Know what the card is worth
before the timer runs out.

Live card auctions move in ten seconds. CardHawk watches with you, reads the card on screen, and tells you what it is worth and the most you should pay.

Coming to the App Store
GREAT BUY well under market FAIR at market TOO HIGH stop bidding

How it works

No typing, no pausing the stream. Start it once and leave it running while you watch.

1

Start the watcher

Tap Start Broadcast and pick CardHawk Watcher. It reads the screen you are already looking at.

2

Watch the auction

CardHawk reads the card's name, number and text off the stream and prices that exact printing.

3

Bid to the ceiling

A floating panel shows your maximum. Green means buy, yellow means fair, red means stop.

Live scout

It reads the card, not your guess

The watcher pulls the card's name and number straight off the video and matches that printing against market prices, in under a second.

The panel floats over the stream and can be moved or shrunk, so it never sits on the card.

The CardHawk Scout screen
Honest answers

It tells you when it isn't sure

Reprints share numbers. Holo and non-holo look alike on camera. When two printings would change what a card is worth, CardHawk shows the range and what to look for instead of a confident number it cannot stand behind.

See what to look for

The CardHawk catalogue
Hunt list

The cards you are chasing, on alert

Keep your targets with the artwork, the number to check and your own maximum price. When one appears on a stream, your phone buzzes.

The CardHawk hunt list
Collection

What you own, what it is worth

Add cards as you buy them and watch the value move, raw or graded, with the price source named on every card. Best buys scores every lot you win against what it was worth.

The CardHawk collection screen
Grading

Should you grade it?

Photograph a card and CardHawk measures the centering the way graders do, looks for edge and corner wear, and turns that into grade chances.

Then it weighs those odds against real graded sale prices, minus the grading fee, and answers the only question that matters: does grading pay?

The CardHawk grading screen

Pricing

CardHawk Pro unlocks the live scout overlay. Everything else is free, with no trial timer.

$19.99 / month

3 days free, then billed monthly. Cancel any time in Settings.

$199 / yearSAVE 17%

3 days free, then billed yearly. Works out at $16.58 a month.

Free forever: the catalogue, your collection and its value, the hunt list, and the grading tools. The subscription covers the live scout only.

Questions

Where exactly do the prices come from?

Raw prices come from TCGplayer market data, which is what that card has actually been selling for, not what people are asking. Graded prices come from completed eBay sales at that specific grade, so a PSA 9 and a PSA 10 are priced separately rather than guessed from a multiplier.

Every card names its source. If you think a number is wrong, you can correct it yourself and CardHawk uses your figure from then on.

How does it know which printing it is looking at?

It reads the card's name, its number, its attack text and any stamps or codes on the face, then matches all of that against a catalogue of about 66,000 cards. The number alone is never enough, because the same number is printed in several sets.

When the tells that separate two printings are not visible, it does not pick the expensive one to look impressive. It shows the cheaper figure with the full range and tells you what to check. The guide walks through every tell it looks for.

Which cards are covered?

Pokemon and Disney Lorcana, in English, Japanese and Chinese, including promos, World Championship reprints and most variants.

Sports cards are not supported. We would rather say that plainly than have you find out in the middle of an auction.

Does the overlay block the card I am trying to see?

It can be moved to any corner, shrunk to a slim bar showing just the verdict and the number, or run in the Dynamic Island on iPhone 14 Pro and later, where it covers nothing at all.

It also notices when it is sitting over the card itself and shrinks on its own.

Does it bid for me, or snipe auctions?

No, and it never will. CardHawk tells you what a card is worth and the most you should pay. Every bid is yours, placed by you, in the app you are already watching.

How does the grading advice work?

You photograph the card, and CardHawk measures the borders the way a grader measures centering, then looks for whitening at the corners and edges. That becomes a probability for each grade rather than a promise of one.

It multiplies those odds against real sale prices at each grade, subtracts the grading fee, which defaults to $80 and is editable, and subtracts what the raw card is worth today. What is left is what grading would actually earn you.

What do you collect about me?

No analytics, no tracking, no advertising. Your collection stays on your device and syncs through your own iCloud if you sign in.

See the privacy policy for the full detail.

Does it work on iPad or Mac?

It runs on iPhone and iPad, and a Mac version is in progress. The live watcher, which reads a stream while you watch, is on iPhone and iPad.

Do I need a subscription to use it?

Only for the live scout overlay. Looking up any card, valuing your collection, the hunt list and the grading tools all work free, permanently, with no card required.