The best Pokémon card price checkers in the UK (2026)
Choose a Pokémon price tool around your games, currency and collection workflow. This roundup compares providers’ stated features with COMPED’s UK price checks. Match printing and condition when testing results, and check the provider’s current plan before paying. There is no universal winner for every collector.
Why one market number isn't enough
Most price tools show one market number. For older Pokémon cards that number can sit far from what cards actually sell for in the UK, because it blends printings, conditions and currencies. Every tool below has real strengths. COMPED adds Digby, a proprietary AI pricing engine that blends UK sold comps, market pulses and vendor-style reasoning into one GBP price.
1. Pulse TCG (formerly PokéPulse)
A polished UK collecting app with native apps and a strong vendor toolkit. Best for: Collectors and traders who play several games and want a native app from the store.
Scorecard: COMPED vs Pulse TCG2. Collectr
One of the most popular collection trackers, covering a huge range of games. Best for: Collectors tracking a big multi-game collection and watching its value.
Scorecard: COMPED vs Collectr3. PriceCharting
A long-running price guide with deep history for cards, games and comics. Best for: Anyone who wants long-term price history or graded price tables, mostly from the US market.
Scorecard: COMPED vs PriceCharting4. TCGplayer
The biggest US card marketplace, with market prices and an app. Best for: Buying and selling singles in the US, or checking US market prices.
Scorecard: COMPED vs TCGplayer5. Cardmarket
Europe's largest card marketplace, and the go-to place to buy singles in the UK and EU. Best for: Buying and selling singles across Europe.
Scorecard: COMPED vs Cardmarket6. ValuDex
A UK price checker that shows you the actual sold listings behind every price. Best for: Collectors who want to see every UK sale behind a price.
Scorecard: COMPED vs ValuDex7. CardMetric UK
UK sold comps, market movers and indexes for Pokémon cards. Best for: Buyers watching UK market movement and trends.
Scorecard: COMPED vs CardMetric UK8. Slabbed
A UK-first collection app with GBP prices, starting with Pokémon and Lorcana. Best for: Collectors who want a simple UK app to track Pokémon and Lorcana collections.
Scorecard: COMPED vs Slabbed9. RareScan UK
UK Pokémon prices from real eBay UK sales, with a helpful knowledge base. Best for: Quick UK sold-price searches and trade comparisons.
Scorecard: COMPED vs RareScan UK10. PACKRAT
A UK TCG shop, marketplace and app covering Pokémon (EN/JP/CN), One Piece, Lorcana, MTG and Yu-Gi-Oh!. Best for: Buying sealed products and trading singles with UK collectors.
Scorecard: COMPED vs PACKRAT11. HoloHawk
A UK eBay deal finder that flags underpriced Pokémon listings as they appear. Best for: Buyers hunting eBay deals the moment they're listed.
Scorecard: COMPED vs HoloHawk12. PokePrices
A free, no-login Pokémon price guide with PSA data and grading insights. Best for: Collectors deciding whether a card is worth grading.
Scorecard: COMPED vs PokePrices13. eBay sold & active comps
The original way to comp a card: search eBay and filter for sold items. Best for: Checking raw sales evidence yourself.
Scorecard: COMPED vs eBay sold & active comps14. My Card Comps
A sold-prices tool for Pokémon cards with a dealer buy-offer feature. Best for: US collectors and dealers who price in dollars.
Scorecard: COMPED vs My Card Comps15. Card Ladder
A large sales-history database with market indexes, across sports and trading cards. Best for: Investors who want long price histories and market indexes, mostly in US dollars.
Scorecard: COMPED vs Card Ladder
About this page: it's here purely for search (SEO). It helps people searching for card price apps find good options, including ours. We like and respect these platforms, and many collectors use several of them. COMPED is our own product. Claims about others come from their public sites and listings, and were last checked on the date shown. Spot a mistake? Email hello@comped.co.uk.
COMPED (our product)
Free UK Pokémon prices in pounds for each printing, English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese cards, live AR scanning, and a Vendor Suite for card shows. Check a price.
Digby: the proprietary AI pricing engine behind COMPED
Digby doesn't copy one number from one site. It reasons about every card like an experienced vendor:
- AI market intelligence: UK sold comps, live market pulses and aggregate pricing data are weighed together, not taken at face value.
- Human-vendor reasoning: condition, demand, stale sales and mislabelled listings are judged the way a pro would at the table.
- Exact printing matching: 1st Edition, Shadowless, reverse holo and anniversary reprints, all priced separately.
- Regional pricing in GBP: English, Japanese, Korean and Chinese cards each priced for the UK market.
- Graded slabs and conditions: PSA, CGC and ACE grades, plus NM to damaged, from one search.
The result: a fast, reliable Pokémon card price checker in your pocket, with an AR scanner built in.