pepita, the iPhone and Android app that scans Pokémon cards and shows their price in euros

You point the camera at a card. The app identifies it — set, number, printing and language — then shows its Cardmarket price in euros. The card can be saved to a collection whose total value is followed from one price update to the next.

The printing matters as much as the card: standard, reverse holo and holo are three separate products on Cardmarket, each with its own price. The app proposes the one it detected and lets you correct it in a tap, which is the only way to avoid the largest silent pricing error there is.

The catalogue covers seven card languages: English, French, German, Spanish, Italian, Japanese and simplified Chinese. When a card has no price in its own language, the app may show the price of the same printing in another language, and says so.

For the case nothing else covers: a box, a childhood binder, a lot bought in bulk — many cards, little value per kilo, and a handful worth far more than the rest. Sorting that by hand costs a minute per card to find the set and the number; that minute is what the scan replaces.

Low-value cards are therefore not filtered out: a one-euro card is exactly the one to pull out of a lot sold by weight. The free tools on this site cover the rest of the work — what makes a card valuable and where to sell it.

It puts no price on graded cards: the prices shown are for ungraded cards, and the app shows no amount against a PSA grade. It sends no notification and offers no price alert.

It does not tell you what your copy is worth either. A price describes a reference, not a card in hand: condition separates two copies of the same number by a wide margin. The condition checker places yours before any comparison.

And there is no iPad app. The app interface is currently in French. This site and its free tools are in English and run in any browser, with nothing to install.

From Cardmarket, the European marketplace for collectible cards, in euros — never a US price converted on the fly. The amount shown is a trend, that is, an average of recent sales, and not a price asked by a seller.

The site publishes the same data as public pages, each with the date it was read: this week’s market movers and the most expensive Pokémon cards, every amount linking to the Cardmarket listing it came from. The about page says who publishes the app and this site.

Why pepita, point by point, with what you need to check it.

Free every day, Premium only if you want it : pepita gives 20 free scans a day, with the Cardmarket price in euros, the collection, its value over time and Top Movers. The optional Premium subscription only adds unlimited scanning and subscriber-only giveaways: €7.99 a month or €47.99 a year, on iPhone. No advertising in the app. Allowance and prices checked on 7 October 2026; the other apps' prices are in the “Pricing” column of the tables, read on the French App Store and Google Play listings on 18 September 2026.

The cards that are moving, open to everyone : The Top Movers tab ranks the biggest risers and fallers of the week or the month, printing by printing, from the same Cardmarket reading as the rest of the app. That weekly reading is also published in the open on this site, with no account and no subscription. Two other publishers state that they track price changes, ZebraDex and MonPrice; their listings do not say whether it is included in their free tier, so we count it neither for nor against. The public weekly reading: the Pokémon market this week.

The interface: our opinion, owned as one : We think pepita is the most pleasant of the lot to use. That is an opinion, it cannot be sourced, and it therefore belongs in no table on this page. What can be checked: no advertising, and the price shows from the first scan, with no subscription. Frame the card, read the price, move on to the next one — the app does nothing else, and that is the point. It is free to download: the only test that counts costs a minute.

A European price, never converted : The price shown is the Cardmarket price in euros, the market a card actually sells on in Europe. Printings stay apart: standard, reverse holo and holo are three separate products on Cardmarket, and confusing the first two is the largest silent pricing error there is. Several apps in this comparison quote TCGplayer first, so an American market in dollars.

The rest of the site: free, no sign-up : The card-by-card prices, the set pages, the ranking of the most expensive cards and the valuation tools are public, dated and need no sign-up. Every price carries its source and the date it was read.

Good to know: pepita is on iPhone and Android, does not price graded cards or sealed products, and its interface is currently in French.

pepita is not the only app that scans Pokémon cards, and it is not the best choice for everyone: on other card games, on a portfolio of graded cards, or for an interface in English, other apps do better. The comparison of card scanner apps puts them side by side, fact by fact, with dated sources.