THE FATEDROP FEATURE GUIDE

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Your way to collect.

Explore the tools for collectors, card and sealed-product investors, and families. Choose a category, then open the details.

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One companion.
Room for your whole hobby.

The current beta brings these tools together. Pokémon has the deepest coverage; check the app’s capability labels for your game, language and printing.

Current coverage & availability

01 / Scan & add

From the cards in front of you.

Bring cards into your collection, check the details and keep control of what gets saved.

Explore scanning
Original fantasy cards arranged in a violet and gold binder
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Single-card and binder-page scanning

Use a photo or the camera to scan a supported card, several cards or a binder page. Review the detected matches and choose the collection or binder destination before saving.

Recognition needs an internet connection. Support varies by game, language and printing; no fixed scan time or perfect-recognition promise applies.

Graded slab scanning

Read a slab’s card and grading label, then review the proposed details before adding the graded holding.

The current slab scanner supports English Pokémon. It does not authenticate a certificate or issue a professional grade.

Sealed-product recognition

Identify supported sealed products, review the exact product and quantity, and use the available product-detail or quick-add flow.

Sealed recognition depends on supported products and the enabled app build.

Match review and manual exact-card entry

Check and correct the suggested identity, printing, finish and copy details before confirming. Use exact-card search and manual add when you already know the card you want to record.

CSV collection import

Preview a compatible CSV, review the proposed records and confirm what gets imported. Resolve ambiguous or unmatched rows instead of silently adding a guessed card.

Card Check and detailed inspection

Inspect front-and-back visible condition and border balance. Use the detailed manual guides and angled photos to look more closely at the card.

Card Check supports your own inspection. It does not authenticate a card or issue a professional grade.

Pre-Grade centering checks

Follow guided front-and-back centering checks and estimated printed-border measurements for standard 63 × 88 mm Pokémon cards. Photos stay on your device.

These measurements are not authentication, certification, a guaranteed grade or a valuation.

02 / Collections & memories

Give the whole collection a home.

Organise what you own, follow the gaps and keep the moments behind the cards.

Explore collecting
An open collector’s binder in the warm FateDrop world
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Raw cards, graded cabinet and sealed holdings

Record raw-card quantities and copy conditions, keep slabs in a separate graded cabinet and organise sealed holdings. Use a game-specific view or switch to Overall for your full portfolio.

Personal binders and exact set checklists

Create personal binders and browse exact set or edition checklists. Search and sort owned and missing pockets, follow progress and keep variants distinct. Adding a card to a binder does not count the same holding or value twice.

Exact Chases and Fate Quests

A Chase is your own collecting goal, not a single rare ‘chase card’ (though it can include chase cards). Complete a set, choose your own target cards or follow a selected Big Pulls goal. Choose a companion, track ownership-based progress and open exact missing-card actions for price information, buying options or your Wanted List. Read completion-cost estimates with their price coverage.

Private goals, memories and your yearly story

Keep written memories, photos and Chase history; feature a goal or memory on your private Profile; revisit recorded milestones and a yearly story recap. Optional cloud storage covers your private text story, while photos remain on your device.

Collector XP, levels and set trophies

Follow Collector XP, levels, Quest milestones and verified completed-set trophies.

Imports do not earn XP. This progress system does not reward spending, streaks or pack-opening targets.

Pack Journal

Record an opening, the number of packs, the amount paid or chosen RRP total, and the exact pulls. Track sold quantities and completed net sale proceeds, with estimated known unsold value shown separately.

Journal pulls do not automatically change collection quantities. An unsold estimate is separate from money actually received.

Collection CSV export

Export raw, graded and sealed holdings across games, including quantities, grades, trade availability, notes and saved purchase costs.

Binder layouts, Wants, photos, sale listings and price history are separate. The export refuses a partial result above its 5,000-record or 2 MB limit; it is not a whole-app backup.

03 / Prices & portfolio

Read the context behind a value.

Useful for collectors and card or sealed-product investors who want to understand the numbers attached to their holdings.

Explore values for investors
Koru studying a card and collection records in a castle studio
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FatePrice and the market library

Browse exact card and version prices, the set library, and card, slab or sealed markets. Explore asking prices, recorded sales and price history where available, with source, currency, date and coverage in view.

FateInsight, followed markets and releases

Explore observed card and set movers, risers and fallers, and supported period comparisons. Follow cards or sets, track personal insights and use the available upcoming-release and set-alert tools.

Missing history remains unavailable or building. A recorded move is not a forecast.

Portfolio value and recorded history

Review estimated value and recorded value history for priced raw, slab and sealed holdings. See price coverage and unpriced holdings, with market movement of retained items kept separate from additions and removals.

A change in estimated market value is not realised sale profit or guaranteed sale proceeds.

Acquisition costs and unrealised change

Record per-copy raw-card purchase costs, with optional purchase date and currency. Compare known cost basis with estimates only for the matching holdings that have both a price and a usable cost.

Missing costs stay unknown. Foreign-currency costs are excluded from the comparison, and fees or condition adjustments are not included.

Graded and sealed price context

Read slab estimates as provisional and dependent on exact evidence; raw-card prices are not substituted for slab values. Sealed-product history uses actual recorded source dates rather than an invented past-return curve.

Completion costs and Binder Budget

Estimate the cost of missing cards and use Binder Budget to explore exact missing-card suggestions from recent GBP observations, your chosen budget and a delivery reserve.

Suggestions depend on price coverage. They are an estimate, not a currently purchasable basket or a guaranteed completion budget.

Net-sale calculator

Enter a GBP sale price, fees, postage and packing, and purchase cost to estimate net proceeds and profit or loss.

Blank costs remain unknown. Tax and costs you have not entered are excluded. The draft clears when you leave the calculator.

04 / Finder, Hunts & signals

Find the next one on your terms.

Compare observed offers, follow the products you want and understand what each signal actually means.

Explore Finder & Fate Hunts
Product search and FateFind

Search the catalogue, open a product and compare relevant retailer offers. FateFind keeps different pack quantities and configurations visible when identifying the strongest-value observed buying option. Continue to the retailer to buy.

RRP context and delivered True Price

Compare the item price with authoritative RRP where known. Keep mandatory postage and fees separate, then read the delivered True Price when delivery is known.

Unknown RRP stays unknown. Unknown delivery is not free. A smaller checkout total is not automatically better value for a different product quantity.

FateMatch watches and buying conditions

Monitor a chosen product for stock and the conditions you select. Available conditions include at-or-below RRP, a maximum percentage above RRP, item-price or delivered-price limits, and eligible or excluded retailers. Choose a companion for the watch and inspect qualifying observed matches.

A watch does not guarantee stock or checkout success. Price limits retain their actual item-price or delivered-total meaning.

Universal Wishlist

Save products you want or like across retailer changes and sold-out states. Wishlist entries stay separate from active FateMatch watches; saving a product alone does not turn on monitoring.

Stock signals, activity and Drop Pulse

Read recent product and availability activity with its source and check context.

  • Whisper: product, catalogue or metadata movement.
  • Echo: access-readiness changes such as queues or access gates; stock remains unconfirmed.
  • Manifested: purchasable availability established from observed evidence.
  • Vanished: previously confirmed availability is no longer observed or verified.
  • Drop Pulse: supporting activity context, separate from the four signal states.

Evidence coverage varies by source. Early movement or access changes do not promise an imminent restock.

05 / Trade Binders & matches

Someone’s spare. Your missing card.

Share the cards you choose, find your Wanted cards and compare a possible trade privately.

Explore Trade Binders
Koru discovering a matching card between two Trade Binders
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My Trade Binder and public visibility

Choose cards for your Trade Binder and opt into public visibility separately for each game. Other signed-in adult collectors can browse the available cards in that binder, including cards you deliberately add later.

Trade Binders are private by default. Your remaining collection, Wanted List, notes and contact details are not exposed by this feature.

Private Wanted List

Keep the exact cards you want to find, including remaining quantities and the copy, condition or grading preferences that matter to you. Your list stays private while powering your own matching results.

Public binder search and Matches for You

Search public binders by card, set or number for the selected game. Matches for You automatically compares your active exact Wanted cards with eligible available cards, respecting printing, finish, language, remaining quantity and copy preferences. Binders with more distinct matches appear first, with matching cards highlighted when opened.

Results update as you open, search, filter or refresh discovery, using current available quantities. This is not a background match-notification promise or a reciprocal swap agreement.

Compare in Fate Trader

Open a matching public binder, inspect a card and compare it in Fate Trader. Prepare a private comparison using the cards, quantities and values available on both sides, keeping raw and graded details distinct.

A comparison does not reserve a card, send an offer or complete a trade. Shared messaging and trader-network contact remain paused.

06 / Fate Together & Family Den

A shared hobby on one device.

An adult manages the local Family Den, with room for favourite cards, activities and collecting memories.

Explore family collecting
Koru and a family sharing a collecting moment in the FateDrop world
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Nickname profiles, Chases and family binder

An adult manages nickname profiles, exact Chase choices and a chosen companion or guardian on one device. Bring contributions together in the local nine-card family binder.

Adult PIN and the hand-over view

Use the adult PIN and a view designed for handing the phone to a child, with adult gift plans and inventory hidden.

There is no separate child login or public child trading profile. The adult remains in control of the account and device.

Birthdays and private gift planning

Keep day-and-month birthdays, wishes, gift ideas and gift status together, with prices where available. Gift planning stays in the adult-managed local experience.

Activities and gentle local reminders

Try the five current Family activities using cards already owned, follow family collecting goals and choose optional gentle reminders on the managing device.

Favourite pulls, celebrations and memories

Keep text memories and selected-card memories, celebrate a pull or binder completion, and revisit the collecting moments you share. Memories do not change collection quantities.

These local records are not a cloud backup. Remote invitations, shared chat and remote uploads remain paused.

07 / Shops, events & offline

Take the hobby beyond the screen.

Discover a shop, plan a card-show visit and prepare useful data before you leave.

Explore card shows
Koru exploring a lantern-lit card market in the FateDrop world
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Participating retailers and direct checkout

Discover participating independent UK retailers and their observed online offers. The retailer keeps its brand, product page, checkout, fulfilment and customer relationship. A verified relationship badge does not mean cheapest price or guaranteed stock.

Local Radar, nearby places and area preferences

Choose a location or postcode to discover nearby shops and events where the relevant provider is configured. Read supported latest reports and location details, and use the available area preferences and alerts.

Coverage depends on the source. A discovered place is not evidence of a FateDrop partnership or physical branch stock.

Events and Fate Encounters

Discover sourced shows, tournaments and trade events, filter listings and check the calendar. Open official organiser and ticket links, inspect venue details and view published vendor information where available.

Check the source, freshness and organiser’s current information before travelling. A vendor’s attendance or table location does not prove that a particular card is in stock.

Local restock notices and delivery windows

Read reported or expected local restock information and the details that have been checked. Confirm branch availability and opening times before making the trip.

Card-show kit

Prepare exact collecting goals, saved prices and private trade comparisons for a show, then keep memories of the day. The kit brings existing collecting tools into your trip planning.

Paused trade-code and contact workflows are not part of the current card-show promise.

Offline Fate Price catalogue

Complete the English Pokémon catalogue download while connected, then use saved Fate Price lookups when you are offline. Saved values keep their dates and source labels; unavailable prices stay unavailable.

Separate offline trade downloads

Save supported selected games and sets for trade preparation, with optional holdings and images. Use only the data that successfully downloaded when comparing offline, retaining saved dates, sources and conversion labels.

This is separate from the Fate Price catalogue download. Camera recognition and fresh retailer stock still need a connection.

08 / Koru & personalisation

Make the companion feel like yours.

Get optional collecting help and choose the presentation that suits your journey.

Meet Koru
Ask Koru

Use optional AI help for card and source-price context, your authorised collection and coverage, duplicate review, missing-set planning, and supported offer or stock questions. Keep or delete saved conversations, explicitly attach a photo, or use optional voice where the current service supports it.

Availability depends on configuration and permissions. Koru provides AI guidance with source limits; it is not an investment adviser or an automatic buyer.

Koru & Friends companions

Choose from Koru, Fenn, Aeris, Nyxen and Solix. Koru remains FateDrop’s mascot, while your selected companion adds its own personality to the experience. Companion reactions do not change the meaning of a stock signal.

Avatars, wallpapers and appearance

Choose the available profile avatars, wallpapers, app appearance and optional seasonal themes. Profile presentation stays separate from your selected companion.

Daily hello and welcome preferences

Choose the available daily hello, morning greeting and gentle-animation preferences. These companion greetings are separate from stock alerts and local Family reminders.

App Guide and FateDrop Stories

Use the App Guide and FateDrop Stories to explore feature explanations and find your way around the app. These guides are separate from your private collecting memories.

09 / Account, alerts & help

Keep your experience in your hands.

Manage access, notification choices and the support you need along the way.

Get help with FateDrop
FateDrop ID, game interests and beta access

Manage your account and profile, choose game interests and check their separate feature coverage. Request beta access with your FateDrop ID; approved testers can find the available iPhone TestFlight or Android testing link on their beta access page.

Choosing an interest does not enable every feature for that game. Installing a build does not bypass beta approval.

Personal alerts and notification controls

Review personal signal, price and FateMatch activity and notification history. Choose notification types, product filters, source markets, quiet hours and sounds, with per-device push registration and available web or linked Discord settings.

Delivery depends on the connected integration, permissions and access. Saving a preference alone does not prove that every channel is operational.

Still-available reminders

Choose supported Manifested still-available reminders backed by fresh reconfirmation. A reminder should describe current observed availability, rather than recycling an old stock observation.

Membership and existing purchases

Approved testers can use the beta free. The planned UK app membership is £3.99 per month after approval and launch checks. Existing purchase agreements remain unchanged.

The planned price is not an active new checkout offer. Keep beta approval and existing purchase management separate.

Exports, story privacy and data controls

Use collection CSV export and private-story text export for their supported records. Manage private text-story cloud opt-in, deletion and reset separately from photos, which stay on device.

These controls are not a whole-app backup or a promise that local photos and Family memories sync between devices.

Support, snag reports and account help

Use the app’s help, guide, report-a-snag, privacy and account controls for support, sign-in, access and account deletion. Follow the actual purchase-restore flow with your original FateDrop ID and store account.

THE CURRENT SCOPE

Know what’s ready.
And what still varies.

This guide describes the mobile beta and related discovery services. It does not turn a website example into a live app tool or promise identical coverage for every game.

Coverage, connection and evidence

Catalogue, scanning, pricing, checklists and alerts have separate coverage. The app’s capability labels and actual results are the guide to what is available. Captured app screens show the recording’s state; illustrated scenes are artwork. Prices and stock can change between checks.

Complete downloads before relying on offline data. Keep local Family memories distinct from cloud storage. Read observed prices and portfolio estimates with their source, date and missing-data labels.

How FateDrop explains evidence
Paused and future features

Shared Family/Friends contact, invitations, remote photos, shared chat, trader introductions and exchange workflows, mutual trade matching and Binder Nights are not current launch features. Public Trade Binders and your own Wanted matches are available separately, within their adult sign-in and opt-in boundaries.

FateScore, FateFair, FateWindow, basket optimisation/Basket Breaker, Reserve & Collect, Passport, bounties, a consumer Demand Signal screen, new token economies and wider Event Vendor Mode remain planned or held. Further game coverage is assessed feature by feature. The Koru & Friends merchandise collection is a separate supporter project, not an available in-app purchasing feature.

THE NEXT CHAPTER IS YOURS

Bring your collection.
Find your Fate.

From your first binder to your next big find. Make more of the hobby you love.

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