Last updated on December 1st, 2025 at 12:06 am
YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield – Utilities Game Review
YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield is a Utilities/Card/Board game from ARCANE TINMEN APS, first launched in 16th March 2017.
It’s rated 4+ and currently has 1,736+ ratings on the App Store.
What Makes YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield Stand Out
Dragon Shield – YGO Scanner & Card Manager is the ultimate companion for Yu-Gi-Oh! collectors and players. Instantly scan cards in any language, organize your collection, build competitive decks, and track real-time prices from top marketplaces. Whether you’re trading, collecting, or preparing for your next game, this app puts everything you need in one place.
SOCIAL & FRIENDS
Connect with friends and view their collections, decks, wishlists, and tradelists
Share your own lists and discover new cards through your network
SCAN YU-GI-OH! CARDS
Fast image recognition for cards in any language
Real-time translation of foreign cards
Daily price updates from major Yu-Gi-Oh! marketplaces
30-day price history for every card
Find rulings, legality, and official text instantly
COLLECTION MANAGER
Organize your YGO cards into custom folders
Add images, track folder value, and monitor changes over time
Export collections to CSV or text for backups and trades
Stay updated with built-in price tracking
SMART FILTERS & SORTING
Sort and filter by attribute, type, rarity, and more
Get detailed folder statistics to analyze your collection
YGO DECK BUILDER
Build decks with full support for main, side, and extra decks
Export decks to share with friends or import into tournaments
TRADE TOOL
Compare trade value between two players instantly
See who’s ahead in the trade and by how much
Use wishlists and tradelists to plan fair trades
TOP MOVERS: WINNERS & LOSERS
Track which Yu-Gi-Oh! cards are rising or falling in value
Filter by format, date range, or your own collection
Spot trends with top winners and losers in your inventory
WEEKLY COLLECTION EMAILS
Automatic updates with collection stats and pricing trends
See value changes, new additions and performance
This Utilities game offers engaging gameplay and regular updates for mobile players.
Player Feedback
As a newer release, YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield is building its player community. Early feedback suggests .
Recent Updates & Development
Latest Update: 21st November 2025
Recent improvements include:
Introducing the new Pro Scanner! Scan and detect the correct YuGiHo! card, set, and version with unmatched precision.
Keep your collection accurate and up-to-date with every scan.
Enjoy faster, smoother performance and bug fixes for a seamless YGO card tracking experience.
Download & Availability
YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield is available through the official App Store for iOS devices.
Get YGO Scanner – Dragon Shield on App Store
Requirements: Requires iPhone 5s / iPad Air / iPad Air (Cellular) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina) / iPad Mini 2 (Retina, Cellular) / iPhone 6 / iPhone 6 Plus / iPad Air 2 / iPad Air 2 (Cellular) / iPad Mini 3 or later.
Compatible with iPhone and iPad devices.
Player Experience Highlights
Community Insight:
We love it its the best ever we can scan our cards and price them. If we wanted To, we could sell them too.
Maybe Im dumb because we cant seem to find it, but Ive been waiting for them to add the QC Stampede to the scanner with no luck. Is it just listed under QC Bonanza? Either way, the pack that was released AFTER QC Stanpede is on there so we see no reason why it wouldnt be there already. Other than that, generally enjoying the app.
Absolutely enjoy this app. We can quickly find TCG prices of cards. We can upload our whole collection and organize it. We enjoy the fact that there is a deck area that tells the win rate of the deck although we wish we could add extra deck as well not just main and side deck. Overall amazing app. Its our goto for scanning our cards.
Can scan a few as guest but have to create an account to get full use of app. Tired of giving away all our info to use a tool.
Ive used this app for a long time and we really love it. It has worked perfectly and been an awesome help. The only problem we have now is Ive been waiting for the new quarter century stampede set to be loaded in. Ive been patient and we realize that they cant do every set immediately but now thats its been out for a bit, we would think they would have it up by now. Hopefully it comes soon! We have a big backlog of cards waiting! This is our only complaint though, otherwise this app is awesome.
Doesnt read almost any foil cards we have, all of which are in near mint condition. Doesnt differentiate the different versions of cards (9 character code on the right above the card description) so the value isnt always right Will sometimes bring up an entirely different card when scanning a card. Ex: was trying to make a spell folder and was only scanning spell cards, several times had to rescan because it scanned them as monster cards with a completely different name.
This scanner has many problems. We wont get into them all, but the two glaring issues that most likely others will want to hear are the fact that it puts you in an unskippable ad after every 6 or 7 scans. And the second issue compounds on the problem with the first, the scanner is far too sensitive. It also highlights a portion of your screen, so you would think that would be what it was scanning, but nope it scans the whole picture, the highlighted area means absolutely nothing. Also, Id say about 25% of our scans are incorrect. This happens more with high holo cards. But still, Im basically sitting in an ad after 2 scans with how many errors we get. It also does not pick up on the set, so it doesnt scan the text code, nor does it grade the rarity. So you cant scan back to back because after each scan you have to fill in exactly which card it is. Its a mess, honestly. And the fact they expect anyone to want to pay for this app is frankly outrageous. They are at a completion level of an early beta build with this. Bet you the devs got rushed and ended up having to release their pre beta. Because thats what this is. Dont pay for a beta build application folks.
We just wanted to say many thanks for making a easy way to catalog, get prices, make decks with a draw feature. Youve nailed everything we could want in this app! Only suggestion would be to have where you can duel your own decks saved. If not at least make a markup on the deck that you can save its wins/losses/ draws. Would be awesome to see our decks stats also when we use it. Other then that amazing job devs! Kudos!! Also found an Easter egg when we scanned our floor/wallpaper, awesome fun tidbit.
Know what our childhood deck is worth now.
We love the database provided here so much that we decided to sign up for the membership which offers daily, weekly, and monthly price tracking on our collection specifically but the feature never works and Im just hit with a never ending loading screen. Really hope this gets fixed soon.
This app works great, but with the new update it came with a fix. Whenever we scan a card and gets the Set incorrect, the scroll to select the correct set doesnt show other sets . We have to keep scanning until it gets it correct . Thank you for the app, hopefully this will be fixed soon.
DuNe was available before the ots-22 pack.
Great app. Honestly does a solid job. Hopefully there will be an update where the app detects the condition of the card and rates it based off what it thinks. That way its universal for anyone who uses it without a human judgement. This app would be a million times better if it even had a deck builder in it. A separate tab or section of the app only for deck building. Like an AI chat and itd ask us okay what kind of deck are you looking for? Is there something specific you want? You dont want? Banned cards? Etc. And from that, it will just build us a deck instead of us going through the thousands of cards we have in our inventory. Thatd be super cool. And as we get new cards, maybe it can suggest changes to our deck.
We've recently gotten into collecting Yu-Gi-Oh cards, and this is almost the perfect app for storing. We've tried spreadsheets and other methods for keeping track, but this one is the simplest and most high quality one we've seen so far. The level of detail in how you can mark your cards, based on quality, set release, quantity, and even copies for trade, is downright ludicrous, and the extra folders and decks are helpful. However, there is a major issue we have noticed, which is the Search function. We understand that Yu-Gi-Oh has a massive card pool, but it just takes far too long to load up a card. It can take upwards of 10+ seconds to load a card, and when you have thousands and more cards to plug in, that is far too long. And that's not even considering the consistent crashes. We know most people would recommend the Scan function, and while we have personally had amazing experience with the scanner, we do a good chunk of cataloguing when we don't have a light to scan cards. And we've tried reinstalling the database and the whole app to no success. Again, massive card pool, but considering the Collectr App takes barely a second to load, despite having each set release separate, is bizarre to us. Unfortunately, with this flaw, we can't really deem this app worthy of a 5-star yet. If the Search tool was updated to work more efficiently, or perhaps the solution to this problem was made apparent, we could easily gift the 5-star tag. Still a great app, just inconvenient to use.
Scans used to be uninterrupted but now you get a dumb commercial you have to wait on before it releases your phone to view price. Dont add more annoyances. Bad business decision.
Great app. Updated fairly quickly with new card sets. Love the bulk add feature.
The scan feature doesnt work for us at all. It takes a picture before it can ever see the card and picks the wrong one half the time. It wont let us add that card to an actual list so thats the only reason we got this app. Please help.
An amazing app but could dragon shield make one for bakugan.
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Good app for tracking your collection, but the wishlist function does not work. If you search for a card to add to your wishlist and hit save, the card does not get added to your wishlist. There is currently no way to add a card to your wishlist.
We love this app, the only bad thing about it that makes it a 3 instead of a 5 is that all the vintage cards are not in the library, like an SDJ red eyes black dragon for example. Please expand the database.
One feature we would suggest is the ability to select multiple cards in a list and change the purchase price of all of them to the same price at one time. This would help when scanning multiple packs and seeing an accurate return.
Im loving the app so far and its helping us find out the value of our cards though we are noticing that it only has an option for 1st edition cards and nothing for holo and limited edition. Since as we all know even if our cards arent 1st editions as holo prints they can be still worth a little bit of money. We know in Yu-Gi-Oh that it gets a little crazy with all the different ways they do holos but its still a valuable point.
We love the ability to search and catalogue cards on a wish list. What would make this app perfect is if we could make multiple separate wishlists. We like to organize by archetypes and see what singles Im missing.
Everything is great with an exception of our old-school japanese cards. Prices & set names are different in the apps database than in the real world so it makes things difficult.
We got the app and so far the app wont launch it just stays on the title and wont do anything.
We really like the ease with which you can put together a collection in this app. The database is expansive and covers almost all of the sets in the game. The only issues Ive found while using the app are the absence of price values for some cards, errors with 1st edition cards showing up as worth less than unlimited edition cards, and a couple missing set numbers. That aside its still an app Id recommend, but we hope they fix these things.
We thought the picture scanning collection manager price tracking thing was just a cool idea. Dragon shield already made it?! You rock! Cant wait to see whats next.
Ok, so first of all, Most of the cards we have we use against friends. It takes too long to read the cards, so we pull up this app to read it. And, It shows how much we invested in Yu gi oh cards. This app is great. We highly recommend it.
Registered a couple of times, wont let us in. Keeps saying email not correct. After further review, we got a New phone and it was not completely updated, so after fixing a few issues everything is working fine. We are not having any issues now getting in. Works very well, sorry about the confusion.
It has so many bugs its supposed to save time not waste it. We tried to make another folder to make a deck and it wouldnt make it no matter how many times we hit save. Then we tried to delete our folder cause maybe we can only have 1. Nope it deleted an hour or more worth of scanning taking all our inventory with the folder. Deleted.
We dont like how difficult it is to get an account, but it is set up like the stock market so thats cool.
Love this app so far. Really easy to scan, however the app doesnt recognize some variations in the yugioh cards. We cant scan all of our Obelisk The Tormentor into the app, because it only recognizes a few of the sets it comes from. We have 1 set the app recognizes but two of our other numbers arent on the list. LDK2-ENS02 and EGO1-EN001 arent there. If we could manually type it in that would work as well. Other than that so far, so great.
Used to be a great app for scanning cards, but ever since the dragon shield takeover theres been nothing but paywalls and ads.
It was a great app until Dragon Shield took over. Now it has a tab of nothing but ads, and you have to make an account. It looks terrible now and is run by a crap brand. Was the best app for cataloguing decks, but not anymore.
Dont download this app not very good try scanning the card and gives us a different card not the one we scanned already. Scanned different objects like a plate and just gave us a card name trying to scan toon kingdom and it gives us speed Droid card we also tried opening an account didnt work. Not worth it at all.
We love this app. We dont use it for the price feature, we use it because we can translate any card in seconds. We live in Korea and everyone uses OCG Korean or Japanese cards, which we dont understand well (and we cant even read Japanese). When someone plays a card we dont know, we can scan it and get everything we need to know in English. Its amazing.
Please add inventory mode as soon as possible. Its the only thing the app needs to be perfect.
This is a really awesome app for getting card values and digitizing a deck. Ive recently got into collecting YuGiOh cards after collecting magic for the past couple of years. One feature that would make this app perfect would be to be able to create a digital collection through scanning like you can do a deck. That way you dont have to search your physical collection for a card to see if you already have it or not when deck building.
Yeah its pretty good although it doesnt scan some of our cards.
We love the way that you can scan the cards that you either dont use in you deck anymore or you just dont like the game and want to make some money. The only problem we face is that we cant seem to find out how to put our cards in our deck.
We love this app, its perfect for prototyping our decks: our only gripe is that theres no feature for multiple decks. Otherwise, good scanner and UI is very nice. Will gladly revise this to a 5-star review if multiple decks are supported.
Im experiencing all right now as Im writing this review. We absolutely love this app. The power to price check when newly opened cards or ones you already have it nice! You can scan them, but Ive noticed if it doesnt, youd just have to stretch it so no worries. For us personally besides the bonus of the price checker is the deck editor. Our sincere problem with it is that it doesnt allow you to have multiple decks? Why? We feel like thats a huge missed opportunity. It would have been our all good in one app, but Id rather just use it as a price checker now. Going back to yugioh deck builder lol.
This is a really good app but it says the prose in a foreign Dollar which we dont now.
It will Scan cards that are not even there.
Helps us keep track of our deck while also giving us a price for our cards.
We absolutely love this app. Building the deck is quick and easy, scanning works perfectly, we love its accessibility and everything. Our only complaint is you can only build one deck, but hopefully that is something that can be remedied with an update and if it does Ill gladly give this five stars.
It works great we are able to scan our cards or search card we dont have and see all the prices and links to where we can buy them.
Does a great job scanning cards, but we want to scan multiple decks, maybe even our whole folder of cards. Would pay to purchase the app with those features.
Good app should add a feature where you add to your profile the cards you own and the app generates decks that you can build or possibly build.
User feedback from Apple App Store
App Details
- Version: 8.0.5
- Size: 228.99 MB
- iOS: 17.0 or later
- Languages: EN, PT
- Content Advisory:
- Developer: ARCANE TINMEN APS
Last updated: 21st November 2025 | Genre: Utilities, Card | Developer: ARCANE TINMEN APS