7 iOS Apps For Pokémon Card Tracking And Price Checking (In-Depth Review)

There’s nothing worse than searching for something on the app store to get a bunch of results with no clear winner. What are you supposed to do, download all of them, and try each app? Well, that’s what I did. 

Below you will find my review of the top 7 iOS apps for Pokémon card collection tracking and price checking.

Pokellector

About

Pokellector is a great app that we recommend. 

It’s rather simple but efficient. The app and UI design aren’t special, but sleek and easy to use. Sets are organized well and tapping on one provides information such as the date of release, the total number of cards, and your current percentage of completion.

When it comes to new sets, Pokellector updates relatively quickly. You can expect the full setlist (with images) usually the day after release. However, cards that are revealed ahead of release will be updated early in the app as well.

Everything that Pokelletor does well for the English side of Pokémon cards, they mirror for Japanese.

The Japanese section is easily accessed through the quick menu and presents basically the same, but provides Japanese cards instead of English. 

Checking prices can be a little awkward since there are no charts, graphs, or data representations. When selecting the card, the price tab will show market values from different sources such as eBay, TCGPlayer, and more. 

Strengths

• Absolutely free to download and use
• Updates with new cards quickly
• Provides the full Japanese library
• High-quality images
• Easy to use
• Has a code scanner for PTCGO

Weaknesses

• Price checking is just ok
• The app lacks features that many others have
• No card scanner to log collections
• The card catalog does not include small obscure sets, only main expansions, and promo sets

Poke TCG

About

Poke TCG is an app made by DragonShield, a fantastic maker of trading card accessories. Actually, we often recommend DragonShield sleeves, because they are high quality and offer numerous options. However, their app doesn’t quite meet the same expectations.

There isn’t much you can do in the app without first signing up for an account, which is made easy if you use Apple ID, Google, or Facebook. After this, you can use some features such as build lists (trade, wishlist, alerts, etc) or check card prices. 

However, all of the good features are locked behind a paywall. This app offers a paid premium membership which you’ll need if you want to set price alerts, look at price charts, remove ads, etc. 

On top of all this, the app also pushes the “Dragon Riders” exclusive membership on you.  

The card scanner isn’t very good either. My first test was on some Base Set Pokémon cards, which it recognized almost instantly. But when I tried some modern cards and Japanese cards, I could not get the scan function to work. 

Tracking your collection isn’t as fluid and easy as one might expect. I was unable to find a way to separate my cards into their respective expansion sets and had to add each card individually.

Strengths

• Beautiful UI, smooth experience
• Quality feel
• Easy breakdown of your collection net worth
• Price charts are updated fast

Weaknesses

• Not easy to use
• The app pushes two different subscriptions on you
• The scanners functionality is limited

Dex

About

Dex is another very clean easy-to-learn app. Its greatest strength here is the expansive catalog, leaving few cards out. Dex’s catalog is what most of these apps should aim for. 

However, Dex’s catalog doesn’t update nearly as fast as Pokellector, and is behind on not yet released expansion sets.

When it comes to tracking your collection, Dex is great. You can check off the cards you own and it will report back to you the completion of each set. You can even check off both regular and reverse holo variants of each card. 

Dex also gives you a breakdown of your Pokédex completion, keeping track of how many Pokémon you’ve “caught”. This is a cute and fun feature, but not relevant enough to have on the opening tab of the app.

You’ll also get a breakdown of the top 3 most expensive cards in your collection and a distribution chart for rarity and card type.

When browsing your collection, you can set filters to sort your cards as you wish. This could perhaps be the best feature of the app since it is so useful.

Strengths

• Very thorough catalog
• Displays the total set value for each expansion
• Highly customizable UI
• The My Collection section of the app is very good

Weaknesses

• Most prices are locked behind the Dex+ subscription
• Cards aren’t updated very quickly
• Less focused on prices and more focused on collecting

TCG Companion

About

TCG Companion isn’t a bad app, but it doesn’t really do the best of anything. 

This one is solely focused on collecting and tracking your collection. There aren’t any references for pricing or card market values, and no outbound links to store pages. 

The card catalog is pretty good, covering all of the major expansions plus some smaller ones like Pokémon Rumble, but seems to be much more thorough the more modern it gets.

There is a paid subscription that doesn’t really unlock much other than a few non-necessary features and of course, no ads.

The app isn’t bad, but there are better options. I would recommend it for a simple collection tracking app, but the ads are relentless and irritating. 

Strengths

• Easy to use
• Basic and lightweight
• There is a “Card of the Day” on the home tab

Weaknesses

• The in-app ads are obnoxious
• The app is very basic
• To remove the ads, you’ll have to pay 

CardDex

About

This is the official app from The Pokémon Company International. If you use this app, you’ll know that you have the official images and support from the source.

But overall, the app doesn’t offer much. Actually, its card catalog only goes back to the XY era, so it’s missing many of the older cards.

I tried on 6 different cards but I could not get the card scanner to work. 

If you need to track your collection of modern cards, this app would work just fine.

Strengths

• Each expansion is downloaded individually, so you can save space on your phone
• Beautiful UI and overall design
• Images are high quality
• Advanced search filters

Weaknesses

• Fairly basic
• The card scanner is hard to use
• Very limited card catalog

Collectr

About

Collectr is the app to get if you’re the type to collect a lot of products, from basic cards to sealed packs and collection boxes. 

This app will let you add products instead of just choosing them from a catalog, and it will log everything away so you can keep track of your investment and create a portfolio. You are tracking your collection this way, but it’s from the standpoint of an investor, not a collector.

This app expands far beyond Pokémon cards, but lets you add anything to your collection. This is good and bad. It lets the user add items like a sealed 1s edition booster pack, but this takes the focus off of Pokémon cards in general.

There are also a lot of links to eBay sales. It seems like every aspect of this app is to drive you to eBay, possibly to generate a commission. This felt pushy and a little dirty in my experience.

Strengths

• Probably the best app for tracking overall portfolio worth
• Lightweight, easy to use
• Ability to track other products such as booster packs
• Ability to add cards from other TCGs

Weaknesses

• Lots of links to eBay
• Not designed specifically for Pokémon cards

Pokefolio

About

Pokefolio unfortunately falls short of anything amazing. However, it does have some hidden strengths. 

Many of the app’s assets and lists simply did not load for me. Even after troubleshooting, the app failed to function smoothly. But the basics were there and overall, it worked. 

Pokefolio has one of the best analytics sections of any of the apps on this list. The user has the ability to look up recent sales of any card at any grade, quite easily. Not only that, but charts show recent sales of all grades of a single card. 

Another cool feature is the recent sales tab. We can scroll through recent eBay sales and just see what going on in the world of Pokémon cards that day.

However, overall, the app doesn’t do much that the others do not do. If you’re just seeking an app to track your cards, this isn’t it. 

I’m afraid that support for this app is pretty much dead.

Strengths

• Great analytics
• The recent sales function is nice
• The home tab has a news feed

Weaknesses

• The news feed hasn’t been updated for over a year
• Much of the app just doesn’t work

Which App Is The Best For Your Pokémon Cards?

For the collector: Pokellector and Dex

Yea, I picked two. Both apps are really good and both have strengths and weaknesses that the other does not. 

Either of these apps is a good pick for the average collector to use to track cards and check prices. These are both also good for reference material. Forget which set a card comes from? It’s pretty easy to look up.

For the investor: Collectr

As mentioned in the review, Collectr isn’t for just Pokémon cards, it’s for tracking your assets and watching their performance on the market. 

This app does that exactly, and I highly recommend it if that’s your thing.