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PriceHUD vs Cardikyu
Cardikyu is the deepest card-identification tool in this comparison and the only one with a purchase ledger attached. It is also a paid beta that runs in Chrome, with no phone path and no free tier. PriceHUD is narrower, free to start, and runs on the phone you are already watching the stream on.
Competitor pricing and install counts read 2026-09-01. Vendors change these. Check before you buy. PriceHUD's own details updated 2026-10-14.
Side by side
| PriceHUD | Cardikyu | |
|---|---|---|
| Platform | iPhone app, plus a Chrome extension for desktop and a free web lookup. | Chrome extension and web. No phone path. |
| Where it runs | On the phone playing the stream. The price lands in the Dynamic Island while the stream keeps playing. | In Chrome on a desktop, on the page you are watching. |
| Price | Free tier $0, 100 priced cards a month. Scanner $12.99/month for 1,500 priced cards. No trial. | Beta pricing. Plus $5/month or $50/year for 250 credits a day. Pro $20/month or $200/year for 1,000 credits a day. No free tier. 7-day trial, no card required. |
| Price data source | PriceCharting and TCGplayer market data, 30,000+ English Pokémon printings plus Japanese sets, refreshed daily. | Not stated by the vendor. The listing describes graded values, sold prices with volume, gem rate and population, but names no price feed. |
| Card scope | Pokémon only. No sports, no One Piece, no sealed product. | Pokémon, One Piece and Lorcana. |
| Live platforms | Whatnot, eBay Live and TikTok Live on iPhone. The Chrome extension runs on Whatnot. | Every platform tile on the homepage read "Coming soon" on 2026-09-01. The only platform named anywhere was Whatnot, in a user review. |
| Capacity | 1,500 priced cards a month on Scanner. A read that fails never counts. A $4.99 one-time top-up adds 500 more. | Credits a day, not cards a month. A single scan costs 1 credit and a multi-card page costs 5. Hourly pacing caps apply. Boost credits cost $3 for +500, $7 for +1,500 and $20 for +5,000, and never expire. |
| How you get it | The iPhone app is on the App Store, live since 2026-09-20. The Chrome extension is on the Chrome Web Store, live since 2026-09-15. | Chrome Web Store, as a paid beta. |
What Cardikyu does that PriceHUD does not
- A five-step condition ladder, NM through DM. PriceHUD does not grade condition for you.
- Variant matching that shows its own confidence, for example "Matched 91% · Confirm variant 84% · Excluded 92%". If you buy modern sets where the variants are the whole game, that readout is worth real money.
- Slab-label detection across PSA, CGC, BGS, ACE and TAG.
- Gem rate and population counts, which PriceHUD does not show at all.
- Multi-card page totals, for a screen with several cards on it at once.
- A bid ladder that captures the outcome into a purchase ledger with profit and loss. A buyer's ledger is on PriceHUD's idea list and is not built.
- One Piece and Lorcana. PriceHUD is Pokémon only.
What PriceHUD does that Cardikyu does not
- It runs on a phone. Cardikyu has no phone path at all, so if you watch streams on your phone it is not an option.
- It has a free tier. $0 for 100 priced cards a month. Cardikyu has no free tier; the cheapest way to see a price is $5/month after the trial.
- It names the platforms it runs on. Cardikyu's platform tiles all read "Coming soon" on 2026-09-01.
- It shows a break-even bid with fees, supplies and shipping already applied.
- It is read-only. PriceHUD reads pixels on your own screen. It never touches the auction app, your account or any API, never bids, and automates nothing.
Pricing, read 2026-09-01
Cardikyu. The vendor labels its pricing "Beta pricing" and its own FAQ answers the obvious question with "Are beta prices permanent? We don't know yet." As of 2026-09-01: Plus at $5/month or $50/year with 250 credits a day; Pro at $20/month or $200/year with 1,000 credits a day plus everything experimental. Boost credits are $3 for +500, $7 for +1,500, $20 for +5,000, and never expire. A single scan costs 1 credit, a multi-card page costs 5, and hourly pacing caps apply on top of the daily number. The trial runs 7 days and does not ask for a card. There is no free tier. No refund policy was found either way, which is not the same as there being none, so read the terms before you subscribe.
PriceHUD. Free is $0 with 100 priced cards a month. Scanner is $12.99/month for 1,500 priced cards, and a read that fails never counts against the total. A $4.99 one-time top-up adds 500 more cards and requires Scanner. There is no free trial, no lifetime deal and no weekly plan.
The two meters are not directly comparable. Cardikyu gives you a daily allowance that resets and can be topped up permanently; PriceHUD gives you a monthly allowance. Which is cheaper depends entirely on whether you buy in long sessions a few nights a month or a little every day.
A note on the numbers you will see quoted
Cardikyu's Chrome listing showed 271 users on 2026-09-01. That is an install count for the whole extension, not a count of paying customers and not a count of anyone on a particular tier. The prices above are the vendor's beta prices on that date and the vendor has said it does not know whether they will hold.
What this page deliberately does not claim
Cardikyu names no price feed, so this page makes no claim about whose prices are deeper or fresher. Cardikyu states that it identifies a card "in less than a second"; nothing comparable was measured for PriceHUD and neither product was independently timed, so this page makes no speed comparison. No head-to-head identification test exists between these two products, so there is no accuracy claim here either. Whether Cardikyu covers Japanese cards is not recorded either way.
Which one fits you
If you buy on a desktop and you want the deepest readout available on a card, its variant, its condition ladder, its population and what you paid for it last time, Cardikyu is doing more per card than PriceHUD is. If you watch on your phone, or you want to see prices before you spend anything, Cardikyu has no answer for either and PriceHUD does.
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.
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