The Topps Company
For sports fans and pop-culture enthusiasts interested in digital memorabilia, social trading, and gamified set completion.
Star Wars Card Trader by Topps
Snapshot
Who is The Topps Company?
Digitizing the hobby of collecting through officially licensed trading card platforms for global sports and entertainment fandoms.
Target audience
Portfolio
Free 10Last updated
Star Wars Card Trader by Topps
v21.2.3
8mo ago
Publisher DNA
What defines The Topps Company?
Publisher DNA
Primary focus
Digital trading card platforms and licensed collectibles
Scale
indie
Target audience
Sports fans and pop-culture enthusiasts interested in digital memorabilia, social trading, and gamified set completion.
Origin
The digital division of the established physical trading card company, focused on transitioning traditional collecting to mobile platforms.
Signature Patterns
- •Heavy reliance on high-tier IP licensing including Disney, Marvel, Star Wars, and MLB
- •Monetization centered on freemium 'pack-opening' mechanics and premium currency IAPs
- •Core loop focused on collection, trading marketplaces, and set-completion rewards
- •Live-ops driven by thematic seasons and real-world event synchronization
Portfolio momentum
The publisher maintains an intense development pace with 12 releases in the last 6 months and 87% of the portfolio currently active.
Portfolio
What does The Topps Company ship?
Apps
10 apps analysed
Discover a world where you can collect & trade your favorite Disney characters!
Collect, trade, & play to build the ultimate MARVEL digital collection by Topps!
Your virtual Topps NBA hobby shop is here! Collect, trade, & play all day!
Chase hits, collect big names, trade with fans, redeem tickets for hobby boxes!
Collect & trade Star Wars™ digital collectibles with fans across the galaxy!
Distributed across 19 markets, strongest in Europe.
Based on 7 of 10 apps with localized market data, more coverage rolling in as scans complete · last scanned .
Americas (4)
- Brazil7 / 7
- Canada7 / 7
- Mexico7 / 7
- United States7 / 7
Europe (9)
- France7 / 7
- Germany7 / 7
- Italy7 / 7
- Netherlands7 / 7
- Portugal7 / 7
›+4 more europe markets
- Spain7 / 7
- Sweden7 / 7
- Turkey7 / 7
- United Kingdom7 / 7
Asia-Pacific (6)
- Australia7 / 7
- India7 / 7
- Indonesia7 / 7
- Singapore7 / 7
- Vietnam7 / 7
›+1 more asia-pacific market
- Japan5 / 7
Core markets (7/7 apps)
User Sentiment
How do users feel about their apps?
0
Positive apps
1
Neutral / mixed
2
Negative apps
32/100
Avg sentiment score
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Who does The Topps Company compete with?
The rivals identified
Nemeses(3)
Both apps compete for the attention of NFL fans, with the rival capturing the live game-day audience while NFL Collect by Topps® targets the memorabilia-collecting segment of the same fan base.
Both apps target digital hobbyists through freemium collection mechanics, specifically digital pack openings and peer-to-peer trading systems.
Both apps compete for the same digital trading card collector audience by utilizing high-frequency pack opening loops and collection mechanics.
Contenders(1)
Both platforms compete for the same sports fan demographic by offering digital collectibles, forcing users to choose between traditional card formats and video-based assets.
Same space(46)
Alt provides a specialized marketplace for high-value card trading, offering liquidity tools that appeal to serious investors.
Arena Club targets the intersection of physical collecting and digital liquidity, appealing to the same audience as BUNT.
Sleeper integrates fantasy sports with real-money predictive gaming, offering a more active social and betting-focused experience than digital card collecting.
Center Stage combines collection management with a social marketplace, offering a hybrid experience for physical card hobbyists.
CollX provides a physical-to-digital bridge for collectors, using visual search to manage real-world card collections rather than virtual ones.
SPcard provides camera-based scanning and valuation for physical cards, acting as a direct utility peer for collectors.
Fanatics Collect focuses on high-end, authenticated asset management, providing a secure vault for serious collectors.
Fanatics captures the physical merchandise and ticketing side of the baseball hobby, serving as a commerce-heavy complement to digital card collecting.
Card Ladder serves professional collectors by providing deep historical sales data and proprietary market indexes for physical card valuation.
Loupe focuses on live-commerce and group breaks, providing a high-engagement social experience for acquiring cards.
LUDEX provides AI-powered scanning tools that allow collectors to digitize and value physical cards, serving as a direct utility competitor.
StarSnap offers automated card identification and valuation, serving as a utility tool for collectors managing physical assets.
Cardstock serves as a digital cataloging tool for physical collections, competing for the time users spend organizing their cards.
Automates inventory tracking for physical card owners, serving as a utility for collectors to manage their physical holdings.
Market Movers provides market analysis and price tracking for over 2 million items, serving the data-driven investor segment.
Automates roster management for fantasy players, serving as a functional tool for active league participants rather than collectors.
This app serves the same Marvel fan base by combining character collection with strategic match-3 puzzle combat.
Targets the same sports fan demographic with high-frequency, real-money fantasy gaming instead of passive card collecting.
Blast Baseball provides biomechanical data for serious players, serving the performance-oriented segment of the baseball audience.
This app provides a similar inventory management utility for comic collectors, focusing on automated cataloging and metadata.
It offers a similar digital pack-opening interface but targets a broader range of high-value physical collectibles.
It provides a similar digital pack-opening experience but bridges the gap to physical ownership by shipping actual cards.
This app provides the definitive digital archive for the same Marvel fan base, focusing on reading rather than collecting.
It offers a similar digital-first approach to condition assessment, targeting collectors who want data-driven insights on their assets.
Offers competitive wagering and fantasy contests that leverage the same NFL fan base but focus on active game participation.
This app serves the same pop-culture collector base by offering licensed digital assets and virtual showrooms.
It targets the same collector audience by digitizing the unboxing experience and offering physical asset redemption.
Provides specialized dynasty fantasy football tools, targeting serious players who require more depth than standard apps.
This app functions as a broader collection management tool, overlapping with the organizational needs of Marvel digital collectors.
This app provides a similar utility for comic collectors, focusing on organization and release tracking for the same enthusiast demographic.
This app captures the same Marvel-focused demographic through a high-frequency fighting RPG loop that emphasizes long-term roster development.
It targets the same Marvel-interested collector base by providing specialized database tools for tracking comic book key issues.
MLB acts as the official source for live game data and streaming, competing for the same baseball-focused attention span as the card trader.
It maintains a similar long-term character collection loop for Marvel fans, spanning over a decade of content updates.
This app targets the same Marvel fan base but shifts the engagement from passive collection to active digital coloring.
MLB The Show Mobile offers a skill-based simulation experience that incorporates card collection, appealing to gamers rather than passive collectors.
Pristine Auction focuses on live-event memorabilia bidding, providing an alternative acquisition channel for high-end sports collectibles.
This app serves the same collector segment by providing authoritative authentication and market valuation for physical assets.
This app competes for the same Marvel-focused mobile audience through a high-fidelity squad-based RPG combat experience.
It competes for the same Marvel-interested mobile audience by offering a high-intensity, competitive card-battling experience.
Combines digital card collecting with fantasy sports, directly overlapping with the Topps digital collecting model.
It uses the same Marvel IP to attract a younger audience, though it focuses on educational sandbox play rather than collecting.
Cardora offers rapid scanning and price checking for physical cards, acting as a lightweight utility for collectors.
Underdog offers a direct alternative for sports fans seeking to engage in player-based wagering and fantasy drafts.
SportDex utilizes AI image recognition to identify and value cards, serving as a specialized tool for physical collection management.
Yahoo Fantasy Sports serves as a primary alternative for users seeking live-game engagement through season-long league management and real-time scoring.
New entrants(7)
Provides team management tools for basketball gamers, serving as a peripheral engagement app for the 2K franchise.
Slab: Baseball Card Dealer simulates the economics of card collecting, offering a game-based approach to understanding market cycles.
Next Inning provides youth baseball coaching utility, serving as a peripheral app for users who are also active in the baseball community.
Supplies a toolkit for fantasy football managers to sync leagues and analyze trade values.
This app offers a similar digital-to-physical pack-opening experience, leveraging official grading partnerships for collector trust.
Lastpack provides a digital pack-opening experience for physical cards, directly competing with the pack-purchase model of BUNT.
It serves a niche collector audience through a brand-loyalty program, overlapping with the digital tracking needs of physical card collectors.
The Analyst's Read
The bottom line on The Topps Company
Bottom line
Topps has successfully translated its physical brand equity into a digital-first ecosystem, using exclusive licenses as a barrier to entry. Their strategy relies on high-frequency content updates and social trading features to sustain a dedicated niche of hobbyist collectors.
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What fed this analysis
- Apps analyzed:
- 8
- With full intel:
- 1
- With overview:
- 8
- Website scraped:
- yes
- Social presence:
- yes