Point your phone at a card and the scanner tells you what it is and what it sells for. It reads the artwork, not the text, so it works on a card in a sleeve, a card with glare on it, and old cards where the set symbol has worn off. Most of the time it returns a match in under five seconds.
What you get back is the card’s name, set and number, its current Near Mint price from TCGplayer, and a link to the card’s page with price history and graded sale prices. If the match is not certain it shows the closest candidates and lets you pick.
The single card scanner is free and needs no account. Scan as many cards as you like. If you are pricing a whole binder, the binder scanner reads a page of nine cards in one photo and adds up the value, and the stack scanner lets you go card by card with a running total. Both are part of a Pro membership because every scan costs us an API call to the recognition service; the single scan is covered because one card at a time is cheap enough to give away.
Why the matches are good: the scanner uses an image recognition model trained on every printed Pokemon card, so it can tell a Japanese printing from an English one and a 1st Edition from Unlimited where the artwork differs. It does not read condition. For that, use the card grader, which scores centering, corners, edges and surface from a photo, or the condition guide to do it by eye.