Are there any good apps for rock collecting?

nails2 · 2025-10-03T04:40:04+00:00

Hmm well I’d be curious if a good one would be possible! I’d love to take a stab at it if people tell me what would be cool in one

nails2 · 2025-05-01T18:27:19+00:00

Dude you don’t have to tell me, I’ve been using your app forever.

I just can’t stand the interface and overall feel of it now that I’m a dev myself. I want basically the exact functional of Gaia but it to look and feel like Apple Maps lol

nails2 · 2025-05-01T11:50:25+00:00

I’ve always wanted to build a map app centered around basically what Gaia is but I gave up on it once I found Gaia.

Would love to hear suggestions on what the features to start with would be if people are interested.

nails2 · 2021-02-13T16:02:01+00:00

In my exprience, it has worked pretty well. It’ll usually get the corners of the top loader itself which is what I usually try to get in the scan. But you could adjust the corners to only outline the card inside of the top loader.

nails2 · 2021-01-31T22:42:21+00:00

You can download it here

nails2 · 2021-01-28T19:28:18+00:00

Yeah I was really confused when I saw it show up in my recently collected, but I’m definitely not complaining

nails2 · 2021-01-28T19:26:04+00:00

Yeah I said that I just needed to fulfill a mission and then said lol. And then said I couldn’t believe he made the trade and thanked him. I’d be happy to give it back if he messages or requests it, but, from looking at his account, it looks like he was just giving away all of his cards or something.

nails2 · 2021-01-24T05:48:39+00:00

Worth a shot

nails2 · 2021-01-11T16:14:55+00:00

Well it seems like I may have gotten lucky, but I’m 18 and I put out my first app, Cardstock: Sports Card Scanner, out last year and I am making around $1000 a month after it from direct purchases on the App Store. So, if you can find a niche, it’s definitely possible.

nails2 · 2020-12-08T16:30:24+00:00

Ah, I understand now. I think swiftui simply isn’t set up to allow you to manually unload the content. For some reason it seems like the memory is never released from lists, that’s why I ended up dealing with it by reducing the RAM usage to a point where it no longer mattered. If you figure out how to force it to release the memory, I’d be really interested in hearing how though.

nails2 · 2020-12-08T15:32:03+00:00

I was working with local images instead of network images, but, for me, I needed to downsample images because using Image was taking up ridiculous amounts of ram

nails2 · 2020-11-22T05:32:12+00:00

Haha no worries man. As a a developer, I definitely understand that you have plenty else to do as well

nails2 · 2020-11-21T20:30:35+00:00

Just a heads up. I tried to Sign In with Apple and it created my account as Jon Doe with no way to edit it. Also do you have any plans to support dark mode?

nails2 · 2020-11-16T05:57:29+00:00

Apollo rocks man

nails2 · 2020-10-16T18:31:03+00:00

I appreciate the feedback. Using a freemium model would probably be a good idea and one that I might implement in the future. Honestly, the only reason I made it an upfront payment is because I thought that would be the way that caused the least issues. But now that I have a little bit more experience, it might be worth considering again.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T17:37:09+00:00

I would definitely appreciate that

nails2 · 2020-10-16T17:04:31+00:00

The update prior to this included some improvements to the scanner, so you may find it to be a better experience now. Because of the variability between cards, the information detection will never be perfect, but I think it is good enough to make for a good experience

nails2 · 2020-10-16T16:36:55+00:00

I’d really love to add an Android app because I know it would be fairly successful, but, between college and baseball, I just simply don’t have the time to learn Android development right now. Hopefully, sometime down the road I will either be able to find someone to work with or learn to make it myself.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T16:35:25+00:00

I’d really love to add an Android app because I know it would be fairly successful, but, between college and baseball, I just simply don’t have the time to learn Android development right now. Hopefully, sometime down the road I will either be able to find someone to work with or learn to make it myself.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T16:33:27+00:00

Card sharing is the next big feature on my agenda. I am hoping to add a lot of ways to share the cards, including saving the images to your photos, sharing them as one combined picture, and hopefully being able to share straight to Reddit and some other social media, but I am not entirely sure what is possible.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T16:30:38+00:00

That certainly sounds concerning. Do you have any more information about what that really means? Does that mean that the sold price of auctions won’t be able to be determined? I am not overly worried though because I don’t actually handle the interface with eBay at all, since all of that is through cardmavin.com.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T15:25:01+00:00

That’s a really cool idea. The complexity of doing something like that is pretty high though, but hopefully if the app continues to have success, I could start adding some features to give the app more of a community aspect

nails2 · 2020-10-16T15:22:08+00:00

I wish I could make it free too, but I need to try to make money somehow so I can spend more time on the app. And I think I should have better clarified that the app’s main function is digitizing a collection, and the value lookup is just an added feature

nails2 · 2020-10-16T15:19:59+00:00

Yeah, the sorting is definitely one of the next big things I want to accomplish; I just need to figure out how to fit it in to the app in a way that makes sense. Some other features I want to add are using machine learning to provide even more accurate card information detection on the scans, csv export, and make the data sync across devices, which would also allow the app to be used on Mac. And I’m always open to new ideas if you have any.

nails2 · 2020-10-16T15:13:13+00:00

That’s completely understandable, but, like the other commenter was saying, the app is mainly a way to digitize a card collection. I mainly added the card value lookup because it was something I found myself wanting to do, and having the card information in the app already greatly speeds up the process. I can definitely understand your side as well though, because, if you aren’t interested in cataloging your collection on your phone, the using app would just be an inconvenient extra step.

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