The only Pokémon TCG tracker that knows the difference between 1st Edition Shadowless and the regular Holo. 44,494 cards · 421 sets · tracked by set, Pokémon, era, region, or artist.
Free to start · no credit card · cloud sync from day one
004011015100183228Most trackers force one organization. Binder Boss lets you pivot — same data, five angles: Set · Pokémon · Era · Region · Artist. Switch lenses with one click.
Walk era by era — Base, Jungle, Fossil — through every set ever printed. See your completion ring tick up as you fill the pockets. Variant scope toggles 1st Ed / Shadowless / Holo without leaving the page.
Pick a Pokémon — every printing they've ever appeared on, era-grouped from WOTC through Scarlet & Violet. Charizard alone has 187. We've already counted them for you.
Walk the eras — WOTC, EX, Diamond & Pearl through Scarlet & Violet — or browse by the region a set celebrates, Kanto to Paldea. Plus a dedicated lens for every illustrator's full portfolio.
No data entry marathon. Click into any set, tap the cards you own, watch the ring fill. That's the whole loop.
Set, Pokémon, Era, Region, or Artist. Master-set hunters pick a favorite set; nostalgia collectors pick a Pokémon.
Vintage cards expand to 1st Ed / Shadowless / Holo pips. Modern cards expand to Alt Art, Hyper, Gold, SIR.
9-pocket pages, drag-and-drop, two-page spread. Set a tracker ("Snorlax full set") and the binder shows its own ring.
A 1999 Base Set Charizard isn't one card — it's three. Master-setters need every printing tracked separately, or the '100% complete' number lies.
Most trackers collapse Base Set Charizard to a single checkbox. We don't. Three printings means three rows, each with its own acquired-date, its own binder slot, its own grade. Sell the Unlimited, keep the Shadowless — your tracker keeps up.
Other Pokémon trackers exist. Here's where Binder Boss differs — and where it doesn't.
| Feature | Binder Boss | TCG Collector |
|---|---|---|
Physical 9-pocket binder mirror | ||
Whole-page photo transcription | ||
Variant-level tracking | ||
Works offline (local-first) | ||
Price & market-value tracking | By design, no | |
Condition & graded cataloging | On our roadmap |
Compared July 2026. These are strong, mature tools — we don't do prices or (yet) graded cataloging. Where we go deeper: mirroring the physical binder, page by page.
They're excellent, and honestly ahead of us on some things. TCG Collector has the deepest catalog and tracks condition + graded slabs; Collectr is built around live prices and portfolio value; Dex and pkmn.ggboth ship clean, free collection tracking. Binder Boss isn't trying to win the price column — we deliberately don't track market value. What we do that none of them do is treat the physical binder as the model: photograph your pages, and we transcribe them slot by slot, keeping your 1st Edition Shadowless Charizard as a separate card from your Unlimited Shadow. If that's how you think about your collection, you're who we built this for.
Free works forever — catalog, cloud sync, trackers, and your first binder included. Upgrade when your shelf outgrows one binder. Cancel any time.
Everything you need to track a collection, stored on this device.
For collectors whose shelf outgrows one binder.
Don't see yours? Email admin@deadcenterstudios.com — a human reads every one.
You can try the full app without one — hit "Try the demo" and browse the catalog, build a binder, mark cards owned. Tracking your own collection long-term takes a free account (one click with Google or a magic link), which keeps your collection safe and synced.
One 1999 Charizard is one card. But the print runs — 1st Edition Shadowless Holo, Shadowless Holo, Unlimited Shadow Holo — are three distinct variants we track separately. Modern cards work the same way: Alt Art, Full Art, Secret Rare are all variants of the same printed card.
Card data is licensed from Scrydex, with pokemontcg.io as a secondary source. We ingest the full catalog — 421 sets, 44,494 cards, 57,571 trackable variants — into our own database and refresh it weekly, so loads are near-instant.
Yes. Download our XLSX template, fill in card names and numbers (set names optional), and the import preview shows side-by-side cards when more than one match is possible. One click resolves dozens of rows.
Free gets the real product: full catalog browse, variant-level ownership, cloud sync, completion trackers, wishlist, and 1 custom binder. Pro ($5/mo, or $45/yr) unlocks unlimited binders, unlimited CSV export, and every future Pro feature as it ships.
Your collection lives on your device and — once you sign in — syncs to our database under your user ID with row-level security, so only you can read your own ownership. Demo mode never leaves your browser. We never sell or share collection data.
Stop fighting Excel. Stop checking boxes that lie about which printing you own. Sign in and have your first binder in the time it takes to find a card sleeve.