The Flex Pile is a free app for scanning, valuing, and showing off your Pokémon, Magic, and Yu-Gi-Oh cards. Here are answers to the most common questions — and how to reach a human if you're stuck.
Need a hand? Email us at support@theflexpile.com and we'll get back to you. Tell us your device, and what you were doing when something went wrong — it helps us fix it faster.
Pokémon, Magic: The Gathering, and Yu-Gi-Oh. Snap a photo of a card and The Flex Pile identifies it and values it at the current market price.
You take a photo (or pick one from your library). We use Google's Gemini vision service to read what the card is — its name, set, and number — then look up its details and price from public trading-card databases. Your photo becomes your private collection card in the app: in your pile, your binder, and your duels.
No. New cards are private by default. Open one of your cards and tap Share to Flex feed only when you want other signed-in collectors to see your handle, card photo, card identity, and estimated value. You can remove it from the feed later without removing it from your pile.
Prices come from trusted public databases — Scryfall (Magic), the Pokémon TCG API (Pokémon), and YGOPRODeck (Yu-Gi-Oh) — and are refreshed so your pile reflects today's available market price. Prices are set on our servers so they can't be faked. Card condition adjusts the value downward from Near Mint. For now, graded (slabbed) cards are valued at their ungraded market price and labeled accordingly; real grade premiums are on the way.
Yes. No paywalls, no premium tiers, no ads, and we never sell your data. The Flex Pile is about glory, not money.
Build a hand of seven cards and battle another collector, best of seven — you play one card each round and the higher battle score wins the round. Scoring is fair by design, so a clever cheap deck can beat an expensive one. Duels are for in-app glory only — there's no real money or wagering.
Tap the Account icon in the top-right corner, then tap Delete account. This immediately and permanently erases your profile, your posts, your card photos, your scores, and your rank. It cannot be undone.
Prefer email? Write to support@theflexpile.com from your account's email address and we'll take care of it.
Open the Flex feed and tap the ••• button beside another collector's post. You can report the post for review or block that collector immediately. Manage blocked accounts from Account → Blocked users.
We collect your email and the card photos you scan, and we never sell your data or run ads. The full details are in our Privacy Policy.
We'd love to hear it. Email support@theflexpile.com — this is a small, independent app and real feedback genuinely shapes what we build next.