Know the grade before you pay
Grading a card costs $20–150 and takes weeks. Pikablu measures the card from your phone first, so you find out whether it is worth sending.
Centering, measured — not estimated
Pikablu finds the card edge and the art frame, corrects for the angle you held the phone at, and reports the same ratio a grader quotes.
55/45 → Gem Mint 10 · 60/40 → Mint 9
Those tolerances are PSA’s published figures, not our guesses. When a photo is not good enough to measure from, the app says so instead of returning a number.
What it does
Track a collection that knows what it is missing
Every English set, stored on the phone, so browsing works with no signal — at a show, in a basement, on a plane. Each set shows what you own, what is missing, and how close you are.
- Secret rares counted separately. A card numbered 199/165 sits outside the printed set, so owning five of them cannot report a set as complete while base cards are still missing.
- Reverse holos are their own cards. A normal printing and its reverse holo are tracked apart, because to a collector they are different cards — and to a buyer they are different prices.
- Wanted list, grouped by set. Built for a dealer’s binder: your gaps in the order the stock is filed.
Decide what is worth sending
Grading is slow and not free. Pikablu ranks your cards by how they estimate, shows what a submission would cost at the rate you actually pay, and compares graders on fee and turnaround.
- Already-graded cards are recorded, not re-estimated. Scan the label, store the certificate. The grade on the slab is a fact; ours is a guess, and the app never shows them competing.
- It marks its own homework. Where a card has both our estimate and a real grade, the app shows the gap — and says plainly when it read high, because that is the direction that costs money.
Capture built to be refused
Five guided shots: flat light, raked light, the back, a macro of the print, and the card held to a lamp. The shutter refuses a frame it cannot measure and tells you what to change.
- Both faces. Back centering caps a grade the same way the front does, and back edge whitening shows first against a dark border.
- Sleeved or bare is declared. A sleeve’s own scuffs look exactly like surface damage in one frame, so the app asks rather than quietly grading sleeved cards lower.
Being honest about the rest
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In calibration
Corners, edges and surface These are heuristic screens from a phone photo, not grader-equivalent assessments. They are capped at half confidence until they have been checked against cards whose real grade is known — and every report in the app says so.
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Not yet
Card values and expected return A real submit-or-hold decision needs licensed graded-sale data. Until that is in place the app ranks by grade and will not invent a price.
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Advisory only
Counterfeit checks Print-pattern and light-transmission tests can flag a card worth a second look. They are not an authentication service and the app never claims a card is genuine.