Open beta — Android & iOS
Point your camera at a Pokémon card. An AI-driven pipeline reads the card, cross-checks it against the official TCG database, and warns you immediately if something is off — before you pay for a counterfeit.
Features
Every scan runs through the same two-step pipeline no matter which card you're holding — it decides on its own when a deeper, more expensive AI step is actually needed.
Step 1 identifies the card fast and cheap. The moment anything looks even slightly off — or you're on a paid plan — a deeper expert review kicks in automatically, comparing your photo against the card's official reference image, word for word and symbol for symbol.
The app picks the market for you from your currency: Cardmarket for SEK, NOK and EUR, TCGplayer for USD. If your market has no price for a card, the other one stands in, converted to your currency. No verified price at all? You see it clearly labelled as an estimate — never as a real price.
Japanese cards are recognised from the card itself, new sets included, and matched against a catalog of Japanese cards. Scan them, search for them and keep them in folders just like English cards, priced by the same market rule.
Every night at 00:01, the server fetches current prices for every card in every collection and saves one real, daily data point per folder — so the graph shows how your collection actually moved, not an estimated curve.
HP, Weakness/Resistance, Retreat Cost and rules text are read off and checked at code level against the official database — a faked symbol or a fabricated card number is flagged as a hard, non-negotiable error, not a guess.
Cards are sorted automatically by set, or into your own folders. Every folder has its own value and graph over any time range, in two views: Market shows what the cards you hold now are worth over time, and Return (ROI) shows how their value has grown since each card was added.
5 free Quick Scans and 1 authenticity check every week — the limit resets every Monday, no commitment. Need more? Standard and Premium subscriptions are available, along with one-time top-ups of extra scans.
Share your code from the app: a friend who signs up with it gets 5 extra scans, and you get 10 — for up to 10 friends. Reach 10/10 and you also get a one-time bonus of 5 authenticity checks and 1 Pre-Grading scan.
How it works
The app is in open beta and isn't on Google Play yet — you install the file (.apk) directly, just like any other beta app.
Tap "Download APK" above in your phone's browser.
Approve "Install unknown apps" when Android asks — it only applies to this one file.
Open the downloaded file and tap Install.
Open the app, create an account, and scan your first card — 5 scans a week are included right away.
The iOS version is distributed via Apple's TestFlight. Request an invite below — Apple requires an approved TestFlight test before the app can be downloaded directly.
Free to start, no credit card required. Available for Android now, and iOS via TestFlight.
TCG Card Scanner is a fan project and is not made by, reviewed by, or affiliated with Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK, or The Pokémon Company.
