About the creator
Riftbound is the first trading card game I've ever properly fallen for. I've played plenty of games, but this is the first time I've found myself sleeving cards and genuinely caring which ones I've got.
Which turned out to be the problem. Coming into TCGs completely new, I had no idea where to start. Nobody hands you a system. You buy a few packs, then a display, then a deck, and suddenly there's a pile on the desk and a binder that's half full and you couldn't tell anyone what's actually in it. I didn't know how people kept track of this stuff.
So I went looking for an app. And every one I found was enormous. Deck builders, metagame stats, tournament tools, price graphs, marketplace integrations, social feeds. Huge pieces of software built for people who'd been doing this for fifteen years. I just wanted to know whether I already owned the card in my hand before I bought another one.
That's all RiftPocket is. Not a deck builder, not a marketplace, not a metagame site. A digital binder that sits next to your real one and answers the questions a binder can't: what have I got, how many, what am I missing, and what's it worth. Nothing else, deliberately.
I've been playing League of Legends since Season 1, which I'm aware dates me precisely. Still playing today, though these days it's mostly Wild Rift on my phone, which suits life better than a full match on desktop does.
My champion taste has drifted a lot over the years.
That history is genuinely why Riftbound clicked. Opening a pack and finding a champion I've played for over a decade hits differently than a game I've no history with. If you've been around League a while too, you already know exactly what I mean.
It's free. Properly free: no card limit, no paid tier, no adverts, no feature held back for people who pay. I didn't want to build the thing I was annoyed by.
It's also one person's evening project, which cuts both ways. It moves fast when something is broken, and it doesn't have a support team. If the card scanner misreads your card or a set is missing, tell me and I'll actually fix it, usually the same week.
There's a Discord that's just getting started, and a contact form that lands in my inbox. Either works. I read everything.