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ManaBox MTG
SkillDevs SC · 9,578 ratings · ★ 4.3
4.3
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Top complaints - extracted from 17 negative reviews
Recurring phrases mined from 1-2★ reviews. The bigger the percentage, the more users have the same problem. Fix the top 2-3 in your version and you have product-market fit on day one.
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"cards"
8 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"scan"
8 negative reviews mention this · 47% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"card"
7 negative reviews mention this · 41% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"subscription"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"black"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"black cards"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recogni…" - Richard Fannigan
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"money"
3 negative reviews mention this · 18% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I had this app scanned over 7k in cards then my phone died to find out nothing was backed up new phone and I have nothing and will not spend the amount of time scanning again. So the subscription was basically worthless don't waste your mon…" - David Carpio
📋 All 17 negative reviews
Every 1-2★ review we fetched. Use the copy button to grab them all for your own analysis (paste into ChatGPT/Claude with a prompt like "summarize core user problems, group by theme, ignore bugs, focus on missing features").
I had this app scanned over 7k in cards then my phone died to find out nothing was backed up new phone and I have nothing and will not spend the amount of time scanning again. So the subscription was basically worthless don't waste your money.
literally just deleted my decks on here for no reason and is failing to show card images. I lost years of decks for nothing. I HATE IT HERE!!!!!
The app's nice, but they changed the monetisation. Now you can't back up without paying money yearly,and I'm not fond of subscriptions. A shame it went so low really
piece of trash, have cards as the only thing in frame, zero glare, and still wont scan.
will not scan a single card
The app is great, but having to pay money to be able to play test a deck for more than 30 seconds is completely stupid. None of the perks are worth the price
previous 5 star review now 1. the backup system is broken beyond belief. apparently if you make a backup and the app updates you can't restore that backup anymore. just lost 5 years worth of saved data.
Recently started getting adverts despite paying for ManaBox PRO. Disappointing.
Absolute Trash. Does not scan any card i put in front of it. Maybe they need to be more explicit on the app setup. Waste of my time.
most black cards, full arts and foils dont scan
The scan feature does not identify the appropriate set and year making the collection processing process very tedious. If the scan worked as anticipated this would be revolutionary.
To ask to pay for a subscription when the scanner barely works is ludicrous to me. it hates blue and black cards, and anything slightly dark it doesnt recognize as a card at all. Plus anything thats not framed in a border doesnt get recognized at all. In a new collector world of borderless and art cards why bother using the app?
under any condition in lighting in a binder, the app can't scan full art style cards. no point in using it unless it can scan. even collectr can scan this. For the dev response: It's in a binder, which yes isn't ideal, but everything is plainly visible, and it has 0 issues with every other card except for the full arts or uniques. I'm not going to take 1500+ cards in and out of the binders just to scan. Just saying, even collectr scan can do this work, it just costs and fails at other things.
Cannot be used to track entire collection. Can't track actual token pairings (front-back), art sets, or other additional cards. The scanner works well, but if it messes up, it takes multiple taps to get to where you can edit the card instead of one like it should.
About 75% of cards scan as the completely wrong card. Not just the wrong version/set, but completely made up cards. Basically unusable now.
%90 of my monoblack cards it just can't scan. If the art is too dark, you might as well use a different app or just look it up yourself. Pretty useless app if you use black cards.
Build 5 decks and then hit a subscription paywall. Hard pass!
Sentiment summary
83%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
12%
Negative (1-2★)