Poketrax vs Collectr.
Two tools, different jobs. Collectr is a great mobile-first collection tracker — phone in hand, card in front of you, scan and go. Poketrax is a decision tool — multi-source comps, grading EV, UK/EU price depth. Most serious collectors end up using both.
Comparison accurate as of June 2026. Collectr's features may have changed since — we compare against its publicly documented capabilities at that date.
Source-tagged, never blended.
Collectr pulls prices from TCGplayer — a respectable single US source, but USD-only with no live UK listings. For UK collectors that means a GBP figure computed by FX-converting US asks, against listings you can't actually buy from where you live.
Poketrax shows two source-tagged signals and never blends them: raw + graded market value (GBP-native), and the cheapest live eBay UK listing. Every figure tells you which signal it came from; when one's empty, you see that before you trust the number.
We show, but never average. Raw + graded GBP market value sits beside the cheapest live eBay UK listing — two signals, each tagged, never merged into a number pretending to be the price.
For every raw card you own:
- Pull PSA + CGC tier prices from sold comps.
- Weight each tier by its population (your real probability of a 10).
- Subtract grading fees + shipping (per-company configurable).
- Compare net EV to raw market.
Verdict: Grade / Maybe / Skip. Surfaces on the card detail page, in your collection rows, and the dedicated grading-recommendations queue.
Grading EV is the wedge.
Collectr will tell you what a PSA 10 of your card is worth. Poketrax tells you whether grading is worth the £25 + 6 weeks. That's the calculation most serious collectors do in a spreadsheet — populations, fees, pop-weighted EV — and we've productised it.
If you collect to grade, this is the load-bearing feature. Nothing else in the Pokémon-TCG tracker space ships it.
Built on this side of the Atlantic.
Collectr is US-first. Prices in USD, marketplace integrated with TCGplayer, the social showcase is calibrated for the American hobby. It works fine for UK collectors via FX conversion, but the live listings you're actually comparing against — the ones on eBay UK at 8pm Sunday night — are not what Collectr sees.
Poketrax is UK-first: GBP-native market value and live eBay UK listings, with currency conversion done at fetch time (not at render time off a stale rate table). The medians you see are derived from listings you can actually buy.
| Signal | Poketrax | Collectr |
|---|---|---|
| Raw + graded market value | GBP-native | USD (TCGplayer) |
| Live eBay UK listings | native | — |
| UK pricing (GBP) | native | — (USD only) |
| JP-only sets | full | partial |
| VAT-ready exports | yes (Shop tier) | — |
- Native iOS + Android apps. Poketrax is responsive web — fine on mobile Safari, but not in your dock.
- Camera card scanning. Point at a card, it's in your collection. We're CSV-import-only today.
- Larger community. Social showcases, friend collections, community traders. Network effects matter here.
- Multi-TCG support. Pokémon, sports cards, and other games on one app. We're Pokémon-only by design.
If you're scanning at a card show, use Collectr.
Poketrax doesn't pretend to be a phone app. The website is responsive and works on mobile, but the dense data shines on a laptop where the source rail, grade ladder, and comp tables breathe. If your workflow is "phone in hand, sleeve in the other," reach for Collectr.
A camera scanner is on our roadmap, but it's not on the launch checklist — we'd rather ship a great web decision tool than a mediocre native app that competes with what Collectr already does well.
- You buy / sell on eBay UK, not TCGplayer.
- You grade cards (or are considering it) and want EV math, not just slabbed-card prices.
- You want to see who said each price — every figure source-tagged.
- You work from a desk most of the time; mobile-first isn't a hard requirement.
- You'd use a CSV export, an API, or VAT-ready accounting at the Shop tier.
- You want founder pricing — first 151 paid seats, locked for life.
- You're primarily mobile and scan cards from your phone.
- You're US-based and live in the TCGplayer market.
- You collect multiple TCGs (Pokémon, MTG, sports cards) on one app.
- You value community + social showcase features.
- You want the largest user-base for trades and listings.
- Grading-EV math isn't something you do today.
It's not a switch.
Most of our beta users keep Collectr for the scanner and use Poketrax for the price decisions — open the lot in Collectr at the show, export the list to CSV that evening, import to Poketrax to run the grading-EV pass and check UK comps. The two tools cover different beats of the same workflow.
CSV import accepts Collectr's export format (name, set, set number). Up to 5,000 cards typically lands in under a minute. Unmatched rows go to a review queue for you to confirm.
- At the card show: Scan with Collectr. Get cards into a collection fast.
- That evening: Export the Collectr collection to CSV.
- In Poketrax: Import the CSV. The matcher resolves TCGdex IDs.
- Run the EV pass: Which cards are worth grading? Which dupes spiked? Sell-candidates surface.
- Source-honest UK comps: Cross-reference your asks against live eBay UK before listing.
Add Poketrax to your workflow.
Free tier covers 100 cards forever — no card needed. Import your Collectr CSV in a minute. See the grading-EV verdicts on cards you already own. Founder pricing on Hobbyist + Collector for the first 151 paid users — locked for life.
One email at launch when the founder pricing window opens. No other notes.