Celebrate Pokémon 30th Anniversary with Cardwhale

Track your stats and wishlist waves!

Mobile preview of Cardwhale TCG app dashboard and sold portfolio

Concept of CardWhale

CardWhale is a smart companion for trading card game collectors like Pokémon and Magic: The Gathering, designed to track, value, and grow your collection with confidence. From real-time pricing insights to portfolio performance and profit tracking, it turns every card into a data-driven asset. Collect smarter. Trade sharper. Grow stronger.

Country
United States
Platforms
iOS, Andriod
Industry
On-demand
Services
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App Features

TCG card price alert setup in Cardwhale app

Feature 01

Set Price Alerts

Never miss the perfect strike. Stay ahead of the tides with smart price alerts for your favorite Pokémon TCG and Magic: The Gathering TCG cards. Simply set your target price and get notified the moment your TCG card surfaces at your price point, Stay sharp, move fast, and make every buy with confidence.

Cardwhale app portfolio showing Pokémon and MTG cards for sale

Feature 02

For Sale TCG Cards

Keep your listings swimming strong. View all your TCG cards for sale with live pricing and real-time performance data. Track trends, monitor movement, and watch how your cards are performing in the market currents. With CardWhale, you’re never drifting — you’re always in control of your sales strategy.

TCG card collection wishlist list in Cardwhale app

Feature 03

Smart Wishlist

Found a TCG card you love? Wishlist your favorite sightings and monitor them effortlessly. Whether it’s a rare holographic or a mana-heavy hitter, tracking your next big catch is simple and stress-free, so when the timing is right, you’re ready to strike.

TCG portfolio performance chart and top valuable cards

Feature 04

TCG Collection Performance Dashboard

Take a deep dive into your portfolio to track sold history, profit and loss, total portfolio value, and growth over time. This dashboard provides a high-tide view of your TCG empire, bringing together sales history and performance insights into one streamlined, clear-water perspective.

Cardwhale sold portfolio showing TCG card profit and loss

Feature 05

Sold Performance Dashboard

Review your reward and understand how your sales are performing.This focused dashboard tracks your total value, margins, and quantity sold, offering a straightforward way to measure the depth of your success and TCG activity over time.

Challenges & Solutions

Cardwhale TCG card detail screen powered by unified data integration

Card Data Integration

Challenge: Card information was not available through a single reliable API

Solution: To solve this, our team of custom software development combined data from multiple sources and built a unified database to ensure complete and consistent card records across the entire ecosystem.

Cardwhale real-time TCG pricing system with automated updates

Real-Time Pricing Updates

Challenge: To ensure reliable market pricing, we built a fault-tolerant update pipeline.

Solution: Our backend engineer implement, Cron jobs capture pricing data into structured JSON snapshots first, which are processed independently to update the database. This decoupled design enables uninterrupted updates, easier validation, and scalable real-time price tracking.

Cardwhale TCG search screen with advanced filtering

Search & Advanced Filtering

Challenge: Handling large card datasets required optimized discovery for the user.

Solution: By focusing on UI/UX design and optimized search algorithms, we created a filtering system that prioritizes relevant cards, ensuring the user experience remains fluid even with massive data loads.

Price Change Alerts

Challenge: Users needed timely updates on market movements.

Solution: We integrated a robust cloud messaging service with automated triggers that detect price changes and notifies users accordingly

Track Value. Measure Profit. Master Your Collection with Real-Time Trading Card Insights.

Concept of CardWhale