Where we stand. We make Dead Center, a card centering checker that is free with one banner ad on Google Play and not yet on the App Store, and Card Lab, a trading card maker. Neither one tracks what a collection is worth, so neither competes with Collectr directly; collectors use both kinds of app. We are not connected to Collectr and take no referral fee from anyone on this page.
Yes. Collectr's free plan tracks the value of a collection across 25+ card games, with unlimited portfolios, search and the social features. PRO costs $7.99 a month or $59.99 a year and adds unlimited scanning, five years of price history, filters and export. Export is the one to know about before you add a thousand cards: it is PRO only.
Free against PRO
| Feature | Free | PRO |
|---|---|---|
| 25+ trading card games, unlimited portfolios | Yes | Yes |
| Showcases, marketplace and social | Yes | Yes |
| Search | Yes | Yes, with saved history |
| Scanning with the camera | Limited; the limit is not published | Unlimited |
| Price history | Current prices | Up to 5+ years, raw and graded |
| Exclusive filters | No | Yes |
| Export your collection | No | Yes |
| Custom backgrounds, PRO icon and badge, partner perks | No | Yes |
Where the price is
| Surface | What it shows |
|---|---|
| getcollectr.com/pro | Monthly $7.99; annual $4.99 a month “billed annually at $59.99/yr”, “SAVE 38%”, “Reduced price for a limited time” |
| App Store, Information row | Collectr PRO Monthly $7.99, Collectr PRO Annual $59.99 |
| App Store, promoted purchase | None |
| App Store, description | Lists unlimited scanning, filters, exports and custom backgrounds as needing a purchase. No figure |
| Google Play | “In-app purchases” badge only; no items-and-offers section |
| Help center | No figure, no trial, no scan limit |
The two figures agree everywhere they appear. Twelve monthly payments come to $95.88, so the yearly plan saves 37%, a little under the 38% the pricing card prints (derived from Collectr's prices).
The scan limit nobody prints
Scanning is how most people fill a collection app, and it is the free plan's tightest limit. The pricing card marks unlimited scanning as PRO, and the App Store description lists it under features that require an in-app purchase. None of Collectr's surfaces says how many free scans there are, or whether the count resets. A Google Play review from 19 September 2026 says the free tier allowed 35 scans and calls that too few to catalog a collection. That is one reviewer's count, not a published figure. Searching by name has no stated limit.
Getting your collection back out
Collectr's help center says PRO members can export a collection from the Portfolio screen, and the pricing card marks export as not included in Free. So a free user who builds a large collection has no file of it. If that user later moves to another app, the choices are to pay for PRO long enough to export, or to enter every card again.
Import is narrower still. The help center lists TCGplayer as the only supported source: you email a TCGplayer CSV and wait roughly two to three business days.
The privacy price
Apple's App Privacy panel for Collectr has no “used to track you” section. It links location and contact info (name and email) to your identity, and lists usage data, user content and diagnostics as not linked. Google Play's data safety summary says no data is shared with third parties, and that the app collects location, photos and videos and two other types.
Other card apps, and how they price
| App | What Apple lists | Ratings |
|---|---|---|
| Collectr | PRO $7.99 a month, $59.99 a year | 69,043 |
| PSA: Card Tracking & Grading | No in-app purchases | 62,024 |
| PriceCharting: TCG, Games+ | Collector $5.99 a month, $59.99 a year | 27,554 |
| TCGplayer | No in-app purchases | 17,955 |
| TCG Card Scanner - FoilSnap | Ten items named Pro or Premium, $3.99 to $39.99, no periods | 14,917 |
| Rare Candy: TCG Card Scanner | No in-app purchases | 10,754 |
TCGplayer and Rare Candy are marketplaces, and PSA is a grading company, so their apps earn from sales and services rather than a subscription. PriceCharting's yearly plan costs the same as Collectr's, with a cheaper month. Centering checkers, a narrower job, are compared in apps like Card Grader Pro.
What Collectr does better
- It values a whole collection. Collectr prices raw, graded and sealed products across more than twenty games and charts the total over time. Dead Center measures one thing about one card, its centering.
- It is on both stores. Dead Center is on Google Play only for now; on an iPhone the browser calculator is the only way to use it.
- It is far bigger and busier: 69,043 App Store ratings at 4.9, over a million Google Play downloads, and an App Store update on 18 October 2026 that added price alerts.
- Collectr — PRO page, the Free and PRO pricing cards
- Collectr Help Center — Scanning for Products
- Collectr Help Center — Import / Export Your Collection
- App Store — Collectr, the description, the App Privacy panel and the In-App Purchases row
- Google Play — Collectr, the listing, data safety summary and reviews
- App Store — PriceCharting: TCG, Games+, the In-App Purchases row
- App Store — TCG Card Scanner - FoilSnap, the In-App Purchases row
- App Store — TCGplayer
- App Store — PSA: Card Tracking & Grading
- App Store — Rare Candy: TCG Card Scanner
- Google Play — Dead Center: Card Centering, ours