My Cards AI

Card scanning and collection software for the Mac

My Cards AI Desk is the original desk app. Feed it from a sheet-fed scanner or a flatbed, or let it watch the folder your own scanning software saves to, and every card comes back identified and filed, then priced in one click. It lists to eBay, writes invoices and keeps the books, and it is a free download.

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How do I scan a box of baseball cards on a Mac?

Load a stack into a sheet-fed scanner and walk away. Document scanners like the Fujitsu/Ricoh fi series run hundreds of cards per session. The Mac app captures both sides of every card, crops and straightens each one, and pairs fronts with backs, even when the scanner names its files in a jumbled order.

The Mac app's Scan Cards screen: three 1992 Upper Deck basketball cards, each shown front and back beside fields for player, year, brand, series and card number, under Scan, Identify All and File All Cards buttons.
The Mac app's Scan Cards screen.

Step by step, with the settings to use: setting up a Fujitsu, ScanSnap or flatbed scanner.

What does the Mac app do with a batch once it is scanned?

You come back to a filled-in table: player, year, brand, card number and quantity. Type a storage location once at the top and it lands on the whole batch. Every field stays editable, so a misread is a quick fix. Sports, trading card games and non-sports cards each get their own shelves and count in the same total.

Prices, with the source shown. Price the whole batch, only the cards still missing a value, or the entire collection. The app prefers what your own copies sold for and otherwise reads current eBay asking prices, which run above sold prices; each figure says which it used. No eBay developer account is needed.

Condition, then the grading question. A condition estimate checks all eight corners, the edges, the surface and the centering, and names the defects. Set your grading fee and the app says whether grading pays or the card should stay raw. It is a first pass, not a professional grade.

Can it build sets from the cards I already own?

Start a set and the Mac app matches it against your collection right away. Cards you have already scanned drop into the checklist as Pulled Cards in violet, numbers you tick by hand stay blue, and grey is what is genuinely missing. Duplicates go the way collectors build: the first copy to your first set, the second to your second.

When your loose commons cross 80% of a set you weren't chasing, the app offers to start it. The missing numbers print as a wishlist for the card show, in number order with the players named. Browse the set checklists on this site.

A 1986 Fleer Basketball set in the Mac app: 70 of 132 cards held, 62 missing, 53% complete, 29 pulled cards and 8 toward a second set, above a checklist grid where violet numbers came from the collection, blue were checked off by hand, and grey are missing.
Violet came out of your own boxes, blue you checked off, grey you still need.

Can I list cards on eBay and keep the books from my Mac?

Connect your eBay account once and list cards from the app, one at a time or hundreds in a batch, each with its own item label so you know which sleeve to pull when it sells. Invoices fill in the buyer's address for you.

The Financials screen keeps the books: what every card cost, or a whole lot at what you paid for it, with what the lot's cards have earned back; grading fees, postage and supplies; every sale with its cost basis; and profit and loss by month, by year or for all time, printable for an accountant or an insurer.

The Mac app's Financials screen: a collection value chart for July 15 to August 13, 2026, with total change split into market movement, cards added and cards sold, then invested, revenue, realized and unrealized profit and loss, a list of sales and a cost-basis list. Dollar figures are blurred.
Every dollar figure is blurred; the labels show what the books track.

Invoices, the books and profit and loss are free with any account.

Where is my collection kept, and does it sync with my iPhone?

In a folder on your own Mac. You can open the Mac app without an account; identifying cards needs a free one. Once you sign in, a copy of the collection is kept in your account, so the iPhone app, the Windows app and the web app show the same cards. The Mac app syncs when it opens, after you scan, and when you quit.

With iCloud Drive on, it copies your collection's records to your own iCloud Drive each time it opens, keeping the last 14 days. It can also copy your collection to any other folder you choose, such as a Dropbox or Google Drive folder. The whole collection exports to CSV whenever you want.

How do I install My Cards AI on a Mac?

It needs an Intel or Apple silicon Mac on macOS 13 (Ventura) or later.

  1. Unzip. Open the file you downloaded. Safari may have done this for you.
  2. Drag My Cards AI Desk into your Applications folder.
  3. Open it from Applications. Your Mac asks once if you're sure; choose Open.

The first time, a short walkthrough asks what you collect and sets the app up around your answers. To sign in, type your email and the 6-digit code we send; there is no password.

If your Mac says it can't open the app, check the two requirements above first, then write to support@mycardsai.com and say what the message was.

Is the Mac app free?

Yes. It is a free download and is included with every account at no charge, the free plan too. A paid plan adds AI scans, grade estimates, Price Fetches, eBay listings, set builds and misc items. After the first 30 days, grade estimates, eBay listings and new set builds and misc items come with a paid plan; the app, your collection, the sets you started, invoices and the books stay free.

Every paid plan includes unlimited eBay listings, set builds and misc items.

Add 1,000 AI scans for $12.99; they never expire and are for scans only. Typing cards in by hand, collection size, reports, printing and CSV export are never metered. Plans in full.

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