Cards Scanner
Card tools, compared
There are several good card apps and one very common non-app. These pages set out what each does, and which one suits the job you actually have.
Card tools differ in three ways: whether they identify the card, whether they value it from real sales, and what they charge. Everything else is presentation.
Where a comparison names another product, the claim is limited to what can be verified from public information — what the tool is for and how it is sold. No invented ratings or reviews.
Comparisons
Pages in this cluster
What to look for in a card value app
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How Zenith compares with CollX for scanning, valuing and tracking a card collection, and which one suits your workflow.
Read the guideA Ludex alternative, compared fairly
How Zenith compares with Ludex for scanning and valuing sports cards, and what to test before choosing between them.
Read the guideCard grading submission guide
How to decide what to submit, prepare the cards, choose a tier and avoid the two mistakes that cost submitters the most money.
Read the guideComparing sports card apps
A framework for comparing card apps on identification, valuation, tracking and organisation — with the tests to run before you…
Read the guideHow to look up a card value
The fastest reliable method for pricing a card: identify it properly, find comps, adjust for condition, and know when to stop…
Read the guideHow it works
Three steps from a phone photo to a finished image
Scan the card
Point the camera at it — raw, sleeved, in a binder or in a slab.
Confirm the match
Check the player, year, set and parallel Zenith read.
See the value
The card lands in your collection with a market value attached.
FAQ
Frequently asked questions
Which card app is the most accurate?
Accuracy is product-specific and worth testing yourself: scan the same five difficult cards in each app and compare. Foil parallels, vintage cards without numbers and graded slabs are the cases that separate them.
Do card apps value cards from real sales?
The good ones do, from recent completed sales, and they show the sales behind the number. If a value has no visible evidence, treat it as an estimate rather than a market price.
Is it worth switching card apps?
Only if the app you are using cannot identify the parallel, or cannot value a card from real sales. Those two failures are the ones that leave you doing the hard work by hand, which is what an app is for.
Try it on your next photo
Free to download on the App Store. iPhone and iPad only.