Centered Cardboard vs Midpoint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Centered Cardboard
This app helps trading card collectors pre-grade their cards by analyzing centering and alignment. It uses your device's camera and visual tools to provide quick, consistent, and accurate feedback on card position and border spacing.
- Live centering feedback with color-coded indicators
- Skewed measuring for rotated borders
- Exact distances for border spacing
- Gyro leveling crosshair
- Outline guide overlays
- Up to 100x zoom
- Camera capture or photo import
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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.
Midpoint
Scan trading cards to instantly assess their centering, receive estimated grades from major services, and view real-time market values. Chat with other collectors, create shareable grading certificates, and track your collection's worth.
- Card centering measurement
- Estimated PSA, BGS, CGC, TAG grades
- Real-time market value from eBay
- AI grading with defect analysis
- Shareable grading certificates
- Collection portfolio tracking
- Community chat and forums
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Midpoint — scan any trading card to get its grade AND its real market price, before you pay for a professional grade. Then chat about it, certify it, and ask other collectors. Measure centering to the millimeter, get instant PSA, BGS, CGC and TAG estimates, then see what it's worth — live values from real eBay sold listings — without paying $80 per card and waiting weeks. KNOW THE GRADE • Snap or pick a photo of any standard trading card — TCGs, sports, Marvel, Star Wars; modern, vintage, foil, holo • ML finds the card and print-frame corners in under a second; live left/right and top/bottom centering ratios with millimeter offsets • Predicted grades from PSA, BGS, CGC and TAG • AI Grading: front + back photos → a full report with overall grade, subgrades and every defect called out MIDPOINT GRADE CERTIFICATE • Turn a front + back AI grade into a shareable certificate: both photos, corner and edge close-ups, every finding, the grade and subgrades, and a public verification page with a QR code • Image and PDF for listings, trades and binders — sold in credit packs, no subscription needed KNOW THE PRICE • Real market values from eBay sold listings, refreshed daily — raw plus PSA 10 / 9 / 8, with YOUR estimated grade highlighted • Price-history charts and recent sales, with links • "Worth grading?" verdicts — does the graded value beat the grading fee? • Scan a graded slab and we read the label and value it at its grade • 2,000,000+ cards: Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana, Dragon Ball, Digimon, Marvel, Star Wars, Garbage Pail Kids and every major sport CHAT • Ask in plain words — "Is my Base Set Charizard worth grading?" — and get answers from real sold prices, in your language • Add a photo and Chat finds the card; ask about your own portfolio too IN MESSAGES • Send a card's price into any chat — photo, set, raw and PSA 10 — straight from the Messages app drawer • Ask what a card is worth or whether grading pays without leaving the conversation, then send the answer • Whoever you message can tap through to the full price history; they don't need the app TRACK YOUR COLLECTION • Portfolio — every saved card valued daily: total worth, profit and loss vs what you paid, biggest movers • Price alerts — a push and an inbox entry when a card you own jumps or dips, plus a weekly portfolio update • Bulk upload for resellers; Snapshots — a clean shareable image of centering, grades and value • Cross-device — same account on phone and at cardcenteringtool.com JOIN THE COMMUNITY • Ask collectors anything — worth grading? PSA or CGC? — answered by members and the Midpoint helper bot • A board for every game and sport; follow discussions, share threads • Post about the card you just scanned with one tap — centering and estimate attached • Earn points and levels for helpful answers; weekly leaderboard; usernames only, report and block controls Not affiliated with PSA, Beckett, CGC, TAG, eBay or any grading company. Estimates follow each company's published centering tolerances; values come from third-party sales data. A Grade Certificate documents Midpoint's AI grade of your photos — not a professional grade, appraisal or guarantee. Privacy: https://www.cardcenteringtool.com/privacy Terms: https://www.cardcenteringtool.com/terms Support: https://www.cardcenteringtool.com/contact
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: Centered Cardboard at 100% against Midpoint's 60%. Centered Cardboard also leads on ads (none vs shown) and rating (4.8 vs 4.6). Midpoint's advantage is update cadence (every 3 days vs every 3 weeks). On price, ratings volume, 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 Midpoint sells 9 in-app purchases, starting at $9.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Centered Cardboard holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 4.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 40 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 100% of Centered Cardboard's written reviews are positive against 60% of Midpoint's.
Centered Cardboard ships an update every 3 weeks, Midpoint every 3 days. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and November 7, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Centered Cardboard | Midpoint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (63 ratings) — better | 4.6 (40 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 60.0% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 40 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Every 3 days — better |
| Ads | No — better | Yes |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free with in-app purchases |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 16.4 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 86 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oak Labs Limited Liability Company | I Lov Guitars Inc. |
Customer experience
Centered Cardboard
Midpoint
In-app purchases
Centered Cardboard
- Centered Cardboard Pro$4.99
Midpoint
- Unlimited Midpoint Weekly$9.997 Days
- Unlimited Midpoint Semi-Annual$34.996 Months
- Unlimited Midpoint Semi-Annual$49.996 Months
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- Unlimited Midpoint Semi-Annual$74.996 Months
- Unlimited Midpoint Annual$79.991 Year
- Unlimited Midpoint Annual$89.991 Year
- 1 Midpoint Grade Certificate$4.99
- 3 Midpoint Grade Certificates$9.99
- 10 Midpoint Grade Certificates$19.99
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