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PriceHUD alternatives, compared
Four tools people actually use to price a Pokémon card during a live auction, or shortly after one, set next to PriceHUD, plus five newer ones further down. Every figure here comes from a store listing or a pricing page, and every one of them says where it came from and when it was read. Where the source could not tell us something, this page says so rather than guessing.
Competitor pricing and install counts read 2026-09-01. Vendors change these. Check before you buy. PriceHUD's own details updated 2026-10-14.
All five, side by side
| PriceHUD | Comp Buddy | Cardikyu | QuickComps | Collectr | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone app, Chrome extension, free web lookup | Chrome extension, iPhone app, web | Chrome extension, web | Chrome side panel, website | iOS and Android |
| Where it runs | On the phone playing the stream, in the Dynamic Island | Chrome on a desktop. On iPhone it is manual: screenshot, share sheet, app, back to the stream | Chrome on a desktop. No phone path | Desktop only. The vendor's FAQ reads "Does QuickComps work on mobile? No." | On your phone, pointed at a card you are holding |
| Live-stream mode | Yes, hands-free while the stream plays | Yes on desktop, manual on iPhone | Built for live selling, but every platform tile read "Coming soon" | Yes, Whatnot only | None |
| Price | Free $0 for 100 cards a month. $12.99/month for 1,500 | Free to search. Pro $15/month or $150/year | Beta pricing. Plus $5/month, Pro $20/month, metered in credits a day. No free tier | $7, $10, $20 or $49.99/month, metered in scans a day. No free tier, no annual plan | PRO $7.99/month or $59.99/year. Free portfolio, capped scanner |
| Price data source | PriceCharting and TCGplayer market data, 30,000+ English printings plus Japanese, refreshed daily | A crowdsourced database of sold prices from live streams. No feed named | Not stated by the vendor | eBay and TCGplayer sold prices, with an NM average and an LP value | Not stated by the vendor |
| Card scope | Pokémon only | Sports first, Pokémon second | Pokémon, One Piece, Lorcana | Pokémon only, Japanese included | 200K products, 20+ games |
| How you get it | iPhone app on the App Store since 2026-09-20. Chrome extension on the Chrome Web Store since 2026-09-15 | Chrome Web Store and App Store | Chrome Web Store, paid beta | Chrome Web Store | App Store and Google Play |
| Read the detail | PriceHUD vs Comp Buddy | PriceHUD vs Cardikyu | PriceHUD vs QuickComps | PriceHUD vs Collectr |
What each one does better than PriceHUD
- Comp Buddy covers sports as its first category, and holds a searchable database of realized live-stream sold prices that is free to search without a subscription. PriceHUD has no public equivalent. Its Offer Assistant returns three numbers rather than one, and it publishes a blog, per-card pages and a Demand Board.
- Cardikyu goes deeper on a single card than anything else here: a five-step condition ladder from NM to DM, variant matching that shows its own confidence, slab-label detection across PSA, CGC, BGS, ACE and TAG, gem rate and population counts, multi-card page totals, and a bid ladder that records the outcome in a purchase ledger with profit and loss. It also covers One Piece and Lorcana.
- QuickComps shows a 30-day trend arrow, a liquidity readout for how often a card is actually selling, an LP value beside the NM average, a manual holo and non-holo toggle, and separate modes for raw cards and slabs. PriceHUD has none of those.
- Collectr is the largest and best-resourced product here by a distance, and it does an entirely different job well: portfolio tracking with a live collection value chart, camera scanning of cards in hand, a Compare Grades ladder, a Trade Analyzer, shareable showcases, 20+ games, and an Android app. It ranked #1 on the App Store for "pokemon card price" and "pokemon card value" on 2026-09-01.
What PriceHUD does that none of them do
- It puts the price on the phone, hands-free, while the stream keeps playing. None of these four does that: they run in Chrome on a desktop, need a screenshot, or need a camera pointed at a card in your hand. Newer phone apps now read the stream too, listed below.
- It shows a break-even bid with buyer fees, supplies and shipping already applied, instead of a market price you have to work backwards from mid-auction.
- It tells you when a printing is still ambiguous, and shows the low end of the range in that case, so an uncertain identification cannot turn into an overbid.
- It is read-only. PriceHUD reads pixels on your own screen. It never touches the auction app, your account or any API, it never bids, and it automates nothing.
- It gives the price away. The free tier is $0 for 100 priced cards a month, refilling monthly. Two of the four have no free tier at all, one gates live pricing behind a subscription, and one caps free scanning for the lifetime of the account.
Newer tools AI assistants also name, read 2026-10-14
Ask ChatGPT, Gemini, Claude or Perplexity for an app that prices cards on a live stream and these come up next to PriceHUD. Each line comes from the tool's own store listing or website.
- Card Index is a Chrome extension for Whatnot plus an iPhone and Android app. In Chrome you click Identify Card for each read, and it shows a suggested max bid, graded prices and population counts. The free tier has a daily scan limit and Pro removes it. The phone app covers Pokémon, sports, One Piece and Yu-Gi-Oh, and its Android version prices cards over the Whatnot app in beta.
- WhatPrice is an iPhone and Android app. Its Pro plan reads cards on screen during a live stream, and the price lands in the Dynamic Island or, since an October 2026 update, in a floating Picture in Picture window. It also scans cards with the camera and tracks a collection. Live scanning needs Pro.
- PalletTrade is a deal finder for iPhone, Android and Chrome that added a live auction scanner in August 2026. It reads the screen of the device you watch on, by tap or on auto-scan, for Pokémon, Magic, One Piece and sports cards. The free plan includes a small allowance of auto-scan time each month.
- Brickify is a collection app for iPhone, iPad and Android that scans LEGO and Pokémon, and also covers Magic, Lorcana and One Piece. Its guide to buying Pokémon on Whatnot, published in September 2026, documents two Whatnot routes in the iPhone app: one for card recognition on the Whatnot website, and one for the Whatnot app, with results in the Dynamic Island. It is free to download, and some features need Pro.
- TCG Snipe is a Windows desktop app and Chrome extension for Pokémon, Magic and One Piece. You press a hotkey to capture the card, and it shows TCGplayer prices, eBay sales and grade estimates. There is no phone app and no free tier.
- Card Price Lookup, also called Luchador, is a Chrome extension for Whatnot, Fanatics Live, TikTok Live and Loupe, for sports cards, Pokémon and other card games. You select the part of the video to read, and it shows recent sales. It is paid after a free trial.
Of these, WhatPrice, PalletTrade and Brickify also work on the phone you watch on. PriceHUD's Free plan reads 100 cards a month live off the stream, and every read shows a MAX BID with fees and shipping already inside it.
Prices on one line, read 2026-09-01
PriceHUD $0 for 100 cards a month, $12.99/month for 1,500, and a $4.99 one-time top-up for 500 more. No trial. · Comp Buddy free to search, $15/month or $150/year, 7-day trial with a card. · Cardikyu $5 or $20/month in beta pricing, 7-day trial with no card, no free tier. · QuickComps $7, $10, $20 or $49.99/month, 5-day trial with a card, no free tier. · Collectr $7.99/month or $59.99/year, free portfolio with a capped scanner.
The meters are not the same shape and cannot be lined up honestly. QuickComps and Cardikyu cap you per day, PriceHUD caps you per month, Comp Buddy gates features rather than counting anything, and Collectr caps free scanning for the life of the account. Count your own buying before you assume any one of them is cheaper for you.
What this page deliberately does not claim
Three of these four name no price feed at all, so there is no honest comparison to make about whose prices are deeper or fresher, and this page does not attempt one. No head-to-head identification test exists between any two of these products, so there is no accuracy ranking here and no speed ranking either. Chrome Web Store user counts are install counts, not counts of paying customers. Star ratings over very small samples are not quoted at all, in either direction.
Start with the free tier
PriceHUD is free for 100 priced cards a month, which is enough to find out on a couple of streams whether a price on the phone actually changes what you bid.
Free tier is 100 priced cards a month. Scanner is $12.99/month. On iPhone, download PriceHUD from the App Store, live since 2026-09-20. On desktop, install the PriceHUD Chrome extension, live on the Chrome Web Store since 2026-09-15. One account and one monthly count work on both. The iPhone app needs a Dynamic Island: iPhone 14 Pro or 14 Pro Max, or any iPhone 15, 16, 17 or Air, on iOS 17.2 or later. On an older iPhone the price lands on the Lock Screen instead. There is no Android build yet. The free web lookup at pricehud.com/lookup needs no app at all. More answers: the PriceHUD FAQ.
The detail pages: PriceHUD vs Comp Buddy · PriceHUD vs Cardikyu · PriceHUD vs QuickComps · PriceHUD vs Collectr
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