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Card scanner
Hold your iPhone over a card and CardFrame names it, prices it and files it — in about a second, without typing a word and without a network connection. 123,659 cards across 15 trading card games, all recognised from the artwork alone.
There is no photo upload, no OCR guessing at a title, and no server round trip. Four things happen on the phone, in this order.
A detector running on your iPhone finds the card inside the frame — flat on a play mat, in a sleeve, still in the binder pocket, held at an angle. You are not lining a card up inside a box on screen; the app finds the edges for you.
A small neural network on the phone turns the card's art into a numeric fingerprint. It reads the picture, not the words, so a foil-stamped title, a scuffed name plate or an awkward angle does not throw it off.
That fingerprint is compared against every card in the game — a database you download once and keep on the device. Nothing has to be uploaded to name your card, so the match comes back in about a second whether or not you have signal.
The name, set, collector number and rarity come back with the latest USD market price. Keep it and the card joins your collection, where CardFrame tracks what the whole pile is worth.
Typing a name, then filtering to the right set, then finding the right collector number takes longer than the scan does — and it is the step people give up on halfway through a box of bulk.
Two cards can share a name across a dozen printings, but a fingerprint taken from the artwork puts you on the right printing, or on a short list of the printings that genuinely share that art.
Search needs a server. A fingerprint match needs nothing but the phone, so the scanner behaves exactly the same in a basement game store as it does on your sofa.
Bulk scan
The detector does not stop at one card. Point the camera at a binder page or a fanned-out stack and every card in the frame is found and fingerprinted in the same pass, then matched together. A nine-pocket page becomes nine priced cards in your collection without you touching the screen between them.
Free scans refresh daily; bulk scanning stays open past your first day on Premium.
Try bulk scanningEvery game gets its own card database on the phone, downloaded the first time you pick that game, so switching from a Yu-Gi-Oh! binder to a One Piece one takes a tap. Choose yours to see what the scanner knows about it.
One camera pass names the card, prices it and remembers it. 123,659 cards, 15 games, offline.
Download CardFrame — freeCardFrame identifies any card from all 15 games with your camera, prices it on the spot, and keeps a running total of what your collection is worth.
Download CardFrame — freeFree to download. No account needed to scan your first card.