What it does
Open Live Scan, point the camera at a card, and tap Scan (or turn on Auto and just sweep the table). Each card comes back in a few seconds as a chip: what it is, what it’s worth raw, what it’s worth at gem mint, and its gem rate — the real odds of a 10 based on population data.
Graded slabs get the stronger treatment: Live Scan reads the cert number off the label and routes it through real cert verification — so you’re not getting a visual guess, you’re getting the registry’s exact card, grade, and a live market value. For PSA slabs, it adds population context: how many exist at that grade, and how many higher. “Pop 1,213, 42 higher” changes a negotiation.
Turn on voice readout and the results are spoken aloud — phone at chest height, eyes on the table, values in your ear. It’s the closest thing to a heads-up display the hobby has, on hardware you already own.
Using it at a show
Etiquette first: ask before you hover over someone’s case, and scan from your side of the table. Most dealers don’t mind — a buyer who knows the comps is a buyer who can actually pull the trigger.
The workflow that works: sweep the cards you care about with Auto mode, let the session tray stack up, then review the chips before you talk numbers. Every scan is deduplicated — pointing at the same card twice doesn’t double it — and the running session total tells you what the stack is worth before you make an offer on all of it.
When a card is worth taking home, one tap adds it to your Slabline collection — raw cards enter with their live price-guide value, slabs enter cert-verified. From there it’s in your Score, your insurance schedule, and — if it’s headed to a grader — your shipment manifest.
Free to use, honest by design
Live Scan is free — guests get a daily allowance, free accounts get more, and paid tiers scan without limits. When a frame can’t be read confidently, Live Scan says so instead of guessing: no fabricated matches, no invented prices. Values come from the same comparable-sales and price-guide engine behind every number in Slabline.
If you’re at a show this summer — point it at the first table you see. The floor feels different when every card answers the only question that matters.
