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Point your phone at a table of cards and Wax Max reads them — the name, the number, the brand, the year.

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iPhone · 174,614 cards read on-device · no account needed to scan

The idea

Most of a collection is worth a dollar.

Too little to grade, too much to throw away, far too many to catalog by hand. Wax Max points a phone at a table of cards and reads the back — the name, the collector number, the brand, the year. Fronts are pretty; backs are data.

Why it's different

Sweep, don't pose

Lay the cards out and move the phone across them. No framing, no tapping, no holding still. A card is claimed the instant a usable photo exists — the reading happens after, while you've already moved on.

AR that stays put

Each card is anchored to a real point on your table, so its panel and number stay on that card however you move. Look away and come back — it's still claimed, not re-scanned, not double-counted.

Certainty you can audit

The percentage is a real probability, not a progress bar. Tap any result to see the name, number, brand and year boxed on your photo, with the raw text read in each box. It would rather say nothing than name a card it isn't sure of.

How it reads a card

  • Five photographs, one answer

    While a card is in view it banks five photos and keeps the sharpest. Every field — number, brand, year, name — is settled by a vote, so one bad glyph never throws away a good reading.

  • It learns your sets

    Every year and brand lays its back out differently. Once it has read a 1989 Topps card, it knows where that set prints its number and name.

    The first card of a set takes a moment. The next five hundred don't.

  • It works out what it got wrong

    A card it can't name isn't dropped and isn't guessed. It's handed back and photographed again from a new angle — and re-read knowing exactly which word it's hunting for.

Name, number and brand read, year deducedup to 90%
…and the copyright line confirms that year100%
Two readings of the year that genuinely disagreecapped & flagged
One field agreeing while the rest contradictrefused

Yours, on your phone

Nothing leaves your phone unless you send it.

Scanning, the catalog, the layouts it learns and your whole collection live on the device. Identifying a card never touches the network, and scanning needs no account — one is only asked for when you want your collection on the website. Publishing or listing a card is one card at a time, by a deliberate tap — never a switch that shares your whole collection.

174,614cards read on-device — no network required

Straight with you

A few things Wax Max doesn't do yet — stated plainly, because you'd find out anyway.

Backs are the sure path. A back carries a card number and a copyright line — the two things that turn a guess into an identification. A front has neither, so Wax Max names one only when it can also read which set the card came from, and today it can do that on a minority of fronts. Lay your cards face down.
Tuned for baseball. Other sports and Pokémon are in the catalog; the reading is tuned for baseball backs today.
Marketplace is opening. Prices, trading and want lists are built and in the app. Browsing what other collectors have published happens here on the website.
One card at a time. Binder pages aren't yet read as nine cards — take cards out of the sleeve for now.