Centered Cardboard vs Trovie
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.
Trovie
This app streamlines inventory management and sales tracking for trading card game vendors. It automates cost basis calculations, tracks buys, sells, and trades, and provides event-specific financial summaries. Collectors can view live inventory via QR codes without needing an app.
- Automated cost basis calculation
- Unified buy, sell, and trade entry
- Barcode scanning for sealed products
- Event-specific financial scoreboards
- Multi-staff booth management
- Live inventory viewing for collectors
- Support for multiple TCGs
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The best part of the TCG hobby happens face to face. Trovie exists to protect that. The less time a vendor spends pricing cards and doing math, the more time everyone has for the conversation that brought them to the table in the first place. FOR VENDORS: LESS MATH, MORE TIME AT THE TABLE Most vendors know what a card sold for. Almost none know what they made on it. Writing down what you paid, card by card, is too slow to do at a buy counter, so it doesn't happen. Trovie fixes that. - Set it once: set your buy percentage and every card you scan in gets a cost basis automatically. Know something the market doesn't? Override any number by hand. - Every deal, one screen: buys, sells, and trades with cash added in all use the same entry. Nothing to reconcile later. - Sealed, slabs, and singles: boxes, bundles, and ETBs scan by barcode. Raw cards and slabs are identified instantly. - Know what the show actually made you: every event gets its own scoreboard: cost, margin, cards in, cards out. - Run it with your crew: invite the people working your booth. Everyone sees the same live inventory, and a multi-table setup can run several shows at once, one per staffer. FOR COLLECTORS: WALK UP AND SEE WHAT'S THERE (Patent Pending) No more flipping through every binder to find out what a vendor has. Scan the QR code at their table and their live inventory opens right on your phone. No app, no login, nothing to install to browse. Build a list as you go and hand it over ready to check out. It's a starting point for the conversation, not a hold on the card, so nothing is ever reserved or claimed out from under anyone. --- EIGHT GAMES AND COUNTING. Trovie covers the major trading card games collectors and vendors actually deal in (English and Japanese editions included) with new sets and new games added constantly. WHAT TROVIE ISN'T. Not a register or POS replacement. Not a marketplace, and Trovie never takes a cut of a sale. This is the back office for the table that's already happening, not a new place to run it from. Built by people in this hobby, for the hobby. Less time on admin, more time with the person across the table.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Trovie at none against Centered Cardboard's 1. Trovie also leads on update cadence (weekly vs every 3 weeks). Centered Cardboard's advantage is review sentiment (100% vs 92%) and ratings volume (63 vs 20). On price, rating, ads and device support 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. Trovie asks for nothing beyond the download.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 4.8 for Centered Cardboard against 4.8 for Trovie. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 63 and 20 respectively. Written reviews are what separate them: 100% of Centered Cardboard's written reviews are positive against 92% of Trovie's.
Centered Cardboard ships an update every 3 weeks, Trovie weekly. Both last shipped on November 5, 2026.
| Parameter | Centered Cardboard | Trovie |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 4.8 (63 ratings) | 4.8 (20 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better | 91.7% of reviews |
| Number of ratings | 63 — better | 20 |
| Update frequency | Every 3 weeks | Weekly — better |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | No — better |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Free — better |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 17.0 | 17.0 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 18 MB | 95 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Oak Labs Limited Liability Company | Trovie, Inc. |
Customer experience
Centered Cardboard
Trovie
In-app purchases
Centered Cardboard
- Centered Cardboard Pro$4.99
Trovie
No in-app purchases
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