Identify first, value second

Scan, track and check your cards in seconds

Every collection in one list

TCGValuer is a collection tracker for trading card collectors. Camera scanning that names the exact printing, a reference price with the date it was read, and the grading math — in one place, with no account and nothing to buy.

What happens when you scan

1. Step 1

   The camera reads two marks

   The set symbol and the collector number along the bottom edge — the two marks that narrow a card to one printing, rather than the artwork, which repeats across runs.

2. Step 2

   You confirm the printing

   Same card, different run, different card entirely in value terms. The app shows the candidates and you pick, which is why a misread never becomes a silent mistake in your list.

3. Step 3

   It lands in the collection

   With a reference price and the date that price was read, because a money figure without a date is a claim rather than a fact.

4. Step 4

   The list goes where you go

   Export to CSV whenever you want, with the paid, sold and grading columns intact.

Three calculators that need no app

Some questions are arithmetic, and arithmetic belongs in a browser tab. The selling fee calculator works out what a sale actually leaves you after commission, transaction fees and postage. The other two sit on the free tools page, they run entirely on your device, and none of them asks for an email. Getting a clean read out of the camera has its own four rules, on how to scan Pokémon cards.

Where the numbers on this site come from

Every figure here carries its source and the date it was read, and grading fees get re-checked every quarter because graders change them several times a year. That is the whole difference between a reference and a blog post: when PSA moved five tiers in February 2026, a page without a date silently started lying, and a page with one did not.

Start here

Most people arrive with one question. What is my Pokémon card worth answers it end to end: the four drivers of price, how to check a real sold price in about five minutes, and why two price sites quote different numbers for the same card.

If the card is still unidentified, start one step earlier with how to read a Pokémon card, then decode the symbol with rarity symbols explained. Vintage cards usually need one more check — first edition, shadowless or unlimited — and anything that looks off deserves the counterfeit comparison checklist, while a card that looks misprinted has its own three tests in Pokémon error cards and misprints. For the top of the market, the most expensive cards covers what is verified and what is hearsay.

Before you send anything to a grader

Grading is a purchase, and most submissions lose money quietly. The grading cost comparison lists what PSA, BGS, CGC and SGC charge per card as of 15 September 2026 — including PSA's new Standard tier and the Value tiers it still keeps paused — and is it worth grading gives the break-even rule in one line. Run your own numbers through the ROI calculator, check the one attribute you can measure at home with the centering calculator, and see how the four scales differ in PSA vs BGS vs CGC.

Condition, quoted rather than guessed

Near Mint, Lightly Played, Moderately Played, Heavily Played, Damaged — five words that decide what a raw card sells for. The condition guide quotes each definition from the marketplace standard and adds the three integrity tests that decide when a card drops to Damaged regardless of how it looks. Keeping that condition is a separate skill: how to store cards follows what the national conservation bodies publish rather than what the hobby repeats.

Once the cards are identified, the next question is keeping track of them. The collection tracker page covers the six fields worth recording per card and why export matters more than any feature a tool advertises.

What this site will not do

It will not appraise your card. The price checker shows what the market quotes for a card in general; what your copy is worth depends on its printing and condition, and no web page can see either. And it will not tell you a card is genuine, because authentication is a service with liability attached and a web page has neither. Everything it does do is on the guides page, and the reasoning behind both refusals is on the about page.

TCGValuer is an independent site and app. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or sponsored by Nintendo, Creatures, GAME FREAK, The Pokémon Company, Bandai, Shueisha, Toei Animation, Konami, Studio Dice, Wizards of the Coast, Hasbro, Disney, Ravensburger, PSA, Beckett, CGC, SGC or TCGplayer. Product names are used descriptively to identify the cards and services being discussed.