Price says what it's worth.
Liquidity says if it will sell.
ShadowSnap is a free iPhone scanner for trading cards: fast enough to keep up with a binder, accurate enough to trust with your money. Point it at a card and see what it is, what it books for, and how fast it actually sells, measured as liquidity droplets on every card. No other scanner does that.
A high price is not money yet
A card that books $80 but sits for a year is not an $80 card. Every scanner shows you the price. None of them tell you whether anyone is actually buying, and that is the number a deal lives or dies on.
Offers get made blind
A binder lands on your table and you have seconds to put a number on it. Guess high on slow cards and you sit on them for months. Guess low on fast movers and the seller walks. Sell speed should set the percentage.
Tracking apps make you type
Hundreds of cards, entered one search at a time, and the values are stale a week later. Your collection should build itself from the camera and reprice itself every day.
Point. Snap. Know.Then make the offer.
ShadowSnap is a fast, accurate scanner, a price guide, a liquidity read, a built-in offer builder, and a collection tracker in one camera view.
Fast and accurate, in one snap
Point the camera and the card, set, number, finish, condition, and market value are on screen before the card leaves your hand, with a match-confidence badge on every result. Capture a whole binder page at once, in English plus 25,000+ Japanese and Chinese cards.
Droplets no one else has
Every recognized card gets liquidity droplets, an at-a-glance read of how fast it actually sells. Full droplets move quick. Empty droplets sit. No other scanner shows you this.
Turn a stack into a number
Scan cards into a stack and get a suggested buy percentage informed by sell speed. Slide it where you want it, lock it in, and hand over a clean full-screen offer the customer can read.
Repriced every day
Singles, slabs, sealed, quantities, and whole collections in one Vault, with market values refreshed daily. See what you paid, what it's worth now, and the whole price journey.
Worth grading? Do the math
Compare raw value against potential graded value using historical population and gem-rate data, minus the fees. More information before you pay to slab a card.
Your collection, not ours
Import and export CSV files compatible with Collectr, Shiny, and TCGplayer, or send a stack straight to ShadowTag to print price labels. Your data leaves whenever you want it to.
Liquidity changes everything.
Five droplets sit next to every price. They are ShadowSnap's read on relative sell speed, measured from real market activity instead of guessed from the price tag, and they change how you buy. Fast movers deserve a stronger offer. Shelf sitters deserve a discount. Now you can tell them apart before the cash leaves your pocket.
Real screens, real inventory.
Every screen below is the finished app running a real collection.
Scan a stack, get a suggested offer
Thirteen cards on the table, $142.80 at market, and a suggested cash offer built from what those cards will actually do. Slide the percentage where you want it and lock it in.
- Suggested buy percentage informed by sell speed
- Liquidity droplets on every card in the stack
- One tap moves the whole stack into your Vault
Your collection, repriced daily
577 cards, $48,122.33, and not one of them typed in by hand. The Vault holds singles, slabs, sealed, and whole collections, and refreshes market values every day so the total is never stale.
- Singles, graded slabs, sealed, and collections in one place
- Quantities and individual copies tracked separately
- Price history and what you paid, on every card
Walks in from anywhere, walks out to anywhere
ShadowSnap speaks the CSV formats the big collection apps already use, and it talks to ShadowTag directly. Scan all day, then send the results wherever they need to go.
- Import and export Collectr, Shiny, and TCGplayer CSV files
- Full-detail ShadowSnap CSV that re-imports perfectly
- Send to ShadowTag and print price labels in minutes
Free. All of it.
No subscription, no account, no scan limit that resets when you pay, and no "pro" tier hiding the good parts. The scanner, the liquidity droplets, the offer builder, and the Vault are all free. Built by a vendor who wanted the tool to exist, not a bill.
ShadowSnap FAQ
Is ShadowSnap free?
Yes. 100% free with no subscription, no account, and no scan limits. It unlocks with a free access code: DM @splashandshadowstudio on Instagram for yours. The code is free too; we just like saying hi.
What are liquidity droplets?
Five droplets next to every price show how fast a card actually sells, measured from real market activity. Full droplets move quick, empty droplets sit. No other scanner shows sell speed.
Which cards can it read?
English cards plus more than 25,000 Japanese and Chinese cards. Graded slabs and sealed product are tracked and priced in the Vault too.
Does it need an internet connection?
Scans need a connection to identify cards. Snaps taken offline are kept on your phone and retried automatically once you are back online.
Can I move my collection in and out?
Yes. Import and export CSV files compatible with Collectr, Shiny, and TCGplayer, or send a stack straight to ShadowTag to print price labels.
Where can I download ShadowSnap?
ShadowSnap is a free download on the Apple App Store, listed as "ShadowSnap: TCG Scanner". The download button at the bottom of this page takes you straight there.
What's new in the latest version?
See the ShadowSnap release notes for everything that has shipped, and the full FAQ for every other question.
Free on the App Store.
Download ShadowSnap free, then DM Splash & Shadow on Instagram for the access code that unlocks the app.