Release Notes

Combined the Pokémon, Set, Regulation Mark, and Rarity results into a single Card panel.

Combined the TCGplayer and Cardmarket price results into a single price table.

The "More" details panel now uses a two-column layout to take up less vertical space.

Added a favicon.

Added a browsable guide to every Pokémon TCG set PokeRox can identify.

Fixed cards with no listed print rarity (e.g. McDonald's Collection promos) incorrectly showing as "Rare" - they now correctly show as Common.

Slightly faster automatic card-name reading: dropped a title-crop region that never found a real name in practice, only false-positive noise.

Moved the "how this works" note below the front photo box, closer to the photo controls it's actually about.

Improved automatic card-name reading on cards with a textured or gradient background behind the title, rescuing at least one set that previously couldn't be identified automatically at all.

Checking a card now shares one set-catalog lookup across every identification step instead of repeating it, making the whole check more resilient if the cache is ever unavailable.

Automatic set-code badge matching is now more precise, only ever considering sets whose printed total actually matches the card.

Checking a card whose photo is genuinely upside down now retries automatically instead of failing outright.

Slightly more accurate automatic set identification: dropped a symbol-search region that never found a real set icon in practice, only false-positive noise.

Improved automatic set identification: modern set-code badges printed as light-on-dark are now read correctly, and the set-symbol search now also checks past a language badge when one sits next to the card number.

Fixed the enlarged card-strip helper's up/down arrows overlapping each other on a short strip.

The enlarged card-strip helper also now shows up when the set couldn't be identified, and has up/down arrows to slide the enlarged strip elsewhere on the card.

When a card number can't be read automatically, an enlarged crop of the card's bottom edge is now shown to help you read and enter it yourself.

Added a reset button to clear a chosen back photo back to the standard card back.

The Rarity panel now shows the print-convention symbol (circle/diamond/star(s)) instead of a photo of the card.

Set and Rarity panels now show their image beside the text instead of above it; Rarity and Secret Rare Status are now a single combined panel with the card's own image.

Added directional arrows to the front/back photo buttons, and made "Auto-fill from photo" match the main button style.

Pricing lookups are now cached for a day, so they stay available even when pokemontcg.io is having a rough moment.

Checking a card now shows TCGplayer and Cardmarket reference pricing, when available.

Checking a Pokémon card now also shows a Pokémon panel with its type(s), generation, and evolution details.

Added an intro blurb and an expandable "About" section (what cards are supported, how identification works, photo tips) to the homepage.

The special/promotional back-photo notice (e.g. a World Championships stamp) now shows as its own panel alongside Set, Rarity, etc. instead of a banner above the Set field.

The back photo now supports the same rotate and sideways-detection controls as the front photo.

Friendlier message when the site can't reach the API.

Replaced the text header with the PokeRox logo.

Privacy Policy and Terms of Use pages now use the same blue accent as the rest of the site, instead of the old purple.

Checking a new card now clears the previous result panels as soon as you change the set or number; the version number in the footer now links to the release notes.

Replaced the homegrown cookie banner with Google Funding Choices, a certified consent tool required for AdSense to serve ads to EEA/UK/Swiss visitors at all.

First stable release - no behavior change from v0.1.31, marks the app as production-ready.

The Card Number field now shows the selected set's total (e.g. "/189") as a hint, without affecting the number you actually enter.

Added Illustration Rare, Special Illustration Rare, and Hyper Rare as their own rarities instead of lumping them into Ultra Rare/Secret Rare; regulation mark and rarity are no longer picked manually - checking a card now looks both up automatically from its set and number.

Switched the site's accent color from purple to blue to match the new background image.

Added a fixed background image behind the page that stays in place while scrolling.

Faster card identification by skipping icon-badge reading on cards from series that never print one.

The rotate button now corrects sideways photos too, not just upside-down ones, and warns you upfront if a photo looks sideways.

Added a rotate button for an upside-down front photo; card analysis now assumes the photo is already upright by default.

Faster card identification by skipping lookups for candidate sets that can't possibly match.

Fixed `/api/analyze` requests timing out on the free-tier server for most photos.