DropSync vs PriceHUD
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
DropSync
Get instant alerts for restocks of popular collectibles and trading cards from major retailers. Quickly access product pages with a single tap to secure your desired items before they sell out. Organize and track your collection with detailed pricing and set completion features.
- Instant restock alerts
- One-tap access to buy
- Upcoming drop window predictions
- Customizable collection filters
- Scan and track Pokemon collection
- Graded slab recognition
- Observed market pricing
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DropSync gives collectors a fair shot at the drop. Sealed trading cards and hot collectibles sell out in seconds. DropSync watches the major retailers around the clock and pings your lock screen the instant a restock goes live — then puts you one tap from the buy button, before the crowd even finishes refreshing. WHAT THE APP DOES • Instant restock alerts — the moment stock hits at Target, Walmart, Sam's Club, or Pokémon Center, your phone knows. No refreshing, no F5, no luck. • The GO screen — one tap takes you straight to the product at the retailer, signed in and ready to check out. Timing is everything, and this is the fastest path there is. • Upcoming drop windows — see when each retailer tends to drop, with honest confidence labels. A pattern is never dressed up as a promise. • Collect-what-you-want filters — get alerted only for the categories you care about (Pokémon, Lorcana, One Piece, sports, and more) and mute the rest. Your choices sync to every device. - Scan and track your entire Pokemon collection ONE MEMBERSHIP, MORE FIREPOWER DropSync Plus follows you everywhere for one price: • On your phone — the instant alerts and GO handoff above. • On desktop — the DropSync browser extension, including the precise-refresh sniper that times your checkout down to the millisecond inside your own logged-in browser. • In the community — a collectors Discord for drop-night intel. HONEST BY DESIGN DropSync handles timing and information — you click checkout. We never store your retailer logins, we never auto-buy for you, and we're not affiliated with any retailer or brand. You stay in control of your own purchases in your own logged-in browser. YOUR COLLECTION, ON YOUR PHONE • Scan to add — point the camera at a card and it's identified, priced, and logged. Recognition runs on your device, so the photo never leaves your phone. • Graded slabs — the label is read for you, grade and certification number included, and priced from real observed sale medians rather than a model. • Honest prices — every number says what it is: an observed market price, an estimate, or "not enough sales to say". Nothing is rounder than the data behind it. • Have, Want, Selling — three piles, cost basis, notes, and a portfolio total you can audit. • Set completion — see how close you are, closest-to-done first. DROPSYNC PLUS PRICING • Monthly — $12.99/month • Annual — $129.99/year (best value) Subscriptions renew automatically until canceled; manage or cancel anytime in your App Store settings. Payment is charged to your Apple ID at confirmation of purchase. Privacy Policy: https://dropsync.chasedex.com/privacy Terms of Use: https://dropsync.chasedex.com/terms
PriceHUD
Identify and price trading cards live during auctions without leaving your stream. Get real-time ungraded and graded prices, estimates for different conditions, and sealed product values. Built for buyers to help determine maximum bids.
- Live card identification from streams
- Ungraded and graded price estimates
- Support for Pokémon and One Piece cards
- Sealed product pricing
- Max bid calculation
- Dynamic Island integration
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Know what the card is worth before the timer runs out. PriceHUD watches the livestream with you. Start a screen broadcast, open your auction app, and the card on screen is identified and priced in seconds, right in the Dynamic Island. No switching apps, no typing card names with eight seconds left. FREE FOR EVERY ACCOUNT Look up any Pokemon or One Piece card by name. You get the ungraded price, an estimate for each condition, and graded prices by company: pick PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG or ACE for its 10s and its recent sales at lower grades, with the card pictured, from PriceCharting's public sales data. A card with more than one printing, 1st Edition or Unlimited, holo or reverse holo, or a stamped edition, shows each at its own price. Sealed product too: booster boxes, Elite Trainer Boxes, packs and more. And every account gets 100 priced cards a month on the scanner itself, so you can try it on a real stream first. THE SCANNER (100 cards a month free, 1,500 on Scanner, 3,500 on Scanner Pro) - Identifies the exact printing from the stream, not just the name. A 1st Edition stamp, a Shadowless Base Set card, a Japanese printing: each is priced as itself. - Ungraded and graded prices on one strip: NM, LP, MP, PSA 10, CGC 10. Pick your own five cells and your own price basis in Settings. - MAX BID: your break-even built in. Set your fees, supplies and shipping once and the island shows the number you can pay and still come out ahead. - Amber when a printing is still open, so the price you see is the low end and never an overbid. - The Action Button prices the exact frame you are looking at, even if the broadcast is off. - The price window floats the card and its prices over the stream, for apps that hide the island and for iPhones without one. - One Piece cards too: pick your card type in Settings, and Lookup and the island read One Piece, English and Japanese. WHAT YOU NEED An iPhone with the Dynamic Island (iPhone 14 Pro or 14 Pro Max, or any iPhone 15, 16, 17 or Air except the 16e) on iOS 17.2 or later shows prices in the island. Other iPhones get each price as a notification on the Lock Screen, and any iPhone can float them over the stream in the price window. Lookup works on any iPhone. BUILT FOR BUYERS PriceHUD is read-only. It never bids, never automates, and never touches your auction account. It reads the screen you are already watching, on your own phone. PRIVACY Screen and camera frames are used to identify the card and are kept for up to 30 days to check and improve recognition, then deleted. We store your email, a hashed password and a key per device, and, unless you switch it off, which plan and referral screens you open. No tracking, no ads, no data sold. Delete your account from Settings at any time. PRICING Lookup is free, and so are your first 100 priced cards every month. Scanner is 1,500 priced cards a month for $12.99 a month or $77.99 a year. Scanner Pro is 3,500 priced cards a month for $24.99 a month or $149.99 a year. Each is an auto-renewing subscription through the App Store, and 500-card top-ups are $4.99 when you need them. Failed reads never count. Prices are in US dollars; the App Store shows the price in your country. TERMS AND PRIVACY - Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ - Privacy Policy: https://www.pricehud.com/privacy Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or sponsored by The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Bandai, Whatnot Inc., eBay Inc. or TikTok Pte. Ltd. Card names and images are the property of their respective owners. Price data from PriceCharting, TCGplayer and JustTCG.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is review sentiment: PriceHUD at 100% against DropSync's 40%. PriceHUD also leads on rating (4.8 vs 3.6). DropSync's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.2). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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. DropSync sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month and PriceHUD sells 5 in-app purchases, starting at $12.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
PriceHUD holds the better App Store score, 4.8 against 3.6. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 20 and 16 respectively. Written reviews point the same way: 40% of DropSync's written reviews are positive against 100% of PriceHUD's.
Both ship on a similar rhythm, roughly every 5 days. Both last shipped on November 10, 2026.
| Parameter | DropSync | PriceHUD |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 3.6 (20 ratings) | 4.8 (16 ratings) — better |
| Positive reviews | 40.0% of reviews | 100.0% of reviews — better |
| Number of ratings | 20 — better | 16 |
| Update frequency | Every 5 days | Every 5 days |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Freemium | Free with in-app purchases |
| Best chart rank | #29 — better | #66 |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod — better | iPhone |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 — better | 17.2 |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 81 MB | 11 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Tori Elstrom | AutoQuill AI LLC |
Customer experience
DropSync
PriceHUD
In-app purchases
DropSync
- DropSync Plus Monthly$12.991 Month
- DropSync Plus Annual$129.991 Year
PriceHUD
- Scanner$12.991 Month
- Scanner Pro$24.991 Month
- Scanner yearly$77.991 Year
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- Scanner Pro yearly$149.991 Year
- 500 more cards$4.99







