Comparison

Aether Chronicles vs Spellweaver's Deck

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

Head to head
About

Aether Chronicles

Engage in fast-paced, tactical battles in this dark fantasy collectible card game. Summon creatures, cast spells, and strategize to defeat your opponents. Explore a story campaign, collect over 1,000 unique cards, and compete in ranked PvP or co-op dungeons.

Highlights
  • Tactical card battles
  • Story campaign mode
  • Collect over 1,000 cards
  • Deck building
  • Ranked PvP duels
  • Co-op dungeon delves
Features
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Aether Chronicles is a dark fantasy collectible card game built for quick, tactical battles. Summon creatures into three lanes, time your spells, and break your rival's Soul before they break yours. Every card has a job: steadfast guardians, burning berserkers, creeping poison, unseen assassins, wild cards that roll the dice, and legends that change the whole board. STORY CAMPAIGN Follow a story campaign across a broken world, with chapters, boss battles and choices that shape who stands beside you. COLLECT OVER 1,000 CARDS Open packs, craft the cards you need and chase rare foils. Play a card enough and you unlock its mastery alternate art. BUILD YOUR DECK Mix elements and archetypes in a full deck builder, or start from a ready-made deck and make it your own. RANKED PVP Duel real players on the ranked ladder, climb through the seasons and earn rewards. CO-OP DUNGEON DELVES Team up with a friend and fight through dungeon floors together. AND MORE Daily puzzles, the Arena, drafts, weekly challenges, and a friends list with direct messages. Aether Chronicles is free to play. Optional in-app purchases are available for gems, which open card packs and unlock cosmetics. Card pack drop rates are shown in the shop. An account is required so your collection follows you across devices.

About

Spellweaver's Deck

Features
Currently charting
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A dark-fantasy roguelike deckbuilder where the story changes the cards in your hand. Built for one-thumb portrait play on iPhone. Pay once. No ads, no energy, no pay-to-win. The Hush is spreading through Vessany, taking voices, then names, then the people who owned them. You are a Spellweaver. You bind spells, oaths and memories into a grimoire of cards, and you set out from the Loom to learn what the silence wants. Every run is a new weave. Every choice leaves a thread behind. FOUR SPELLWEAVERS, FOUR WAYS TO FIGHT • Ashbinder – stoke Ember and let Burn do the killing. • Warden – raise Barriers, swear Oaths, and make every blow cost them. • Veilsinger – sow Dread, Echo your best spells, Exhaust what you no longer need. • Bonecaller – spend Bone Shards and your own blood, then hex the weakened. Almost 400 cards to collect and play, dozens of relics, dual-path upgrades, and Inscriptions that rewrite every card they touch. Read enemy intents, plan the turn, drag a card onto or tap and select its target. COMPANIONS WHO REMEMBER Recruit allies who bring their own gift cards and a once-per-fight intervention you trigger from the battle screen. Earn their devotion and they fight harder. Lose their trust and they leave, and the card they gave you curdles into a Regret curse in your deck. Every companion has a fate waiting on the ending screen. A WORLD THAT TALKS BACK More than a hundred story events across three acts. Bosses and elites speak when you meet them, when they turn, and when they die. Choices you made in Act I send their invoices in Act III. Multiple endings, and secrets past them. THE LOOM REMEMBERS Fall, and bind one earned card to the Loom for the next Weaver to carry. Spend Threads on new classes, cards, relics and boons. Climb ten levels of Weave Depth. Stack Trials for a higher score multiplier. Watch the tapestry gain a band with every victory, and the sky over the Loom remember how you ended. MORE WAYS TO WEAVE • Daily Weave – one seed for everyone, with rival ghosts showing where they fell. • Weekly Gauntlet – a named modifier stack, three attempts, a recurring leaderboard. • The Tolling – six bells, elite to boss, about twelve minutes. • Loomcast – draft your grimoire before you set out. • Seeded practice – any seed, any unlocked depth. MADE FOR IPHONE, WORKS ON IPAD Portrait, one-thumb, drag-to-target. Haptics, floating numbers, screen shake, and a full score with act, boss, shop and rest themes. Autosave and resume at any moment. Game Center leaderboards and achievements. iCloud backup of your progress. Plays offline. FAIR BY DESIGN Buy it once and the whole game is yours. The optional extras are cosmetic: card backs, card faces, tapestry themes, thread dyes. Nothing you can buy changes a card, a drop rate, or a difficulty. Money never buys balance. The world is falling silent. What will you weave?

Screenshots

Aether Chronicles4 screens
Spellweaver's Deck4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: Aether Chronicles at Free against Spellweaver's Deck's $1.99. Aether Chronicles also leads on update cadence (daily vs weekly) and iOS requirement (13.0 vs 17.0). Spellweaver's Deck's advantage is chart position (#124 vs unranked). On ads, in-app purchases and device support 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

Aether Chronicles is free to download; Spellweaver's Deck costs $1.99 up front. Aether Chronicles sells 6 one-off in-app purchases and Spellweaver's Deck sells 10 one-off in-app purchases. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Aether Chronicles ships an update daily, Spellweaver's Deck weekly. Both last shipped on October 31, 2026.

Scorecard4 real differences · 7 level
Aether Chronicles versus Spellweaver's Deck: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterAether ChroniclesSpellweaver's Deck
PriceFree — better$1.99
Rating5.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyDaily — betterWeekly
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases—
Best chart rank—#124 — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS13.0 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size811 MB598 MB
Age rating12+12+
DeveloperDustin SinclairAngrySalami LLC

In-app purchases

6 purchases

Aether Chronicles

One-time6
  • Aether Shard$0.99
  • Pouch of Gems$4.99
  • Satchel of Gems$9.99
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  • Chest of Gems$19.99
  • Dragon's Hoard$34.99
  • Aetherwell Vault$69.99
10 purchases

Spellweaver's Deck

One-time10
  • The Card Faces$0.99
  • The Loom Weaves$0.99
  • The Dyer's Sampler$0.99
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  • Weaver Regalia$0.99
  • The Woodcut Folio$0.99
  • The Weaver's Cloths$0.99
  • The Pendant Sets$0.99
  • The Illuminated Folio$0.99
  • The Spoken Codex$0.99
  • Patron of the Loom$4.99

Questions

Is Aether Chronicles free?
Aether Chronicles is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Spellweaver's Deck free?
Spellweaver's Deck costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Do Aether Chronicles or Spellweaver's Deck have ads?
Neither Aether Chronicles nor Spellweaver's Deck shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Aether Chronicles or Spellweaver's Deck?
Aether Chronicles ships an update daily, and Spellweaver's Deck weekly. Most recently, Aether Chronicles was updated on October 31, 2026 and Spellweaver's Deck on October 31, 2026.

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