Set your phone on a stand, work down a stack, and export a ready-to-import CSV with the details already written for you. Here's everything you need to scan like a pro.
This is the whole loop. Learn it once and you'll fly through a stack.
Set your phone on a stand, aimed at an upright, squared-up stack of comics, and lock it in place. Before you start, pinch-zoom in to where the last comic in the stack will sit — the farthest, smallest view — so the frame is already set for the whole run; from there it auto-zooms in for you as books come off. Tap Start Camera, then Begin Scanning for hands-free auto-capture (or Capture Now for a single shot). Pull the top book off after each green flash — you never touch the phone again.
It reads the title, issue, year, publisher, cover artist, and characters, and pulls pricing from live eBay listings — not a guess. Books with a barcode (post-2000) get auto-scanned for an exact match. Every capture also produces four corner close-ups automatically.
Review your inventory, edit anything it got wrong (tap any field), set each book's condition, then export a ready-to-import CSV for Whatnot or eBay. Shopify coming soon.
The scan screen has a few controls that make a big difference. Here's what each one does.
Pinch in or out on the camera view to zoom. The current level shows in the top-right corner. This is how you keep up with a shrinking stack: as books come off, the top cover sits lower and looks smaller, so zoom in to keep it filling the frame — instead of moving the phone. Zoom back out when you start a fresh stack.
Sets how far each zoom step jumps. Slide left for fine, precise zoom control; slide right to zoom in fast with less effort.
Controls how many seconds between automatic captures (e.g. "every 3.5s"). Slide faster if you flip books quickly; slide slower if you need more time to position each cover under the camera.
Begin Scanning runs hands-free on the speed you set — ideal for a big stack. Capture Now takes one shot on demand — ideal for a single tricky book you want to line up perfectly.
Set it up once and the rest is just pulling books. Thirty seconds here saves re-scans later.
You take one shot. The listing gets five images.
Every capture generates four corner close-ups — top-left, top-right, bottom-left, bottom-right — alongside the full cover, and hosts all five. Corners are the first thing a raw-comic buyer asks to see, because that's where wear shows. They're already in your export, with the image URLs filled in. This runs even when identification misses, so you always have the shots.
Got books with a COA, a back cover worth showing, or a defect to disclose? Run those as their own batch. A stack run is meant to be hands-off, so it's easier to keep those books together than to stop mid-stack for them. Scan the small batch, then open each book in your inventory and tap Scan / upload to add more photos — shoot a new one or pull it from your camera roll. It attaches to that listing and exports with it. You can replace or delete any photo the same way.
The point of the tool: you shouldn't be typing listing copy at all.
Every export arrives with the title auto-composed (Series #Issue Publisher Year) and a full description already written — laid out field by field: Series Title, Issue Number, Publisher, Publication Year, Character, Superhero Team, Universe, Artist or Writer, Cover Artist, Format, Features, Variant, Era, Country of Origin. Category and Vintage/Modern get classified off the year, the shipping profile is set for a raw comic, and your five photo URLs are already in place.
Realistically: your price, and a condition if you don't want the default. That's the whole job. Everything else is tap-to-fix rather than type-from-scratch — if a title or issue number got misread, you tap the field and correct it. The description is also built to be copy-paste friendly for Whatnot's web form, since Whatnot's bulk template can't carry comic-specific fields directly — each value sits on its own line so you can paste them one at a time.
These are two different things, and we only do one of them.
The word scale: Gem Mint, Mint, Near Mint, Very Fine, Fine, Very Good, Good, Fair, Poor. You pick it per book in one tap, or set a default across a batch and override individual books. It rides into the CSV. Books default to Near Mint until you say otherwise, so it's worth a pass before exporting.
The numeric CGC / CBCS slab world — 9.8, 8.2, and so on. We don't assign grades, estimate them, or guess one off your photo. A grade is a judgment call with real money attached, and a guess from one picture isn't good enough to put your name behind. Pricing comps are filtered to raw copies only for the same reason — a graded 9.8 sale tells you nothing about the raw book in your hand.
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