Trading card collection app

Your whole collection, in your pocket.

Point your camera at a card and In the Binder knows which one it is. It files the card into its set's binder and shows what it's worth. Page by page, you watch every set fill up.

Pokémon · One Piece · Lorcana · Dragon Ball Super Fusion World · Magic: The Gathering · Yu-Gi-Oh!

Scan a card. It lands in its set's binder, with its price.

Get it onGoogle Play iPhone beta onTestFlight Open on the web NEW

On an iPhone or a computer? Use the web version, free, no install.

Android phone without Google Play? Download the app directly.

Things other card apps don't do

Built by a collector who wanted more than a list.

A card framed by measurement guides along its four borders

GRADING

AI centring check before you submit

Hold a card under the camera and the borders are measured automatically. You see the best grade centring alone allows at PSA, BGS and CGC, before you pay for grading. A manual mode lets you nudge every edge by 0.1 mm.

A graded slab tapped against the back of a phone

SLABS

Tap a slab, done

Hold an NFC-chipped slab to the back of your phone and the certificate is read instantly, no buttons. No chip? Point the camera at the label and the cert number is read for you.

Six trading cards fanned out, one per game

6 GAMES

Six card games, never mixed

Pokémon, One Piece, Lorcana, Dragon Ball Super Fusion World, Magic and Yu-Gi-Oh! each get their own binders, slabs and sealed product. Every printing has its own pocket: normal, parallel, foil, alternate art. A game downloads only when you open it, so the app stays small.

A shelf of binders with a coloured tab for each language

8 LANGUAGES

Japanese, Korean and Chinese Pokémon sets

Separate Pokémon binders for English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese printings, with thousands of Asian cards recognised by the scanner.

A laptop showing a grid of cards and a price chart

WEB

Your binder on a big screen

Open your collection on a computer or any phone at inthebinder.com/app: every card of every game, its value over time, grading picks with eBay sold prices for PSA 10, BGS and CGC, and the centring tool for your photos. Your collection stays in your browser, nothing is uploaded.

Cards moving from a storage box into a binder

SWITCHING

Bring your collection with you

Import your whole PriceCharting collection in one go, with nothing lost: anything that can't be matched is kept with its value. Back up to a single file anytime.

Built by a collector, for collectors

Everything you'd do with a real binder, a price guide and a notebook, in one place, and it works offline.

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Scan by picture

Recognition runs on your phone. It reads the artwork, not just the text, so glare, sleeves and whole 9-pocket pages are fine. If it isn't sure, it asks rather than guessing. It reads printed codes like OP01-003 or LOB-EN001 too, and learns the look of your own cards from every scan you confirm.

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Binders, set by set

Each set is a leather binder with nine cards a page. Empty pockets show what you're still hunting. Normal, reverse holo, holo, parallels and foils are tracked separately.

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Know what it's worth

Market prices for each printing, price history over time, and your whole portfolio's value at a glance.

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Graded slabs

Track PSA, BGS, CGC, ACE, AURA and more. Read the certificate from the label or tap an NFC-chipped slab.

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Search like it's printed

Type "070/084" or a name with a typo, and it still finds the card.

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Sealed product too

Booster boxes, ETBs, decks and tins by barcode or straight from each game's catalogue, alongside your cards and slabs.

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Trade face to face

Line up both sides of a swap with each card's value in its own language, see at a glance if it's fair, then swap lists with a QR code.

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Fill a binder fast

Tap empty pockets to fill them, type “1-25, 30”, or fill a whole page at once, with Undo if you go too far.

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Turn it sideways

Hold your phone on its side and the binder opens flat: two pages, four big cards each.

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Opens on its cover

Tap a binder and it greets you with its cover, then opens like a real book. On a foldable, unfold for two pages; fold it and the binder closes.

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Never miss an update

A red dot next to Settings tells you when something new is ready, with one tap to get it.

Secure by design

A collection can be worth thousands. In the Binder never makes you hand it to a server: without an account, nothing about your collection leaves your phone. Syncing between phones is optional, and you can delete it at any time.

No sign-up needed: the app works fully without an account, with no password to leak
Optional sign-in with Apple or Google to sync your phones (from version 1.16): only your sign-in email and your collection are stored, never for ads, and you can delete them from the app
Without an account, your collection is stored only on your phone and works fully offline
Card recognition runs on the device; your photos are never uploaded
Only the permissions it needs: camera to scan, NFC to read slabs
Distributed through Google Play, signed and checked by Google
Everything online is encrypted (HTTPS only, HSTS)
Your data, your file: export or back up whenever you like
Read the full privacy policy

Questions

What is In the Binder?

In the Binder is a free Android app for trading card collectors. You scan cards with your phone camera, file them into binders set by set, check centring before sending cards for grading, track graded slabs and see what your collection is worth.

Which card games does it support?

Pokémon (including Japanese, Korean and Chinese prints), plus the English editions of One Piece, Disney Lorcana, Dragon Ball Super Fusion World, Magic: The Gathering and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Each game has its own binders, slabs and sealed product, never mixed. A game's card list downloads the first time you open it.

Is In the Binder free?

Yes. The app is free to download and use. It shows one small banner ad, and its shop links to eBay, TCGplayer and Cardmarket may earn us a small commission if you buy, at no extra cost to you.

Does it work with Japanese, Korean and Chinese cards?

Yes. The scanner and binders support English, French, Italian, Spanish, German, Japanese, Korean and Chinese prints.

Can it help me before sending cards to PSA?

The centring check measures the borders of your card from a photo and compares them with the centring limits used by PSA, BGS and CGC. It is a guide only; the final grade is always the grading company's decision.

Is it available on iPhone?

Yes, as a beta. Anyone can join the iPhone beta through Apple's TestFlight app from inthebinder.com/beta, and the App Store release is coming soon. The web version also works on any iPhone.

Does it need an internet connection?

No. Your collection is stored on your phone and the app works offline. Prices update when you are online.