HobbyGM vs Card Ladder

Card Ladder is a sold-price database and collection tracker for sports and Pokémon cards, with sales history from several marketplaces. It suits collectors and investors who want sales history and price trends.

HobbyGM is a web app for eBay card stores. It connects to your store through eBay's official API, checks every listing each night, fixes titles and item specifics in bulk, and sends offers to watchers.

Side by side

“Not listed” means we didn't find the feature on the product's own site when we checked on October 14, 2026. If that's changed, tell us and we'll fix the page.

Where Card Ladder is better

• Sold prices and price history for any card, including yours, which HobbyGM doesn't look up.
• Price charts and alerts for collectors and investors.

Where HobbyGM is better

• Spotting listings priced above or below other sellers' current listings of the same card, across the whole store at once.
• Fixing item specifics and titles, and sending offers to watchers.

Card Ladder pricing

• Free: $0
• Pro: $19.99/month or $199.99/year, in-app price on the App Store

Card Ladder's own pricing page didn't load when we checked, so these are the App Store prices.

From App Store: Card Ladder, checked October 14, 2026. Prices change; check before you subscribe.

HobbyGM pricing

Connecting your eBay store to HobbyGM is free, and the public tools are free without an account. HobbyGM hasn't published paid plans.

What Card Ladder does

• Sales history for cards across marketplaces, price charts and alerts. (source)
• Collection tracking with values. (source)

Worth knowing

• Collectors Universe, PSA's parent company, bought Card Ladder in December 2021. (source)

What HobbyGM does

• Checks every listing in your store each night: titles, item specifics, and cards with no watchers three weeks after listing. (how the checks work)
• Fills missing item specifics from the title and adds missing search terms (parallel, print run, grade, team) to titles, in bulk, with review before anything is pushed to eBay.
• Flags listings whose title and item specifics disagree: card number, season, print run, autograph, rookie, grade.
• Compares each card's price with other sellers' current listings of the same card, matched on number, parallel, grade and print run.
• Sends offers to watchers in bulk, or automatically each night by your rules, never below break-even.
• Shows each listing's net margin after eBay fees, shipping and supplies, and flags cards that lose money or would ship cheaper by Standard Envelope. (fee calculator)
• Reads per-listing traffic from eBay, so you can see which cards get seen and not clicked.
• Covers sports cards, Pokémon, Magic, Yu-Gi-Oh!, One Piece, Lorcana and non-sport cards.

HobbyGM doesn't scan or identify cards, create new listings, list on other marketplaces, or look up sold prices for your cards. It works on the eBay listings you already have, however you made them.

Sources

• App Store: Card Ladder
• Sportico (third-party)