MTG Trades

Post subscription update: still a great app. $7 for a year is a bargain. Original: I love this app. I have yet to find one better. What I like: Quickly downloads all prices, and stores them for viewing offline, like on an airplane. Shows TCG low, med, high, and market. Also shows the lowest priced vendors on TCG player. All of this on one well organized screen without needing to make any clicks. A really good trade feature that automatically shows the overall values and difference in value in a trade. Keeps a history of trades. And not only the cards traded, but current value difference as well as saving the prices is of the cards during the initial trade. Has everything. As in EVERYTHING including Collectors Edition, and every single set and card. And they are well organized so that cards are easy to find. When you pull up a card, it shows every other printing and their value. Thanks for making an awesome App. I’m so glad I found this years ago, and it keeps getting better.

I understand the need to bring in ongoing income to maintain servers. It makes sense to me to lock features behind the subscription to get people to actually pay to keep the lights on. I paid a single small amount 11 years ago and have definitely gotten my money’s worth, and I was willing to give the new version a try and maybe eventually pay the modest sub cost. Even getting the new sets later than paying users would be fine (if at all, I’m actually unclear on that? No new sets would make the app useless for free users so I assume it’s a delay and not “never” for free). but the one thing that immediately made me uninstall was locking card images behind the premium. Maybe I’m just too greedy given how much value I’ve gotten over the years for a small purchase, but this was the straw that broke my back.

When doing all of my trades I insist on using this app because it pulls accurate prices. It also clearly displays the difference between the trade values and has a comfortable interface for ease of navigation. It also provides the card image if need be which can be immeasurably helpful when determining an older version of a card. Lastly, I love the options to keep track of all previous trades that save automatically as well as having options for cards lent or loaned and making your own lists for wanted or owned cards. Just a fantastic. Literally the only phone app I have ever spent money on.