Reliquary vs Collectr: a portfolio tracker beside a collection that knows its decks
Choose Collectr to follow what a collection is worth across several card games, sealed product included, with a phone scanner to add cards. Choose Reliquary for Magic: The Gathering alone, to know where every copy is and which decks claim it, and to let an assistant work with that. Reliquary does not scan cards and does not track sealed product.
At a glance
| Reliquary | Collectr | |
|---|---|---|
| What it is | Collection manager with an MCP server | Portfolio tracker for cards and sealed product, many TCGs |
| Where it runs | Web, and any assistant that speaks MCP | Web, iOS, Android |
| Free | The whole collection, 5 decks, trading | Free to start; PRO adds unlimited scanning and export |
| Paid | Plus: every deck, $3.99 a month or $29 a year | Collectr PRO, $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year |
| Export | Moxfield or Deckbox CSV, decklists, the account as JSON | Data export with PRO only; format not stated |
| API | MCP server and REST API, signed in with OAuth | — |
Each fact is from the sources below, read on the day given. A dash: no source says.
Where they differ
Collectr is a portfolio: cards and sealed product, by their market value. Reliquary is a collection you play from. Cards come in from a file, a pasted list or a search, and then Reliquary keeps track of the physical copies.
In Reliquary every copy you own is in exactly one place: a binder, a box or a deck. A deck claims copies from what you own, and two decks never count the same copy without saying so: a shared copy is named with every deck that claims it and where it really is. A proxy is named as one wherever it shows, and left out of a value unless you ask. Card allocation across decks has the rules.
Reliquary also has an MCP server and a REST API, so an assistant such as Claude or ChatGPT reads and changes your collection under the same rules, and trade matching sets your lists against the wantlist and tradelist another player publishes. Prices come from Scryfall's data, and no stored price is more than a week old. What each app costs and exports is in the table above.
Moving from Collectr
The table above says what Collectr's export offers. Reliquary has not been tried with a Collectr file: a CSV whose layout it does not know is read by its column names, and the Import page says that reading is untested.
What players complain about
From low-star App Store reviews read on 9 November 2026:
- Scanning stops after a small number of free scans, and unlimited scans need the PRO subscription. App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026.
- The scanner misreads some cards, or their language or variant. App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026; App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026.
- Import takes only TCGplayer's CSV, and the export is in Collectr's own format, which other apps do not read. App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026.
- Market prices lag by days or are far off, vintage cards included. App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026; App Store reviews, read 9 November 2026.
Questions
Does Reliquary track sealed product?
No. Reliquary tracks single Magic cards: each copy, its printing, its place and the decks that claim it.
Does Reliquary scan cards?
No. Cards come in from a CSV file, a pasted decklist, or a search by name, in any language Scryfall prints. A scanner app's CSV export, such as ManaBox's, imports as it is.
Can I see what my Magic collection is worth?
Yes. Reliquary prices each copy by its own printing and finish, in USD, EUR or CHF, and leaves proxies out of the total unless you ask.
Sources
- Collectr reviews on the App Store (US), feed page 1, read November 9, 2026
- Collectr reviews on the App Store (US), feed page 2, read November 9, 2026
- Collectr home page, read November 9, 2026
- Collectr PRO, read November 9, 2026
- Collectr - TCG Collector App on the App Store (US), read November 9, 2026