The short answer
Pick Market Movers if you trade sports cards as an investor and want comps, deals below market, indexes and ratio reports. Pick Midpoint if you are a collector deciding what to grade, or if you want prices and price history without a subscription.
Choose Market Movers if
- You flip or invest in sports cards and want deals below recent comps
- You want grade, player and variation ratio reports
- You track sealed boxes
Choose Midpoint if
- You want centering measured and a grade estimate
- You want free prices and history (Market Movers has no free plan)
- You collect TCGs as well as sports
Feature by feature
| Feature | Midpoint | Market Movers |
|---|---|---|
| Measures centering from a photo | Yesautomatic outer edge + print frame, 8 handles, ratios and mm | No |
| Estimates the grade (corners, edges, surface) | YesPSA, BGS, CGC and TAG estimates with subgrades | No |
| Identifies a card from a photo | Yes | Yes |
| Reads graded slab labels | YesPSA, BGS, CGC, TAG | YesPSA, SGC, BGS |
| Raw (ungraded) market prices | Yes | Yes |
| Graded prices (PSA, BGS, CGC…) | YesPSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG by grade | Yes |
| Price history charts | Yes | Yes |
| Price alerts | Yespush + email | Yes |
| Collection value tracking | Yes | Yes25 / 250 / unlimited by plan |
| Bulk scanning | Yesup to 200 cards, or one photo of a whole binder page | Not stated |
| CSV export | Yes | Not stated |
| Buy and sell inside the app | Nolinks out to live eBay listings | Not stated |
| Community / forum | Yes | Not stated |
“Not stated” means none of Market Movers’s official pages we checked describe the feature either way.
What each costs
Market Movers
- Starter: $9.99/month or $99.99/year. Sales comps, scanning, collection up to 25 items, 5 price alerts.
- Premium: $24.99/month or $249.99/year. Collection up to 250, 20 alerts, Market Pulse indexes.
- Unlimited: $49.99/month or $499.99/year. Unlimited collection and alerts, ratio reports.
Midpoint
- Free: $0. All prices (raw and graded), price history and sold listings; 2 centering or grading analyses; 2 photo lookups; 3 Chat questions a day; free centering checker on the web (3 a day, no account).
- Weekly: $9.99/week. Unlimited centering, AI grading, photo lookup, bulk and scan-a-sheet, adding cards to your collection, unlimited Chat.
- 6 months: $49.99. Same as Weekly.
- Annual: $79.99/year. Same as Weekly.
Where Market Movers is strong
- Deep sports-card sales data from eBay, PWCC, Goldin, Heritage and more, with outliers reviewed by hand
- Investor tools: trends, market indexes, deals below comps, grade and player ratio reports
- Price alerts and sealed-box tracking
Ratings: iOS 4.6 (1,644 ratings); Google Play 4.4 (528 ratings).
Switching to Midpoint
Midpoint has no CSV import yet. The quickest way to move a collection is Bulk → Multiple Cards: photograph each binder page (or a scanner bed of cards) and Midpoint finds every card, identifies it and adds it to your portfolio with its price.
Questions
Does Market Movers have a free plan?
Its site offers a free trial; the plans are Starter ($9.99/month), Premium ($24.99/month) and Unlimited ($49.99/month). Midpoint’s prices are free.
Can Market Movers estimate a card’s grade?
No grade estimate or centering tool appears in its official feature lists. Midpoint does both from photos.
