COMIC SCRY

There's treasure hiding in that box.

Point your phone at any cover. Comic Scry shows you which ones are worth saving — no comic knowledge required. Built for the garage sale, the estate auction, your uncle's basement.

How it works

  1. Point

    A hand holding a phone running Comic Scry, framing an X-Men #1 comic book cover laid on a wood table. The on-screen reticle says "Frame the cover."

    Frame the cover, tap to capture. Your phone runs a quick quality check on-device — too much glare, too blurry, no comic in frame? You get told to retake before anything leaves the device.

  2. Identify

    Comic Scry result card identifying X-Men #1 from Marvel, 1963, with a HIGH CONFIDENCE badge, a $8,000–$30,000 price range, and a 🎉 Treasure! callout reading "This is what we built this for."

    The app checks the cover against its on-device catalog first. Only when that misses does it ask the server for help. Most repeat scans never leave your phone.

  3. Price

    Comic Scry detail view showing the Scry Value with a Major tier badge, a $8,000–$30,000 raw VG range, Jack Kirby credited as cover artist, key-issue notes (First X-Men, First Magneto, Major Silver Age key), and a stale-price warning that the market may have moved.

    The result is a Scry Value — a tier (Bulk to Major) plus a raw USD range from PriceCharting comps. One glance, one decision.

Coming soon to the App Store

5 free scans to try. $19.99 once unlocks 500 lifetime scans. No subscription. iPhone only at launch.

Download on the App Store Apple review pending
Three Comic Scry screenshots side by side: identifying X-Men #1 with a tier and range, the camera scanning a Hulk cover from a stack with 5 of 5 free scans remaining, and a glare-on-the-cover retake prompt that doesn't count against the scan allotment.

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Who this is for

If you've ever stood over a box of old comics at an estate sale wondering is any of this worth pulling out? — that's the moment Comic Scry is built for. No comic knowledge required.

It's a triage tool, not a grading tool. It won't tell you the difference between a 9.0 and a 9.2. It will tell you, fast, which covers in a stack of a thousand are worth slowing down on, and which head straight for the bulk lot.

A cardboard box of unsorted comic books — Incredible Hulk #181 and a Nightcrawler issue visible on top of the stack, with another box behind it full of comics.

Quick answers

Is this a tracker like CLZ or Key Collector?
No. If you want a collection catalog — wishlists, portfolio value, set completion — use CLZ Comics or Key Collector. They're great at what they do. Comic Scry is for the other moment: when you've got a stack of comics in front of you and need a decision in five seconds. Keep, sell, or bulk-lot. We're complementary, not competing.
Where does the data come from?
Cover catalog from the Grand Comics Database — a nonprofit, volunteer-curated open archive the Library of Congress mirrors. Where they archive, we triage. Pricing from PriceCharting — raw low–high USD range from recent real-market sales.
Do I need a subscription?
No. 5 free scans to try; $19.99 once unlocks 500 lifetime scans. Credits never expire. There's no subscription tier and there isn't one planned.
What about slabbed (graded) comics?
You can scan them, but the price you see is the raw range — a slabbed copy in CGC 9.8 will often sell for many multiples of the tier shown. Use the raw range as a starting point and check the grade separately.
Android?
Not yet. v1.0 is iPhone-only because Apple Vision's on-device feature matching is a meaningful part of how the app stays fast and private. Android is on the roadmap, not the v1.0 ship list.