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Scan your cards

Hold a card up in the middle of the screen: Snap shows its price; Continuous collects cards in a drawer under it.

Updated November 3, 2026

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More in Scanning
  1. Scan your cards
  2. One scanner, with modes
  3. Record your pack opening
  4. Film yourself with your cards
  5. Bulk Scan a stack
  6. Check your cards before adding them
  7. Japanese cards and other languages
  8. Get better scans
  9. Verify a graded slab
  10. Scanning with no signal
  11. Send a card photo to the app
  12. Use your phone as a scanner
  13. How market prices work
  14. “What did you pay?” and why it matters
  15. AI card checks and your photos
  16. Siri & Shortcuts

Scanning

  1. Scan your cards
  2. One scanner, with modes
  3. Record your pack opening
  4. Film yourself with your cards
  5. Bulk Scan a stack
  6. Check your cards before adding them
  7. Japanese cards and other languages
  8. Get better scans
  9. Verify a graded slab
  10. Scanning with no signal
  11. Send a card photo to the app
  12. Use your phone as a scanner
  13. How market prices work
  14. “What did you pay?” and why it matters
  15. AI card checks and your photos
  16. Siri & Shortcuts

All help topics

  1. In the iPhone app, in Inventory, tap +: the scanner opens.
  2. Hold the card up, about 6 inches (16 cm) away, inside the frame in the middle of the screen, and press the shutter.
  3. Its name, set and price show under the frame. Check it’s your card, then tap Add.
  4. Tap the card for its printings, the condition (NM ▾) and its price history. Choose means pick the printing you have.
  5. Then hold up the next card: the camera is still looking.

Continuous

Scanning a stack? Pick Continuous on the toggle over the shutter. Each card the phone recognises drops into the drawer under the frame, and the camera is ready for the next one. The shutter pauses it and starts it again. The scanner remembers which you picked.

  1. Hold up one card at a time in the middle of the screen. Once the phone is sure of it, its picture drops into the drawer. Then the next.
  2. A faded picture is a card the phone couldn’t name. It gets one AI check by itself, unless you turned that off in Settings.
  3. Done? Tap Add, or the drawer’s count to check the list. ✕ takes a card out; Undo puts it back.

Nothing is added until you say so. A card known only by its picture shows no price until its printing is confirmed; the review asks you which it is. On Collector, Continuous adds up to 200 cards a month.

  • Dark hall? Tap Light at the top right.
  • Blurry? Tap the picture to focus again.
  • Wrong card? Tap the card, then Check with AI, or Search (in ••• at the top) to find it by name.
  • Done, or the wrong card? Tap ✕ on the result to clear it and scan again; nothing is added.
  • Nothing matches? Tap Details, then Custom to add it with your own value.

On the vendor plans:

In a deal, tap Scan card: it works the same way, and each card goes into the deal.

The web app has no live camera: tap Choose a card photo and pick a clear photo of one card instead.

Related

  • Check your cards before adding themThe list after Continuous, Case check or a Bulk Scan photo: confirm each card, fix the rest, then add them.
  • Get better scansGlare, sleeves, slabs and foils: small fixes that help the camera read a card.
  • Bulk Scan a stackOne photo of 8–10 cards on a table, checked and added all at once.
  • Send a card photo to the appShare a picture of a card from Photos or another app, and the app opens straight to scanning it.
  • Japanese cards and other languagesWhich languages the app covers, how to pick the right printing, and what an estimate means.
  • Verify a graded slabPhotograph the label or scan the barcode, confirm the cert with its grading company, and add it with its graded price.
  • Scan cards straight into a dealThe camera stays open and each card lands on the right side of the deal.

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