Retro Tracker vs Slabmint
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Retro Tracker
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Discover the history of gaming with Retro Tracker—your comprehensive guide to classic consoles, handhelds, computers, accessories, and games. Explore detailed hardware specifications, release information, console families, generations, peripherals, and more. Organise your personal collection, create wishlists, add notes, photos, and web links, and keep track of the systems you own or hope to find. Whether you are a collector, retro-gaming enthusiast, or simply curious about the evolution of gaming hardware, Retro Tracker brings decades of gaming history together in one beautifully organised app. Explore. Collect. Preserve gaming history. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/
Slabmint
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Grading a single card costs anywhere from $17 to $80, and the wait runs for months. Most cards come back a 9. Slabmint measures the card on your iPhone first, so you only send the ones worth sending. MEASURED, NOT GUESSED Photograph the card. Slabmint finds the outline, flattens the perspective and locates the printed border, then reports how far off centre the card sits — left to right and top to bottom, to a tenth of a percent. If the border is hard to see, drag the four guides yourself; a magnifier follows your finger and the numbers update as you drag. WHITENING ON EVERY EDGE AND CORNER The back of a card is where grades are lost. Slabmint checks a thin band around the whole card for the light, desaturated pixels that mean whitening, scores each edge and corner, and paints what it found straight onto the image. SURFACE LENS Three ways to re-light the captured card: raking light for fine scratches, relief for dents and creases, and a foil sweep that rotates colour across holo patterns. Tell Slabmint what you see and it factors that in. FIVE GRADING COMPANIES, SIDE BY SIDE The same measurements are compared against the published centering tolerances of PSA, Beckett (BGS), CGC, SGC and TAG. See which company's scale suits the card in your hand, and exactly which grade the centering allows. AN ANSWER, NOT JUST A NUMBER Every estimate breaks down into named factors — front centering, back centering, corners, edges, surface — so you can see what is holding the card back. Then Slabmint compares the expected return against the real grading fee and shipping, and tells you the gem rate you would need to break even. Fees are current as of October 2026, paused service levels are marked, and you can edit any fee yourself. SUBMISSION PLANNER Group the keepers into one submission, with the total cost, the expected return and the turnaround for the service level you picked. Track it from planning to slab. EVERYTHING ON THE DEVICE Measurement runs on your iPhone using Apple's Vision and Core Image frameworks. Your photographs never leave the device. There is no account and no analytics. If you search the card catalogue, only the text you type is sent to the public Pokémon TCG API to look up names, sets and market prices — you can skip it and type the details yourself. NOW IN 16 LANGUAGES English, Japanese, Korean, Simplified and Traditional Chinese, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese, Dutch, Polish, Russian, Thai, Indonesian and Vietnamese. FREE AND MEMBERSHIP Measuring cards, the grade odds for all five companies and the shareable report are free, with no limit. Slabmint Collector adds the submit-or-keep calculations and the submission planner. Slabmint Collector is $6.99 per month, $29.99 per year with a 7-day free trial, or $59.99 once for lifetime access. Subscriptions renew automatically unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24 hours before the end of the current period; your account is charged for renewal within 24 hours of the period ending. Manage or cancel in your Apple Account settings. Any unused part of a free trial is forfeited when a subscription is purchased. Privacy Policy: https://slabmintapp.web.app/privacy Terms of Use (EULA): https://slabmintapp.web.app/terms Slabmint is an independent tool. It is not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to PSA, Beckett (BGS), CGC, SGC or TAG. An estimate in the app is not a promise of the grade a company will assign. Grading fees and market values change — check them with the grading company before you submit.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Slabmint at 17.0 against Retro Tracker's 26.1. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Retro Tracker sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $0.99 per month and Slabmint sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $6.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
Retro Tracker ships an update every 8 days, Slabmint fortnightly. The most recent releases landed on October 15, 2026 and October 26, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Retro Tracker | Slabmint |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Update frequency | Every 8 days — better | Fortnightly |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad, Apple Watch — better | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.1 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 179 MB | 3 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | George Chalkiadoudis | Zubair Shah |
In-app purchases
Retro Tracker
- Monthly Subscription$0.991 Month
- Yearly Subscription$9.991 Year
Slabmint
- Collector — Monthly$6.991 Month
- Collector — Yearly7 Days trial$29.991 Year
- Slabmint Lifetime$59.99
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