A Collectr alternative for people who also build decks

What Collectr is, in its own words

Start with the honest version. Collectr — listed on Google Play as Collectr - TCG Collector App by Collectr Inc — calls itself "a next-generation portfolio manager for collectors." Its listing says you can "manage, track, and value all your raw, graded and sealed cards," claims 2M+ users and a real-time database of over a million products, and names data coverage for more than twenty card games and collectible lines. Magic The Gathering, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Pokémon, Disney Lorcana, One Piece, Vanguard, Flesh and Blood, Digimon and Funko are all on that list.

The headline features it advertises are building a collection from its catalog, valuing your portfolio, tracking market trends, multi-currency support, and surfacing your biggest gains and losses. Recent release notes mention a trade analyzer, shareable showcases and sets, a compare-grades view, and fixes to its scan camera.

As of August 2026 that listing shows a 4.8 rating from roughly 39.6K reviews and 1M+ Android downloads (the 2M+ figure above is Collectr's own count across platforms), a first release in January 2022, and a last update on 26 July 2026. Those are real numbers and a real track record. If Collectr fits how you collect, keep using it. This page is for the collectors it doesn't fit.

Collectr and DeckVault side by side, as of August 2026

Everything in the Collectr column below comes from its own Google Play listing, read on 4 August 2026. Listings change — check it yourself before you decide.

Two games, deep — with decks in the middle

Covering two games instead of twenty is a trade, and it buys one thing: the app can know the rules. A card in your vault isn't just a row with a price on it — it's a card you can put in a deck, and the deck knows whether it's legal.

So a deck in DeckVault checks format legality live while you build it, cross-references your collection to show what you own versus what's missing, and totals what finishing it would cost. You can draw sample hands before you sleeve up, then clone, export or share the list. Both games get the same treatment — a Magic list and a Pokémon list are equally at home.

The tracking side is still there, of course. Scan cards with the camera or from a gallery photo; scan photos are never kept on our servers. Search the catalog with suggestions as you type. Record what you paid and see real market prices, with gains and losses per card and across the whole collection. It's the same portfolio view you'd expect — it just also answers "can I build this?"

When Collectr is the better pick

Plenty of the time, honestly. Choose Collectr if:

• You collect beyond two games. Yu-Gi-Oh!, Lorcana, One Piece, Digimon, Funko — all listed on Collectr's page, none of them in DeckVault. This is the big one, and it isn't close.
• Sealed product and graded slabs are the point. Collectr's listing calls out raw, graded and sealed explicitly, plus a compare-grades view. DeckVault is a card app.
• You price in something other than dollars. Multi-currency support is one of Collectr's advertised features.
• You want the bigger, older community. 1M+ downloads and four years on the store beat a newer app on sheer number of collectors to compare against — and its listing points to an active community around the app.
• You're on an iPhone today. DeckVault is Android for now, with iOS coming later.
• You never build decks. If your cards live in binders and never in a 60-card list, DeckVault's strongest feature is dead weight to you.

So which one

Ask what you do on a Saturday. If you sort, value and sell across a shelf of different games, a broad portfolio manager is the right tool and Collectr is a good one. If your Saturday involves a deck box — testing a Magic list, tuning a Pokémon deck, working out which four cards stand between you and a playable build — then you want an app built around decks as well as prices. That's what DeckVault is for.