Help & support

Kura downloads the Scryfall card data once, so recognition and search can run offline afterwards. You choose the languages: English is always included and is the smallest download, roughly 100 MB; adding other languages makes it several hundred MB. On mobile data Kura shows the size first and offers to wait for Wi-Fi.

When new sets are out, a New sets available banner appears on Home; one tap updates. You can also update from Settings → Card Database → Update now. Settings opens from the gear icon on Home.

iPhone and iPad with iOS or iPadOS 18 or later. The plain-language search additionally needs iOS 26 and a device with Apple Intelligence. Mac is on the roadmap; Android is not planned for now.

The round AUTO / MAN button on the scan screen switches the mode, and Kura remembers your choice. In AUTO, Kura waits for a sharp, steady card; when it is sure, a short green countdown runs and the card is added by itself — tap the bar to adjust it instead. In MAN you press the shutter yourself and always review the match before adding.

Into the box shown in the → box capsule on the scan screen; tap it to choose another. If you haven't picked one, cards land in the Inbox. Cards always go into a box — decks are lists that Kura matches against your boxes. From a box you can also start with … → Scan into this box.

When Kura isn't sure, it opens the match drawer instead of adding the card: it shows a strip of likely printings, and Check printing opens the full list of editions. Set language, condition, foil and count there, then Add to box. To fix a card that was already added, tap the thumbnail of the last scanned card.

The foil button on the scan screen has three modes. Auto (the default) decides per card by reading the foil indicator printed on cards from 2014 on; older frames count as non-foil, so switch those by hand. Foil books everything as foil — handy for a stack of foils — and Off books everything as non-foil. A printing that only exists in one finish always gets that finish.

New cards get the default grade, Near Mint unless you change it under Settings → Scanner → Default grade. Turn on Grade selector on scan screen to switch grades while scanning, or change it later in the card's details.

Yes. In the box picker on the scan screen, turn on Only missing cards. Kura then skips every card the box already holds and stops only on new ones. If a card is recorded in another box, Kura asks: Move here moves the copy you already have, Add anyway adds a new one. Turn on Match exact printing if a different edition should count as missing.

Even light helps most; tilt the card a little if a sleeve or foil throws strong glare. A plain, single-color surface behind the card lets Kura find the edges faster. Hold still for a moment — Auto mode waits for a sharp, stable frame. If one card keeps failing, tell us which card and printing it is.

The Inbox is the box that's always there: it catches scans when no box is chosen and cards whose box was removed. It can't be deleted and doesn't count toward the free plan's box limit. Sort its cards into boxes whenever you like.

Every card lives in exactly one box, like on your shelf. A box is a Storage box, a Deck box or a Binder. Deck boxes can be linked to a deck (see Decks).

Swipe a card row and choose Move to box, or change the box in the card's details. For many cards at once, use … → Select cards in the box, then Move to …. … → Move whole box moves everything in it.

Copies you paid a different price for can live in a stack of their own. Open the card and tap Split stack… under Quantity: choose how many copies split off and what you paid per card. The new stack keeps the note and acquisition date; change them on its page. Each stack then lists the other under Other stacks in this box with its quantity, purchase price and the day it was added — that's how you tell them apart. New copies of the card join the stack added most recently. To put them back together, open the stack that should stay and tap Merge into this stack: purchase prices are averaged by quantity, notes are joined.

Deleted cards stay in Recently Deleted at the bottom of the Boxes tab for 30 days; tap Restore to bring them back. Sealed products are not kept there — they are deleted right away. For anything older, restore a backup.

Open the card and tap Mark as sold. It moves out of your collection into Boxes → Sold, grouped by month with sale price and profit. Changed your mind? Not sold after all puts it back.

In the Boxes tab, switch from Singles to Sealed and add a product from the catalog or enter it by hand. Kura doesn't price sealed products automatically: look up a price on a marketplace and record the value yourself.

In the Decks tab, tap +. Under List, paste the text export from Moxfield, Archidekt, Deckstats, MTGGoldfish, TappedOut and most other sites (lines like 1 Lightning Bolt (2X2) 117). Under File, pick a list or CSV export; one file can hold several decks separated by # Deck name lines. Kura doesn't fetch decks from a link — copy the text export instead.

Each deck shows a Missing section with every card your boxes can't cover. Its copy button puts the wants-list on the clipboard, ready to paste into a marketplace.

Choose … → Link to deck box in the deck. The cards in that box are then reserved for this deck: other decks no longer count them as available. The deck shows how much of the list really sits in the box, and Cuts lists cards still in the box that are no longer in the deck.

Several decks are planning on more copies of a card than you own. Each deck still matches on its own; this is just a heads-up. Copy the shortfall as a list from the Missing cards folder in the Decks tab.

Create a box with type Deck box and format Limited, scan the pool into it, then choose … → Create deck. The whole pool starts in the sideboard; move the cards you want to play up into the deck. The build bar shows your mana curve as you go, and Set basic lands fills in the lands.

In the deck's … menu, Copy deck puts the list on the clipboard and Export deck saves it as a text file, in the format most deck sites import.

Yes. In the Boxes tab, choose … → Import collection (CSV). ManaBox exports are recognized directly; for other CSVs Kura detects the columns (name, set, collector number, foil, condition, language, purchase price and more) and lets you check them first. You can import into one box or split by a box column. Importing the same file twice adds the cards twice.

… → Export collection (CSV) in the Boxes tab writes every card with its printing, language, foil, condition, quantity, note, box, purchase price and date. Market prices aren't included, since they change and come from Scryfall. The file contains what you paid, so keep it somewhere safe. Single boxes and sealed products export the same way from their own … menus.

Yes, under Settings → Additional Data → Prices → Preferred: Cardmarket in EUR (the default) or TCGplayer in USD, both via Scryfall. If your preferred source has no price for a card, the other currency is shown.

Weekly by default, when you open Home; you can change that to monthly or off, or tap Update now in the same place. Only your own cards are refreshed. To refresh a single card, swipe down on its details.

In the card's details under Acquisition. Kura pre-fills the market price at the time of the scan, so you only need to change it when you paid something else. Copies bought at a different price can get their own stack with Split stack…

A good part of Scryfall's syntax: set:, c:, id:, t:, o:, artist:, mana value and price comparisons, and more. Search syntax in the app has the full reference. On iOS 26 with Apple Intelligence you can also type a plain sentence and press Return — Kura turns it into filters on your device.

Only adding more stops. Everything you have stays usable, editable and exportable; nothing is locked or deleted. The limits are 5,000 cards, 10 boxes, 10 decks, 5 sealed products and 500 sold cards — see Pricing. The Inbox doesn't count as a box, and sold cards don't count toward your cards.

Kura imports what fits and tells you what didn't — for example how many cards would need Pro. Cards from boxes beyond the box limit go to the Inbox, so nothing from the file is silently dropped.

There's nothing to set up: when your devices are signed in to the same iCloud account, Kura syncs on its own. A second iPhone or iPad needs no restore — install Kura, and your collection arrives.

Check the status under Settings → Sync & Backup. iCloud sync off, this device only means the device isn't signed in to iCloud. iCloud sync stalled means changes haven't reached iCloud yet — everything on this device is still complete; give it a connection and some time. If it stays stuck, write to us with what the status shows.

Kura backs up daily by default to Files → iCloud Drive → Kura, so iCloud Drive needs to be on for Kura. It keeps every backup of the last 7 days, one per week for the 4 weeks before, and each device's last 3 backup days, however old. Files you rename are never deleted. You can change the interval or save a backup by hand under Settings → Sync & Backup.

Under Settings → Sync & Backup → Restore, pick a backup file. Restoring only adds what's missing; it never overwrites or removes cards you have now.

TestFlight builds run for 90 days. Open the TestFlight app and install the latest Kura build; your collection stays on the device and in iCloud. New to the beta? See Get Kura.

The quickest way: take a screenshot in Kura and share it to TestFlight with a note. Or email beta [at] kura [dot] cards. Every note gets read.

Printed Kura token cards, handed out in person at events — and you might find a stack on the counter of your local game store. Scan one like any card and it awakens: it joins its own row on Home, where you can turn it over and see when you found it. Tokens don't count toward your collection.