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One scanner, with modes

Snap, Continuous, Record and Slab are one camera: pick a way on the toggle. Case check and Search are in •••.

Updated November 3, 2026iPhone and iPad only

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

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Pick a way on the toggle over the shutter: Snap, Continuous, Record or Slab. ••• at the top has Case check and Search; Light is at the top right. The scanner opens on the way you used last (never Record).

  • Snap: hold a card up in the middle of the screen; it’s recognised as you hold it, the same way Continuous does. Press the shutter, with a shutter sound, a quick flash and a buzz as it snaps: Snap shows the card’s name and price above the controls; tap Add, or hold up the next card. Turn on Auto-snap in Settings to have Snap take each card by itself.
  • Continuous: each card recognised drops into the drawer, ready for the next; the shutter pauses it. Then tap Add, or the drawer’s count for the list.
  • Slab: hold a slab’s barcode in the frame; confirm the card and grade to see its graded price.
  • Case check (in •••): the live check against your Wanted list, when the list has cards on it.
  • Record: film yourself opening packs, with each card’s price as you pull it. See Record your pack opening.

In the drawer’s list (tap its count), the ♡ puts the drawer’s cards on your Wanted list instead.

Price check

In Snap the result is a price check: today’s market price and how it has moved, right on the scanner. Nothing is added unless you tap Add.

Tip. Turn Auto-snap on, or the shutter sound, the screen flash or the vibration off, in Settings → Card scanner. Each setting is remembered on this phone only.

Tip. A card with versions, like Holo and Reverse Holo, shows each one’s price. Scanning a big stack? Turn on Pick versions later in Settings → Card scanner and pick them in Review.

In Continuous, a card the phone can’t recognise gets one AI check by itself (a new account’s first 20 are free). Turn that off with Use AI automatically in Continuous scan in Settings → Card scanner. In Snap, Check with AI is a button you press.

Related

  • Scan your cardsHold a card up in the middle of the screen: Snap shows its price; Continuous collects cards in a drawer under it.
  • 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.
  • Record your pack openingFilm your pack opening: each card’s price and PSA values as you pull it, your pack count and whether you came out ahead.
  • Bulk Scan a stackOne photo of 8–10 cards on a table, checked and added all at once.
  • Check a case for cards you wantPhotograph part of a vendor’s case and see which cards are on your Wanted list.
  • Get better scansGlare, sleeves, slabs and foils: small fixes that help the camera read a card.

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