Scanning

ID scan recognizes cards from a photo of their front, so you can add a pile of cards without searching. It reads International and Japanese cards; Simplified Chinese ones only sometimes, so far. Free accounts get 30 ID scans a month, and the camera shows how many are left.

1. Tap the orange camera button in the middle of the tab bar. ID scan is picked when the camera opens.
2. Lay a card face up, filling most of the picture, in good light. Tap it to focus, then take the photo. Already have photos of your cards? Tap the photos button bottom right to pick them from your library. The camera button top right switches camera.
3. The card drops into the pile bottom left and is read while you scan the next one. Scan as many as you like.
4. Tap the pile to see your list. Each card starts as the version closest to your photo, in Near Mint. Tap Version or Condition to change them.
5. Tap More versions to see every version of the card in big pictures and pick yours, or to choose a different card or search for it. Tap Remove to take a card off the list.
6. Tap the button at the bottom (Add 3 cards to my collection, say). Every card is added, acquired today; change anything on each card’s own page.

PRO Scan turns your own card into a 3D card that shines and tilts as you move your phone, with its real foil, sparkle and texture.

1. Tap the orange camera button in the middle of the tab bar, pick PRO Scan above the shutter, then Start scanning.
2. Step 1, Front photo: lay the card face up on a plain background in soft daylight. Tap the card to focus, then take the photo.
3. Check the outline. If it is off, drag a corner. Then tap Use photo (or Retake).
4. Step 2, Back photo: turn the card over and do the same.
5. Step 3, Tilt scan: tap Start the tilt and tilt the card slowly in every direction for 10 seconds, keeping the whole card on screen. The big orange arrow points to the edge still to lift towards the phone, and the tilt runs on a few seconds while one edge has barely been tilted.
6. Wait a moment while your phone builds Your PRO Scan. Tilt your phone to see it move.
7. Tap Save to a copy I own, or Add a new copy, to keep it.

1. While you take the back photo and the tilt, the front photo is read to work out which card it is (one of your ID scans for the month). After the build, the card is shown under your PRO Scan with its market price. If it’s the wrong card, tap Not this card.
2. Select its condition, then tap Save to your collection. It is added as a raw card you got today, with the PRO Scan on it. You can change anything on its page.
3. Congratulations! Tap See it in my collection to find it in Collection, or PRO Scan another card. It finishes saving in the background, so you can close the scan straight away.

1. Open the copy. If it has a PRO Scan, it shows first. Swipe sideways for the catalog picture.
2. Tilt your phone to move the card. Tap it to flip it. Press and hold, then drag, to tilt it with your finger.
3. Tap PRO Scan (the sliders, beside Inspect) to change the foil strength, the sparkle, the light and more. Tap Save my settings when you like it.
4. Tap Inspect to see it flat, front and back, as it was photographed, with no shine added. Pinch to zoom, double-tap to zoom in or out, or tap a corner to jump to it.

ID scan works out which card is in front of the camera and adds it to your collection, so you can add a pile of cards without searching. PRO Scan makes a 3D copy of your very card, with its own foil, sparkle, texture and every mark, to tilt and flip on your phone. It works out which card it is too, from the front photo, so you can add it in one tap. Both are on the orange camera button in the middle of the tab bar.

Slab scanning is part of Cardkept Pro: ID scan reads the slab’s label (the grading company, the grade and the cert number) and adds the card graded. Without Pro, ID scan spots a slab and asks you to remove it from the list, so it’s never added as a raw card; you can still add it yourself: open the card, tap Add to collection, choose Graded slab and pick the company and grade.

Most misses come from the photo: the card too small in the picture, glare across it, or another object beside it. Lay the card flat in good light, fill most of the picture, and tap Try again or scan it again. Simplified Chinese cards are often not recognized yet. Where there’s no exact match, the list shows the closest card in our catalog, never as the answer: tap More versions or Not this card to pick the right one or search for it.

ID scan does: each photo, made smaller, goes through our server to Ximilar, the card-reading service that recognizes it, and isn’t kept by us or added to your collection. PRO Scan sends its front photo the same way, to work out which card it is. The rest of a PRO Scan never leaves your phone until you save it to one of your cards, and the video of your tilt is never kept. The Privacy Policy has the details.

Yes, for your PRO Scans, with Cardkept Pro. Touch and hold your Home Screen, tap Edit, then Add Widget, and search for Cardkept; it comes in small and medium. Your card shows in 3D at a different angle every half an hour: Tilt turns it, Flip shows its back, Next moves to your next card, and tapping it opens the card in Cardkept. To choose which cards it shows, touch and hold the widget and tap Edit Widget; pick up to five of your PRO Scans. With none picked it shows your Favorites first, then your newest scans. It never shows a price.