Feed a box of cards through your scanner. My Cards AI identifies every one, prices it against the market, estimates its condition, files it into your sets, and keeps the books — on your Mac and in your pocket.
Mac + iPhone, kept in step automatically. On Windows, a free companion scans and identifies, then hands the batch to the iPhone app. Export to CSV any time — it's your data.
Here's exactly what happens between dumping a shoebox on your desk and knowing what's in it — six steps, no spreadsheet.
Load a stack into a sheet-fed scanner. My Cards AI captures both sides of every card, crops and straightens each one, and pairs fronts with backs automatically — even when your scanner names files in a jumbled order.
Penny sleeves feed fine — a gentle-feed mode stops the roller from pressing the next card while the current one scans, which is what dents sleeved cards. (Rigid top loaders belong on a flatbed, not in any sheet feeder.) The crop keeps the full card with its borders intact. No scanner? Shoot cards with your phone, or drop in images you already have.
Duplicates collapse into one entry with a quantity — and both copies' photos are kept.
Price the whole batch at once, or just the cards still missing a value. My Cards AI pulls completed eBay sales where they're available and live asking prices where they aren't — and labels every price with which one it used. Outliers get filtered either way: the wishful $10,000 auction and the autographed lookalike don't get to decide what your common is worth.
Every price is labeled with where it came from, and cards you own multiples of show both numbers: the single-card value and the total for all your copies.
Scans are examined the way a grader looks at a card: all eight corners magnified, the edges strip by strip, the surface, and the centering measured as a ratio. You get a grade with a floor-to-ceiling range and the specific defects named.
Own three copies? Click the sharpest one and it becomes the card that gets graded. Write "pack pull" on the top loader? Tell the grader — it won't count your handwriting as damage.
Should you pay to grade it? My Cards AI puts the raw value next to what the card fetches at both ends of its estimate, subtracts your submission fee, and gives you a straight answer — including "keep it raw," which is the right answer far more often than the hobby admits.
Your fee, your math: set what grading actually costs you and every card is judged against that number.
Population matters too — My Cards AI tells you to check the pop report before you commit.
Every card you scan checks itself off the right checklist. Scan a number you already have and the duplicate starts your second copy of that set instead of sitting in a pile. And when your loose commons quietly cross 80% of a set you weren't even chasing, My Cards AI notices and offers to start it for you.
Missing cards print as a want list for the card show, organized by number, with the players named.
What you paid, what you sold, and what the market did while you slept — tracked daily. Most apps show one number going up and let you feel good about it. Here it splits three ways: this collection gained $412 last month, but only $96 of that was the market — the rest was cards you bought. That's the difference between a collection appreciating and a collection being fed.
Sell a card at a show from your phone: it shadows immediately there, and the sale books into your ledger with its cost basis the next time the desk app syncs.
Add the cards you're chasing — type them, snap a photo of one in a case, or pull one straight from a live listing. Say what you're willing to spend, and My Cards AI watches.
Your target was $45. Listing ends in 2 days.
Checked at every launch, against live listings. One alert per listing — never the same card twice.
When a hunted card lands in your collection, My Cards AI celebrates, logs what you paid, and keeps the win in a trophy case.
Point your phone at a card in someone's case and know instantly whether it's a duplicate, a set need, or on your want list.
A scanner sees corners and edges beautifully. It cannot see a gloss break under raking light, and no photograph proves a card wasn't trimmed. So My Cards AI tells you what it found, what it couldn't see, and exactly what to check yourself before spending a submission fee.
Every estimate ships with the inspection steps a grader would run — angled light across the surface, a loupe on all four corners, centering measured twice, and an extra look at print quirks on anything older than 1990.
"Estimated 7 — first pass, not a verdict."
Software promising a guaranteed grade is selling you something. My Cards AI is built to save you the fee on the cards that were never worth it, and to flag the few that are.
Export the whole collection to CSV whenever you want — for taxes, insurance, or your own spreadsheet. Backups go to your iCloud Drive every time the app opens, with the last 14 days kept. Not my cloud. Yours.
Sheet-fed document scanners like the Fujitsu/Ricoh fi series run hundreds of cards per session. Or bring your own scanning software and My Cards AI watches the folder.
Card images go to the identification and grading service and the results come back — that's it. Your collection, values, and books live in a folder on your machine and on your phone. No account required, and nothing is sold to anyone.
Printable collection valuations, set checklists, want lists, and a profit-and-loss statement — the paperwork that makes a collection a documented asset.
My Cards AI is in active development on Mac and iPhone. If you scan more cards than you can keep track of, get in touch — early users shape what gets built next.
Tell me roughly how many cards you have and what you scan with. I reply personally — it's one person building this, not a support queue. Free during early access.