Pokellector is a reference and inventory management app for Pokemon TCG collectors, available on iOS.
Product velocity
Dormant
Daily rank 🇺🇸
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Reference
Sentiment
4.7
4k reviews
Nemesis
Fragmented field
The App DNA
What makes this app unique?
Collectors use the app to replace manual spreadsheets with a searchable database that tracks set completion and current market pricing.
For Pokemon trading card game collectors and players who need to organize, track, and value their physical and digital card inventories.
What does it look like?
Key features
Optical character recognition and QR code scanning to digitize physical card collections.
Lookup tool for English and Japanese card sets including historical pricing and set information.
Digital inventory tracking for owned cards versus missing cards across various expansions.
How much does it cost?
Subscription model utilizing recurring quarterly or yearly billing cycles to monetize long-term collection management.
Velocity
Dormant developmentUX improvementsnew contentShow more...
Pokellector: Card Collector has been inactive for 650 days, falling well outside the threshold for active development. The last release focused on UI improvements and search functionality, but no updates have followed since. Given the lack of activity for over a year, the app is classified as a zombie project.
Who built it?
User Sentiment
What do users think recently?
The recent review mood reads excited. Users appreciate comprehensive card database and collection tracking tools allow users to manage master sets effectively and integrated market pricing data helps collectors avoid overpaying when trading or purchasing new cards, but report data loss occurs when users inventory their collection before creating an account, causing frustration.
How are ratings & reviews evolving?
What users say, by theme
- Comprehensive card database and collection tracking tools allow users to manage master sets effectively
- Integrated market pricing data helps collectors avoid overpaying when trading or purchasing new cards
- Clean interface design makes browsing large card catalogs and checking off owned items simple
- Data loss occurs when users inventory their collection before creating an account, causing frustration
120 of 435 recent reviews analyzed · high confidence · Excited overall
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Competitive landscape for Pokellector: Card Collector
How's the Reference market?
Pokellector maintains a stable niche in the Reference category with a 4.66 rating across 3,527 total ratings. The lack of updates since late 2024 signals a maintenance-mode posture that leaves the app vulnerable to competitors with active development cycles.
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Key takeaways for Pokellector: Card Collector
Where is it heading?
The reference-utility market is consolidating around tools that offer seamless cross-device synchronization and AI-assisted entry. Pokellector's maintenance-mode status leaves it exposed to rivals that provide modern, stable experiences, which will likely lead to a gradual decline in active user counts as collectors migrate to more reliable platforms.
- The 21-month development gap signals a maintenance-only posture, which erodes user trust as the TCG market evolves.
- Persistent launch crashes on tablets (the primary device for collectors) directly correlate with negative sentiment and churn.
The SWOT
- Integrated market pricing data provides a clear utility barrier against manual spreadsheets
- Comprehensive database of English and Japanese sets sustains long-term user utility
- Implementing cloud-based account synchronization would directly address multi-device consistency requests
- Advanced camera-based card scanning would reduce manual entry friction for large collections
Next best moves
Force account creation before inventorying because data loss is the top complaint → reduce churn
+ 1 more prioritized moveThe counter-intuitive read
The app's lack of updates is not just…
Read the full takeFeature gaps
AI-driven grading estimation (available in Card Grading Tool TCG but absent here) +1
Since the last report: The app has transitioned from a state of general technical instability to one of critical, documented data-loss risk during onboarding. This shift has forced a pivot in the product roadmap toward mandatory account creation to protect user inventory.
Bottom line
The app's utility as a master-set tracker is currently undermined by critical onboarding and stability failures. Addressing the data-loss flow would immediately stabilize the user base, while cloud-sync would transform the app from a static reference tool into a persistent collection manager.
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- [1] App Store, source
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