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.
Collectr pulls prices from TCGplayer. It's a respectable single source — the largest US marketplace, real listings, real prices — but it's one window into a global market. For UK collectors that means a GBP figure computed by FX-converting US asks, with no native eBay UK listings, no CardMarket signal, and no PriceCharting sold-comp history.
Poketrax queries four sources in parallel and never blends them. PriceCharting gives multi-year sold-comp history (the data partnership lets us show medians, not just last-sale). eBay Browse gives live UK listings. CardMarket adds European singles. TCGdex provides canonical card identity across English + Japanese regions. Every figure on the card-detail page is colour-tagged by who said it — eBay blue, PriceCharting accent, CardMarket violet, TCGdex green. When a source comes back empty, the dot goes hollow, and you see thin coverage before you trust the median.
We aggregate but never average. Raw GBP medians come from PriceCharting + eBay. Graded ladders come from population-weighted PSA / CGC comps. Native-currency stays native in the raw tables.
For every raw card you own:
Verdict: Grade / Maybe / Skip. Surfaces on the card detail page, in your collection rows, and the dedicated grading-recommendations queue.
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.
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 queries eBay UK natively, adds CardMarket for European singles, and stores everything in GBP 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 |
|---|---|---|
| eBay UK live listings | native | — |
| eBay US sold comps | via PriceCharting | native |
| CardMarket (EU) | native | — |
| TCGplayer (US) | via PriceCharting | native |
| JP-only sets | full | partial |
| GBP-native medians | yes | FX-converted |
| VAT-ready exports | yes (Shop tier) | — |
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.
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.
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 200 paid users — locked for life.
One email at launch when the founder pricing window opens. No other notes.