CardWisp vs Cauldron
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
CardWisp
Manage your Magic: The Gathering game night with this all-in-one companion app. Track life totals for multiple players, build and refine decks with powerful tools, and easily scan and organize your card collection.
- Multiplayer life tracking
- Commander damage matrix
- Full deck builder with Scryfall search
- Card collection scanner (OCR)
- Binder organization
- Foil tracking
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One app for your whole game night. CardWisp is a Magic: The Gathering companion built for players who want to spend less time juggling apps and more time playing. Track life totals at the table, build and tune decks on the bus, scan your collection on the couch. All from one home. LIFE TRACKER • 2 to 6 players, with portrait or landscape layouts • Commander damage matrix, poison, energy, experience, monarch • "Who goes first" gold-pulse D20, plus a full DnD dice roller • No more reaching for a separate app mid-game DECK BUILDER • Full deck building with live Scryfall search • Paste a Moxfield or Archidekt list and CardWisp imports it card by card with a real progress bar • Auto-detected Commander Brackets (1 to 5), with a one-tap override • Mana curve, average CMC, color balance, type breakdown • Secret Lair flavor names (Hatsune Miku, Marvel, Universes Within) display correctly • Token search, commander picker, full card art viewer PLAYTEST (PRO) • Test-drive any deck solo, no opponent needed • Draw, Scry, Surveil, Mill, and search your library • Free-form battlefield: move cards between hand, play, graveyard, and exile • Counters, custom tokens, and transform cards • Track life and turns as you rehearse your opening COLLECTION • Card scanner powered by OCR. Point your camera at any card name. • Smart printing matcher with foil-glare hint and a "Wrong printing? Choose…" picker • Binder organization for sets, decks-in-progress, or however you like • Search and add cards from Scryfall directly • Foil tracking with separate price display FREE TIER • 500 unique cards in your collection • 10 decks • 25 card scans per day • All Life Tracker features, no limits PRO • Monthly $1.99, Yearly $19.99 (about $1.66/mo), or Lifetime $79.99 (one-time, no subscription) • Unlimited collection, decks, and scans • Playtest: test-drive any deck solo before game night • The lifetime tier is for people who don't want a subscription. We don't see one anywhere else. PRIVACY CardWisp doesn't sell your data, doesn't use advertising trackers, and doesn't share your collection with anyone. Card scan images are processed and discarded, never stored. TERMS OF USE CardWisp uses Apple's Standard End User License Agreement: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ CardWisp is an independent fan project. Magic: The Gathering and all related card names and images are trademarks of Wizards of the Coast LLC. CardWisp is not produced, endorsed, or supported by Wizards of the Coast.
Cauldron
This app allows users to print game tokens and track life totals using voice commands. It supports various token types and game mechanics, and also includes dice rolling and coin flipping functionalities. Requires a specific thermal printer.
- Voice-activated token printing
- Life total tracking
- Commander damage tracking
- Dice rolling and coin flipping
- Monarch and status effects
- Offline speech recognition
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Say the name of a token. It comes out of your printer. Nobody can have every token handy when the situation calls for it. Cauldron is a life counter / token-printer. 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. • 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. • Supports up to 8 players in a pod (7+ on iPad / tablet only) • Say "2/4/6/8 players" to change the game size. • This is a full-fledged life counter, without menus. THE PRINTER • Cauldron drives the Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 over Bluetooth. • The printers use no ink - merely fast heat transfer to receipt paper, they will not smear. • The batteries last several days on a single charge over USB-C. 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. 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. • Add your own artwork to any token from your camera or photo library, with or without the token's text printed under it. • 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 underneath. • Tap (i) for a guide to everything. 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 Phomemo M110 or MUNBYN FM226 printer and a roll of thermal 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 the Coast LLC. 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 in-app purchases: Cauldron at none against CardWisp's 3. Cauldron also leads on update cadence (every 4 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, rating, review sentiment and ratings volume 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. CardWisp sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Cauldron asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for CardWisp against 5.0 for Cauldron. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 10 and 21 respectively. Written reviews split almost evenly too, at 100% and 100% positive.
CardWisp ships an update every 3 weeks, Cauldron every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 5, 2026 and October 1, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | CardWisp | Cauldron |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (10 ratings) | 5.0 (21 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 10 | 21 — better |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 4 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone, iPad — better |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 16.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 82 MB | 53 MB |
| Age rating | 9+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Jimiai Ajikaia | Joseph Liechty |
Customer experience
CardWisp
Cauldron
In-app purchases
CardWisp
- Pro Monthly$1.991 Month
- Pro Yearly$19.991 Year
- Pro Lifetime$79.99
Cauldron
No in-app purchases









