For parents
No ads, no chat, no strangers, no feed, no in-app currency. Here is what there is instead.
What CardVault does not have
The short list first, because it is the reason this app was built.
- No advertising, of any kind, anywhere in the app.
- No chat and no messages. There is nothing for a stranger to write in.
- No strangers. A child only ever sees the profiles of their own family.
- No social feed, no followers, no likes, nothing to scroll for its own sake.
- No in-app currency, no loot boxes, no packs to open for money.
- No third-party trackers and no analytics. Nobody is profiled.
What it has instead
The parts a parent should have a say over are in one place, and none of them are hidden.
Parent mode, behind your password
The money view — what the collection is worth over time, which cards moved, what a set still costs to finish — is switched on with the account password and stays off until you ask for it. The price of a single card stays visible for everyone, because a fair trade needs it.
Prices a child can read
A card shows one clear price in one currency: the Cardmarket trend in euros or the TCGplayer market price in dollars, refreshed every night. They are estimates from a public database, never an offer to buy or to sell.
Export whenever you like
Settings → Your data writes a CSV for a spreadsheet, a backup file for this app, or the whole account as one JSON file. It is free on principle: a collection you cannot take with you is not really yours.
Delete whenever you like
Settings → Account → Delete account removes the household, its profiles, cards, wish lists, binders and scan photos in one go. No waiting period, no email to write, no reason to give.
One family account, profiles inside it
The adult holds the account. A collector is a profile with a first name and an emoji — no email address, no age, no login of their own — so there is no second account for a child to look after and nothing for anyone outside the family to find.
What the AI features send, and when
Three moments in the app send something to a service outside our server. There is no fourth.
A scan that stayed unsure
The app first matches the picture against the whole catalogue on the server, checks the set symbol and reads the number in the corner. Only when those still leave the card open is the flattened photo — the card alone, cropped and straightened, nothing of the room around it — sent to Anthropic’s API to read the name and the number. On the free plan that happens at most ten times a day, and the scanner never shows it happening.
A themed set in your own words (Family Plus)
Typing “sleeping Pokémon in the snow” sends that sentence, and only that sentence, so it can be turned into a search over the catalogue. A themed set built from a preset or from the chip builder sends nothing at all.
The deck helper that builds (Family Plus)
“Build me a deck” sends the deck list and the names of the cards it is allowed to use. Pasting a list and checking it against the rules and against your collection happens on our own server and sends nothing.
Nothing else ever leaves the server: not a collection, not a wish list, not a profile name, not an email address. No photo is sent anywhere for any other purpose.
CardVault trains nothing on a family’s photos or collection, and the three requests above go through Anthropic’s commercial API terms, which keep them out of model training.