Your local TCG field guide

Find it. Chase it. Collect it.

Fresh Pokémon stock, trusted independent shops and real reports from collectors nearby — before you make the journey. It’s all in the pack.

Find a shop near you

Built and in on-device testing — Google Play soon

Nine cards, one secret rare. Flick through them, or lay them all out.

  1. Field tool · Collectors

    Discovery map

    UK-wide

    Live in the app

    Know what’s around you.

    A live UK map of thousands of stockists and hundreds of hand-curated independent card shops — hours, photos and one-tap directions.

    Browse the shop directory
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  2. Field tool · Collectors

    Community findings

    Photo-backed

    Live in the app

    See it before you travel.

    Collectors report what they find on the shelf — with a photo and a location check. Others validate it, and findings expire honestly.

    How trust works
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  3. Field tool · Collectors

    Card search

    Typo-proof

    Live in the app

    Type it wrong, find it anyway.

    Search by card name or collector number, misspell it, and still find the closest shop with one on the shelf.

    See local discovery
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  4. Field tool · Collectors

    Card watches

    Within budget

    Live in the app

    Your radius. Your price.

    Watch a product, choose how far you’d travel and the most you’d pay, and hear the moment a nearby shop lists it within budget.

    About watches and alerts
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  5. Field tool · Collectors

    Ranks & rewards

    8 ranks

    Live in the app

    Reports that earn their keep.

    Verified reporters climb eight collector ranks with claimable rewards, a leaderboard, and moderation that always gives a written reason.

    Ranks and rewards
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  6. Field tool · Stores

    Store workspace

    Live shelf

    Live in the app and in any browser

    A digital window, wide open.

    Stock with prices, quantities, conditions and grades, CSV import, a spotlight shelf — and a live, shareable page at discovertcg.com/your-shop.

    Store sign in
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  7. Field tool · Stores

    Events & chat

    Free tickets

    Live in the app and in any browser

    Release day, without the scalpers.

    Free release-day tickets, one live code per person, redeemed at the counter — and live chat with collectors during opening hours.

    Events, tickets and chat
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  8. On this website

    The shop directory

    300+ shops

    Live now at discovertcg.com/shops

    Common — as in everywhere.

    Every independent card shop we have found, town by town, with addresses, opening hours and live stock where a shop lists it. No app needed.

    Find your town
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  9. Secret rare · For everyone

    You

    Built in public

    Pre-launch · On-device testing

    The pull is the point.

    Four of five phases are shipped and running on real devices. Tell us what your local scene needs — or claim your shop and start listing.

    Register interest Claim your shop Follow the roadmap
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    The mission

    Local stock shouldn’t be a guessing game.

    Collectors waste time checking shelves blindly. Great local stores struggle to show what they have. DiscoverTCG is designed to close that gap.

    The fix

    One shared local view.

    Collectors and stores feed the same picture of the local scene, so nobody crosses town on a hunch.

    • Every store

      Card shops, supermarkets and high-street chains, all on one map.

    • Reported stock

      Shelf reports from collectors standing inside the shop.

    • Community confidence

      Photos and validations that make a sighting worth the trip.

    1. Discover

      See participating stores around you without searching across disconnected pages.

    2. Verify

      Use photos, comments and collector validations to judge whether a sighting is worth the trip.

    3. Browse

      Open a store’s digital storefront and view listed products, prices and quantities.

    4. Route

      Move from discovery to directions with a clear route to the physical store.

    Captures, not mock-ups

    This is the app, running.

    Unretouched screenshots from a real phone. Nothing staged, no invented stock — where a screen is empty, it is empty because nobody has reported there yet.

    The app’s dark map of Birmingham city centre, scattered with pins for supermarkets, high-street shops and card shops.
    Every shop that sells cards, on one map.
    A list headed ‘100 stores nearby’, showing Element Games, Forbidden Planet, Sainsbury’s Local and Tesco Express with distances.
    The same view as a list, nearest first.
    Search results for Umbreon VMAX showing card artwork, set names, collector numbers and rarities.
    Search a card, not just a shop.
    A card page for Umbreon VMAX with radius options from 3 to 50 miles, a maximum price field and a ‘Watch this product’ button.
    Watch a card: set a radius and a ceiling price.
    The report form: which store, in stock or out, product, price, how much was there, a note and an option to photograph the shelf.
    Reports come from inside the shop — within 600 m.
    A shop page showing a full week of opening hours with today picked out in white, plus street address and phone number.
    Real opening hours, address and phone.
    A rank ladder from Wanderer through Scout, Spotter, Tracker and Pathfinder, each with a metal badge and a coin bonus.
    Verified finds move you up the ladder.
    A release calendar listing One Piece, Pokémon League Cups, Yu-Gi-Oh! and the Pokémon TCG 30th Celebration with dates.
    What is landing, and when.
    A shop page in the app with a banner, the shop name and town, buttons to report a find, save, get directions and message the shop, and a Spotlight row of card artwork with prices.
    A shop that has claimed its page.
    A Spotlight row of priced cards above ‘Upcoming at this store’, listing a Prismatic Evolutions restock, a Mega Evolution release day and a Friday Night League with dates and details.
    Its shelf and its diary, in the same place.

    The other half

    And this is the console.

    What a shop sees after it claims its page — in any browser, no app required. Captured signed in to our own demo shop, so the numbers are small and real rather than borrowed from someone else’s counter. The one edit is the account’s email address, hidden.

    The console’s Overview tab: tiles for shop code, referred sign-ups, unread messages and drops declared, above a ‘This week’ panel counting shop views, followers and collectors waiting on stock.
    Your whole shop, on one screen.
    The Stock tab showing lines listed, how many are in stock, the spotlight count and total shelf value, with a search box, filters for sealed, singles and condition, and a table of cards with artwork, price and quantity.
    Your shelf, priced and searchable.
    The Analytics tab: tiles for shop views, distinct people, shelf opens, followers, collectors waiting, conversations and tickets, above a line chart of shop views split between the app and the web page.
    Who looked, and what they wanted.
    The Events tab listing a Prismatic Evolutions restock, a Mega Evolution release day and a Friday Night League under ‘Coming up’, with a finished session under ‘Done’.
    Release days, restocks, tournaments.
    The Drops tab with three published drops, each showing the date, how many are available, the price and a note such as ‘Twelve on the counter at opening, one per person until midday’.
    What is landing, how many, and when.
    The Styling tab: eight accent colours from crimson to rose, a tagline field, and banner and logo uploads, above a live preview of the shop’s public page.
    Your colours, your banner, your page.

    Two sides. One network.

    A useful app for every role.

    Collectors and stores see different tools, while contributing to the same healthier local TCG community.

    For collectors

    Spend less time searching blind.

    Discover shops, inspect recent community findings, validate useful reports and plan a route with more confidence.

    See collector tools
    For local stores

    Be found when stock matters.

    Claim your shop, present listed stock to nearby collectors, run release-day events and answer the counter’s questions from any browser.

    See store tools

    Build in public

    A roadmap you can actually follow.

    We show what is shipped, what is in progress and what is next — without invented launch dates.

    Shipped

    The collector app

    Live UK map, photo-backed findings, typo-proof card search and price-capped stock alerts.

    Details
    Shipped

    Store tools

    Inventory, anti-scalping event tickets, live chat and shareable web shelves at discovertcg.com/your-shop.

    Details
    In build

    Launch readiness

    Collector features on the web, push on iPhone and a phased Google Play release. Android push is live.

    Details

    Join the local hunt

    Want to follow the build?

    Whether you collect, run a store or want to explore a partnership, tell us what you would like DiscoverTCG to solve.

    Register interest Contact the team