About Ripdex

Ripdex is built by Appalex Ltd., a small app studio in Budapest, Hungary. We're collectors ourselves, and we wanted a scanner that keeps up with a binder, so we built one. Ripdex identifies cards in under a second, tracks live market prices for the entire international Pokémon TCG catalog (the app covers the Japanese catalog too), and keeps your collection's value at your fingertips.

Where the Prices Come From

Every price on this site is a TCGplayer market price for a raw, near-mint copy, tracked per printing variant (normal, holofoil, reverse holofoil). Our pipeline pulls the full market snapshot once a day, currently covering 20,444 international cards across 174 sets. We archive every daily snapshot, which is what powers the 90-day price history chart on every card page and the daily price movers. Card catalog data and card images come from the Pokemon TCG API (pokemontcg.io). Prices were last refreshed July 2026.

What We Don't Do

We don't sell cards, we don't take a cut of anything you buy or sell, and we don't invent numbers: if a data point isn't in our feed, like graded (PSA) sale prices, we say so instead of guessing. Where fees or figures appear in our guides, they carry an "as of" date and a pointer to the primary source.

Who Writes This

I'm Sándor, founder of Ripdex, and the guides on this site are written by me. I built the recognition engine, and while training and validating it I ran it across the full catalog of 47,000+ international and Japanese cards; the 98.1% first-scan accuracy benchmark quoted in the blog is that work. When I compare Ripdex to other apps I say up front that I'm biased, quote each rival's own App Store rating, and note where they beat us.

The Company

Ripdex is built and operated by Appalex Ltd., a small app studio registered in Budapest, Hungary (company reg. 01-09-433441). The Ripdex iOS app is our main product, and the website is its free, open companion. For questions, corrections, data issues or press, write to info@appalex.hu. We read everything.

Ripdex is an independent tool and is not affiliated with Nintendo, Creatures Inc., GAME FREAK inc. or The Pokémon Company.