The short answer
Pick the TCGplayer app if you want a free scanner and want to buy cards on TCGplayer; it covers about 45 trading card games. Pick Midpoint if you want graded prices, a centering measurement and a grade estimate, or if you collect sports cards, which TCGplayer does not cover.
Choose TCGplayer app if
- You want a completely free scanner with no subscription
- You buy singles on TCGplayer
- You play smaller trading card games
Choose Midpoint if
- You want PSA, BGS, CGC and TAG prices, not just raw
- You want to know if a card is worth grading
- You collect sports cards
Feature by feature
| Feature | Midpoint | TCGplayer app |
|---|---|---|
| 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 | Not stated |
| Raw (ungraded) market prices | Yes | Yes |
| Graded prices (PSA, BGS, CGC…) | YesPSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG by grade | Not stated |
| Price history charts | Yes | Partlycharts on tcgplayer.com |
| Price alerts | Yespush + email | Not stated |
| Collection value tracking | Yes | Partlylists show market prices |
| Bulk scanning | Yesup to 200 cards, or one photo of a whole binder page | Noone card at a time, in quick succession |
| CSV export | Yes | Yes |
| Buy and sell inside the app | Nolinks out to live eBay listings | Yesthe TCGplayer marketplace |
| Community / forum | Yes | Not stated |
“Not stated” means none of TCGplayer app’s official pages we checked describe the feature either way.
What each costs
TCGplayer app
- Free: $0. Scanning (no account needed), prices, collection lists, CSV export; no in-app purchases.
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 TCGplayer app is strong
- Completely free, with no subscription
- Covers about 45 trading card games, including small and new ones
- Prices come from TCGplayer’s own marketplace (market price, listed median, last sale)
- Buy the card straight away on TCGplayer
Ratings: iOS 4.2 (16,728 ratings); Google Play 4.5 (13,823 ratings).
Switching to Midpoint
The TCGplayer app exports any list as CSV or plain text. 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 the TCGplayer app show graded card prices?
No official TCGplayer source says it does; its prices are TCGplayer market prices for raw cards by condition. Midpoint shows raw and graded prices (PSA, CGC, BGS, SGC, TAG) for every card.
Can the TCGplayer app scan a whole binder page?
No. Its FAQ says it scans one card at a time, in quick succession. Midpoint can find every card in one photo of a binder page.
