Short answer: there is no official Magic Set Editor app for Android or iOS — not from the author, not from SourceForge, and not from the community that maintains MSE today. MSE is a desktop program. This page explains why the app-store lookalikes and download statistics do not change that, and what to use on a phone instead.
Why “MSE for Android” claims do not hold up
Every genuine MSE release is a desktop file: the SourceForge 2.0.0 Windows installer and Linux tarballs (2011), the GitHub 2.1.2 Windows zips (2020), and a Linux Flatpak of the same 2.1.2. None of these channels has ever published an .apk, an .ipa, or an app-store listing.
You may see SourceForge’s download statistics cited as proof — the stats do contain a small “Android” figure among the operating systems. That number sits alongside a large “Unknown” category and reflects how download traffic was classified, not the existence of an Android build: there is no Android file in any MSE release for anyone to have downloaded. Likewise, an app in a store using the MSE name is not the desktop program ported — at best it is an unrelated card maker borrowing the name, and it will not open your MSE set files.
What actually works on a phone: online card makers
On a phone or tablet, the realistic tool for custom Magic cards is a browser-based card maker. The following were online when checked on 21 October 2026; we list them as they are, without inventing feature comparisons we have not verified:
- MTG.Design — a web-based custom card maker, live and operating.
- MTG Cardsmith — a web-based custom card maker with a community around it, live and operating.
- MTGNexus — a community site whose custom card tools require an account; live and operating, with finer control over card text than simpler makers (per published reviews).
- CardConjurer — listed with a warning: the original CardConjurer project was shut down in November 2022 after a cease-and-desist from Wizards of the Coast. A site at the domain is reachable today, but who operates it now, and its relationship to the original project, is not verified — use it knowing that history.
These tools run entirely in the browser, so they work the same on Android, iPhone and iPad. What they are good at is speed: sketch a card idea the moment it occurs to you, share it, get feedback. What they do not replicate is MSE’s desktop workflow — a set file holding hundreds of cards, a statistics window for the whole set, and batch export of every card image at once.
The sensible split: phone for ideas, desktop for sets
- On mobile: draft and share individual cards with an online maker above. No install, no fake “MSE app” needed.
- On desktop: do the real set work in MSE — Windows natively, Linux via Flathub, Mac via the routes in our Mac guide. Your set lives in a file you control, offline.
- Moving between the two: keep your card text and art in a notes or files app you already use, then build the final cards in MSE. There is no shared cloud format between the online makers and MSE, so plain text is the honest bridge.
If a site tries to sell or sideload you a “Magic Set Editor Android app”, close the tab. The program is free, desktop-only, and GPL-2.0 — and on mobile, the browser tools above are the genuine alternative.