Gestic vs EchoMTG
Both track what a Magic collection is worth. This page is about what changes if you move, with our numbers stated plainly and dated, and what you should check for yourself before moving anything.
What we can prove about ourselves
Every figure below is served live from our own statistics endpoint, so it is the same number our home page shows and it moves as the data does. Measured 2026-07-06, sample of 100,089 scans:
| Scan accuracy, card identified | 99.7% |
|---|---|
| Scan accuracy, exact printing identified | 98.4% |
| Scans run through it | 335,921 since 2025-02-06 |
| Cards tracked | 2,108,016 |
| Cost to scan | Free, no cap |
| Export formats | 9 — Arena, Cardmarket, ManaBox, ManaPool, Moxfield, SpellWeave, TCGplayer, TCGTracking, custom fields |
We publish the printing-level number as well as the card-level one because they are not the same problem. Reading “Lightning Bolt” off a card is easy; deciding which of its forty-four printings you are holding is the hard part, and it is the one that decides whether your collection is worth what your spreadsheet says. We are less accurate at that — 98.4% against 99.7% — and we would rather say so than quote one number.
Will my collection come with me?
Tested on a real export, row by row. A 360-row EchoMTG collection file imported 354 rows with nothing invented: set codes, collector numbers, conditions, foils, and the price you paid for each card.
What you paid comes with you. This is the part worth moving for. EchoMTG records an acquired price per card, and Gestic stores it as that card's buy price — every single row that imported kept it. A cost basis you have spent years building is not something you should have to type again.
Foils survive, and that took work. EchoMTG does not use a foil flag:
it puts the quantity in a separate Foil Qty column and leaves
the normal one at zero. Nothing else we read does it that way. Fifty of
the fifty-one foils in the test file arrived as foils.
Six rows out of 360 did not import, and we would rather say so than round it to “everything works”. All six are unusual printings — Secret Lair and double-faced tokens — whose Scryfall identifier the export left blank, so there was nothing precise to match on. If your collection is mostly ordinary printings you will not meet this; if it is full of Secret Lairs, check the count after importing.
Where we are genuinely different
You scan the cards in. That is the difference that matters. Gestic identifies a card from a photograph — 99.7% of the time, and the exact printing 98.4% of the time — so cataloguing a box is feeding it past a camera rather than typing it.
A document scanner, not just a phone. Gestic drives sheet-fed ADF scanners, so a few thousand cards is a stack you feed rather than a thousand photographs you take. If your collection is small this does not matter. If it is a long box, it is the whole difference.
Sorting by where the card physically is. Scan a card into a location and the app remembers the location, so “which box is my second Ragavan in” has an answer.
Your decks get public pages. A list you mark visible gets its own indexable page, and a play-tester anyone can open without an account.
Every privacy control is free. Publishing or unpublishing a page, hiding a section, keeping a list private — free on every plan, forever. Privacy is never a paid feature here.
What we are not claiming
This page deliberately does not carry a feature-by-feature table against EchoMTG. Their pricing and their feature set are theirs to change, and a comparison table written once and left to rot is worse than no table: it misleads the reader and embarrasses us. If you want to know what EchoMTG does today, read their own pages.
What we will stand behind are the numbers at the top, because they come from our own measurements and carry the date and sample size to check them by — and the import figures above, because they come from a real export rather than a file we wrote ourselves.
Questions people ask before they switch
Can I import my EchoMTG collection?
Yes — tested on a real 360-row export: 354 rows in, conditions,
foils and purchase prices intact.
Does what I paid come across?
Yes, on every row that imports. That is the one nobody expects.
Do foils survive?
Yes — 50 of the 51 in the test file.
What about the six rows that failed?
Secret Lairs and double-faced tokens with no card identifier in the file.
Check your count after importing if you own a lot of those.
Can I scan instead of typing?
Yes, with a phone or a sheet-fed document scanner, free and uncapped.
Can I get my collection back out?
Yes, in eight formats.
Compare with something else
If you are weighing Gestic against a different tool, these are the others we have written up — same rules, same measured numbers:
- Gestic vs ManaBox — a phone scanner with a big user base
- Gestic vs Moxfield — the deck builder
- Gestic vs Delver Lens — the Android scanning app
Try it on one box
Scanning is free and uncapped, so the honest way to compare is to scan a single box and see which one identified the printings correctly. That is the test that matters, and it costs you nothing here.