Centered Cardboard vs Gradeon
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Centered Cardboard
This app assists trading card collectors in pre-grading their cards. It uses your device's camera and clear visual tools to assess centering, alignment, and corners, providing estimated grading scores based on industry standards. Save, export, and share your card assessments easily.
- Live centering feedback with color-coded ratios
- Grading score estimates
- Corner grading for all four corners
- Tilted measuring for rotated borders
- True distance measurements
- Adjustable outline guides
- Up to 100x zoom
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Centered Cardboard helps you pre-grade trading cards by making centering, alignment, and corner assessment quick, consistent, and easy to understand. Use your camera or import photos to examine cards with clear visual tools designed for accuracy: • Live centering feedback with color-coded ratios • Grading score estimates based on leading grading-company standards • Corner Grading for recording all four front and back corners • Tilted Measuring for cards with rotated inner borders • True Distance measurements for exact border spacing • Adjustable outline guides for accurate card alignment • Gyro crosshair and calibration tools for level camera positioning • Photo filters that improve edge visibility in difficult lighting • Up to 100× zoom for precise positioning and fine adjustments • Camera, Photos, and Files image support • Separate or combined front and back scores • Side-by-side exports for sharing both sides in one image • Cardboard History for saving, searching, editing, and revisiting exports locally • One-tap sharing for quickly saving or sending results Centered Cardboard gives collectors a clear, repeatable way to inspect cards before submitting them for grading. Centered Cardboard is an independent tool and is not affiliated with or endorsed by any card-grading company. Results are estimates and do not guarantee an official grade.
Gradeon
This app leverages AI to scan and assess the condition of trading cards. It provides real-time market value data from major platforms and helps users manage their entire collection portfolio.
- AI-powered card scanning
- Instant condition grading
- Real-time market prices
- Portfolio management
- Data from Ebay, Cardmarket, TCGplayer
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Gradeon uses AI to scan, grade, and track your trading card collection. Get instant condition grades, real-time market prices from Ebay, Cardmarket and TCGplayer, and manage your entire portfolio in one place. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://www.gradeon.ai/privacy
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Verdict
The clearest difference is rating: Centered Cardboard at 4.8 against Gradeon's 1.0. Centered Cardboard also leads on ads (none vs shown) and ratings volume (64 vs 1). On price, update cadence, 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. Centered Cardboard sells 1 one-off in-app purchase and Gradeon sells 6 in-app purchases, starting at $7.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Centered Cardboard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 1.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Centered Cardboard has 64 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two.
Centered Cardboard ships an update every 3 weeks, Gradeon every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 9, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Centered Cardboard | Gradeon |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (64 ratings) — better | 1.0 (1 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 66.7% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 64 — better | 1 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 2 weeks — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 22 MB | 79 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 12+ |
| Developer | Oak Labs Limited Liability Company | Federico Vietti |
In-app purchases
Centered Cardboard
- Centered Cardboard Pro$9.99
Gradeon
- Gradeon Pro Monthly7 Days trial$7.991 Month
- Gradeon Pro Yearly7 Days trial$69.991 Year
- 2 Scan Tokens$1.99
- 5 Scan Tokens$3.99
- 15 Scan Tokens$9.99
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- 50 Scan Tokens$22.99
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