Cardex Car Spotting
Spot, collect & share cars
Only for iPhone
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPhone. Not verified for macOS.
Cardex is a social car spotting app for building a personal garage, sharing spots and discovering cars through friends and the community.
Add spots with photos, brand, model and optional vehicle details. Keep your garage organized by brand and model, track progress with HP and levels, and turn special spots into collectible 3D-style cards with rarity, foil effects and QR deep links.
Discover new spots, search by cars or tags, follow friends, view friend garages, comment, like, favorite and vote for car of the day. Privacy controls let you make your account private, hide posts, block users and report abuse.
RDW license plate lookup is available only in the Netherlands. Outside the Netherlands, vehicle details can be entered manually.
more New in 1.5.2:
• Mixpanel product analytics and session recordings have been removed.
• Old analytics identifiers are cleared when you open the app.
1.5.2 1d ago
New in 1.5 and 1.5.1:
• Crop your photos while uploading, freely or in 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9.
• Add a spot location from your photo, your current location or manually.
• After a license plate lookup, Cardex shows the car’s likely edition (Netherlands only).
• A tidier upload screen with collapsible sections for spot details and your story.
• Smarter collector card rarity ratings, with more fitting tiers for special models.
• Refreshed profiles with stats, recent spots, brands and a full A-Z view.
• Clearer friend requests and notifications, including Mark All as Read.
• Smoother swiping between spots, with views and likes that match everywhere.
• Sign-in help through Forgot Password.
• Fixes for sign-in, search, tags, missions and deleting spots.
Improved in 1.5.1:
• Car of the Day refreshes on time; the same spot cannot win two days in a row.
• Discover refreshes new spots when you return to its tab.
• View counts update after a counted view, without needing to like the spot first.
• Brand names and logos are more consistent, with suggestions for mistyped brands.
1.5.1 2d ago
New in 1.5:
• Crop your photos while uploading, freely or in 1:1, 4:5 and 16:9.
• Add a spot location from your photo, your current location or manually.
• After a license plate lookup, Cardex shows the car’s likely edition (Netherlands only).
• A tidier upload screen with collapsible sections for spot details and your story.
• Smarter collector card rarity ratings, with more fitting tiers for special models.
• Refreshed profiles with stats, recent spots, brands and a full A-Z view.
• Clearer friend requests and notifications, including Mark All as Read.
• Smoother swiping between spots, with views and likes that match everywhere.
• Sign-in help through Forgot Password.
• Fixes for sign-in, search, tags, missions and deleting spots.
And many more small improvements that make Cardex even better! Happy spotting!
1.5 4d ago
New in 1.4.1:
• Your session now recovers more reliably when Cardex stays open or you return later. Photos, uploads and actions also keep working after token renewal.
Also new since 1.4:
• A refreshed design with calmer, clearer spot details and better spacing around content.
• Swipe between spots from Garage, Discover, search, tags, favorites and Friends.
• A richer Garage with collection insights, card types, every brand and a fast A-Z list.
• Noticeably faster screens and photos, with better caching and stability.
1.4.1 Sep 12
New in 1.4:
• A refreshed design with calmer, clearer spot details and better spacing around content.
• Swipe between spots from Garage, Discover, search, tags, favorites and Friends.
• A richer Garage with collection insights, card types, every brand and a fast A-Z list.
• Noticeably faster screens and photos, with better caching.
• Much better stability across sign-in, session recovery and navigation.
Also added in 1.3 and 1.3.1:
• Collector cards with rarity levels, foil effects and QR links, now organized in your Garage.
• Larger photo uploads, draft spots and more vehicle details through the Dutch RDW lookup.
• Friends, garage viewing, comments, likes, favorites and Car of the Day voting.
• Full Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish support, plus expanded privacy controls.
1.4 Sep 10
New in 1.3.1:
• Bug fixes, better caching and improved stability.
• Your collector cards are now also in your Garage.
From version 1.3:
• Upload larger photos and save spots as drafts.
• More vehicle details with Dutch RDW license plate lookup.
• Available in Dutch, English, German, French and Spanish.
• Improved Discover, search and friends feed.
• Updated Car of the Day, missions and rewards.
• Clearer spot details and easier editing and sharing.
• Better privacy with usernames and clearer notifications.
1.3.1 Sep 9
New in 1.3:
• Upload large photos straight from your iPhone or camera. Cardex automatically optimizes them into sharp, fast-loading and storage-friendly images.
• Save an unfinished spot as a local draft and continue later. Upload fields and selection menus are now clearer and more consistent too.
• License plate lookup fills in more RDW details, including transmission, drivetrain, weight, original list price and number of gears. Brand and model names are also cleaned up and formatted properly.
• Cardex now speaks German, French and Spanish. Greetings, notifications and Cardex announcements automatically match the user's language.
• Discover shows newly posted spots immediately after refreshing. Tag searches also find your own spots, while the friends feed now lets you like directly and shows richer vehicle details and the author's caption with each photo.
• Car of the Day has a clearer design and now produces a real daily winner: the most votes wins, with the earliest spot to reach that total breaking a tie.
• Usernames are used publicly for better privacy. Friends can see first names where helpful, and you can now find friends by first name. Requests clearly show when they have been sent.
• Notifications and inbox items show the correct username plus the make and model of your spot. Votes, likes, comments and friend requests also open the right place more reliably.
• Spot details have been refined with more complete editing, improved image framing, saved image positioning, clearer specifications, consistent spacing, useful location maps and more reliable sharing links.
• Profile previews keep their full height even when there are no spots. Search, garage and empty states are more consistent throughout the app.
• Missions now match actions that are actually possible in Cardex. Earning HP becomes more challenging at higher levels and rewards no longer need to be claimed separately.
• Welcome, login, sign-up and onboarding have been redesigned to be calmer, clearer and more concise.
• Image loading, navigation, translations, analytics and overall stability have been improved further.
Also new since 1.2:
• Follow car models and get notified when a new public spot for that model appears.
• Support and donations are available directly from Account.
• Car of the Day voting, favorites and following a model provide clearer confirmation.
• AI settings are easier to open from a spot.
• Mixpanel Session Replay, image loading and overall performance were improved.
1.3 Sep 8
New in 1.2:
• Missions & badges: daily and weekly challenges with claimable HP rewards, streaks and badges. Mission HP does not affect collector-card rarity.
• Insights are now available from Home: tap your level card to view progress, streaks and badges.
• Model alerts: follow a car model and get alerts for new public spots by default. Followed models can be removed, and suggestions are reduced to five popular models.
• Support and payment options are better localized for the Netherlands and show euro pricing.
• Home has tighter spacing between banners and a better-fitting mission icon.
Briefly from 1.1: the Discover tab with infinite scrolling, faster and more reliable image loading, clearer spot navigation and deep links, four fixed recent-spot slots on profiles, more reliable inbox/push notifications for likes, comments and friend requests, a notification toggle in Account, version-targeted Home messages and many bug fixes.
1.2 Sep 1
Cardex 1.1 makes the app faster, smoother and more enjoyable to explore.
• A new Discover tab with infinite scrolling, so you can keep browsing community spots with less friction.
• Images now load faster and more reliably across Discover, friend feeds, profiles and spot details.
• Opening spots is clearer with a better loading state, more reliable deep links and improved garage navigation.
• Profiles now show recent spots in four clean fixed slots, even when someone has fewer spots available.
• Likes, comments and friend requests are handled more reliably through inbox and push notifications.
• You can now turn notifications on or off from Account.
• Admin messages on Home can be shown per app version.
• Lots of bug fixes, localization polish and performance improvements to make the app feel more stable.
1.1 Aug 28
New in 1.5.2:
• Mixpanel product analytics and session recordings have been removed.
• Old analytics identifiers are cleared when you open the app.
more Version 1.5.2 1d ago
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