Comparison

MTG Ledger vs Shiny Tracker

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

Head to head
About

MTG Ledger

Track your Magic: The Gathering collection's value with live pricing and detailed analytics. Manage inventory, build decks, and set price alerts privately on your devices. Features include card scanning, condition tracking, and P&L reporting.

Highlights
  • Card scanning and search
  • Inventory and binder management
  • Live pricing from Scryfall
  • Deck building and shopping lists
  • Price alerts and notifications
  • Trade logging and P&L tracking
  • Collection analytics
Features
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Magic Ledger is a privacy-first portfolio tracker for Magic: The Gathering collectors. Track every printing, finish, and condition in your collection, watch its value move with live Scryfall pricing, and build decks against what you actually own — all in a polished, dark-themed app that lives entirely on your devices. INVENTORY & BINDERS • Add any printing in seconds with Scryfall search or the camera card-name scanner • Track finish (non-foil, foil, etched), condition (NM through Damaged), purchase price, source, and notes • Group cards into named binders that mirror real-world storage • Bulk-edit dozens of cards at once: move binders, change condition, set finish, delete • Import from CSV; export any view as CSV for backup or sharing LIVE PRICING & HISTORY • Daily price refreshes from Scryfall (USD and EUR) • Configurable condition multipliers — your Heavily Played card doesn't price like NM • True historical portfolio chart with day, week, month, year, and all-time ranges • Per-card 180-day price sparkline DECK BUILDING • Build decks for any format with full Scryfall metadata • Per-deck shopping list of cards you're missing, with current prices • Import decklists from text or Moxfield URLs • Allocate copies you own across multiple decks WISHLIST & PRICE ALERTS • Build a want-list with priority levels and target prices • Get a local notification the moment any card crosses a threshold you set — no account, no server • One-tap conversion of a wishlist target into a buy alert TRADES & REALIZED P&L • Log purchases, sales, trades-in, and trades-out • Realized P&L flows automatically onto the dashboard, separate from unrealized gains • Optional auto-decrement of inventory when you record a sale ANALYTICS • Color identity, rarity, and condition breakdowns • Top 10 most valuable cards • Top sets in your collection HOME SCREEN WIDGETS • Portfolio value with today's change at a glance • Top movers (24h) widget — see the cards that moved your portfolio overnight • Small, medium, and large sizes PRIVATE BY DESIGN • No accounts. No analytics. No tracking. • Your collection lives on your devices and (optionally) syncs across them via your private iCloud container. • Card data and pricing come from Scryfall's free public API. Magic: The Gathering is a trademark of Wizards of the Coast LLC. Magic Ledger is not affiliated with, endorsed, or sponsored by Wizards of the Coast.

About

Shiny Tracker

Organize your shiny hunting progress with this focused tracker. Log encounters, save found shinies with details, and manage multiple hunts simultaneously. Share your progress and track your collection across devices.

Highlights
  • Track active and found hunts
  • Multi Hunt for up to four hunts
  • Adjustable encounter step counter
  • Save nicknames for found shinies
  • Track Dex and Living Dex progress
  • Share hunts and finds
  • Cross-device support (Mac, Apple Watch)
Features
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Shiny Tracker is a focused native tracker for shiny hunters who want to keep every hunt organized without clutter. Create active hunts, choose a game and method, set your encounter step, and count each encounter from a large, easy-to-tap tracker screen. When a shiny is found, save the result with its encounter count, date, method, game, and optional nickname. Built for quick use during real hunts: • Track active and found hunts • Count up to four active hunts at once with Multi Hunt • Count encounters with adjustable steps • Tap the large counter directly and undo accidental counts • Add existing hunts with custom counts and dates • Save nicknames for found shinies • Track Dex and Living Dex progress • Link evolutions and view hunt history • Pin favorite hunts and Dex entries • Share active hunts and finds as square or story cards • Filter, sort, search, and reorder hunts • Use widgets for active hunts and found shinies • Continue active hunts from Apple Watch • Use the native Mac app with the same hunt data • Optional iCloud sync No account is required. The app is designed to stay quiet, fast, and focused on the hunt.

Screenshots

MTG Ledger4 screens
Shiny Tracker4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: MTG Ledger at 5.0 against Shiny Tracker's 4.3. MTG Ledger also leads on update cadence (every 2 days vs monthly). Shiny Tracker's advantage is ratings volume (17 vs 1). 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

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

MTG Ledger holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.3. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Shiny Tracker has 17 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

MTG Ledger ships an update every 2 days, Shiny Tracker monthly. The most recent releases landed on October 31, 2026 and November 5, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
MTG Ledger versus Shiny Tracker: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMTG LedgerShiny Tracker
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better4.3 (17 ratings)
Number of ratings117 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 days — betterMonthly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, Mac, Apple Watch — better
Requires iOS17.017.0
Further details — not scored
Size3 MB7 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperJoseph DirikLiudger Grunbauer

In-app purchases

None

MTG Ledger

No in-app purchases

None

Shiny Tracker

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is MTG Ledger free?
MTG Ledger is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Shiny Tracker free?
Shiny Tracker is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, MTG Ledger or Shiny Tracker?
MTG Ledger is rated higher. MTG Ledger averages 5.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Shiny Tracker averages 4.3 from 17 ratings.
Do MTG Ledger or Shiny Tracker have ads?
Neither MTG Ledger nor Shiny Tracker shows ads.
Which is updated more often, MTG Ledger or Shiny Tracker?
MTG Ledger ships an update every 2 days, and Shiny Tracker monthly. Most recently, MTG Ledger was updated on October 31, 2026 and Shiny Tracker on November 5, 2026.

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