Helvault - MTG Scanner

Name: Helvault - MTG Scanner
Rating: 4.2 (242 reviews)
Author: Vitor Cesco

Love your MTG collection again

Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad

242 Ratings
Ages

9+
Years
Category

Utilities
Developer

Vitor Cesco
Language

EN
English
Size

120.1
MB

Scan your Magic: The Gathering cards and build your collection like never before! Helvault is a collection manager for Magic: The Gathering players and collectors who want to spend more time enjoying their cards, instead of typing names... With a powerful card scanner featuring an exclusive AI, Helvault is capable of identifying cards from all Magic's history without a hassle. Sort, filter, play and understand your card collection like never before! Key features: - Powerful MTG card scanner - Unlimited cards on your collection - Detailed stats about your collection - Card details, including prices - Export your collection as a CSV file - iCloud Syncing between devices - No ads, forever Helvault brings unlimited card collection management to your mobile device, for free. Some features however are unlocked though NON-RECURRING purchases (they are NOT subscriptions). The scanner feature needs an active internet connection to work properly.

Ratings & Reviews

4.2

out of 5

242 Ratings

Lacks organizational features
02/04/2024

Ruskiy Vadik
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.
Lacks organizational features
02/04/2024

Ruskiy Vadik

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.
My single best MTG resource
02/15/2025

HollandVan
For years now, I’ve used Helvault to manage my Magic The Gathering inventory. It’s rock solid. It’s never failed me. I have close to 30,000 cards stored in the database and I’ve seen no visible lag. The card scanner is very good (although some of the special treatment cards are sometimes difficult to scan). The interface is simple and clean The exporting of data is reliable and has different export types. The different viewing modes are nice but I would like to see a slider that scales them to different sizes. I would also love to see the inclusion of Skyfall syntax in the search function so I could refine my own collection searches within the app to things beyond card name. Keep up the good work!
My single best MTG resource
02/15/2025

HollandVan

For years now, I’ve used Helvault to manage my Magic The Gathering inventory. It’s rock solid. It’s never failed me. I have close to 30,000 cards stored in the database and I’ve seen no visible lag. The card scanner is very good (although some of the special treatment cards are sometimes difficult to scan). The interface is simple and clean The exporting of data is reliable and has different export types. The different viewing modes are nice but I would like to see a slider that scales them to different sizes. I would also love to see the inclusion of Skyfall syntax in the search function so I could refine my own collection searches within the app to things beyond card name. Keep up the good work!
Not lifetime!
12/29/2023

Apostate_Mage
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.
Not lifetime!
12/29/2023

Apostate_Mage

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.
Best MTG Scanner on iOS
05/09/2024

SimplyPhy
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.
Best MTG Scanner on iOS
05/09/2024

SimplyPhy

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.

Hello Helvaulters! This is the new version of our beloved Helvault. We'd like to thank our amazing community for helping us on building the best scanner and MTG collection manager for iOS. Version 1.70 brings outstanding UI improvements, including a brand new Liquid Glass makeover! If you have any questions about the new release, please check our FAQ page: http://www.vitorcesco.com/helvault/faq#new

Version 1.70

12/18/2025

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