What app tells you the price of cards?

CollX (pronounced “collects”) answers the question every collector has: “What’s it worth?” The app lets you scan most cards; it’s not just a baseball card scanner! Scan football, wrestling, hockey, soccer, or basketball cards — as well as TCG cards like Pokemon, Magic, and Yu-Gi-Oh! — and instantly identify it and get the average market value. Once you’ve scanned your cards, add them to your collection and track your portfolio. With v2.0 of CollX we've added a marketplace, where you can purchase cards with a credit card, get shipping and tracking, and earn cash selling your cards to other collectors. Turn the hobby into your side hustle!

COLLX SPORTS AND TCG SCANNER
CollX’s visual search technology instantly recognizes and matches against a database of 17+ million sports cards and trading cards. After identifying the best match, you’ll immediately get the current average market price for the card. Our deep-learning models were created by a team with 10+ years experience developing image recognition technology. In addition to being able to match most RAW cards, CollX will also identify graded cards with barcodes, as well as parallel and reprint versions of cards.

BUY AND SELL
New in v2.0 of CollX is the Marketplace, where you can buy cards using a credit card, Apple Pay, CollX Credit, and your balance on the app. Use Deals to bundle multiple cards and make an offer to the Seller. As a Seller, you can utilize several shipping options, including CollX Envelope, where you'll get tracked shipping for as little as $0.75! Other Seller Tools include the ability to set a bulk discount and to decide if you want to accept Offers. Cards bought through the CollX Marketplace are also covered by the CollX Protect policy, where payments are only released when the cards arrive at the Buyer, giving peace of mind to both parties in a deal.

GET HISTORICAL PRICING
CollX uses millions of historical auction prices to calculate a card’s average value. As you add cards to your collection, you’ll see your overall portfolio value grow. Set conditions or grades on your cards and get more accurate prices. As your cards rise or fall in value, CollX helps you track both individual card values and your overall portfolio value. No more wondering what your Pokémon card value is!

BUILD YOUR CARD COLLECTION
Create and keep track of your card values. View your collection as a grid, list, or as sets. You can also filter and sort your cards by a variety of criteria — value, date added, year, team, etc. With CollX Pro, you can export your collection as a CSV. You can also view your sets, see how close you are to completion, and generate printable checklists to help track down cards you're missing from a set.

SEARCH CARDS
Search 17+ million cards in our database. See what cards on CollX are listed for sale right in search results. And if you find a card you own, but don’t have it handy to scan, you can easily add it from any of the records in the CollX database.

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 Do you remember when you heard Beanie Babies would be worth a lot of money someday? Do you have a box of baseball cards somewhere in the house? Maybe some old Batman comic books? Grab them and your smartphone to get a pretty good idea if you’re sitting on a gold mine.

 Like many kids of the 80s, I dreamed baseball cards would someday be worth thousands, or millions of dollars. You can search for each card or doll or basket on websites but there is an easier way.

Google Lens and Collections

  Google Lens is an app you probably already have on your phone as part of the Google search app. On the Google start screen, there is an icon of crosshairs or a small colorful box. Tap that box and it opens Google Lens, a very useful feature for many reasons but especially for estimating the value of a collectible. 

Aim your smartphone camera at the object and tap the shutter button. In a matter of seconds, Google will show you many places online where that item is listed. When I checked my baseball card collection for the value of a Reggie Jackson card from the ’70s, Google took me to an eBay listing where someone else was trying to sell the same card for $9. Other listings offered the card for anywhere between $3 and $300, depending on the quality of the card and whether it had been graded by a professional.

Next, I dug out some old beanie babies from my daughter’s closet dreaming one would be worth the hundreds we expected. Unfortunately, the bear was listed for just $14 on eBay. Google Lens worked for searches for collectible Barbie dolls and Longaberger baskets. 

Not 100% accurate though

Keep in mind, that the listings show only what the owner feels they’re worth. You can adjust the search filters to show only items that have been sold to see what someone actually paid for the item. Depending on the quality of your item, you can expect that your collectible is valued in the same neighborhood as what someone paid.

I can report that Beanie Babies, Barbie dolls, and baseball cards aren’t worth anywhere near what you hoped. Most of the baseball, football, and basketball cards in my collection aren’t worth more than a few pennies. It’s nice to know though. Google Lens is a free app for iOS and Android devices.