Raritas
iPhone & iPad
A shoebox, an inheritance, an estate lot, the binder that has been in the loft since school. Hold the phone over one card — English or Japanese — and Raritas tells you what it is and what it sells for. Nothing to type, nothing to search.
Scanning and lookup are free and unlimited.
Most scanners read English and stop. The workaround collectors describe is a spreadsheet and a browser tab open on the other screen. Raritas ships both catalogues on the device and searches them at once, so a card printed in kana is compared against cards printed in kana — not quietly answered with the English printing.
Every line below is a review theme from the scanners already on the store, answered.
27,684 Japanese cards ship inside the app. They are matched against Japanese cards, so the answer is the printing you are holding rather than its English cousin.
Matching happens on your phone, not on somebody’s server. There is no meter to run dry three cards from the bottom of the box, and there never will be.
Normal, Holofoil, Reverse Holofoil. Raritas puts each price on screen and lets you pick, because guessing a finish from one frame means guessing a dollar figure.
Every card carries the date its market price came from. A card with no recent sale is reported as exactly that — it is never quietly counted as zero in your total.
Scan a whole box without stopping, with a running total as you go. Anything ambiguous is batched to the end as one tap each, not an interruption every card.
The catalogue and both image indexes are bundled, so cards are identified with no signal in the loft or the storage unit. Prices refresh when you are back on the network.
The thing every other scanner charges for — looking a card up — is free here and always will be. What the subscription buys is the collection.
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$39.99 / year
US pricing. A weekly plan is available too. Prices in other countries are set by the App Store and shown in the app before you buy.
You are about to find out. Point the phone at the top card and keep going.