Collectr - TCG Collector App

Review by eFreeware

Most collectors do not stop at one game. A shelf might hold Pokémon binders, a stack of Magic decks and a few Lorcana pulls, and keeping track of what any of it is worth usually means juggling several apps or a spreadsheet that goes stale the moment prices move. Collectr's pitch is that all of it can live in one place, treated as a portfolio rather than a pile of cardboard, and that is the idea the whole app is built around.

The developer describes it as a next-generation portfolio manager, and the framing is deliberate: you are meant to think about your collection the way an investor thinks about holdings. That suits collectors with cards spread across several games, people who buy graded slabs and sealed product as much as singles, and anyone who wants a running sense of value without maintaining their own price list.

It is a free download in the Tools category with no ads, though in-app purchases are offered. The install numbers are substantial, over a million, and the average rating sits at 4.8 from more than 43,000 ratings. Collectr first appeared in January 2022 and was updated in September 2026.

Valuing a collection instead of just listing it

The core of the app is simple to describe. You search a catalog the developer puts at more than 200,000 products, add what you own, and Collectr works out what the whole thing is worth. Raw cards, graded cards and sealed product are all handled, which matters because those three things behave very differently in a collection. A sealed booster box and a played single are not the same asset, and an app that treats them the same is not much use.

Behind that sits a database the developer numbers at over a million products, updated in real time. The practical effect is that values are meant to move as the market moves, without you doing anything. For anyone who has kept a handwritten inventory, or a notes file they update every few months, the appeal is obvious: the number on screen is supposed to be current rather than a snapshot from last spring.

The developer also points to a user base of more than two million people. That figure is not something I can verify, but it is the kind of claim worth reading as marketing rather than a measured statistic. What matters more for a collector is whether the games you actually own are covered, and the list is long.

Breadth of games, and the features around the edges

Collectr covers a long list of named games. Magic The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh! and Pokémon are the obvious anchors, joined by Disney Lorcana, One Piece, Digimon, Flesh and Blood, Dragon Ball Super and Dragon Ball Fusion World, Vanguard, Force of Will, Weiss Schwarz, Final Fantasy, Star Wars Unlimited, Star Wars Destiny, Union Arena, Sorcery Contested Realm, Grand Archive, Gate Ruler and MetaZoo. Funko and Transformers sit alongside the card games, which makes sense for collectors who treat a shelf of figures as part of the same hobby budget.

Around the valuation core there are a few supporting tools. Market trends show how your holdings have performed, and a biggest gains and losses view highlights the movers in your portfolio, which is the sort of thing you would otherwise work out by hand. Multi-currency support means the total can be read in whatever currency you prefer, crypto included, which is a small feature that will matter a great deal to a narrow group of users and not at all to everyone else.

The most recent update added a Trade Analyzer that lets you save and revisit past trades, deep links for Showcases and Sets so a collection can be shared and found more easily, a quick-add menu triggered by long-pressing the plus button on search results, a Compare Grades view, and fixes to the scan camera flash. The Trade Analyzer and Compare Grades additions suggest the app is being pushed toward the trading side of the hobby, not just passive record-keeping.

What it asks of you

The download is free, there are no ads, and in-app purchases are available.

The real investment is your time. Every value Collectr shows depends on you having added the cards in the first place, and a collection built over years takes a while to enter. Scanning helps, and the recent camera flash fixes point to that being a supported route, but a large collection is still an evening's work before the portfolio means anything.

It also helps to be realistic about what a valuation is. The app tracks market values; it does not sell your cards or guarantee that anyone will pay the number on screen. Treat the total as a useful reference point rather than a price you can count on.

Getting the most out of it

The sensible approach is to start with one game rather than all of them. Enter a single binder or a single deck box, get a feel for how the search and the catalog behave, and let the app produce a value you can sanity-check against what you already know. Once that works the way you expect, expanding to the rest of the shelf is straightforward.

If you buy graded cards or sealed product, add those alongside your raw singles from the beginning. Keeping the three categories together is the whole point of a portfolio view, and it is where the gains and losses feature becomes genuinely informative rather than a list of noise.

For anyone who trades regularly, the saved trade history is worth using from the first trade rather than retrofitting later. Having a record of what you gave up and what you received makes it much easier to judge whether a deal was good, which is hard to do from memory a few months on.

Currency settings are worth a look early if you buy from sellers abroad or think about your collection in more than one currency. Setting it once saves you converting figures by hand later.

A portfolio tool for collectors with cards everywhere

Collectr is a well-defined tool rather than a general card hobby app. It values and tracks what you own across a long list of games, and it does that with a database the developer keeps current. If your collection lives in several games at once, or includes graded and sealed product alongside raw cards, that combination is exactly what it is built for.

The free download and the absence of ads make it easy to try, and in-app purchases are there if you want them. The 4.8 average from a large number of ratings suggests most people who install it find it does what they came for, though I would read that as a sign of a settled, well-liked tool rather than proof that every catalog entry is perfect.

My advice is to install it, enter one game's worth of cards, and see whether the values match your own sense of the market. If they do, the rest of the collection will follow quickly, and you will have replaced whatever spreadsheet or stack of notes you were using with something that updates itself.

What's new in version 2.5.10

We've rolled out a fresh update to make Collectr even smoother and more enjoyable to use. * Trade Analyzer just got a major update - you can now save, review, and revisit past trades! * New deep links for Showcases and Sets, making it easier to share and discover collections. * New quick-add menu when long-pressing the "+" button on search results. * New Compare Grades view. * Scan camera flash fixes.