CardBard

Point your camera at a card — get the exact card and what it’s worth.

CardBard is a trading-card scanner. Point the camera at a card and it tells you which card you are holding — set, collector number, variant — and what that exact card is trading for on the open market right now. A resolved result stays in the live camera with its name, printing, variant, value, source and absolute as of date.

When the read is clean it commits to one card. When it isn’t, you get a short ranked list of real candidates below your pinned photo and you pick one. Never a silent wrong match, and every result has a “wrong card?” button that actually fixes it.

Pokémon TCG scanning comes first. The catalogue browser searches cards and sets already cached on your device; it does not pretend to be a complete online catalogue. Magic: The Gathering is next, followed by Disney Lorcana, One Piece Card Game and Yu-Gi-Oh! on the published roadmap.

Billing, in plain numbers

One plan. US$49.99 a year.

There is no weekly plan, and there will never be a weekly plan. No monthly plan either. No countdown timer, no pre-ticked box, and no free trial that quietly turns into a charge — we do not run a trial at all. The free and Standard choices, the whole deal and the primary action fit on one screen. Cancel from one screen inside the app.

A second, deeper tier will exist when it has enough in it to be worth paying for. It will be annual too, and it will appear the day its features do, not before.

The answer is never behind the paywall. Scanning is free and unlimited, and the value is always visible — no account needed to scan a card and see the number, and no cap on how many you scan. The paid plan is for the collection built on top of that: search, sort and filters; grid or list; group by set; quantity and condition; collection value; a want-list; and CSV export with a real-column preview before sharing. In continuous mode, saved cards line up in a session strip while the camera stays live. If you stop paying, your collection stays. It becomes read-only. It never disappears.

No ads. No feed. No marketplace. Nothing here is trying to sell you a card.

Where it is

Not on the App Store or Google Play yet — when it is, this page will say so. In the meantime the roadmap says what is being built and in what order. Order only, no dates: we are one developer, and a date would be a guess dressed up as a promise.

Read the roadmap →