Card Ladder vs Needuum
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Card Ladder
This app provides an accurate price guide and collection tracker for sports and Pokemon cards. It offers comprehensive analytics, value estimations, and sales data from top platforms. Users can browse for free or upgrade for advanced features like all-time sales history and price alerts.
- Accurate card price guide
- Collection tracking and analytics
- Sales data from top platforms
- Daily hobby news and content
- Price alerts
- Advanced search and filtering
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The Most Accurate Sports and Pokemon Card Price Guide and Collection Tracker on the Market Track and grow your collection with comprehensive analytics and value estimations for millions of cards, including sales data from all the top platforms. Browse for free, or take your game to the next level with Card Ladder Pro. Free Features • Search card values and statistics of our verified cards • Read daily hobby news, content, and headlines • Browse daily sales recaps • Follow the Card Ladder Index daily • Buy cards from several marketplaces Card Ladder Pro Features • All the FREE Features • View all-time sales history from every marketplace • Advanced value estimation for millions of cards backed by our industry leading indexes • Add any card to your collection with accurate value estimates • Track the value of your whole collection • Track player market performances • Configure price alerts • Customize your own dashboard • Advanced searching, filtering and sorting • In-depth comparisons of multiple cards • View collection showcases of other members ...and so much more! Love Card Ladder? Follow us on Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/cardladder/ Follow us on Twitter: https://twitter.com/CardLadder Terms of Use: https://www.cardladder.com/terms Privacy Policy: https://www.cardladder.com/privacy
Needuum
Access comprehensive collectible data, including pricing and images, from experts. Manage your collecting wishlists with flexible search and free core functionality, enhanced by optional premium subscriptions.
- Comprehensive collectible data
- Pricing and image content
- Collectible category experts
- Flexible search functionality
- Manage collecting wishlists
- Premium subscription content
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Needuum is a new way to access the most comprehensive, detailed, accurate and informative data (for its focused interest categories) available anywhere (online or off). Needuum has aggregated listing, pricing, descriptive and representational images content from internationally recognized collectible category experts and puts it into the palm of your hand wherever you are. Needuum offers unprecedented search flexibility and the capability to manage the lists of what you NEED to fulfill your collecting pursuits. Needuum has a very useful set of Free functionality that can be enhanced by purchasing In-App Subscriptions to access Premium content. Additional content for existing Interest categories will be regularly added, as new memorabilia is issued and previously unknown older memorabilia is re-discovered. New Interest categories will be regularly added from sources of expert information that meet Needuum's standards of utility.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is update cadence: Card Ladder at every 5 days against Needuum's every 2 months. Card Ladder also leads on ratings volume (12K vs 1) and chart position (#9 vs unranked). On price, rating, ads and in-app purchases there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Card Ladder sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $19.99 per month and Needuum sells 10 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 6 months. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.9 for Card Ladder against 5.0 for Needuum. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Card Ladder has 12K ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Card Ladder ships an update every 5 days, Needuum every 2 months. The most recent releases landed on November 1, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Card Ladder | Needuum |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (12K ratings) | 5.0 (1 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 51.2% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 12K — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Every 2 months |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #9 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 18.6 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 44 MB | 10 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Ladder Studios, Inc | Needuum Ltd. |
Customer experience
Card Ladder
Needuum
Bugs and requests
Card Ladder
Reported bugs
4 issues- Login issues
- App crashes
- Pro mode not working
- Inconsistent card data
Requested features
5 requests- Ability to add cards without purchase price
- More sports card data (especially for older/less popular players)
- Improved search functionality
- Better customer support
- Dark mode option
Needuum
Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.
In-app purchases
Card Ladder
- Card Ladder PRO Monthly7 Days trial$19.991 Month
- Card Ladder PRO Yearly7 Days trial$199.991 Year
Needuum
- Canadian Football P&E$1.996 Months
- Vintage Hockey S&P TS$2.496 Months
- Vintage Hockey P&E$2.496 Months
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- Canadian Football S&P LW$8.996 Months
- Canadian Football S&P TS$8.996 Months
- Canadian Football N&S$8.996 Months
- Vintage Hockey N&S$8.996 Months
- Vintage Hockey S&P LW$15.996 Months
- Canadian Football Compl Bundle$22.496 Months
- Vintage Hockey Compl Bundle$22.496 Months
