“$5 a month? You’re crazy — Great app but limiting people to 3 folders and then charging monthly…what? You’re not providing any service other than the app which seems vibe coded so why is there no one-time purchase option? I’d rather it be…”
Independent automated assessment · 3 signal sources · 415 reviews scanned · analyzed 2026-10-04.
4.8 ★13,841 ratings
—Downloads
4+Age rating
131 MBApp size
FreeIn-app purchases
About this app
Dex is the ultimate unofficial app for Pokémon TCG collectors. Trusted by collectors since 2021, Dex lets you scan cards, track your collection, check prices, and explore every set, all in one place.
• Track Your Collection Easily manage the cards you own and see what’s missing.
• Powerful Card Scanner Add cards instantly using your camera — fast and accurate.
• Complete Card Database Browse every English, Japanese, and Simplified Chinese set.
• Collection Stats See detailed insights across sets, variants, and types.
• Card Values & Market Prices Estimate your collection’s worth using up-to-date price info.
• Folders & Organization Create custom folders for trades, favorites, duplicates — you decide.
• Build Decks Design decks with powerful tools like hand simulators and draw odds.
• Friend System Share your collection and compare cards with friends.…
Preview
Real screenshots from the store listing.
Independent evidence report
Evidence and review signals
This is where the page changes from an app-store listing into an evidence report: findings, important reviews, pricing and a dated history.
Which version this describes
When we ran this analysis, and what the store lists now.
This analysis describes version 26.0.0 of the app, analyzed 2026-10-04 . The app may have changed since.
The store currently lists version 26.0.0, updated 2026-09-16.
What we measured
Each line is a measurement published as a measurement, never a verdict.
Each line is a measurement, published as a measurement. Where we have not looked, the line says so rather than reading as a zero.
Developer replies to reviews
Replies to fewer than 1 review in 20
Price in the store description
States no price and billing period
Cancelling, in the store description
Does not say how to cancel
Themes reported by reviewers
1 theme reported
Counted from the reviews we have read for this app. "No theme reported" means no theme reached our reporting threshold — it is not a finding that nothing is wrong with this app, and we do not say it is.
Five-star share of ratings
80–89% five-star
Arithmetic on the stores' own published rating counts. It says nothing about why the ratings fall where they do.
In the package we scanned
No package has been scanned for this app, so nothing is published about what it ships. That is an absence of evidence about the app, not a finding about it.
Graded bands · predicate set 1.4 · how these are measured
What the analysis found
App-specific findings, grouped by what each one rests on. How they are graded lives on its own page.
One source only — shown, not confirmed 3
A single kind of evidence. We publish these because withholding them would be the bigger distortion, and we do not treat any of them as a finding we stand behind.
Reported by users: States a price, or offers a one-time purchase
The app's own text offers a one-time or lifetime purchase, or reviewers report that the price is stated clearly.
What we saw: Reviewers report clear pricing: raised by 5 distinct reviewers (1.2% of 415 reviews scanned)
Reported by users: Paywall blocks the basics
The core of the app — not extras — sits behind payment, or previously-free function moved behind a paywall.
What we saw: Paywall blocks the basics: raised by 8 distinct reviewers (1.9% of 415 reviews scanned)
From the store listing: Usable without an account
The app's own screens offer a way past sign-up — guest access, skipping, or browsing before registering — rather than gating the product behind an account. The store's privacy disclosure is checked alongside it: that disclosure is self-reported, so it corroborates this credit rather than establishing it.
What we saw: The store privacy disclosure (2 entries) links no contact details or identifiers to the user — consistent with an app that does not require an account. Self-reported by the developer.
Highlighted reviews
Representative public review excerpts shown as user reports, not Appworthy audit evidence.
“Fantastic app — Would be 5 star if it was just a one time purchase and not a subscription service. I understand it’s the current trend”
“Please Never Take This Away From Me🙏🙏 — I have been searching for a way to track and sort my hundreds of cards ever since coming back to the hobby and this app is the best I’ve found yet! The interface is well designed and easy to…”
Assessment & version history
App changes and Appworthy events in one timeline.
Store listing updated to version 26.0.0.
What this app sells
Useful store-disclosed pricing, kept below the app listing.
Business modelFree
Prices and terms as disclosed by the store listing.