Cardex: TCG Card Scanner
Scan any trading card and see its real market value
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Cardex turns your phone camera into a trading card price scanner. Point it at any Pokémon, One Piece, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic or Lorcana card and in about a second you get the live market price from TCGplayer and Cardmarket, plus graded values (PSA 9/10). Add cards to your collection and watch your portfolio value move, set price alerts, complete set checklists and track your best cards from home screen widgets. Free to try, available in 11 languages on iOS and Android.
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PH · launched Oct 15, 2026 · 1 upvote (top 67%)
- Retail & commerce
- Search & retrieval
- B2C
- AI feature
- Commercial product
- Android
- iOS
- Pokemon
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Partial Building the mobile camera UI and integrating pricing APIs is straightforward, but near-instant, accurate card identification requires custom card-recognition computer vision models.
What it would actually take: The app needs a mobile client (React Native/Flutter) using an on-device lightweight edge model (e.g., CoreML/TFLite) or server-side perceptual hashing/vector embedding search to match video frames against a database of hundreds of thousands of TCG card variants (foils, languages, sets). The hard parts are low-latency vector similarity retrieval across massive card art datasets and licensing/scraping real-time market data from TCGplayer and Cardmarket.
Competitors
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Attention rank: #87 of 251 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 261 days after the earliest competitor.
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- My Card Wizard · ph · 2026-09-30 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.66
- Trackr TCG · ph · 2026-09-16 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.64
- CardBroker · ph · 2026-09-11 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.63
- Card Value Pro for OPTCG · ph · 2026-09-20 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.62
- FoilFox · ph · 2026-09-18 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.61
- Greedy TCG · ph · 2026-09-28 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
- Pokemon Card Value Checker & Prices · ph · 2026-10-08 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.58
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