About SnapCard

SnapCard is developed and published by Impulsio (Hangzhou Impulsio Technology Co., Ltd.), a small software studio that builds consumer iPhone apps. The team includes people who have collected baseball and Pokémon cards since the 1990s and engineers who have shipped image recognition in production. The app launched on the App Store on January 9, 2026 and is updated every few weeks.

We are not affiliated with PSA, BGS, SGC, CGC, eBay, Topps, Panini, Upper Deck, The Pokémon Company or any marketplace or grading company. Their names appear in the app and on this site only to describe cards and sales accurately.

Every value SnapCard shows is built from recorded sales, never from asking prices or a printed guide. The sources are eBay completed sales, Goldin, Heritage Auctions, PWCC and Pristine Auction. For each card the app shows the individual recent sales alongside the average, the low, the high and a demand trend, so a reader can check the summary against the transactions behind it.

Sales are recorded as the venue recorded them, in the currency the venue used, which for these sources is almost always US dollars. Grades are attached to graded sales so that a PSA 10 sale is never averaged into a raw price.

The scanner matches a photo of the front of a card, and optionally the back, against catalogs of known cards to identify the player, set, year, card number and parallel. The condition estimate examines centering, corners, edges and surface in the same photos and expresses an opinion on the PSA 1 to 10 scale. It is trained on graded examples, and it is an opinion: professional graders see things a phone camera does not, most often on the surface.

Slabs from PSA, BGS, SGC and CGC are read from the label, so the grade on a graded card is the grader's, not ours.

• We do not claim a grade estimate is a grade. Only a grading company can assign one.
• We do not claim a value is what your card will sell for. It is what the same card has recently sold for.
• We do not scan more than one card at a time, and we do not say we do.
• We do not support every trading card game. Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh! are the games the app names.
• We do not ask for an account. The app has no sign-in; your collection lives on your phone and, with Pro, in your own iCloud.

The articles on this site are written and edited by the SnapCard team, drawing on our own scans, the sales data in the app and published sources that are linked from each article. Prices quoted in articles are dated, because a price without a date is not a fact. When an article is materially updated the date on it changes.

Questions, corrections and feature requests go to hi@impulsiolabs.com. A person reads every message.