On the phone, not in the cloud.
The whole English catalogue ships inside the app as a one-megabyte index, and the matching is arithmetic on your handset. It works in the back of a shop with no signal.
Your local TCG field guide
Point your camera at a card and it is filed before you put it down. See what your collection is worth, what you are still missing, and which shops near you have it — before you make the journey.
Out now for Android, free — iPhone in the works
For independent card shops
Your shop on the map every collector near you opens — free, today. A web shelf rendered from your own stock list, release-day events with anti-scalping tickets, promotions to the collectors who follow you, and a console that runs in any browser.
No commission, no contract — cancel from your own billing page
The camera finds the card’s four corners and straightens it out.
Miriam · Scarlet & Violet #179 92%
Straight into a bulk box, a binder or a shelf — you pick before you start.
Scanning
No typing a name you are not sure how to spell. No choosing between eleven Charizards. Hold it steady and the set, the number and the printing come back on their own.
The whole English catalogue ships inside the app as a one-megabyte index, and the matching is arithmetic on your handset. It works in the back of a shop with no signal.
Every English Pokémon single we hold, from Base Set to this month’s release — and it knows which printings a card actually comes in, so a holo-only card never gets filed as a normal one.
The app is free on Google Play, scanning is part of it, and browsing the map does not even need an account. Nobody is asked for a card to file their first Charizard.
Your collection
Not one flat list of seven hundred rows. A bulk box, a binder, a shelf — the places you actually keep them in, under the names you actually call them.
Commons and uncommons counted rather than catalogued. Six boxes, 637 cards, and each one labelled with whatever is written on it in marker.
Nine to a page, and pages you page through. Eleven covers, so the vintage binder does not look like the Scarlet & Violet one at a glance.
A plaque under each shelf and a price ticket on every card, because the point of a shelf is that you can see it from the door.
Move a card between them in one tap. Give a box, a binder or a shelf any name you like — and if you file a card as a printing it does not come in, the app says so and offers to fix it.
Reporting
A running figure for the whole collection and for every place inside it, priced per printing and per condition. A near-mint holo is not a played reverse holo, and the app never pretends otherwise.
It says estimate. Every time.
Prices come from the US market and are converted at the European Central Bank’s rate, because there is no UK price feed to buy yet. So every figure on the screen carries a ≈ and says where it came from. When a card has no price, it says that too, rather than counting it as nothing.
Planning
Pick the shops, say when you are leaving and how long you will spend in each. It orders the stops, checks the opening hours, and tells you when you will be home.
The map
Card shops, game shops, supermarkets, high-street chains — every UK shop we can find that puts Pokémon on a shelf. Sorted by distance, with hours that know whether it is open right now.
The part that needs you
Stock reports come from collectors standing inside the shop — a photo of the shelf, what was on it, what it cost.
There are three reports on the whole map today. We are not going to dress that up, or invent any. Most towns have nobody doing it yet, and that probably includes yours. Post what is on the shelf — an empty shelf counts, and pays — and you are the reason the next person does not waste the trip.
Reports the community confirms earn coins and move you up the ranks, from Wanderer to Pathfinder. Reports go stale on their own, because a sighting from last month is not news.
Collect cards too?
Scanning, collections, values and the trip planner — the app the collectors walking into your shop are holding.
For card shops
A listing on the map every collector near you opens costs nothing and never depends on paying. The console — your shelf online, events, drops, the demand board — is £39.99 a month, all in.
Hours, photos, directions and a page of your own on the map every collector near you opens. Free, and it never depends on paying.
discovertcg.com/your-shop, rendered from your own stock list. Singles open as a nine-pocket binder with price stickers on the sleeves.
Release days with free tickets, one per person, redeemed at the counter. Close, reopen or cancel with a reason people can read.
Say a delivery has landed and every collector following your shop is told. A queue on Saturday morning instead of a box in the back.
Which cards people near you want and you are not selling — shown as a count, never a name, once five collectors want the same card.
Long-form pages that rank under your own address, and an inbox any member of staff can pick up, with out-of-hours the app explains for you.
No commission, ever — DiscoverTCG never touches your money. No contract: cancel from your own billing page and keep everything until the period you have paid for ends. The whole pitch The plans
Build in public
What is shipped, what is being built and what is next — without invented launch dates.
The camera scanner, the Collection hub with named boxes, binders and shelves, and a GBP estimate against 99% of the catalogue.
Live UK map, photo-backed findings, typo-proof card search, price-capped stock alerts and a shareable card run.
The Android app is live on Google Play. Still in build: collector features on the web, and push on iPhone.
Start with one card
The DiscoverTCG app is out now on Google Play, free. Scan what is on your desk, see what the rest of it is worth, then go and find the ones you are missing.