PokeWatcher vs PriceHUD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
PokeWatcher
Never miss a restock on collectibles and in-demand items. Get instant alerts when products are back in stock across major retailers. Designed for collectors and enthusiasts to track availability and secure rare finds.
- Real-time restock alerts
- Track TCGs, figures, consoles, GPUs
- Follow inventory updates from retailers
- Organize a watchlist
- User-friendly experience
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Never miss a restock again. PokeWatcher is your ultimate restock alert companion for trading cards, collectibles, and other in-demand items. Designed for collectors and enthusiasts alike, it helps you track product availability across major retailers and alerts you instantly when items come back in stock. Features: • Real-time alerts when products come back in stock • Track TCGs, figures, consoles, GPUs, and other trending drops • Follow inventory updates from trusted retailers • Organize a watchlist of your favorite products • Clean, fast, and user-friendly experience 100% Free to Start — Upgrade anytime for Pro-level speed & features. Whether you’re collecting, reselling, or just trying to score a rare find — PokéWatcher helps you skip the bots and secure the drop. Stay ahead of the game. Catch the drops.
PriceHUD
This app identifies and prices trading cards live during auctions by analyzing your screen broadcast. It provides real-time pricing for various conditions and helps you determine your maximum bid to ensure profitability.
- Live card identification from screen broadcast
- Real-time pricing for ungraded and graded cards
- Max bid calculation with profit margin
- Specific printing identification
- No bidding or account access
- Privacy-focused with no data tracking
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Know what the card is worth before the timer runs out. PriceHUD watches the livestream with you. Start a screen broadcast, open your auction app, and the card on screen is identified and priced in seconds, right in the Dynamic Island. No switching apps, no typing card names with eight seconds left. FREE FOR EVERY ACCOUNT Look up any Pokemon or One Piece card by name. You get the ungraded price, an estimate for each condition, and graded prices by company: pick PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG or ACE for its 10s and its recent sales at lower grades, with the card pictured, from PriceCharting's public sales data. A card with more than one printing, 1st Edition or Unlimited, holo or reverse holo, or a stamped edition, shows each at its own price. Sealed product too: booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, packs and more. And every account gets 100 priced cards a month on the scanner itself, so you can try it on a real stream first. THE SCANNER (100 cards a month free, 1,500 on the Scanner plan) - Identifies the exact printing from the stream, not just the name. A 1st Edition stamp, a Shadowless Base Set card, a Japanese printing: each is priced as itself. - Ungraded and graded prices on one strip: NM, LP, MP, PSA 10, CGC 10. Pick your own five cells and your own price basis in Settings. - MAX BID: your break-even built in. Set your fees, supplies and shipping once and the island shows the number you can pay and still come out ahead. - Amber when a printing is still open, so the price you see is the low end and never an overbid. - The Action Button prices the exact frame you are looking at, even if the broadcast is off. - One Piece cards too: pick your card type in Settings, and Lookup and the island read One Piece, English and Japanese. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone with the Dynamic Island (iPhone 14 Pro or 14 Pro Max, or any iPhone 15, 16, 17 or Air except the 16e) on iOS 17.2 or later shows prices in the island. Other iPhones get each price as a notification on the Lock Screen. Lookup works on any iPhone. BUILT FOR BUYERS PriceHUD is read-only. It never bids, never automates, and never touches your auction account. It reads the screen you are already watching, on your own phone. PRIVACY Screen and camera frames are used to identify the card and are kept for up to 30 days to check and improve recognition, then deleted. We store your email, a hashed password and a key per device, and, unless you switch it off, which plan and referral screens you open. No tracking, no ads, no data sold. Delete your account from Settings at any time. PRICING Lookup is free, and so are your first 100 priced cards every month. The Scanner plan is $12.99 a month for 1,500 priced cards, an auto-renewing subscription through the App Store, with 500-card top-ups when you need them. Failed reads never count. TERMS AND PRIVACY - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://www.pricehud.com/privacy Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Bandai, Whatnot Inc., eBay Inc. or TikTok Pte. Ltd. Card names and images are the property of their respective owners. Price data from PriceCharting, TCGplayer and JustTCG.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: PriceHUD at 4.7 against PokeWatcher's 3.1. PriceHUD also leads on review sentiment (100% vs 63%) and update cadence (every 6 days vs every 5 months). PokeWatcher's advantage is in-app purchases (none vs 2). On price, ratings volume, ads and monetization model 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. PriceHUD sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. PokeWatcher asks for nothing beyond the download.
PriceHUD holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 3.1. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 12 and 9 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 63% of PokeWatcher's written reviews are positive against 100% of PriceHUD's.
PokeWatcher ships an update every 5 months, PriceHUD every 6 days. The most recent releases landed on October 24, 2026 and October 29, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | PokeWatcher | PriceHUD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.1 (12 ratings) | 4.7 (9 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 62.5% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 12 — better | 9 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 months | Every 6 days — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No — better | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | — | #77 — better |
| Devices | iPhone | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.2 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 11 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Holic Industries | AutoQuill AI LLC |
Customer experience
PokeWatcher
PriceHUD
In-app purchases
PokeWatcher
No in-app purchases
PriceHUD
- Scanner$12.991 Month
- 500 more cards$4.99









