fi. • The printers use no ink - merely fast heat transfer to receipt paper, they will not smear. • A print queue lines up as many cards as you like, shows what is left, and can be stopped and carried on. E-INK • Cauldron supports 5 variety of thin, cheap e-ink displays for token print targets, written to over NFC DICE AND COINS AND MORE • Say "roll a d20" or "flip a coin." • Four, six, eight, ten, twelve, twenty and a hundred sides... • all announced out loud by a voice synthesizer that sounds like it was built in 1982. • "Momir {number}" to get a random creature. Say "Calling Mr. Vig" for a standalone Momir Vig faux-payphone interface. • Say "copy camera" to photograph a card and print it as a copy. THE TOKEN INDEX Say "token index" or hold four fingers on the board to open it. • Browse and search every printable token, by name or by artist, with filters for each kind of token. • Swipe through each token's artwork and print the one you like. • Tap an artwork to keep it out of random picks, or long-press to always print that one. • SHUFFLE, RANDOM and SEQUENTIAL control how artwork is dealt when you ask by voice. • A UB switch keeps Universes Beyond artwork out of random picks. • Create your own tokens, and add your own artwork to or photo library. • Favorites: drag the heart onto artwork you love, then print one, print them all, or share them as an Instagram story. • See any card full screen, with the artist credited u • Tap (i) for a guide to everything. THE CARD INDEX Say "card index" to open it. • Every real Magic card, held on your phone, to search, sort and print. • Browse by set, and print a booster pack. • Print a whole card, or just its art or its words. GAME MODES • Archenemy, Treachery, Planechase and Horde • Chaos draft Every token is indexed on your phone, so lookup is quick. Speech is recognised on the device. Nothing about your game is uploaded anywhere. No Accounts. No Signups. WHAT YOU NEED A supported thermal printer and a roll of paper. Cauldron will show you which paper and printer to purchase. Card data and images from Scryfall. Cauldron 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 Apple's Standard Terms of Use apply: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Cauldron at 5.0 against Dreamborn.ink Companion's 4.0. Cauldron also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 67%) and update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 months). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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.
Cauldron holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cauldron has 54 ratings behind it against 5, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 67% of Dreamborn.ink Companion's written reviews are positive against 100% of Cauldron's.
Dreamborn.ink Companion ships an update every 3 months, Cauldron every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 10, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Dreamborn.ink Companion | Cauldron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.0 (5 ratings) | 5.0 (54 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 5 | 54 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 months | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free | Free |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.2 | 16.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 96 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Dreamborn | Joseph Liechty |
Customer experience
Dreamborn.ink Companion
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In-app purchases
Dreamborn.ink Companion
No in-app purchases
Cauldron
No in-app purchases
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