A trading card is a small sized card usually made of thick paper and generally contains the image of a certain person, place, or thing along with a short description and some other text. It is usually a part of a complete set collected by trading with other people and hence the name.
When you begin collected trading cards, your collection can soon get out of your hand once you have a lot of them. Organizing the trading cards then becomes arduous and time consuming and more challenging it becomes to estimate the value of your collection.
The best way to resolve these issues is to download a Trading Card Collection App. These apps allow enable you to scan your cards and keep them organized in one place. Many apps will also value your cards and the entire collection in your possession. This clearly proves to be a much better way to organize your cards than the manual process. In this article we have explored 4 of the best free trading cards tracking apps that help you to consolidate all of them in one place.
1. Collectr
This is one of the best and most popular apps to help you organize your trading card collection. To add a trading card, you must initially choose from the several different trading card games provided by the Collectr’s database. This includes Pokemon, Yu-Gi-Oh, Magic the Gathering and more. You can now search for the exact card in your possession and add it to your portfolio.
Once you have added all the cards, you can browse through all the cards that you own in the Portfolio section as well as sort them by using multiple filters such as Name, Price, TCG line etc. You can tap any card to view its value. Collectr also provides a marketplace tab where you can search and buy trading cards from eBay and other eCommerce sites.
Tap here to download Collectr for iOS. To download Collectr for Android, tap here.
2. CollX
CollX is a great app to consolidate your trading card collection. If you are a sports card collector, it makes more send to use CollX.
You can easily scan your trading cards and add them to your collection on the ap. At the same time, you can also buy and sell cards that makes it easy for you to offload certain cards in your possession. CollX also helps you to connect with like-minded card collectors and allows you to follow their activity as well as send messages.
To download CollX for iOS, click here. Android users can click here to download.
3. CardBase
This is another useful app to organize your trading cards collection and especially tailored for sports cards collectors. You can easily add your cards in the app by either scanning them, searching or adding a full set that may be in your possession.
CardBase also enables you to browse and add cards to your Favorites thereby allowing you to easily find cards that you may want to buy in the future. Once you are interested in a specific card you can add it to your watchlist so that you can track its value and availability.
Although the main focus of CardBase is sports cards, nevertheless it also allows you to find other trading cards such as Pokemon etc. Moreover, the app also facilitates the buying of cards from other users as well as selling them. Additionally, you can see the current value of your entire collection as a whole.
Tap here to download the app for iOS. Android users can tap here to download.
4. Poke TCG
Poke TCG has been developed by Dragon Shield and allows you to scan your Pokemon cards and easily organize your collection. The cards can be sorted into decks and you can also see the total value of all the cards in your inventory. Alternately you can also create a wishlist and a trade list in your inventory to organize your collection.
Dragon Shield also has apps for other trading cards such as Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh and Flesh and Blood cards.
To download Poke TCG for iOS, click here. Android users can download from this link.
Closing Comments:
All the apps that we have explored above are wonderful and help you to easily organize your trading card collection. They also help you to find and connect with other card collectors to buy and sell cards. This becomes a cool way to stay attached with a card collectors’ community across the globe.
