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ManaBox MTG
SkillDevs SC · 9,264 ratings · ★ 4.3
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Top complaints - extracted from 23 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"
13 negative reviews mention this · 57% of all complaints
★★★★★ "%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." - D jams
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"scan"
9 negative reviews mention this · 39% of all complaints
★★★★★ "%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." - D jams
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"card"
8 negative reviews mention this · 35% of all complaints
★★★★★ "%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." - D jams
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"decks"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Build 5 decks and then hit a subscription paywall. Hard pass!" - Phinley Schindel
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"collection"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "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." - Luke Halter
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"scanning"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I wish this app was better. Some of this is just trivial stuff to have and working. The scanning is never consistent. I dont understand how you can have tags in decks but not collections. Why isnt there a greater/less or equal to sign? I wa…" - Matt Mortensen
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"doesn"
4 negative reviews mention this · 17% of all complaints
★★★★★ "scanner doesn't work" - Riley Wilson
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"different"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "%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." - D jams
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"useless"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "%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." - D jams
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"collecting"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "trying to scan swamp cards or alt arts are almost impossible. most of my collection needs manually inputted because the dumb ai cant recognize dark borders. no idea why we pretend these useless and stupid programs are ai in anyway haha. Jus…" - David Beaver
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"able"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "I wish this app was better. Some of this is just trivial stuff to have and working. The scanning is never consistent. I dont understand how you can have tags in decks but not collections. Why isnt there a greater/less or equal to sign? I wa…" - Matt Mortensen
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"version"
3 negative reviews mention this · 13% of all complaints
★★★★★ "Edit: I get you can lock it to a certain set, but other apps like Delver Lens are able to detect the edition of the card automatically. Why not ManaBox? If this app accurately detected the set/version of a card automatically it would be per…" - Jack Cartmell
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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.
trying to scan swamp cards or alt arts are almost impossible. most of my collection needs manually inputted because the dumb ai cant recognize dark borders. no idea why we pretend these useless and stupid programs are ai in anyway haha. Just devs lying and scamming hobbiest, definitely collecting data on us and cant even deliver basic scan functions.
scanner doesn't work
just because wizards bans a card because they think it's "racist" doesn't mean it doesn't have value.
won't even scan
love having to hand type in 2/3 of my cards bc apparently the 5 cameras built into my phone isn't enough to capture a single card
Total newb, but this things a steaming pile of unintuitive! I press add after scanning, the same damn screen stays, press add again, like it's not responding, next thing knows, I've got 10 cards when I only have one. What junk.
app can only process subscriptions thru google play. accept paypal and Ill come back..
the pricing is inaccurate
It can show porn ads in the app when no user is logged in.
It doesn't scan. Just a yellow outline jumping around on the screen.
effective way to scan cards but not correct price. it says it goes through tcg but everything i scanned and looked up was different
Data Collection and Subscription Fees. This app could be incredible as a one time purchase without collecting our data. Subscription fees just make this another life sucking app. A shame, I really enjoyed its features.
I have no idea what has happened. this app was so good for scanning and keeping track of decks and collections, but recently the scanning feature only scans half the cards.
Scanning my cards, this app would consistently 'think' the card was from a different set. For a deck, it would mess up 40% of the time. Not worth my time. I have deleted this app.
%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!
I wish this app was better. Some of this is just trivial stuff to have and working. The scanning is never consistent. I dont understand how you can have tags in decks but not collections. Why isnt there a greater/less or equal to sign? I wanna switch card views in decks, I don't want just the list format. I should be able to view full image card list. Why isnt there a way to manage duplicates better? "Merge" is a joke. And oh my god why cant i mass edit cards to a particular set? Please fix.
Edit: I get you can lock it to a certain set, but other apps like Delver Lens are able to detect the edition of the card automatically. Why not ManaBox? If this app accurately detected the set/version of a card automatically it would be perfect. Kinda useless for me currently though looking to scan 1000+ cards for sale.
So far it's just frustration in an app. I'm try to create a deck & follow online instructions but the version showing must not be the same version as I don't have the same options to press & just end up going round & round trying to do something simple. Was able to scan cards easily but it wasn't intuitive as where the scans were filed. Online site just wasn't helpful.
doesn't have percentages, which is critical for deck building and draw planning. Doesn't recognize any cards from before 2005. Doesn't automatically include cards scanned for decks into your card library. free version is only option because of these huge limitations. been collecting and playing since 1994...
Terrible Scanner Unsleeved, perfect lighting, but every single Extended or Borderless card and the majority of Black cards simply never scan in. As bad as TCGPlayer's scanner, if not probably the exact same software. You're better off just typing it out on archidekt.
I used this app in the past to begin cataloging my collection. AMAZING! As recently as Dragonstorm to be exact. I came back performed the updates and literally the scanner isnt detecting any cards. Same setup as before. Also the photo looks like its warping or distorting the card ever so slightly.
Sentiment summary
81%
Positive (4-5★)
5%
Neutral (3★)
14%
Negative (1-2★)