Kachimi reads the border, the set symbol and the number in the corner, and tells you which one you are holding, then what that exact printing is worth.
Loose in your hand, in a penny sleeve, or sleeved inside a toploader. Kachimi reads it through the plastic.
The tell is a drop shadow, a stamp, a line of small print along the bottom. Kachimi checks all of it, then prices that exact printing.
Set, number, rarity and HP, then what that exact printing is worth.
One place for everything you have scanned. Cards, folders, your wishlist and your sets, all four under the same tab.
Cards you do not have yet, priced every night, so a dip is something you catch.
All 218 English sets, showing what you hold against what exists.
What the whole collection is worth, and which way it is moving.
The tab you open when you are not holding anything. What is climbing, what is falling, and every printing there is to search.
If yours is not here, reply to the launch email and ask. Everything below is true of the app as it stands today, not of a roadmap.
Kachimi is free to download and free to use for scanning, identifying and pricing your cards. There is no subscription at launch and no card limit.
A paid tier may come later for features that cost real money to run. If that happens, everything described on this page stays in the free app.
No. There is no account, and nothing you scan is uploaded. The recognition runs on the device, and your folders, wishlist and portfolio are stored on the phone itself.
That is a deliberate trade. It means your collection is not on a server anybody can breach or subpoena, and it also means it is not automatically backed up. Keep your phone backups on.
No. Open the app and start scanning. The only thing Kachimi ever asks for is an email address, and only if you choose to join the waitlist on this page.
Market prices come from TCGplayer's data, captured in a snapshot that runs every night. Each card carries its own history, so you see the trend rather than one number with no context.
Prices are a guide to what a card has been selling for, not an offer. What you actually get depends on condition, on who is buying, and on the day.
Yes, and that is on purpose. The corners are found on the card itself rather than on whatever it is sitting in, and the crop is pulled slightly inside them, so a sleeve lip or a toploader edge never reaches the part that does the reading.
Glare on the plastic is the one thing that throws it. If a shot does not land, tilt away from the light and take another; you do not have to stop and confirm each one.
It tells you it is unsure rather than committing to one confident wrong answer. You get the closest matches with their scores and pick the right one, and if none of them is right you can search the whole catalog yourself.
That correction is kept as a labeled example. Your fix is ours to learn from, not yours to repeat.
Every English printing: 23,285 of them across 218 sets, from Base Set in 1999 to the current releases. Not just the card, but the exact printing, which is the part that decides the price.
Japanese and other non-English cards are not in the index at launch.
Scanning and identifying do, because both run on the phone. Prices come from a file that refreshes when you have a connection, so offline you will see the most recent prices Kachimi downloaded rather than no prices at all.
The card screen has a place for PSA 10 and PSA 9 comparables alongside the raw price, since the gap between them is the whole grading decision.
Graded pricing is not switched on yet. It is the one number on this page that is not live in the app today.
August 2026, on iPhone first. Join the waitlist and you get one email on the day it is out.
Android is not scheduled. If enough people on the waitlist want it, that changes the maths, so say so when you sign up.
Kachimi is Japanese, and it is put together the way Japanese names something you go and look at. 価値 (kachi) is value, or worth. 見 (-mi) is the ending in 花見 (hanami, flower viewing) and 月見 (tsukimi, moon viewing), the ones you do deliberately, as an occasion.
So 価値見, kachimi: value viewing. It is a coinage rather than a word you will find in a dictionary, but it is built exactly the way those words are built, and it happens to describe the whole app in two syllables.
Japanese felt right because the game is Japanese to its bones. ポケットモンスター (Poketto Monsutā, Pocket Monsters), shortened at home to ポケモン. The name the rest of the world uses is a contraction of a contraction.
I also liked that an English speaker hears catch in kachi. That part is a coincidence and I am keeping it anyway. Gotta Catch ’Em All was written for the Western launch in 1998; the Japanese catchphrase was ポケモンゲットだぜー (Pokémon getto daze) — and even that borrows the English word get. So the echo is real in English and accidental in Japanese, which is the best kind of accident.
Because I was standing at a booth with my phone out, typing a card’s name, scrolling a list of near-identical results, trying to work out which one I was actually holding and whether the price on the sleeve was fair.
That is fine for one card. By about the tenth I had stopped checking, which is exactly the point at which you get taken. So the first thing Kachimi had to do was answer that in a second, from a photograph, without me typing anything.
The folders came from the same problem wearing a different coat. Cards I wanted but was not buying that day ended up as screenshots buried in my camera roll, or half a name in my notes app, or a spreadsheet I updated twice and abandoned. Three places, none of them talking to each other, and not one of them able to tell me what anything was worth today. I wanted one place: scan it, keep it, and have it still be there and still be priced when I am home, or at the next meet, or three months from now deciding what to chase.
There is a symmetry I like. Satoshi Tajiri built Pokémon out of collecting insects around Machida as a kid, and put trading into the games because he pictured creatures travelling down the cable between two Game Boys. It started as a collecting problem too.
Every English card ever printed, named down to the printing and priced the same night. No account, and your collection never leaves your phone.