App Comparison
Collectr is a portfolio tracker built to cover 25+ trading card games at once, with grading, sealed product, and a value chart aimed at anyone who collects across Pokemon, Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Magic. TurnZero HQ tracks a Magic collection too, but it's built for a Commander playgroup specifically: your library, your decks, and what actually happened at the table all live in the same account.
Best for a Commander collection that feeds real decks and real games
My Library pulls every card TurnZero HQ has evidence you own into one inventory: whatever's built into a saved deck, whatever you've scanned into a pile, and whatever you've logged by hand for the loose copies sitting in a box. It reports total and distinct cards plus a total value split into priced and unpriced, with folders for organizing however you like, and prices sync from a nightly catalog import. Past the inventory, it's the same account that builds the decks those cards go into, tracks life totals and Commander damage at the table, connects a playgroup's games into one night with live standings, and rates every deck with an Elo-style MMR from real results. Runs on iOS, Android, and web, and is free with a premium tier for the AI extras.
Best for a collector tracking value across multiple games
Collectr is a portfolio manager built to cover raw, graded, and sealed cards across more than 25 trading card games, Magic included alongside Pokemon, Disney Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh! and others. Point the camera at a card to add it, and Collectr charts its live market value over time the way a stock app charts a portfolio, with graded-card and population-report data and a calculator that checks whether a proposed trade is fair. The free tier covers scanning and tracking; a Pro subscription, reportedly around $4.99 to $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year, adds unlimited scans, deeper price history, and exports. It has no deckbuilding and nothing that touches an actual game.
Collectr is the deeper tracker if your collection is the point rather than the games you play with it. It covers a shelf that spans Magic, Pokemon, Lorcana, and more in one app instead of one per game, and it goes well past what TurnZero HQ tracks: raw, graded, and sealed items separately, a value chart over time instead of a snapshot, population reports on graded cards, and a trade-fairness check before you commit to a swap. If you buy and sell across the secondary market and want to watch a portfolio's value the way you'd watch a brokerage account, that's a job TurnZero HQ was never built to do.
TurnZero HQ's library isn't a standalone catalog you keep in sync with anything: cards already built into one of your saved decks count automatically, so a collection tracked here never drifts out of step with the decks it feeds. Scan a pile with no deck selected and those copies land in the library as owned-but-unplayed; search and log anything else by hand. The total splits into priced and unpriced cards rather than guessing at a number, and folders group cards however you use them, without touching a card's count or value.
Past the inventory, the two apps stop overlapping. TurnZero HQ handles life totals and Commander damage, broken out by attacker, and a join code brings a whole playgroup into one night, guests included, that can split into multiple pods under a single standings race. Moments turn the big plays into a shared feed, decks earn an Elo-style MMR from real results, and AI writes a recap of each game and the night as a whole. None of that has anything to do with what a card is worth, which is exactly the gap Collectr doesn't try to fill.
If your collection spans multiple card games, or Magic collecting itself (grading, sealed product, watching values move) is the hobby, Collectr is built for that in a way TurnZero HQ isn't trying to be. If your collection exists mostly to feed Commander decks you actually play, and you want the pile, the decklists, and what happened at the table in one account with nothing to reconcile by hand, TurnZero HQ is the better fit. A player who both collects seriously and plays a weekly Commander night reasonably keeps both installed.
Collectr has a free tier that covers scanning, tracking, and pricing across its supported games. A Pro subscription, reportedly around $4.99 to $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year, unlocks unlimited scans, deeper price history, and exports.
It covers Magic as one of more than 25 trading card games it tracks, alongside Pokemon, Disney Lorcana, Yu-Gi-Oh! and others. It's built as a general portfolio tracker rather than an MTG-specific app, so it has no deckbuilding, no Commander life totals, and nothing that touches an actual game of Magic. TurnZero HQ is built for Magic and Commander specifically.
No. My Library, TurnZero HQ's collection tracker, tracks quantity and total value at the card level, split out by whether a copy is built into a deck, scanned in, or logged by hand. It doesn't break a collection out by specific printing, foil finish, condition, or grade, and it doesn't track sealed boxes. If that level of detail matters to your collection, Collectr is built for exactly that.
No. My Library reports a current total, split into priced and unpriced cards, refreshed from a nightly catalog import. It doesn't chart that value historically the way Collectr's portfolio view does.
It's the rest of a Commander night, not just the pile. Cards already sitting in your saved decks count toward your library automatically, so there's nothing to keep in sync between a deckbuilder and a tracker. Past that, TurnZero HQ runs life totals and Commander damage at the table, connects a whole playgroup's games into one night with live standings, gives every deck an Elo-style MMR from real results, and writes an AI recap when you're done. Collectr doesn't do any of that, and isn't trying to.
My Library tracks every card you own, free to start, and it already knows which deck each one is built into.
Create Free Account