Mint FAQ: Pokémon card scanning, prices and collection tracking

Mint is a free iPhone and iPad app that scans Pokémon trading cards, identifies them, and tracks their market value. It shows the lowest CardMarket listing in euros, the TCGPlayer market price in US dollars and PSA graded prices for more than 21,000 cards, and keeps a running value of your whole collection. It also keeps your cards in binders, tracks set and Pokédex completion, and sends price alerts. On the App Store it is listed as Trading Card Scanner - Mint.

Yes. Downloading Mint and using scanning, prices, the portfolio, binders, set chases and daily streaks costs nothing. The free tier includes 20 card scans a month, a 50-card collection, one binder and 3 price alerts. Mint Pro ($6.99 a month, $39.99 a year or $59.99 once for lifetime access) makes scans, cards, binders and alerts unlimited and adds Deck Sweep™ multi-card scanning, 50 AI grading estimates a month, full ROI analysis and market insights. See Pricing.

No. Mint is an iOS app only, for iPhone and iPad on iOS 26 or later. This website shows every set and card with current prices so anyone can look values up in a browser, but scanning and collection tracking need the app.

The app interface is available in English, German, Dutch, French, Italian and Spanish. Card names and set names are also localized, so a German collector sees Owei and 30 Jahre, not Exeggcute and 30th Celebration.

Joshua Dessol, an independent developer and designer on Lake Constance, Germany, under the name Joshua Dessol Design. Mint launched on October 18, 2025 and was featured by 9to5Mac in its Indie App Spotlight in November 2025. More on the about page.

Point the camera at a card. Mint reads the card name, the set code printed at the bottom (for example 30C, MEG or PBL) and the card number, then matches them against its database and shows the card with its current prices. Recognition runs on the device with Apple's Vision framework; no photo is uploaded, only the text read from the card is searched.

Deck Sweep™ is Mint's multi-card scan. Photograph a binder page or a spread of cards on a table and Mint detects and identifies every card in the frame in one go, so a 3×3 binder page is one scan instead of nine. It is part of Mint Pro and the fastest way to digitize an existing collection. The photo is sent to Anthropic's Claude to read the cards and is not stored.

English, German, French, Spanish, Italian and Dutch cards scan directly. Japanese sets are in the catalogue too, priced from Japanese listings on CardMarket: choose Japanese as the card language in Mint. Card names in Korean and Chinese are recognized, but those sets are not in the catalogue.

Yes. New expansions are added around release day. 30th Celebration (30C, released September 16, 2026), Pitch Black (PBL) and the rest of the Mega Evolution series are all supported, including set codes that contain digits.

Mint Pro includes an AI grading assistant that estimates the grade a card might receive from photos of its surface, corners, edges and centering. It is an estimate to help decide whether grading is worth the fee, not a replacement for PSA, CGC or Beckett.

European prices are the lowest current listing on CardMarket in euros. US prices are the TCGPlayer market price in US dollars, for sealed products too. Graded prices (PSA 9 and PSA 10) come from completed eBay sales. Mint aggregates them through TCGGO and refreshes at least once a day; each card page on this site prints the exact time of the last update. Reverse Holo and pattern prints (Poké Ball, Master Ball) have their own price, and a copy you mark as one is valued at that price in your portfolio. 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 (US) or eBay.de (Europe); listings checked more than 6 hours ago are hidden.

They are the same numbers you would see on the marketplace at the time of the update, not estimates. Because CardMarket shows the lowest listing and TCGPlayer shows a market average, the two can differ for the same card; that is a real difference between the European and US markets, not an error.

Yes. Every card has a price chart, and the portfolio has a value chart with ranges from one day to one year. Mint stores a daily snapshot of your collection so the history keeps building as long as you use the app.

Yes. Heart a card to add it to your wishlist and follow its price. Set a target price on a single card, on one of its Reverse Holo or pattern prints, or on a sealed product such as an Elite Trainer Box or booster box, and Mint sends a push notification in your language when it is reached. The Alerts screen keeps card and sealed-product alerts together, with an Activity feed of every notification. The free tier can run 3 alerts at a time, Pro unlimited.

More than 21,000 Pokémon TCG cards across 176 English sets, from Base Set (January 1999) to 30th Celebration (September 2026), including promos, secret rares and gallery subsets. You can browse all of them on the sets page.

Yes. Start a set chase: pick a set and Mint shows your progress, the cards you are still missing and what finishing the set would cost. Chases sit on the Home screen, one tap adds every missing card to your wishlist, and a finished set gets a celebration you can share. A set binder gives each card of a set its own pocket; tap an empty pocket to add that card.

Opening Mint each day keeps your streak going. Home shows the current week with up to 3 of each day's most valuable scanned or added cards, and a calendar shows each day's cards. Every 7th day earns a freeze (up to 2) that covers a missed day. The evening reminder is optional, streaks sync over iCloud, and they are free for everyone. Streaks came with Mint 2.2 in November 2026.

No account or sign-up is required. Your collection is stored on your device and synced through iCloud to your other Apple devices. There is nothing to register and no password.

Yes. Your collection lives in your own iCloud account, which Mint's developer cannot read. Anonymous usage analytics can be switched off in Settings. The full details are in the privacy policy.

You can publish a read-only public portfolio page on getmint.app to share with friends or buyers, and turn it off again at any time. In the app you can also share a binder page as an image, a finished set's celebration and Pokédex milestones.

Not at the moment. Mint focuses on the Pokémon TCG so that scanning, set coverage and prices are as complete as possible for that one game.