DeckTradr vs 9Pocket TCG
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DeckTradr
This app is a comprehensive tool for trading card game enthusiasts, offering fast AI-powered scanning for collection management and a point-of-sale system for vendors. It provides real-time market data, portfolio tracking, and business analytics.
- AI-powered card scanning (0.2 seconds)
- TCG point-of-sale system for vendors
- Real-time market pricing and historical charts
- Portfolio value tracking
- Inventory management with P/L tracking
- Price alerts and market insights
- Supports Pokemon, One Piece TCG
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The world’s first point-of-sale system built for TCG vendors — and the most powerful collection manager for every collector. FASTEST SCANNER IN THE INDUSTRY Our AI-powered scanner recognizes cards in as little as 0.2 seconds. Scan singles, sealed products, and graded slabs with unmatched speed and accuracy. Batch scan your entire collection or process vendor transactions at the speed your customers expect. BUILT FOR VENDORS DeckTradr Pro turns your phone into a full TCG point-of-sale system. Buy, sell, and trade cards with real-time market pricing at your fingertips. Track inventory P/L, manage events and expenses, run sales analytics, and export transaction history — everything you need to run your business from a card show table or your shop counter. • Buy, sell, and trade workflows with instant price lookups • Configurable vendor pricing percentages and rounding • Inventory management with unrealized profit/loss tracking • Event management for card shows and conventions • Expense tracking and sales analytics with date range reporting • Transaction export to CSV and Excel BUILT FOR COLLECTORS Organize your collection into custom binders, track portfolio value over time, and never miss a price move. Real-time market data for raw, graded, and sealed products keeps you informed. • Real-time market prices and historical price charts • Portfolio performance tracking with daily value changes • Graded card support for PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG, and ACE • Price alerts for cards and sealed products • AI-powered grading recommendations with ROI analysis • Market insights: top movers, trending cards, grading plays • Export to CSV, eBay, and Shopify SUPPORTED TCGs • Pokemon TCG (English, Japanese, and Chinese) • One Piece TCG • More games coming soon CONNECT Find friends, compare collections, and discover what other collectors are holding. Free to start. Upgrade to Plus or Pro to unlock vendor tools, advanced exports, and more.
9Pocket TCG
This app helps Pokémon TCG collectors track their progress towards completing sets. It offers visual organization, custom set building, and placeholder printing for missing or graded cards. Stay organized and celebrate your collecting achievements.
- Master set tracking for all cards and variations
- Visual binder mode for collection display
- Custom master set and binder creation
- Printable placeholders for missing cards
- Data sync and backup across devices
- Powerful sorting and filtering options
- Achievement tracking for collecting milestones
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9Pocket is the master-set tracker built for serious collectors — and now your camera and your voice do the heavy lifting. Scan a single card or an entire binder page in one shot, or just tell the AI Assistant "mark cards 1 to 60 as collected" and watch your collection fill itself in. See exactly what finishing your set will cost, organize a growing shelf of binders into folders, celebrate every 100% with confetti, and take it all with you — same collection on iPhone and iPad, the moment you sign in. And now the hunt goes global: track and browse Japanese sets right alongside your English collection. KEY FEATURES • Card Scanner — point your camera at a card and it's identified and marked collected in seconds. Forgiving alignment, works right in your binder. • Full-Page Scanning (PRO) — scan an entire 9- or 12-pocket binder page and collect every card on it at once. Review the matches, fix any mix-ups, confirm. Done. • AI Assistant (PRO) — speak or type what you did: "mark pages 3 and 4 completed", "unmark card 25". The assistant works out which cards you mean, and you review the list before anything changes. The fastest way to log a big sorting session. • Cost to Complete — see your missing-card count and the total market cost to finish any set, based on daily TCGPlayer prices. Export a price sheet PDF of every missing card with direct TCGPlayer links, or add them all to your TCGPlayer cart in one tap (PRO). • Folders — group your binders into folders and keep your main screen tidy, no matter how big the collection gets. • Master Set Tracking — track every card, variation, and rarity in each set: holos, reverse holos, alt arts, secret rares, and more. Four master-set types — Core, Premium Print, True Master, and Grand Master — so you can chase the goal that matches your style. Building a Grand Master? Decide exactly what counts: include energy cards or skip them, and pick every promo or just the ones you're chasing. • Binder Mode — see your collection laid out like a real binder. 9-, 12-, or 16-pocket pages, page-by-page like the real thing. Optimized for iPad. • PokéDex Master Sets (PRO) — build the ultimate completion challenge: one TCG card slotted for each of all 1,025 Pokémon. Pick any card, any set, any variant. • Custom Master Sets (PRO) — hand-pick cards from the full catalog for character themes, type collections, or any chase you can dream up. • Native iPad + Cross-Device Sync — full split-view layout, and your collection follows you between iPhone and iPad in seconds. No "did that save?" moments. • Placeholder Printing (PRO) — print missing-card placeholders in full color, black & white, or printer-friendly text. Your physical binders feel complete while you finish the hunt. • Official Card Checklists — jump straight to the official Pokémon checklist PDF for your set. • Graded Card Placeholders — pulled a beauty? Print a graded placeholder so your binder page stays whole while the card's at the grader. • Live Market Prices — TCGPlayer market and last-sold prices on every card, updated daily. • Custom Binder Art — choose from dozens of built-in binder designs, or unlock limited-edition art from The Unlucky Collector with redemption codes. • Achievements & Celebrations — 28 milestones to unlock as you collect, scan, and organize — plus confetti when you finish a set. You earned it. • Powerful Sorting & Filters — search and filter by set, rarity, type, market price, or last-sold price. Variants stay grouped for clean displays. • Japanese Sets — collect in two languages. Create master sets from Japanese series, flip between English and Japanese cards in Browse and card pickers, and filter your binder shelf by language with one tap. The scanner reads Japanese cards too. Built by a collector, for collectors. No ads. No data sold. Your collection is yours. Terms of Use: https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: DeckTradr at 93% against 9Pocket TCG's 27%. DeckTradr also leads on rating (4.9 vs 3.0) and ratings volume (620 vs 4). On price, ads, in-app purchases 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. DeckTradr sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month and 9Pocket TCG sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
DeckTradr holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 3.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: DeckTradr has 620 ratings behind it against 4, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews point the same way: 93% of DeckTradr's written reviews are positive against 27% of 9Pocket TCG's.
DeckTradr ships an update every 5 days, 9Pocket TCG fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 19, 2026 and October 4, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | DeckTradr | 9Pocket TCG |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.9 (620 ratings) — better | 3.0 (4 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 92.5% of reviews — better | 27.3% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 620 — better | 4 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #36 — better | — |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 18.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 519 MB | 506 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | DeckTradr LLC | The Unlucky Collector LLC |
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In-app purchases
DeckTradr
- DeckTradr Premium$6.991 Month
- DeckTradr Pro3 Days trial$24.991 Month
- DeckTradr Pro3 Days trial$199.991 Year
9Pocket TCG
- 9Pocket3 Days trial$1.991 Month
- Annual Subscription3 Days trial$19.991 Year









