App Profile: Helvault - MTG Scanner

Ruskiy Vadik

Rating: 4/5

Overall, this is a decent app at a reasonable price. I have not had issues with updates that others claim to have (the lifetime purchase not carrying over). However, my gripe is with seemingly basic features. For example: You can NOT move cards between binders easily and in-bulk. As of Feb. 3rd, 2024, the only way it seems you can move a card from one binder to another, is to add a copy to the new binder. Then, go and delete the original. This makes no sense, and is incredibly time consuming. There’s also a bug: when you leave the app, sometimes the gear icon (which has the settings to rename a binder) just disappears. You must restart the app or switch to another and come back, to restore it. Again, this app is about saving time. This sort of stuff should not be plaguing it.

SimplyPhy

Rating: 5/5

While no scanner is perfect, this one is currently the best in my testing for 90s cards. I’ve scanned thousands, and have many thousands more to scan. That said, while good, there are several updates this app could use to be much better. Hoping development continues, dev is very solid. P.s. many of the negative reviews are because the legacy app’s “lifetime” purchase didn’t transfer over to this newer app. While each of those complains are valid, this app is very reasonably priced, and “technically” those complaints are regarding a different app. Just noting.

Apostate_Mage

Rating: 2/5

So I had the old legacy app where I paid for the ‘lifetime access’ the the card scanner. Now there’s this ‘new’ version with icloud and is otherwise the same app, but released as new one so we need to pay lifetime access all over again... There’s no way I’d pay for this one when in a month he could release a new version of the app I’d have to pay for again. Or who knows how long it will be before he stops supporting the first one there was lifetime access to? Feeling kind of scammed, would rather have had a subscription model, than have been misled like this. Or have just same old app but pay for icloud or pay for update. But to pay for same features I already paid for lifetime access of? Scammy and I won’t do it again just for another new app to come out in few months. Two stars because old app is still able to get new cards for the moment, otherwise would have done one star.