Comparison

Monitoring Pro vs CardComps

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Monitoring Pro

Features
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Alarm Watch - Take control of your alarm system wherever you are in the world! View the status of your home and business alarms from your iPhone View recent events in real time. Find out who has been using the alarm, and when Set or Unset the alarm Multiple alarm systems are viewable and controllable from one account Interact with the monitoring station during any alarm activations Change closing time of your business when working late to prevent the monitoring station from disturbing you when working late Notify the monitoring station when you are going to work outside of normal business hours The application now includes a mobile panic alarm which sends the monitoring station your GPS coordinates during an emergency Notifications of alarm activations directly to your phone where you can respond by choosing to send the guard or type in a note for the monitoring team to read Functionality of the application requires that the alarm system is monitored by an affiliate of AlarmWatch. To set or Unset your alarm through the application, a special control module must be installed. Available for New Zealand alarm systems only (Ask your alarm installer, or visit www.alarmwatch.co.nz to learn more about these services).

About

CardComps

Features
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Know what a card actually sold for. Not what someone's asking. CardComps is subscription-only: one subscription unlocks every lookup, and new subscribers start with a free trial. There is no free tier. Take a photo of any trading card and CardComps reads it — player, year, set, parallel, card number — then pulls the real eBay sold listings that match. Every sale, with its date, its price and its grade. No single "estimated value" you have to take on faith. WHAT YOUR SUBSCRIPTION UNLOCKS • Snap and look up. Point your camera at the front of the card. Add the back if the details you need are on it. That's the whole flow. • Or just type. Know exactly what you're after? Search it directly — no photo needed. • Every matching sale. You see the actual completed listings, not an average standing in for them. Spot the outliers yourself. Tap any sale to open it on eBay. • Grades called out. PSA, BGS, SGC and raw sales are labelled, so a 10 never gets mistaken for a 7 halfway down the list. • The query is yours to edit. The search that produced your results sits right at the top of the screen, editable. If the read missed a parallel or added a card number that shouldn't be there, fix it and search again. You are never stuck with what the app guessed. • Eight eBay marketplaces. .com, .co.uk, .com.au, .ca, .de, .fr, .it and .es. Each one is a separate market — a card with no sales in the US may well have sold three times in the UK. Switch marketplace without starting over. • Prices in your currency. Read any marketplace's sales converted to the currency you think in. BUILT FOR THE MOMENT YOU'RE HOLDING THE CARD At a card show, in a shop, mid-negotiation on a trade — the question is always the same and you have about thirty seconds to answer it. CardComps is built for those thirty seconds. Photo to sold prices, nothing in between. NO ACCOUNT. NOTHING KEPT. There's no sign-up, no email, no password. Nothing to create before your first lookup. And nothing is stored. Your photos are used to read the card and then discarded — they're never saved to our servers, never attached to a profile, because there is no profile. CardComps is a tool you pick up and put down, not a collection you have to maintain. SUBSCRIPTION • US$4.99 per month, or the equivalent in your local currency • Renews automatically until cancelled • First 14 days free for new subscribers • Manage or cancel any time in Settings › Apple Account › Subscriptions Payment is charged to your Apple Account at confirmation of purchase. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. Your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours prior to the end of the current period. Cancelling takes effect at the end of the current billing period. Any unused portion of a free trial is forfeited when you purchase a subscription. Support: https://comps.cards/support Terms of Use: https://comps.cards/terms Privacy Policy: https://comps.cards/privacy Sold prices, straight from eBay.

Screenshots

Monitoring Pro4 screens
CardComps4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Monitoring Pro at none against CardComps's 1. On price, update cadence, ads and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS

CostPrice Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Ads Ā· Monetization

Both are free to download. CardComps sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $4.99 per month. Monitoring Pro asks for nothing beyond the download.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Monitoring Pro ships an update monthly, CardComps every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 14, 2026 and September 30, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference Ā· 5 level
Monitoring Pro versus CardComps: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterMonitoring ProCardComps
PriceFreeFree
Update frequencyMonthlyEvery 3 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS15.615.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size68 MB27 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperNew Zealand Computing SolutionsJacob Duncan

In-app purchases

None

Monitoring Pro

No in-app purchases

1 purchases

CardComps

Subscriptions1
  • CardComps Pro14 Days trial$4.991 Month

Questions

Is Monitoring Pro free?
Monitoring Pro is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is CardComps free?
CardComps is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Monitoring Pro or CardComps have ads?
Neither Monitoring Pro nor CardComps shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Monitoring Pro or CardComps?
Monitoring Pro ships an update monthly, and CardComps every 3 weeks. Most recently, Monitoring Pro was updated on October 14, 2026 and CardComps on September 30, 2026.

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