Yu-Gi-Oh card scanner: identify a card from a photo and see what it is worth

The photo goes to an image-recognition model that reads the card's name, its language, its English name if the card is not in English, and the set code printed under the artwork, such as LOB-EN001. The app then looks the card up in a database of more than 14,000 cards and shows every set it was printed in. You confirm the result before it is added.

What buyers have recently paid for that print, in that rarity, in that condition. The same name can be a few cents as a reprint and thousands as a 1st Edition Ultra Rare from 2002. The app shows the marketplaces' lowest price for the name free, and with Premium a price for each set the card appears in. The value guide explains what moves the number.

From TCGplayer, eBay, Amazon and CoolStuffInc in dollars and Cardmarket in euros, through a public Yu-Gi-Oh data service that also publishes a price per set and rarity in dollars. The per-marketplace figure is the lowest price found across the card's versions; the per-set figure is for a specific print. The service refreshes about daily and the app caches for a day.

Free to download, with 10 scans a month, the full database to browse, one price per card, a collection with conditions, up to 3 decks of up to 40 cards, and exports of up to 50 records. Premium removes the scan and deck limits and unlocks all marketplaces, per-set prices, price history and alerts, and full export. It costs $2.99 a week or $29.99 a year on the App Store, with a free trial where the store offer includes one.

No. Despite the store name, this app identifies Yu-Gi-Oh cards only, and its database is the Yu-Gi-Oh TCG and OCG. Vishwen Labs publishes separate scanners for other games.

No. It identifies which card a photo shows; it does not authenticate the card in your hand, and a good counterfeit of a real print will be identified as that print. The fake-card guide covers the security foil in the corner, the gold-or-silver rule for editions, the print, the font and the back.

No. The deck builder checks the rulebook's sizes, 40 to 60 main, up to 15 extra and up to 15 side, and the three-copy rule. Forbidden, Limited and Semi-Limited status comes from Konami's list, which changes several times a year; the deck guide explains how to read it.

Rarity is the card's foiling: a Common has plain black text, a Rare silver-foil letters, a Super Rare a foil picture, an Ultra Rare gold letters and a foil picture, a Secret Rare rainbow letters and a patterned foil, and the premium tiers, Ultimate, Ghost, Starlight, Collector's and Quarter Century Secret Rare, each their own treatment. The app shows the rarity of each print in a card's set list, and the rarity guide goes through them all.

No. You record a condition yourself, from Mint to Damaged on the scale the marketplaces use, and the prices shown are for raw cards, not graded ones. The grading guide explains PSA's scale and 2026 fees and when sending a card off makes sense.

No. Yu-Gi-Oh Card Scanner is an unofficial, fan-made app from Vishwen Labs, not authorized, licensed or endorsed by Konami, Studio Dice, SHUEISHA or TV TOKYO. Card names and artwork belong to their owners; the prices are the marketplaces'; the rules quoted on these pages are Konami's, cited to the rulebook and the Forbidden & Limited List; and none of it is advice to buy, sell or grade.