Pokémon TCG
Collectr is the most complete for a portfolio with sealed product and slabs, Dex is the pick for set collectors and Japanese sets, the TCGplayer app suits buying and selling, Dragon Shield is a strong free all-rounder, and Ripdex is a fast free scanner. Our pick is TurnZero HQ if you play the game too, because your collection, your decks and your games live in one account.
Our pick
Our pick if you play the game as well as collect it
TurnZero HQ keeps a Pokémon collection in My Library, where every copy is a specific printing in a variant (Normal, Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil, 1st Edition or Unlimited), a condition, a language and, if it is slabbed, a grade like PSA 10 with a value you set for it. Prices are TCGplayer market prices imported once a day, and each card's page has a 90-day price chart. Set completion counts each set the way collectors do, up to the printed total with secret rares tallied apart, and three binders are free. Premium adds the collection value chart and raises binders to 50.
Cards get in by searching, by typing the set code and number from the bottom of the card, by scanning with the phone camera, or by importing a CSV from the TCGplayer app, Collectr or Dragon Shield. The same account builds decks checked against Standard or Expanded, keeps a wishlist and trades, and records the games you play.
There is no sealed product and no population data. Set completion is one entry per card, so it is not a master-set tracker that wants every reverse holo of every card. The catalog and its prices are the English Pokémon TCG, so a Japanese card has to have an English printing to be found, and the scanner adds a card as its headline version rather than guessing whether it is a reverse holo.
Best for a portfolio with sealed product and slabs
Collectr treats a collection like an investment portfolio, and it covers more of what a Pokémon collector can own than anything else here: raw cards, graded cards with population reports, and sealed product, with price history going back five years or more on the paid tier. It runs on iPhone and Android and covers more than 20 card games. Collectr says its scanner identifies a card's set, number and variant.
The free tier includes scanning, portfolio tracking and a trade analyzer. Collectr Pro, listed on its site in September 2026 at $4.99 a month billed yearly or $7.99 billed monthly, adds unlimited scanning, the longer price history and data export. If sealed product or graded cards are most of what you own, it fits better than TurnZero HQ.
Best for set collectors, including Japanese and Chinese sets
Dex is built for Pokémon only, and for the collector who thinks in sets. It covers every English, Japanese and Simplified Chinese expansion, shows each set's completion and rarity breakdown, and can split a card into its variants so reverse holos are tracked separately from the normal copy. Prices come from TCGplayer, Cardmarket, CardTrader and eBay. It runs on iPhone, Android and the web.
The free plan tracks an unlimited number of cards with three folders. The camera scanner, unlimited folders and CSV export are part of Dex+, listed at $3.99 a month on its site in September 2026, so a collector who wants to scan should count on the subscription.
Best if you buy and sell where you track
The TCGplayer app is free, scans any card from any game sold on the TCGplayer marketplace, and prices it at TCGplayer's market price, which is built from sales on that marketplace. You can keep a collection in it and watch its value, priced by the same marketplace you would buy from. TCGplayer rebuilt its scanning engine in August 2025, and sellers at its Level 4 tier can send cards they scan straight into their Seller Portal inventory.
It is a storefront with a collection attached, which suits you if you buy and sell often. It is less suited to a collector who wants set checklists, binders or a grade on each copy.
Best free all-rounder for collecting, decks and trades
Dragon Shield's Pokémon app (listed as Poké TCG Scanner Dragon Shield) covers more of the hobby in one free app than most. It scans cards in any language and translates foreign-language ones, pulls daily prices from TCGplayer and Cardmarket with 30 days of history, sorts cards into folders, builds decks, keeps wishlists and trade lists, and compares the value of a trade between two players. Collections and decks export as CSV or text.
It is free on iPhone and Android, with an optional Premium subscription. Showing both TCGplayer and Cardmarket prices is useful if you buy from European sellers as well as American ones.
Best free scanner for pricing a pile quickly
Ripdex is a Pokémon scanner and price guide that is free with no scan limit and no paid tier listed on its site. Its batch mode reads card after card without a tap to confirm between them and keeps a running total, which suits pricing a stack from a collection you just bought. It prices normal, holofoil and reverse holofoil copies separately from daily TCGplayer data, with a 90-day chart, and covers English and Japanese cards.
Its collection manager tracks quantity and condition. It is a narrower app than Collectr or Dex, and its site does not mention graded cards, so it works best as the fast front end for a pile rather than the home of a collection with slabs in it.
Best known for set checklists
Pokellector's app has been on the App Store since 2013, and many collectors know its set-by-set checklists from the website first. The app covers English and Japanese sets, has a variant view for reverse holos, and tracks a collection on the phone without an account. It is free, with an optional subscription.
The App Store listing shows its last update in October 2024, so check that new sets are appearing before you commit a large collection to it. Dex covers the same job and says it adds new expansions on launch day.
Where an app's own site or store listing doesn't say, the table says "Not listed" rather than guess. Prices and tiers were checked in September 2026.
Most of these apps scan, so the useful comparison is what the scanner costs, how it decides which card it is looking at, and what it does about reverse holos. That last one matters more for Pokémon than for most games, because the same card can have a different price as a reverse holofoil, and the difference is a foil pattern a phone camera sees only at the right angle.
TurnZero HQ reads the text along the bottom of the card, where the set code and collector number are printed, because a name like Pikachu fits dozens of cards and a number fits one. It adds each card to your collection as it is read and asks you to pick when a read could be more than one card. Ripdex's batch mode is the one to use if the job is pricing a large stack as fast as possible, and Collectr or Dex are worth the subscription if you want the scan to go straight into a portfolio or set checklist in those apps. How TurnZero HQ's scanner reads a card →
Start with what most of your collection is. If it is sealed product and graded cards you are holding for their value, Collectr is built for that job and TurnZero HQ is not. If it is sets you are trying to finish, especially Japanese or Chinese ones, Dex fits better. If you mostly buy and sell singles, the TCGplayer app puts the collection and the marketplace in one place.
If you play the game, the question changes. A collection app that doesn't know about your decks leaves you checking by hand which cards are in the binder and which are sleeved up for Saturday. TurnZero HQ keeps the collection, decks checked against Standard or Expanded, trades and your games in one account, and it holds a Magic collection in the same place if you collect both. A spreadsheet still works for a small collection you only want to list, and TurnZero HQ imports one if you outgrow it. Importing a collection from another app →
Some collectors run two apps, such as Collectr for sealed product and TurnZero HQ for the cards they play with. That works, and since most of these apps export a CSV, you can move cards from one to the other later. How much are my Pokémon cards worth? → TurnZero HQ vs. Collectr, in detail →
It depends on what you collect. Collectr is the most complete for a portfolio that includes sealed product and graded cards. Dex is the strongest for set collectors, especially with Japanese or Chinese sets. Dragon Shield and the TCGplayer app are both free and scan. Our pick is TurnZero HQ if you also play, because the collection, your decks and your games share one account. Tiers and prices change, so check each app's current terms before subscribing.
Ripdex, the TCGplayer app, Dragon Shield and TurnZero HQ all scan without a subscription, and Collectr's free tier scans, with unlimited scanning on Pro. Dex's scanner is part of Dex+. What separates them is what happens after the scan: Ripdex is built for pricing a pile quickly, the TCGplayer app for buying and selling, and TurnZero HQ adds each card to your collection as it is read.
Not reliably. Several apps say their scanner identifies the variant, but the reverse holofoil pattern is hard for a phone camera to see unless the light catches it. TurnZero HQ adds a scanned card as its headline version and lets you change the variant on the card afterward, rather than guessing. Whatever app you use, check the variant on your valuable cards by hand.
Collectr tracks sealed product and graded cards, with population reports. TurnZero HQ tracks graded copies with a grade and your own value, but it does not track sealed product or population reports, so a collection that is mostly booster boxes and slabs is better kept in Collectr.
Usually, through a CSV. Collectr exports on its Pro tier, Dex on Dex+, and Dragon Shield exports CSV or text. TurnZero HQ imports CSVs from the TCGplayer app, Collectr and Dragon Shield, shows every row matched before anything is added, and exports your collection back out at any time for free.
Scan, search or import your cards, priced daily from TCGplayer. Free on iPhone, Android and the web.
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