Fantastic app but refinements would be welcome – CardWarden Review

Really well done and a tremendously valuable utility for game makers and creators alike. However it's very slow and manual and some automation and refinement in bringing your cards into the app would really make the app better. I spent several hours this evening converting my marvel saga cards (101 cards including the back) and here are my thoughts on the process. If possible, it would be nice if the app auto aligned the edges of cards if they're shot against a contrasty background. Right now, it is a very manual task of scaling and rotating the cards by hand using touch gestures. It works but it can be really painful to get the scale just right and everything rotated just right and many times, you get a little slip as you pull your finger off. If you're really trying to make the deck look perfect, it's a huge pain. If automated straightening and scaling is not possible, just auto populating from and album and then having single pixel movement arrows (and single increment rotation buttons) would be great for fine tuning placement. Also, the deck (next part of process after importing) should be autopopulated as well and just let the user remove cards or duplicate easily. Having to populate the deck manually is a bit much after the arduous import process. Also, would like to have a save and backup to Dropbox or email option so that I won't lose this data if I ever have to change tablets! It was a hell of a lot of work, I don't want to do it (ever again!). Also, the buttons in red, like the quit buttons and the 'x' button in import screen are confusing - they should be labeled 'save and return to main menu'. I wasn't sure what the button would do, there was no other button to go to main menu and after spending a couple of hours importing cards, was terrified I was lose all my work! But as for the play and randomize screens, just terrific and really enable actual play with scanned in cards. Truly a gem of a one of a kind app - please make the data backuppable and make the process a bit easier and this app would be perfect. Am giving it five stars anyway because it's such a cool app and hoping for some of the feature requests to get implemented.
Review by Jinchoung on CardWarden.

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