The 30-second tour
- Sign up. One email, one password. Your account starts with 5 free scans — exactly enough to rip your first pack and see how Scanini works before paying anything.
- Open the Scan tab. Allow camera access. The yellow corner brackets show where to aim.
- Flip a sticker over so the back faces the camera and the country code + number sits inside the brackets. Hold steady.
- That's it. Scanini reads the code, validates it against the official 980-card checklist, and logs it. A green NEW! or yellow EXTRA badge floats up to confirm.
Pack-opening mode
Tap Rip a pack of 5 → at the bottom of the Scan tab to enter pack mode. Scanini walks you through five stickers in sequence and shows you a haul summary at the end — how many were new, how many were extras, and which (if any) were foil. End early any time.
Tracking your collection
- Album tab. Your full collection grouped by team. Owned cards are filled in, missing ones are dimmed. A progress bar at the top shows how close you are to all 980.
- Extras tab. Stickers you've scanned more than once. Sorted by how many copies you have. This is your trade pile.
About credits
Each successful scan costs one credit. A "successful scan" means Scanini read a real card from the checklist — if the model can't read the code, or returns something that isn't a real Panini card, no credit is charged.
Top-ups are $10 for 1,000 credits. There's no subscription, no auto-renewal, and no time limit on credits — buy a pack, use them whenever.
First-pack guarantee: if you buy your first credit pack and don't love it, email us within 3 days and we'll refund the whole thing. No questions, no hard feelings. (One refund per account, on your first paid pack only.)
What we don't do
- We don't store your camera images. The frame goes through our server to the vision model and is discarded after the scan. Only the scan result (the code, your scan history, your owned counts) is stored.
- We don't track you across the web. No analytics SDKs phoning home, no third-party trackers in the page.
- We don't sell your data. Ever. (See the Privacy page for the full list of who we share data with — short list, only the bits we strictly need to operate.)
Edge cases
What if the model misreads a code?
It happens. Scanini uses a few tricks to catch obvious misreads — high-confidence reads commit immediately, but anything ambiguous is double-checked against a second scan, and any code that doesn't exist in the checklist is rejected outright. Misses don't burn credits.
Can I scan the front of a sticker?
Not yet. Today Scanini reads the code printed on the back. Front-of-card scanning (for stickers already pasted in your physical album) is on the roadmap.
What if I ran out of credits mid-pack?
Pack mode pauses and prompts you to top up. Your existing scans in that pack are saved.