Cauldron vs Pay Once
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
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/
Pay Once
Easily organize your photos by swiping left to delete or right to keep. Sort your images by date, size, or type, with a confirmation step before permanent deletion. Your photos remain on your device with no account required.
- Swipe to delete or keep photos
- Sort by date, size, or type
- Randomize photo order
- Trash bin for accidental deletions
- Photos stay on device
- No account required
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Cleaning up your camera roll shouldn't come with strings attached. With us you download once and it's yours forever, no extra funny business. We'll help you swipe through your photos to keep the ones you want and delete the ones you don't. Swipe right to keep, left to delete. Sort by date, size, type, or randomize the whole camera roll and work through it a step at a time. Anything you delete waits in the trash until you confirm, so nothing goes by accident. Your photos never leave your phone and there's no account to make. Just a beautiful app made by real people, not AI. We hope you enjoy it :)!
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Verdict
The clearest difference is price: Cauldron at Free against Pay Once's $6.99. Cauldron also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (54 vs 6). On rating, in-app purchases, device support and iOS requirement 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
Cauldron is free to download; Pay Once costs $6.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Cauldron against 5.0 for Pay Once. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Cauldron has 54 ratings behind it against 6, so its average is the more settled of the two.
| Parameter | Cauldron | Pay Once |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free — better | $6.99 |
| Rating | 5.0 (54 ratings) | 5.0 (6 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 54 — better | 6 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 days | — |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Monetization | Free — better | Paid |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPod |
| Requires iOS | 16.0 | 15.1 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 96 MB | 43 MB |
| Age rating | 12+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Joseph Liechty | Origamies LLC |
In-app purchases
Cauldron
No in-app purchases
Pay Once
No in-app purchases









