For trading card collectors
Catalogue every card. Track every grade. Keep it off the cloud.
ClearBench is a native desktop app for collectors who actually care about parallels, rookie flags, and slab serial numbers. Built for serious card cataloguing: not a marketplace, not a portfolio tracker, not a spreadsheet.
[ Detail view of a graded rookie + binder label ]
Three things, done well.
Sets, parallels, grades, cert numbers: the things that distinguish one card from another. Each one a first-class field in ClearBench.
A real catalogue
Player or character, set, card number, year, manufacturer, parallel / variant, rookie flag, grading service (PSA / BGS / CGC / SGC / ACE / raw), grade, and cert number. Plus the personal stuff: what you paid, who you bought from, why you wanted it.
Binder + toploader labels
Six bundled label templates at 50×40mm, which works for binder inserts, toploader stickers, and slab-back labels. Set, card number, parallel, grade. Print exact-size PDFs on your own printer. Design once, save as your house style.
Off the cloud
Your collection, slab numbers, acquisition costs, and storage locations stay on your computer. A high-value card collection is not data you want sitting on a server with someone else's privacy policy.
Built for serious cards, not generic cataloguing.
The fields are the ones that get you to the right card in a binder of 500, drawn from the way collectors actually talk.
Your slab numbers stay yours.
A list of high-value graded cards with cert numbers, photos, and acquisition prices is exactly the kind of data you don't want sitting on a third party's server. ClearBench keeps it on your machine.
Stored on your device only
Every card, photo, cert number, and price sits on your computer. No upload, no copy on any server, no third-party access, including ours.
No analytics on your records
We don't track which sets you search, which players you collect, or which grading services you favour.
Insurance schedules stay yours
The PDF valuation schedule lives on your hard drive until you choose to email it to your insurer.
Backups stay yours
Full-catalogue backups are plain .clearbench JSON files you save where you want: your hard drive, an encrypted external, your own cloud. For day-to-day work, export any collection straight out to CSV, Excel, plain text, or a vCard for contacts, then round-trip back in after a bulk edit. The format is documented and stable.
No lock-in
If we vanish tomorrow, your collection is still yours, in a format you can re-import into other tools. The .clearbench backup file is plain JSON that opens in any text editor; the CSV, Excel, and plain-text exports open in tools you already have.
One price when it launches. Everything in.
No tiers, no upsells, no monthly billing. Every paying user gets every feature.
all in, no upsells
Pay in your local currency at checkout — we'll convert automatically.
- Six professional label templates, fully editable on a free-positioning canvas
- Build a catalogue around any collection: pick a starter or design your own field set
- Drag-and-drop photo gallery, plus add photos from your phone over local WiFi
- Type-aware fields with smart defaults per collection type
- Sharp, exact-size PDFs for printing
- Real macOS and Windows app with fast launch, native menus and keyboard shortcuts, dark mode that follows your OS, and no browser tab eating your RAM
- Local backups you control: export and restore the whole catalogue as one file
- All updates free for the licence year
30-day money-back guarantee · macOS and Windows · Your data stays on your device
First launch walks you through setting up your first collection in three short steps.
Common questions from card collectors.
Does it handle PSA, BGS, CGC, and SGC slabs?
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Yes. The grading-service field is a dropdown covering PSA, BGS / Beckett, CGC, SGC, ACE, and a 'raw / ungraded' option for everything in penny sleeves. Cert number is its own field, indexed for instant lookup so you can pull a slab from the binder by typing four digits of the cert.
Can I track parallels and variants?
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Parallel / variant is a dedicated free-text field. Type 'Refractor', 'Gold /10', 'SSP', 'photo variation', whatever the set calls it. Combined with set name and card number, that's enough to disambiguate any modern card from its base counterpart.
What about rookie cards?
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Rookie-card is a dedicated checkbox on the card schema. Tick it once when you catalogue the card and the flag surfaces on labels alongside the player and set. Search the collection by text to pull every rookie up; export to CSV any time to make an ad-hoc cut like 'every PSA-9-or-better rookie' in Excel.
Will the labels print on penny-sleeve toploaders?
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The label engine prints exact-size PDFs on whatever printer you have. All six bundled templates are 50×40mm, which sits cleanly on the back of a standard toploader. User-configurable label sizes for penny-sleeve inserts and other non-standard formats are on the roadmap.
Selling, not just collecting?
ClearBench has a full dealer side: a stock list kept separate from your collection, show mode that tracks every sale from setup to pack-up, sales and ROI reports, and price-tag sheets from the same label engine. Same app, same privacy, no extra purchase.
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ClearBench works the same way for every collection type.
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