# A Czech Pokémon card price-comparison app hit #10 on the Top Grossing chart, though it earns nothing on the App Store: Pokis and a crowded restock-alert business

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> It hasn't really taken off. Its chart position comes from a small-country category chart with an extremely low bar. People actually use it because new series sell out as soon as they launch and vanish the moment they restock. It brings players to the site through Czech-language articles built on its own data, and through search.

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# A Czech Pokémon card price-comparison app hit #10 on the Top Grossing chart, though it earns nothing on the App Store: Pokis and a crowded restock-alert business

**What it is** A Czech and Slovak Pokémon card price-comparison and restock-alert tool: it puts the price and stock of the same product from 153 online shops side by side and pushes a notification to your phone when something is restocked. The app is free; subscriptions are sold on the web for 249 or 599 CZK a month.

**Why it took off** It hasn't really taken off yet: its Top Grossing ranking comes from a small national category chart with a very low bar. The real users are there because new sets sell out fast and restock just as fast; it sends players to the website through Czech-language articles built from its own data and through search.

**C** **What you can copy** Don't copy it in Czechia. If you're going to build this, pick a country with no local tool yet and a category that keeps selling out. Start with a web page plus push alerts, begin recording prices on day one, keep push alerts free and instant, and charge for the lowest price and price history. Get users through search and communities, using dated data articles.

Grade C: the approach is clear and worth learning from, but Pokis hasn't proven it can scale (1 ratings, 500 people in the community, revenue not public). Czechia already has at least 6 similar services, and pan-European rivals cover 24 countries. Switching countries would probably still mean competing with someone. Few people know about it yet

Data (updated daily) · Launched 2026-09-11 · Czech rating 1 · Charted in 11-08 of 2 stores

iOS · best category chart rank · by store

Czechia SK

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Lower rank is higher; gaps mean it wasn't charted that day

iOS · ratings count · Czech Republic

Data 2026-10-28 → 2026-11-08 (12 days, 12 observations). Apple doesn't publish download counts; rating growth is a proxy for downloads.

Pokis is ranked #10 in the Czech App Store's Shopping Top Grossing chart. It's a Pokémon card price-comparison tool with only 1 ratings and no paid items inside the app. That rank is noise from a small country's chart. The interesting part is its website. A small Prague company tracks 153 local online shops, puts the price and stock of the same box from each shop side by side, pushes an alert when something restocks, and sells subscriptions on the web. This piece explains how the setup works, how the money comes in, and why Czechia is already crowded, so you should check whether anyone is there before you take it somewhere else.

### A 1,999 CZK box sells out in 15 minutes

Since Sep 22, the Pokémon 30 anniversary set "30th Celebration" Elite Trainer Box (ETB) has been listed at 1,999 CZK (about $85, estimated) in Czech online shops 8 times, and every time it sold out within a quarter of an hour. The cheapest price you can find now is 3,490 CZK. These numbers come from an Oct 28 article Pokis published itself. The same article says that six weeks after release the set was never discounted, while the boxes and blister packs went up 30% to 46%.

Another article (10-10) worked out the pattern in more detail. Over four weeks, 56 shops restocked a total of 1,159 times. Weekday restocks were about three times the weekend volume, a quarter of them came after 6 p.m., and roughly one in six sold out again within an hour.

So the concrete job for Czech card players is this: keep a dozen shop pages open at once, wait for one shop to restock, and buy before everyone else. Pokis's homepage opens with exactly that pitch: "No more eight open tabs, and no more watching a channel that pushes everything at you."

### What it actually is

- **Who runs it** : the App Store developer is GNRS s.r.o., and the website names Tetify s.r.o. as the operator. Tetify is a small Prague company that does custom development and Shopify migrations. Both companies are registered at the same building (pokis.cz, 11-06).

- **Scale** : it monitors 153 Czech and Slovak online shops. Of 154k price listings, 125k are in stock, 29.8k items are already matched across shops, the card catalog has 38k cards in 402 sets (pokis.cz homepage, 11-06). Products are matched separately for English and Japanese/Asian versions, which matters a lot to players.

- **Features** : you set a "watch" for a specific item, the highest price you'll pay, and which shops you trust. When it matches, your phone lock screen alerts you. There's also price history, a release calendar, discount codes, an offline store directory, and a community.

- **Timeline** : prices have been recorded since 2026-08-10. The iOS app launched on Sep 11 and requires iOS 26. An Android app and a web PWA are available too.

### Where the money comes from: not in the app

The app is a free entry point for alerts, and it has no in-app purchases on the App Store. Payment happens on the web (pokis.cz/cenik, 11-06):

| Tier | Pricing | What you get |
|---|---|---|
| Free | 0 | 3 watches with real-time alerts; catalog prices are 2 hours delayed, the cheapest shop is masked, and you see the full listings for 2 items a day |
| ex | 249 CZK / month | 10 watches, prices delayed 15 minutes, full listings, single-card catalog, discount codes |
| VSTAR | 599 CZK / month | 99 watches, no delay, price charts, comparison with European Cardmarket prices, keyword watches, 3-day trial |

Annual plans are billed at 10 months. This pricing design is worth a closer look: alerts are free, and what's paid is "which shop is cheapest" and "how fresh the price is." Free users still learn about restocks right away, but if you want to know where the lowest price is or whether this price is a historic low, you pay. Price history can only be built up day by day. The site's own words are "you can't buy it, you have to wait for it."

How many people pay and how much revenue it brings in is not visible from outside.

### How it got to #10 on the top grossing chart

If the app charges nothing, how did it make the Top Grossing chart? The answer is that the bar for this chart is almost nonexistent. 11-06 On the same Czech Shopping Top Grossing chart, #4, #5 and #11 all have 0 ratings apiece. Pokis itself went from #3 to #19 and back to #10 within 10 days, while Slovakia bounced between #3 and #29. In total it has 1 ratings on iOS (5 stars), with 10-28 to 11-06 showing no increase at all, and not a single review.

能说明有人在用的数字在网页上:社区 533 名成员、216 个帖子,11-06 最新一帖在几小时前,正在投票「预购还是等补货」。安卓安装量大约 100+(未核实)。这是一个上线不到三个月、刚刚开始有人用的小工具,还谈不上跑出来。

### Where users come from

- **Search and articles built on its own data** : the site has a "magazine" where every article uses its own data, dated: which side of the border is cheaper, Czech or Slovak (336-box comparison, 11-02); how much more the same card costs with a different foil finish (the Master Ball version is 54 times the regular one, 10-22); which shop has the cheapest pre-order for the new Delta Reign set (10-17); when the shops restock (10-10); and how much the cards in McDonald's Happy Meal are worth (10-03). Add the shop catalog, release calendar, and discount code pages, which are all searchable, and search Czech terms like "restock alert" or "price comparison": it's usually one of the first few results.

- **The web sends people to the app** : every page has App Store and Google Play links at the bottom. iOS users arrive from the web, not from searching the store.

- **Riding the launch window** : September's 30th Celebration and Delta Reign, released by 11-06, sold out right away, and their posts and pushes landed just in time.

- **Social and creators** : nothing found. Searching "pokis" on TikTok turns up unrelated content, there's no discussion on X, and no sign of paid ads.

### Who it's competing with: Czechia is already full

| Competitors | Form | Scale | How Pokis differs |
|---|---|---|---|
| PokeTrack.cz | Discord alert group + website | Watches 36–39 shops, Premium 560 CZK / month, Trustpilot 4.0 | Established, runs on a Discord community; paying members get alerts first |
| PokeLov.cz | iOS / Android app | Claims 225 ratings across both stores, Pro 349 CZK / month | Focuses on card value estimates and monthly giveaways to attract users, and compares only 20 shops; much bigger than Pokis in the stores |
| Kartario.cz | Web / PWA | Unknown, 11-01 only just started Instagram and TikTok | Almost the same product: comparison + watches + alerts |
| TCGRadar.eu | Web | 24 European countries, 290 shops | Pan-European, restock alerts paid |
| PackWatch EU | Discord + Patreon | 196 shops, €4 / €9 per month | Free users get alerts 15 minutes later |
| Heureka.cz and others | General price comparison sites | Largest in Czechia | Doesn't understand sets or language versions, no restock alerts |
| Collectr, HoloDex | iOS collection apps | 692 / 306 ratings in the Czech store | Built for card valuation, doesn't track local shop stock |

In a country of 10M people, at least 4 local services and 2 pan-European ones are doing the same thing. Pokis isn't the first, and it isn't the biggest in the store. What sets it apart is its coverage (153 shops, 4 times PokeTrack's), free instant alerts, price history, and that magazine. These are done carefully, but they haven't turned into visible growth yet.

### What to learn from it

1. **The app is only the alert entry point; the money is collected on the web** . This avoids Apple's commission and the need for an in-app paywall. The trade-off is that you need your own web traffic.

2. **The paywall is designed around the rivals' most annoying points** . The usual Discord restock-group setup is "paying members get it first." Pokis flips that: alerts reach everyone at the same time, and the paid tier charges for completeness and freshness. The homepage has a dedicated "elsewhere vs. us" comparison table.

3. **Write dated articles in the local language from your own data** . Lines like "one in six restocks sells out within an hour" are something rivals can't easily write, and both search engines and players respond to them.

4. **Start collecting data as early as you can** . Price history can't be bought after the fact, and it's one of the few moats this kind of tool has.

### If it were you

**Grade C. You can learn a playbook here, but copying it isn't a good bet.** Czech is already crowded; Pokis itself hasn't proven the business can get big (1 App Store ratings, 500 community members, revenue not public); and pan-European TCGRadar and PackWatch already cover 24 countries.

**Good fit for** : one or two people who can write scrapers and keep data from dozens or hundreds of shops running long-term, who already play in a card-shortage community, and whose first language is one with no local tool yet.

**Bad fit for** : people who want organic App Store traffic (nobody searches for this kind of tool in the store); people who want to build for Czechia or Slovakia (already 6+ services); and people who can't stand fixing scrapers every time a shop redesigns its site.

**How to do it** : skip the app at first and build a web page with browser push alerts. Pick a country and a category, then check whether the local market has a Discord restock group and how many local shops TCGRadar and PackWatch already cover. Beyond Pokémon, One Piece, Lorcana, Pop Mart, and limited-edition LEGO follow the same "gone in seconds after restock" pattern (inferred, not checked one by one). Start recording prices on day one. Keep the free tier's alerts instant, and sell the lowest price and price history as paid features. For monthly pricing, Pokis's 249 / 599 CZK (about $11 / $26, estimated) is a reference point.

**How to get users** : write articles in the local language using your own data, one specific question per article (where is it cheapest, when does it restock, how much did it rise after release), each one dated. A week before a new set releases, publish a pre-order price comparison. Share these data articles in local player groups on Facebook, Discord, and Reddit instead of running ads.

**Before when** : Launch one month before the next big set drops. Price history needs at least one release cycle to build up before you can write "how much did it rise after release?" pieces.

**What would mean we got it wrong** : (1) Six months later, Pokis still has under 1,000 community members and single-digit iOS ratings. That would mean even a team doing this carefully can't grow it, so the category tops out low in small countries. (2) The reverse: if they open Poland or Hungary, or PokeLov or Kartario start raising money or get acquired, the business is worth more than it looks, and the empty countries are worth grabbing fast. (3) If TCGRadar or PackWatch makes free alerts real-time, Pokis loses its main edge.

[iOS store page ↗](https://apps.apple.com/app/id6802204209)

**Research notes: competitor table, acquisition evidence, full research report**

Competitors

| Name | Where | Launched | Scale | How it differs from this one |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PokeTrack.cz | Other | Earlier than Pokis (unverified) | Discord alert group, watching 36–39 CZ/SK web shops, Premium 560 Kč/month, Trustpilot 4.0 | Discord community; paying members get alerts faster. Pokis watches 4× more shops, free alerts are real-time too, and it has price history. |
| PokeLov.cz | iOS | Not verified | Claims 225 ratings across the App Store and Google Play; Pro 349 Kč/month | Focuses on card-scan valuation and giveaways for referrals. Price comparison covers only 20 shops. Bigger than Pokis in the stores. |
| Kartario.cz | Web | 2026 | Unknown; only started IG / TikTok 11-01 | Almost the same shape (price comparison + monitoring + PWA alerts), with no native app. Covers fewer shops than Pokis. |
| TCGRadar.eu | Web | 2026 years ago | 24 European countries, 290 shops | Pan-European. Restock alerts are paid. Not focused on local Czech shops. |
| PackWatch EU | Other | Not verified | Discord + Patreon, 196 shops, €4 / €9 per month | Free users get alerts 15 minutes late. This is exactly the model Pokis's homepage holds up for comparison. |
| Heureka.cz / Srovname.cz | Web | Years | Czech Republic's largest price comparison site, with 6,942 items in its "collectible cards" category | General price comparison. Doesn't understand TCG sets or language versions. No restock alerts. |
| Scanning and collection apps such as Collectr and HoloDex | iOS | 2022–2025 | CZ iOS: Collectr has 692 ratings, HoloDex 306 | Does card valuation and collection tracking, not local web-shop stock and price comparison |

Where users come from

- **Confirmed** **SEO and data content (own magazine, shop directory, release calendar, discount-code pages)** : pokis.cz/magazin published 4 data-driven articles from 10-17 to 11-02. Searching Czech terms for "restock monitoring / price comparison", the top Exa results are all Pokis pages.

- **Confirmed** **Web-to-app funnel** : every page footer has App Store and Google Play download links and QR codes. iOS has only 1 ratings, which suggests store search brings in very little.

- **Verified** **restock timing around new series launches** : covered the September 30th Celebration and the Delta Reign launch 11-06 before and after release

- Inferred **Social, creators, ads** : nothing turns up on TikTok or X. A Facebook page named "Pokis" has only 4 followers; not sure it's theirs.

- Inferred **Wikipedia entry** : Exa indexed cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/POKIS (2026-10-14), but it now shows "page does not exist". It may have been deleted.

## Pokis (POKIS) research report: ios_6802204209

> 2026-11-06. Data sources: appstore database (agent-im server, 2026-10-28 to 11-06), Apple lookup API, pokis.cz and competitor sites (read via Jina), Exa/Jina search, TikHub, x-radar.

### One line

Pokis is a tool from a small Prague company that helps Pokémon card players in the Czech Republic and Slovakia compare prices and track restocks. It scrapes 153 local web shops, puts the price and stock of the same product across shops side by side, sends alerts on restocks, and keeps price history. It makes money from web subscriptions (249 / 599 Kč per month). The app itself charges nothing.

**Bottom line: it didn't actually take off on the App Store.** The recall was driven by "#10 in the CZ Shopping Top Grossing chart". That ranking is noise:

- The iOS version has no in-app purchases at all (the Google Play copy literally says "the app sells nothing and you can't pay in it"), so it earns nothing through Apple;

- On the same day, most of the top 200 CZ Shopping Top Grossing apps had ratings of 0 or single digits (#4 Vintly had 0 ratings, #5 had 0, #11 had 0, and so on). This chart has a very low bar, and rank can swing between 3 and 19 within a single day (appstore database chart_rank: 10-29 #3, 11-02 #19, 11-05 #3, 11-06 #10);

- iOS has 1 ratings in total, and over 10 days the count didn't move once (appstore database app_day).

The real evidence that people use it is on its website: 530 community members, 216 posts, and the latest post 57 minutes ago (pokis.cz/komunita, 11-06). This is a small niche tool just getting started (prices have only been recorded since 2026-08-10), growing through web and SEO, and it has entered a niche that is already crowded.

### 1. Product and data

- The developer account is GNRS s.r.o. (IČO 07155794, which collects subscriptions and issues invoices). The operator is Tetify s.r.o. (IČO 23715227, a small Prague company doing custom development and Shopify migrations, tetify.cz). Both are registered at Korunní 2569/108, Praha 10 (pokis.cz/kontakt).

- Listed on iOS 2026-09-11, current version 1.2.9 (10-29), requires iOS 26 or later. Android package name cz.pokis.app. Can also be installed as a PWA (pokis.cz/aplikace).

- Scale (pokis.cz homepage 11-06): 153 web shops, 153,805 price listings, 119,036 in stock, 28,322 products matched across shops, card catalog of 32,425–38,373 cards across 402 sets. Prices recorded since 2026-08-10 (88 days).

- Pricing (pokis.cz/cenik): Free 0 Kč (3 monitors, alerts real-time; catalog prices delayed 2 hours; the cheapest shop's listing is masked; full listings for 2 products per day). ex 249 Kč/month (10 monitors, 15-minute delay, full listings, single-card catalog, discount codes). VSTAR 599 Kč/month (price charts, Cardmarket European price comparison, AI keyword monitoring, 99 monitors, no delay, 3-day free trial). Annual plans bill for 10 months. Subscriptions run through the web, not Apple, so Apple's charts can't reflect its revenue.

- Store data: iOS has one rating in CZ (5 stars) and 0 in SK. No reviews. Android installs are recorded as 100+ in the recall card (the app wasn't found in the googleplay database; unverified).

### 2. Competitors (same job, and the Czech market is already crowded)

| Competitors | Form | Launched | Scale | How Pokis differs |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| PokeTrack.cz | Discord alert group + website | Earlier than Pokis (Trustpilot has long-standing reviews from older members; exact dates unverified) | Watches 36–39 CZ/SK web shops, Premium 560 Kč/month, Trustpilot 4.0 | Relies on its Discord community and speed to snap up stock. Pokis watches 4× more shops, alerts go out to everyone at once, free alerts are real-time, and it has price history. |
| PokeLov.cz | iOS / Android app + web | Not verified | Self-reported "225 ratings across the App Store and Google Play"; Pro 349 Kč/month or 999 Kč/year | Card scanning, valuation, eBay sold prices, and monthly giveaways for referrals (each invite earns 5 entries). Price comparison covers only 20 shops. Much bigger than Pokis in the stores. |
| Kartario.cz | Web / PWA | 2026 (only started IG / TikTok 11-01) | Unknown | Almost the same product (price comparison + monitoring + alerts), and it's also pursuing shop partnerships. Pokis covers more shops and has a native app. |
| TCGRadar.eu | Web | 2026 years ago (CZ guide page published 2026-06) | 24 European countries, 290 shops | Pan-European. Restock alerts are paid. Czech Republic is just one of its countries. |
| PackWatch EU | Discord + Patreon | Not verified | 196 shops, 1,700+ sealed products, €4 / €9 per month | Discord alerts, free users get them 15 minutes late. This is the "paying members hear first" model Pokis's homepage holds up for comparison. |
| EasyCop EU and other restock groups | Discord | Already around | Not verified | Aimed at resellers, not price comparison |
| Heureka.cz / Srovname.cz | General price comparison sites | Years | Czech Republic's largest price comparison site, with 6,942 items in its "collectible cards" category | Doesn't understand TCG sets or language versions. No restock alerts. |
| Collectr, HoloDex, Pokedata and other scanning / collection apps | iOS | 2022–2025 | CZ iOS: Collectr has 692 ratings, HoloDex 306 | Does card valuation and collection, not local web-shop price comparison. Pokis also has a scanner, but that's a side feature. |
| GitHub JsemOlik/Mon-Buddy | Open source | Not verified | Not verified | Personal monitoring scripts made by individuals in Czech |

Bottom line: Pokis is neither the first nor the largest in the store. In the Czech / Slovak niche, at least 4 local rivals and 2 pan-European rivals are building at the same time.

### 3. Where users come from

- **SEO and data content (confirmed)** : pokis.cz has many pages that search engines index (/obchody, "where to buy Pokémon cards in the Czech Republic"; /kalendar, the release calendar; /slevy, discount codes; /udalosti, live restock events; /prodejny, physical stores; /karty), plus a "magazine" that writes from its own data, such as the Czech / Slovak price comparison for the 336 box (11-02), prices rising 30–46% 6 weeks after the 30th Celebration release (10-28), the Master Ball version costing 54× more than the regular one (10-22), and Delta Reign pre-order prices (10-17). Searching Czech terms for "restock notification" or "price comparison", the top Exa results are all Pokis pages.

- **Own site drives app downloads (confirmed)** : the homepage and every page carry App Store and Google Play QR codes. iOS users mostly come from the website, not from store search.

- **Social & creators (nothing found)** : Searching "pokis" on TikTok only returns unrelated content. X corpus has 0 posts. A Facebook page named "Pokis" exists with 61595257497272,4 followers (unconfirmed whether it's the same product). No evidence of creator partnerships or paid ads.

- **Wikipedia (unverified)** : Exa indexed a cs.wikipedia.org/wiki/POKIS page (dated 2026-10-14). It now opens as "page doesn't exist." Someone may have created an entry and had it deleted; not verified.

- **Release timing** : new 30th Celebration (September) and Delta Reign (11-06) sets sell out the moment they drop. Pokis launched and got coverage right in that window.

### 4. Why people stay / pay

- The free tier sends monitoring alerts to everyone at the same time, with no delay. The homepage explicitly contrasts this with "free Discord group members hear late," aiming at the pain point competitors like PokeTrack and PackWatch are known for.

- Price history can only be built up over time, not bought ("Nedá se to dokoupit, jen odčekat": you can't buy it, only wait). Starting to record early is a moat.

- The paywall sells "who has the cheapest price" and "how fresh the price is." The free tier hides the lowest price and delays data by 2 hours, so grabbing a low price means paying.

- No public data on how many people pay or how much (unverified).

### 5. Differentiation

1. **Coverage** : 153 online stores. Rivals cover 36–39 (PokeTrack) and 20 (PokeLov). We also include small shops and offline stores, and match listings by language version (EN / JP / Asia).

2. **Alerts are not tiered by payment** : the Discord model where paying members hear first is reversed. Payment is tied to data freshness and visibility instead.

3. **Data turned into content** : writing articles from its own data brings SEO traffic and credibility.

4. **Native app with lock-screen alerts** : Kartario is PWA-only on iPhone.

These differentiators are done seriously, but they haven't turned into visible growth yet: 1 iOS ratings, 530 community members. So the claim that "differentiation is why it took off" doesn't hold up. It hasn't taken off yet.

### 6. Visibility and copycats

- Visibility: few people know about it yet. No press coverage, no discussion on X or TikTok, and revenue isn't public.

- Copycats: hard to say who copied whom, since several are building at once. Kartario (2026 years, nearly the same format), PokeLov and Pokis are parallel competitors.

### 7. What to borrow

- The playbook "scrape local stores → match products across stores → restock / price-drop alerts → web subscription" could be copied to other countries (PL, HU, RO) and other sold-out categories (One Piece, Lorcana, LEGO, Pop Mart). But first check whether the local market already has Discord restock groups and pan-European rivals (TCGRadar and PackWatch both cover 24 countries).

- Subscriptions go through the web, bypassing Apple's cut; the app is just an alert channel.

- Its own data is packaged as dated "magazine" articles, targeting local-language SEO.

- The free tier's undelayed alerts and hidden lowest price are designed against competitors' pain points.

### 8. Still unclear

- How many paying users, how much revenue, how much web traffic;

- Android install numbers (not captured by the googleplay library);

- When PokeTrack and PokeLov launched, and their real scale;

- Whether the Wikipedia entry was created by the team, and why it was deleted;

- Tetify has another project, THEIS (mentioned in the recall card), which this report did not verify.

This article was written by AI from public data and the data we collect daily. Numbers are sourced, and inferences are labeled.