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One scanner, with modes

Scan, Bulk and Case check are one camera: pick a mode at the bottom; Scan is Snap or Continuous.

Updated October 20, 2026iPhone and iPad only

More in Scanning
  1. Scan your cards
  2. One scanner, with modes
  3. Record your pack opening
  4. Bulk Scan a stack
  5. Check your cards before adding them
  6. Japanese cards and other languages
  7. Get better scans
  8. Verify a graded slab
  9. Scanning with no signal
  10. Send a card photo to the app
  11. Use your phone as a scanner
  12. Where market prices come from
  13. “What did you pay?” and why it matters
  14. AI card checks and your photos
  15. Siri & Shortcuts

Scanning

  1. Scan your cards
  2. One scanner, with modes
  3. Record your pack opening
  4. Bulk Scan a stack
  5. Check your cards before adding them
  6. Japanese cards and other languages
  7. Get better scans
  8. Verify a graded slab
  9. Scanning with no signal
  10. Send a card photo to the app
  11. Use your phone as a scanner
  12. Where market prices come from
  13. “What did you pay?” and why it matters
  14. AI card checks and your photos
  15. Siri & Shortcuts

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Open the scanner from + in Inventory or Collection, from the Wanted list, or from a deal. The modes are at the bottom: Scan, Bulk, Case check and Record. The scanner opens on the mode you used last (never on Record).

  • Scan: hold a card up in the middle of the screen and press the shutter, with a shutter sound, a quick flash and a buzz as it snaps. Snap shows the card’s name and price above the controls; tap Add, or hold up the next card. Turn on Auto-snap in Settings to have Snap take each card by itself.
  • Scan → Continuous: tap the Snap / Continuous switch next to Photo. Each card recognised drops into the drawer under the frame, ready for the next; Add or Review when you’re done.
  • Bulk: one photo of several cards on the table. They go to Bulk scan’s review list, as before.
  • Case check: the live check against your Wanted list, when the list has cards on it.
  • Record: film yourself opening packs, with each card’s price as you pull it. See Record your pack opening.

In Continuous, Wanted beside Add and Review puts the drawer’s cards on your Wanted list instead.

Price check

In Snap the result is a price check: today’s market price and how it has moved, right on the scanner. Nothing is added unless you tap Add. The Price check chip on Inventory or Collection opens the scanner there.

Tip. Turn Auto-snap on, or the shutter sound, the screen flash or the vibration off, in Settings → Card scanner. Each setting is remembered on this phone only.

In Continuous, a card the phone can’t recognise gets one AI check by itself (a new account’s first 20 are free). Turn that off with Use AI automatically in Continuous scan in Settings → Card scanner. In Snap, Check with AI is a button you press.

Related

  • Scan your cardsHold a card up in the middle of the screen: Snap shows its price; Continuous collects cards in a drawer under it.
  • Check your cards before adding themThe list after Continuous, Case check or a Bulk Scan photo: confirm each card, fix the rest, then add them.
  • Record your pack openingFilm yourself opening packs: your face, each card’s picture and price as you pull it, and whether you made money.
  • Bulk Scan a stackOne photo of 8–10 cards on a table, checked and added all at once.
  • Check a case for cards you wantPhotograph part of a vendor’s case and see which cards are on your Wanted list.
  • Get better scansGlare, sleeves, slabs and foils: small fixes that help the camera read a card.

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