PokéItem values card collections, $9.6K MRR: scans and price tracking

PokéItem is a French-built app that scans, organises, and values Pokémon TCG and One Piece card collections. Its $9.6K MRR is verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026.

What it actually sells

PokéItem is “the French-built app to scan, organise and value your Pokémon and One Piece cards: euro prices by card language and condition (Cardmarket, eBay).” The app is available on iOS, Android and the web.

“Point your camera at a card, PokéItem recognises it, detects the rarity and variant, and shows its market price right away.” Prices are cross-checked every 24 hours from Cardmarket, eBay and the PokéItem price index, while portfolios are valued to the euro.

How it charges

Premium costs €2.99 weekly, €5.99 monthly, or €49.99 yearly, with a free trial of up to 7 days; lifetime access costs €159.99 as a one-off payment. The free tier includes up to 1,000 cards and 10 sealed items, 20 scans per month, the complete catalogue and European market prices.

Month by month

Monthly revenue as read from the payment provider by TrustMRR, in US dollars, as of September 30, 2026.

Month	Revenue (USD)
2026-05	$2,664
2026-06	$8,787
2026-07	$7,016
2026-08	$9,443
2026-09	$19,112

Where customers come from

PokéItem offers apps on iOS and Android and a web version. Its blog publishes card analyses, app guides and set news, with articles written by AI agents configured and supervised by the team.

“We built PokéItem for European collectors, with prices sourced directly from Cardmarket, the largest European Pokémon card marketplace.” Its App Store page shows a rating of 4,7 from 287 ratings.

What stands out

Singles, doubles and sealed products are organised in one digital binder. Users can select cards from a set’s full catalogue and add them all at once. Premium includes unlimited cards, sealed items and scans, whole-binder-page scanning in beta, collector messaging, collection analysis and portfolio charts.

PokéItem reports 39,000 users. It reports 555 K cards scanned. It reports 42 M€ of card and sealed-item value tracked. Pokémon cards are supported in six languages, while One Piece Card Game cards are supported in French, English and Japanese.

From the official site

We built PokéItem for European collectors, with prices sourced directly from Cardmarket , the largest European Pokémon card marketplace.

Point your camera at a card, PokéItem recognises it, detects the rarity and variant, and shows its market price right away.

Excerpts from the official website, fetched October 1, 2026.

Where it sits in the data

PokéItem's $9.6K MRR is higher than 93% of the 5,602 projects with payment-verified revenue in our dataset; the median across them is $150. Within the “Games” category (174 projects) it is higher than 94% (category median $170). Snapshot: 2026-09-02 to 2026-09-30. The dataset only covers founders who chose to publish their numbers, so it leans toward businesses that work; use it for scale, not as an average.

Currency

All figures are in US dollars as published. A rough yuan or euro conversion is not applied here because prices, taxes and acquisition costs differ by country.

Could you build something like this?

My view: the buyer is a collector who wants to scan cards, understand their value and maintain a collection record. Demand has to be assessed around that workflow. Distribution would need to account for app stores, the web and educational content about cards and the product itself.

My view: the hard parts include card recognition across languages, variants and conditions, plus dependable valuation data. Building the product also requires legal review around marketplace data and pricing, support for recognition errors and pricing disputes, and differentiation in a competitive collector-tool market.

Verdict: Hard to replicate.

One thing to take from it

My view: the strongest lesson is to package connected tasks around one collector workflow. PokéItem scans cards, detects rarity and variant, shows market price, organises collections and tracks portfolios to the euro.

Sources

PokéItem official website, fetched October 1, 2026
PokéItem pricing page, fetched October 1, 2026
PokéItem about page, fetched October 1, 2026
TrustMRR: revenue verified through the payment provider's API by TrustMRR (RevenueCat), as of September 30, 2026

Revenue, team and start-cost figures are what the founder reported at the interview date, not current figures and not a prediction of what you will earn. Product and pricing facts come from the business's own website as checked on 30 September 2026. Method & sources · Disclosure