Pokemon TCG mobile Card Dex to be removed from Google & Apple app stores
The Pokemon Company has announced that the TCG Dex mobile app will be removed from the Google and Apple app stores soon.
ThePokemon TCGis a massive part of Pokemon’s brand. Since the first English Base set debuted in the West in 1999, nearly 100 total card sets have been released.
Withso many cards to countand keep track of, many trainers relied on the Pokemon Trading Card Game Dex app, which allowed fans to digitally catalog their own collections and search for cards in each set.
Now, The Pokemon Company has announced it will be sunsetting the TCG Dex app, and it will be removed from both the Google Play and App app stores.
Pokemon to sunset the TCG Dex app
The news came from an official blog post on the Pokemonwebsitethat confirmed the app will be removed from both storefronts on June 20, 2025, at approximately 10 AM PST.
For those who may not have heard of the app before, the TCG Dex was an app that allowed players to scan their own TCG card collection using the device’s camera and catalogue them digitally.
This isn’t the first time that Pokemon has sunsetted an online app in recent memory, as the companyshut down the Pokemon TCG Onlineon August 05, 2025.
On August 21, 2025, the Pokémon Trading Card Game Card Dex app sunsets and will be removed from all app stores.🌐https://t.co/xnurrYclQlpic.twitter.com/FftkAd8jGs
However, the TCG Online app was replaced with theTrading Card Game Live, meaning the only trading card game experience did not disappear completely.
According to a recently published support page on Pokemon’swebsite, the reason TPC is sunsetting the Dex app is to “dedicated our full resources to the ongoing development of the TCG Live,” to ensure the best possible TCG experience.
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It’s important to note that this help page also confirms that TCG Card Dex data will not be exportable or transferrable in any way and that all data tied to the app will be lost on August 23, 2025.
For those looking to search Pokemon cards up, theTrading Card Databasewill be the only option moving forward.
