Beta Card Scanner for Magic: The Gathering

One photo.
Every card.

Photograph a whole page of cards. Card Scanner outlines each one, names the exact printing and files it in your collection, with prices and decks. The scanning happens on your iPhone or iPad.

Join the beta See how it works

TestFlight beta · iPhone or iPad · iOS or iPadOS 17 or later

The app's scan results: a photo of fifteen cards on a table, each outlined and numbered, with the first cards' names, sets and collector numbers listed below and an Add 15 cards button.
  • 108,000+ printings and tokens it tells apart
  • 11 deck formats with the rules built in
  • 30 currencies for your prices
  • 0 photos uploaded to scan your cards

How it works

Point. Shoot. Sorted.

From a pile on the table to a collection that knows what it is, where it is and what it's worth.

  1. 1Scan a page

    A whole page of cards from one photo.

    Take a photo of one card or a full binder page. Every card gets an outline, a number and an honest verdict, and you tick the ones to keep.

    • Sure
    • Check printing
    • Unsure

    Know which box the cards came from? Lock the scanner to a set and look-alike printings sort themselves out.

    Scan results in the app: fifteen cards in one photo, each outlined and numbered, ready to add.

  2. 2Rapid scanBeta

    A stack of cards, without tapping.

    Hold the phone over one spot and slide cards under it. Each one is recognised and added by itself, with a tap you feel and a click you hear.

    Cards it's sure of go straight into your collection, or the folder or deck you pick. The rest wait in the list for you. Every row can be undone.

    Rapid scan in the app: the camera view on top with a card under it, and below it the running list of the cards just added, each with its set, number and price.

  3. 3Collection

    Every copy, exactly as it is.

    Each copy keeps its printing, finish, condition and language. Browse by set, type or name, sort by value, and filter by colour, rarity and mana value.

    Folders hold what belongs together. Set pages show how far along you are, card by card.

    The collection in the app: a list of cards with their mana costs, sets and prices, sorted by value.

  4. 4Decks

    Decks that know the rules.

    Give a folder a format and it becomes a deck. The picker offers the cards that are legal there, counts your copies and keeps a commander's colours in line.

    Main deck, sideboard and maybeboard, proxies if you allow them, and a note when a ban or a rotation touches your deck. Legality is updated daily.

    A deck page in the app: the deck's format, its size, what it is worth and the problems to fix before it is legal.

  5. 5Prices

    Know what it's worth.

    Prices from TCGplayer or Cardmarket, in any of 30 currencies, for each copy's own finish. Totals for the collection, every folder and every deck.

    A small daily price file keeps the numbers there when you're offline. A card's page links to where you can buy it.

    A card's page in the app with its Price section: the price of this copy, the other finishes, and links to buy the card.

  6. 6Export and backup

    Your list goes where you go.

    Export the collection, a folder or a deck for Moxfield, Deckbox, Archidekt or ManaBox, or as an MTG Arena or Magic Online list. Import reads them back, with Undo.

    Back up saves everything, photos included if you like, as one file in Files. Restore brings it all back.

    The export sheet in the app, with the formats to choose from: Moxfield, Deckbox, Archidekt, ManaBox and more.
  • Standard
  • Pioneer
  • Modern
  • Legacy
  • Vintage
  • Pauper
  • Premodern
  • Commander
  • Standard Brawl
  • Pauper Commander
  • Oathbreaker
  • Moxfield
  • Deckbox
  • Archidekt
  • ManaBox
  • MTG Arena lists
  • Magic Online lists
  • TCGplayer Mass Entry
  • CSV
  • Cardmarket prices
  • TCGplayer prices

Features

Everything in the box.

All of this is in the beta today.

  • Whole-page scanning

    One card or a full binder page in a single photo, from the camera or your photo library. Each card is outlined, numbered and named down to the printing.

  • Rapid scan Beta

    Slide cards under the camera one at a time. No shutter, no tapping. Works with a set lock too.

  • Set lock

    Pick one or more sets and scans name printings from those sets only. A card that looks like it's from elsewhere says so.

  • Finish, condition, language

    Non-foil, foil or etched, per copy. Set them for a whole scan with one tap, or card by card.

  • Filters everywhere

    Colour, rarity, mana value and finish, in every list of cards, together with search and sort.

  • 11 deck formats

    From Standard to Commander, Pauper Commander and Oathbreaker: legal-only picker, copy limits, commander pairs and colour identity.

  • Proxies

    Mark copies as proxies, proxy the cards a deck is still missing, and decide per deck whether proxies count.

  • Prices in your currency

    TCGplayer or Cardmarket prices for every copy's own finish, in euros, dollars or 28 more currencies converted at the European Central Bank's daily rates. Converted figures are marked with ≈.

  • Wishlist and buy list

    Star the cards you want, see what's still to buy and what it costs, and export a buy list for a shop.

  • Set completion

    "143 of 271" on every set, with the cards you own and the ones you're missing side by side.

  • Export and import

    Moxfield, Deckbox, Archidekt and ManaBox files, MTG Arena and Magic Online lists, and the app's own CSV with folders and decks.

  • Backup and restore

    The whole collection with its folders, decks and wishlist as one file in Files. Your scanned photos too, if you want.

  • Works offline

    After the first card data download, scanning needs no connection. Prices are there offline too.

  • New cards, looked up

    A card newer than the app's data? Its title is looked up on Scryfall and the printing joins the scan.

  • A set's page in the app: how many of its cards you own, and the missing ones with a star to put them on the wishlist.
    A set, owned and missing
  • The wishlist in the app: the cards wanted, how many are still to buy and what they cost.
    The wishlist, priced
  • The Folders tab in the app: decks with their formats, card counts and values, with a warning mark where a deck isn't legal yet.
    Folders and decks
  • A Commander deck's page in the app: the commander with its colour identity, the deck's size and its value.
    A Commander deck

On your device

Your cards. Your device.

Card Scanner does its work on the device in your hand.

  • Scanning stays on the device

    Finding, reading and matching the cards all runs on your iPhone or iPad. Your photos aren't uploaded to scan them.

  • The card data lives with you

    Your collection lives on your device and is not uploaded anywhere. Unless you decide to sync with iCloud, then only there. (Coming soon!) Your collection is yours.

  • No account to create

    Your collection is stored on your iPhone or iPad. Back it up to Files whenever you like, and take your list elsewhere with an export.

  • And this website?

    No cookies, no analytics, no trackers, nothing loaded from anyone else. Just this page.

The beta is open

Bring a stack of cards.

  1. 1Get Apple's free TestFlight app on your iPhone or iPad.
  2. 2Open the join link and tap Install.
  3. 3Point the camera at your cards.
Join the beta on TestFlight

iPhone or iPad, iOS or iPadOS 17 or later. Questions or problems? See Support or write to support@cardscanner.eu.

QR code for the TestFlight join link, testflight.apple.com/join/epbN7Mf3

On a computer? Scan this with the camera of your iPhone or iPad.