About Mint

Mint (listed on the App Store as Trading Card Scanner - Mint) is a collection tracker for the Pokémon Trading Card Game. You point the camera at a card, or at a whole page of cards, and Mint identifies each one, adds it to your collection and shows what it sells for right now on CardMarket in euros and on TCGPlayer in US dollars. It is free to download on iPhone and iPad running iOS 26 or later; Mint Pro ($6.99 a month, $39.99 a year or $59.99 for lifetime access) removes the free tier's limits and adds Deck Sweep™ and AI grading estimates.

What Mint does

• Scans cards. Single-card scan for one card at a time, or Deck Sweep™, which recognizes every card in one photo of a binder page or a spread of cards. Card names are matched in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch, and set codes such as 30C, MEG or PBL are read from the card itself. Scans can go straight into a binder.
• Tracks prices daily for more than 21,000 cards across 176 sets, from Base Set (1999) to 30th Celebration (September 2026), plus Japanese sets priced from Japanese listings. Every card shows the lowest CardMarket listing (EUR), the TCGPlayer market price (USD) and, where available, PSA 9 and PSA 10 graded sale prices. Reverse Holo and pattern prints (Poké Ball, Master Ball) have their own price, listed under the normal print's. For cards with graded demand, the card page in the app also shows the cheapest graded Buy It Now listing per grade on eBay.com or eBay.de, with its photo, shipping and when it was checked.
• Prices sealed products. Booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes and other sealed products show their retail price (US MSRP, EU RRP) and the market price as a multiple of it, plus what is inside and the case they ship in. US sealed prices are TCGPlayer market prices.
• Values your collection. Portfolio value, cost basis and return on investment, with a price history you can view from one day to one year, plus daily snapshots so the chart keeps filling in. Copies you mark as Reverse Holo or a pattern are valued at that print's own price.
• Alerts you. Heart a card to add it to your wishlist and follow its price, and set a target price on a card, on one of its Reverse Holo or pattern prints, or on a sealed product such as an Elite Trainer Box or booster box. Mint sends a push notification in your language when the price is reached, and the Alerts screen keeps every alert next to an Activity feed of past notifications.
• Organizes. Binders with real 3×3 pages: swipe through them, pinch to see every page, drag cards between pages, add a cover and share a page as an image. A set binder gives each card of a set its own pocket; tap an empty one to add that card.
• Completes sets. A set chase shows your progress on a set, the cards still missing and what finishing it would cost; one tap adds every missing card to your wishlist, and a finished set gets a celebration to share. The Pokédex counts every Pokémon in your collection, Japanese cards included, and shows what filling a generation would cost.
• Keeps a daily streak. Opening Mint each day keeps the streak going. Home shows the week with up to 3 of each day's most valuable scanned or added cards, a calendar shows each day's cards, and every 7th day earns a freeze that covers a missed day. Free for everyone and synced over iCloud.
• Estimates condition. An AI grading assistant looks at photos of a card and estimates the grade it might receive, so you can decide whether it is worth sending to PSA or CGC.
• Fits iPad and iPhone Duo. A full iPad app with a sidebar and binders as two-page spreads in landscape, and iPhone Duo layouts for the book and tabletop postures.

Where the data comes from

Mint does not sell cards and does not invent prices. Market prices are collected from CardMarket (Europe) and TCGPlayer (United States), graded prices from completed eBay sales, graded listings from eBay.com and eBay.de, the card catalogue from TCGGO, and localized card and set names from the open TCGdex database. Prices refresh at least once a day; the exact timestamp is printed on every card page on this site.

Who makes it

Mint is designed and built by Joshua Dessol, an independent developer and designer on Lake Constance, Germany, and released under the name Joshua Dessol Design. It is a one-person project: the same person answers support email, writes the release notes and draws the icons. Mint launched on the App Store on October 18, 2025 and ships updates every few weeks; version 1.9 (September 2026) added support for iOS 27 and the 30th Celebration set on its release day, version 2.1 (October 2026) added set chases, binders with real pages and the full iPad app, and version 2.2 (November 2026) adds daily streaks and Reverse Holo and pattern prices.

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Facts at a glance

Looking for something specific? The FAQ answers the most common questions, Pricing lists exactly what is free and what Pro adds, and the comparison pages put Mint side by side with other Pokémon card scanner apps.