Release Notes

October 2026

On your phone, twice: 97 changes went live in October, and two of them are apps. View Newsletter

Highlight: Gestic Companion

A small Android app that tells you what the Magic card on your screen is worth: a live stream on Whatnot or eBay, a listing, a photo, or your camera pointed at a card. A bar at the top names the card, its set and number, and its Gestic price for each finish; tap it to open the card's page on gestic.org. Press Scan when a card is on screen, or let Auto look at each new card by itself, with a scan frame for live streams. Without an account, up to twenty cards a day; signed in, no limit, and the bar says whether the card is already in your collection. Only the picture of each card it finds goes to Gestic's scanner; the rest of your screen never leaves your phone unless you send a report yourself, with anything personal blacked out. It is in Google Play's closed test, free to use while it is in testing, open in Canada, Germany and the United States on Android 10 or newer: gestic.org/apps.html explains how to join.

Gestic on Android, in Testing
There is now a Gestic app on Google Play: everything gestic.org does, on your phone, always on the latest version. It is in Google Play's closed test, which needs at least twelve testers to keep it installed for fourteen days in a row before the app can be published for everyone. The test is open in thirteen countries; gestic.org/apps.html has the three steps to join.
Selling on eBay
Link your eBay account on the configuration page, choose the selling policies eBay already knows for you, then open an Offering list, open the toolbox and click Sell on eBay. You preview the listings and set the rules: how many of the list's most valuable cards to list, how many copies to keep back, one listing per copy or one with a quantity, and what happens to a card when it sells (nothing, delete it, or move it to a list). Turn on automatic listing and Gestic publishes the cards and keeps the prices in step with your asking prices.
Selling on Facebook Marketplace
Facebook Marketplace has no door for programs, so the path is assisted: the Facebook Marketplace button in the toolbox opens a selling page that prepares one listing per card, with the language and condition in the title and the lowest asking price per copy. A small helper installed once in your browser fills in Facebook's form one card at a time; you check it and click Publish yourself. Without the helper, or on a phone, Copy and Download give you the same text and pictures.
A Whole Page of Cards in One Picture
Drop a picture of several cards on the scan page's Upload button, or let Folder Watch pick it up, and Gestic finds every card on the page, cuts each one out and scans it on its own. The phone scanner got it too: its new Page mode takes a picture of a binder page with the phone's camera and scans each card on it.
Value Your Cards with the Price Source You Trust
Settings has "Value my cards with": TCGplayer, Cardmarket, ManaPool or Cardsphere. Every price, total and chart follows your choice, converted into your currency; a card your source does not price keeps its TCGplayer price, and euro collectors get Cardmarket's own euro price by default. ManaPool's lowest Near Mint price and Cardsphere's market index are refreshed every night.
Scanning
The document scanner can stop right after a card worth the Price alert amount or more, even mid-batch, so it can be pulled out and sleeved. Move cards by scan time, in the toolbox, moves a batch scanned into the wrong list to the right one. The printed title decides the language when a footer is misread, a card is never filed in a finish its printing does not exist in, a scan whose sticky set clearly disagrees with the card goes to review, a serialized card is recognised as itself, and on a Mac the orientation and the chosen scanner are remembered. Every scan is a little faster, a suite of hard scans guards every scanner change, and the scan page can drive a TCG Verifier X1PRO card sorter.
Plans & Ads
The scans per day included in each plan went up to 100 for the free plan, 500 for Essential, 2,000 for Advanced and unlimited for Elite. Nothing is blocked or deleted when you go over: ads come back, more of them the further over you are. If an ad blocker keeps the ads from loading, you get a message and thirty days to allow them on Gestic before anything changes.
Decks, Lists & Imports
The public deck list at gestic.org/deck filters by deck name and mana colours. A card owned in several languages shows one line per language. Imports handle Archidekt text exports with custom tags, take the cheapest of two The List printings that share a number and say why, and match Moxfield's The List reprints. Creating a list with a name you already use says so, and lines of an add that cannot be read are pointed out.
Play Tester & Card Pages
The Play Tester has a phone layout with touch controls and takes its card pictures from Gestic rather than from Scryfall. Card pages show the foil and etched prices in the top price box.
Phones, All of Them
Every page went through twenty phone and tablet sizes, upright and sideways, and about thirty things were fixed: text boxes that zoomed the whole page on an iPhone, deck names that shrank to one letter, the Add pages and the Messages page rebuilt for small screens, a sign-out page that showed nothing, Settings tables that ran off the screen, the Play Tester's bars when the phone is held sideways. A failed save now says so, and a save can no longer silently wipe your tags or your pricing settings.
Faster
Adding cards no longer re-downloads the whole list afterwards, Add by set loads a set at a third of the weight, and the eleven-second pause on the first list opened after a release is gone. Settings gained a switch for the newsletter, and new members are told about it at sign-up.
Two Outages
On October 6 the site was down from 01:57 to 05:42: the server had run out of memory because every release left the previous version loaded; the leak is fixed and the server now restarts itself. On October 30 the machine that serves gestic.org stopped answering at 02:10 and the standby server took over at 05:36.

September 2026

Priced right, on both sides of the counter — 92 changes went live in September. View Newsletter

Highlight: Automatic Pricing

Open an Offering list, open the toolbox and click Automatic Pricing: every card and every copy gets an asking price in a few seconds, from the stores you chose, the price spread across every local store that stocks that exact card, and the TCGplayer, Card Kingdom, Cardsphere and Cardmarket references. A preview shows each proposed price and what backed it, and nothing is written until you click Apply; a price you set yourself always wins. When none of your stores carries a card a shortage surge applies, a card in another language can fall back to its English printing, and the Pricing section of the configuration page tunes every setting, with an optional email report after each run.

SpellWeave
Link your SpellWeave account (spellweave.app, a Commander deck builder) from the configuration page and push the cards in your Gestic collection there as a new collection, ready to build from. The decks SpellWeave builds come back through the home page's Import window as Gestic Commander decks, made from the copies you own; anything you do not own is added at its cheapest printing.
The Cheapest Place to Buy
Under each card of a Looking For list, the Stores rows are sorted cheapest first, in your currency, with TCGplayer rows alongside the local shops and Cardmarket. Those rows were empty from September 4 to 28; they are back, and a check now watches for it.
Public Deck Pages
Every public deck has its own page under gestic.org/deck/, and the section starts with 880 official preconstructed decks, every Commander precon with its bracket and the reason for it. A deck page groups the cards by category, exports in one click, copies into your account, and tells signed-in members how much of it they already own.
Card Categories
Every card in a deck carries a category (Removal, Ramp, Card Draw, Counterspell, Board Wipe and a dozen more), assigned from Scryfall's Tagger community tags and overridable per deck. Sort a deck by category and it groups itself; you choose the order of the groups and which of them count toward the deck.
Quick Review, Fast
On a 4,765-card list Quick Review used to freeze the page for 52 seconds; it now opens in half a second and paints rows as you scroll. Multiplied lines show the right price.
Scanning
Folder Watch scans every picture that appears in a folder you pick, several folders at once if you run several scanners (Chrome for now). Scan Review gained name autocomplete and shows the sticky settings each scan was taken with, the AI button visibly refreshes the matches, scanned cards link to their card page, and the phone scanner draws a rounded outline.
Prices Paid & Storage
The bought price and date can be entered on every add page and on the phone scanner, and the version table gained a Storage column, so where a card lives shows without opening its editor.
Imports & Exports
Imports skip deck section headers, accept a double-faced card's front name, and take the cheapest printing when a row leaves out the set or number. The Cardmarket export lists the cards it had to leave out and why, and a TCGTracking export carries your chaos-sorting locations.
Message Center
Block a member (no more messages either way) or report a message with a reason.
Card Pages & Play Tester
Card pages list the finishes a printing exists in and draw the mana symbols in the rules text, and card links across the app now go to our own card pages instead of Scryfall. The Play Tester has a menu entry and works without an account, sample deck included.
Fixes
Cards priced only in euros were converted the wrong way during the nightly run (23% too low, and labelled TCGplayer). A crash in the scanner's image matching that took the site down ten times, and the slow restart behind the twelve-minute outage of September 28, are both fixed, and the scanner handles busy evenings better.
Smaller Things
A new header, a list toolbox that works on a touch screen, a login page that sends you straight on when you are already signed in, a Terms of Service page, a public account-deletion page (deleting an account now signs out every device), and lighter pictures on the public pages.
Ads
Members on the free plan see a couple of ads on the sides of the page once their first week is over; members on a paid plan see none.

August 2026

The big one, as promised — 92 tickets deployed in a single month. View Newsletter

Highlight: Scan From Your Phone

Open gestic.org on your phone and tap Scan: a scanner designed for a phone from the first pixel. Full-screen camera with a card-sized guide frame, auto-scan that captures when a card is held steady, server-side straightening and cropping, an instant match reveal, and a scanned-cards sheet where quantity, condition and finish are editable right on each row. Same recognition brains as the desktop scanner, nothing to install — Android or iPhone, Chrome or Firefox.

Price History Everywhere
Every card page now carries a daily price chart, with regular and foil as separate lines and up to a year of history. Lists and decks chart their total value over time in the stats header, and a nightly rollup records each list's value going forward — so a whole collection builds a value history you can watch.
Chaos Sorting, Round Two
The storage location format is now configurable: build it from scanner, box, row, batch and card, numbers or letters, with your own auto-increment rules and a starting point that carries on from boxes you already have. The storage field now travels with list export and import, and any list can be filtered by the start of a location — a whole box, one row, or an exact slot.
Search, Filters & Folders
The home search now speaks Scryfall syntax against your own cards. Filters gained a price minimum and maximum, and while any filter is active the header shows how many cards matched and what they are worth together; a Scryfall query counts as a filter, and filtered exports respect it. Lists can now be grouped into foldable folders.
Deck Tools
Commander decks estimate their bracket on the official 1–5 scale from what is actually in the deck, and a new Budget alternatives panel suggests cheaper printings or functional stand-ins for your most expensive slots.
Gestic in Public
Every card and every set has a public page you can link to anyone, and you can claim a profile of your own at gestic.org/u/your-nickname — decks with commander art and bracket badges, pinned lists, an avatar from any card art, all controlled from the new profile editor (see /u/demo). The home page now shows live site totals.
Your Own API
Create personal API keys from the configuration page (create, list, revoke, test), with a self-documenting API at gestic.org/api/v1. Key management and identity are live today; inventory endpoints come next.
Name Your Price
Offering lists are no longer market-price-only: set an asking price per copy, and that is what buyers see.
Subscriptions
Gestic now has Essential, Advanced and Elite plans with proper checkout and a manage/cancel portal, replacing the old donation link. Nothing you use today is taken away, and nobody's collection is capped.
Under the Hood
The database moved to a new server: answers are about ten times faster, with four times the storage headroom — which the price history charts above are already putting to use.
Papercuts & More
The scanner can highlight cards above a price you set, the scan confirmation can open in its own window, Quick Review gained a back-to-top button, a corrected scan keeps its scan position instead of being filed at the end, transient server errors no longer silently drop a scanned card, batch sizes save properly, the stack view got slimmer badges and header stats, double-faced cards behave in Add by Name, and the public pages got dramatically lighter on mobile.

July 2026

Too much — so much for a quiet summer: the month we said would be off turned into more than 160 changes. View Newsletter

Highlight: Deck Play Tester

Every deck has its own playable board, right inside Gestic — open a deck, hit Play Test, and goldfish it with no export, no second account, nothing to install. Proper opening hand with London mulligan, free dragging between all zones with a self-sorting battlefield, counters, a searchable Scryfall token catalog, emblems, dice and trackers with a running action log. Commander decks are recognised automatically, and any share link opens straight into a play test.

Automations
Build a rule once and Gestic keeps a list up to date for you: inputs (any mix of tags and lists) pass through filters into a destination list — normal, Looking For or Offering. Create as many as you like; each records its last run and refreshes in one click.
Chaos Sorting
The bulk-intake method where you stop sorting: drop each card into the first free space and Gestic records where it went. Name your scanner, tick Use chaos sorting, and every card carries a SCANNER-BUCKET-INDEX storage location you can look up or correct from the card edit window. ADF (sheet-feed) scanners only.
Lists, Decks & More
Sort and pin your lists on the home page with foldable groups, Commander decks use their commander's art as the page background, decks can auto-generate a name, description and tags, a toolbox tool highlights cards you already own elsewhere, Cardmarket joined the export formats, the currency selector now offers every currency we can source a rate for, selections stay in sync across table, grid and stacked views — and a great deal of invisible deployment-pipeline work is why so much shipped so quickly.

June 2026

Break — a stability and polish month. (Back in September.) View Newsletter

Highlight: New Export Formats

The Export tool now lets you pick an exact destination—Custom, Moxfield, Manabox, TCGPlayer, ManaPool, or Arena—and Gestic builds the right structure automatically. Custom still gives you full control over separators and fields. Exports can also create a new list or copy to the clipboard.

Scanner Reliability Pass
Deleted scans no longer reappear, failed-scan pictures display properly, the AI set "magnifier" no longer wipes your set selection, hover previews are reliable again, condition/set updates show immediately, foil/finish no longer reverts on its own, and language flags now match the scanned card.
Scanner Keyboard Shortcuts
New configurable shortcuts to duplicate, delete, or toggle foil on the last entry—turn off any you don't use from the configuration page. Also fixed pressing Space in the review modal accidentally triggering a new capture.
Smarter Scanner Logic
Reworked scanning logic to reduce the number of rejected scans for a smoother experience.
Papercut Fixes & More
Add by Set is snappier for multiple copies and hides its version arrow when not needed; list resizing is back; changing a deck's type no longer reloads the whole list; "Looking For" store lines no longer split oddly on narrow screens; Inbox reply threads jump back to the top; the Create List flow behaves properly; fixed a card that refused to add; removed the temporary Gemini-assisted scan option; and refreshed the Discord invite link.

May 2026

Done! Back to full speed. View Newsletter

Highlight: Community Offers

Now fully connecting local players. Register your location (approximate or full address) on the Configuration page to see nearby offers and let other users find your "Offering" lists. Prices are negotiable, and Gestic is never a middleman—we simply put buyer and seller in touch.

New AI Model
Our long-awaited new scanner model is live! It replaces five previous models at once, cutting server calls and memory usage for a faster, more accurate, higher-capacity scanner.
Smarter Scanner Logic
Reworked scanning logic to reduce the number of rejected scans for a smoother experience.
Better Picture Matching (SIFT)
Replaced Perceptual Hash with a Scale-Invariant Feature Transform algorithm, dramatically improving accuracy when distinguishing versions from cell phone camera photos.
List Comments
Add comments directly to your lists—perfect for tracking cards to add or remove, noting a deck's source, or leaving yourself notes.
Faster Generate
The "Generate" option on the home page is now at least 10x faster for large sets.
Search Fix & More
Fixed search not locating cards with multiple versions in a list. Also fixed Korean entries written in Chinese, pagination not preserving display preference, improved commander selection, updated inbox behavior, and more.

March/April 2026

Late (but worth the wait!). View Newsletter

Highlight: Community Offers

Looking For cards now match against other users' Offering lists, creating a peer-to-peer trade graph that connects collectors with each other and with local stores.

New Edit Modal
Cards can now be edited from a mobile-friendly gear menu with simpler version, finish, and condition controls.
Value Tracking
Track Bought and Bought On values directly inside the new edit modal.
Direct Messaging
Community Offers open a direct message so users can arrange trades or purchases themselves.
Deck Tools
Added game changer highlighting, format legality checks, and commander designation support.

February 2026

Challenges and resilience. View Newsletter

Highlight: Resilience

Despite a human error deleting machine learning models, our resilient architecture kept the website fully functional. Models are being retrained to double scanner speed next month.

Fair Value Estimation
Get the fair value of any list in a few clicks. Configure bulk thresholds and currencies in the toolbox (gear icon).
Add by Set Improvements
Improved button flow, clearer missing card indicators, and a new card resizing slider.
Export Enhancements
Apply filters before exporting. New "Export as List" option and full compatibility with SpellWeave.
Account Management
Users can now permanently delete their own accounts and all associated data via the configuration.

January 30th 2026

Focus on workflow improvements. View Newsletter

Scanner Text-to-Speech
Added option to read detected card names out loud in their native accent. Ideal for auto-trigger scanning.
Pricing in Scanner
Scan results now display card prices directly above the detected card, helping you decide on sleeving instantly.

Highlight: Add by Set

New visual way to add cards. Select a set and list to see visual placeholders for every card. Perfect for older sets without collector numbers.

January 1st 2026

Celebrating our two-year anniversary. View Newsletter

Infrastructure Overhaul
Replacing 100Mbps network with 2.5Gbps system—a 25x increase in bandwidth to reduce latency.
Multi-Cloud Strategy
Enhanced redundancy with rapid failover capabilities to Google Cloud and daily off-site backups.
Stability & Quality
Cleared every known bug and deployed a daily automated testing system to ensure platform reliability.

November 29th 2025

Major configuration and scanner updates. View Newsletter

New Configuration Page
Manage referrals, reset passwords, filter preferred stores, and set your local currency.
Scanner AI Icons
Added AI icons in "Review Scans" to quickly re-run recognition models on individual fields.

Highlight: Preferred Local Stores

Streamline your "Looking For" lists by selecting only the local game stores you want to track.

October 20th 2025

Reached 1,000 active users! View Newsletter

Pagination & Caching
Full server-side pagination for all lists, drastically reducing network traffic and rendering time.
Custom OCR Solution
Launched our own custom OCR for card numbers, achieving near-perfect accuracy for high-quality images.
"The List" Support
The scanner now automatically identifies cards from "The List" with high accuracy.

Highlight: "All Sets" Option

Tag a card as "All Sets" in your want list to automatically find all available prints across your selected stores.

October 2nd 2025

New navigation and analysis tools. View Newsletter

Global Search
New search action to find any card across all your lists, featuring fuzzy matching and list highlighting.
Grid View Headers
Grid view now displays headers based on your current ordering (Set, Color, etc.).
Analytics Deep-Dive
Dive into specific sets from the analytics page to see detailed missing card lists and prices.

September 1st 2025

New features and improvements. View Newsletter

August 1st 2025

Scanner improvements and list management. View Newsletter

AI Auto Crop
The scanner can now automatically crop the card image for you, improving recognition on phone cameras.
Sticky Scan Settings
Configure "sticky" language or set defaults to speed up bulk scanning sessions.

Highlight: List Operations

Perform set operations between lists—like comparing a deck to your collection to generate a missing cards list.

July 1st 2025

Summer updates. View Newsletter

June 1st 2025

Spring collection updates. View Newsletter

July 17th 2025

Quick summary of recent major updates.

Auto Trigger Scanner
Added webcam auto-trigger and external document scanner support for high-efficiency scanning.
Non-English Support
Added over 20,000 non-English cards missing from major databases.
Responsive Design
Updated nearly all HTML pages for a better experience on small devices.

January 1st 2024

Project Day 0: The birth of Gestic.

  • Initial database implementation with all existing cards.
  • Secure authentication framework for account management.
  • Bulk card entry system using collector numbers.
  • Foundational web architecture.

"What started as a solo mission to manage a personal collection has grown into a community of thousands."