Languages
The interface in eleven languages, and the same card shown as each country prints it.
The interface, in eleven languages
Pick a language and the whole app follows: buttons, empty screens, badges, plurals and dates. Card, set and series names come in that language wherever the catalogue has them, and the choice is remembered per family. Pick your own below to read this page in it.
Three card catalogues
A card is more than a name. The Western, Japanese and Chinese printings are different cards with different numbers, and CardVault keeps them apart instead of pretending they are one.
The Western catalogue
Every English set from Base Set to today, with names in English, German, French, Spanish, Italian, Portuguese and Dutch wherever the database has them. This is what the app shows by default.
The Japanese catalogue
The Japanese sets in their own numbering, with their Japanese names — and, for the sets that are known outside Japan, their English name and set code as well.
The Chinese catalogue
The Traditional and the Simplified Chinese printings, each with the names of its own script. A card printed in Japanese and in Chinese carries both, and points at its Western twin.
A Western card in Japanese, Chinese and Korean
A card printed in English carries no Japanese, Chinese or Korean name of its own. Rather than leaving it in English, the app builds the name from the Pokédex: the species in that language, the form in front of it and the card’s own suffix behind it, written the way those cards write it.
| The English card | 日本語 | 繁體中文 | 简体中文 | 한국어 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Pikachu ex | ピカチュウex | 皮卡丘ex | 皮卡丘ex | 피카츄 ex |
| Venusaur ex | フシギバナex | 妙蛙花ex | 妙蛙花ex | 이상해꽃 ex |
| Mega Venusaur ex | メガフシギバナex | 超級妙蛙花ex | 超级妙蛙花ex | 메가이상해꽃 ex |
| Alolan Raichu | アローラライチュウ | 阿羅拉雷丘 | 阿罗拉雷丘 | 알로라 라이츄 |
A Pokémon that belongs to a trainer — Team Rocket’s Mewtwo — keeps its English name: the species is not where the name starts, and half a translation reads worse than none. Search works the other way round too: type ピカチュウ, 皮卡丘 or 피카츄 in any language and the Western Pikachu cards come up.
Which print you see
A card page lists the same card in the other catalogues, both ways round, so a Japanese print and its English twin find each other. A picture is shown in the language the card was printed in, and search matches every name a card has, in whichever language you type.