Know the truth about every book you scan
The second the barcode fires, RakeScan reads the live market and stamps BUY or REJECT — with the why behind it. When the answer is no, it hands you a BookToCash cash offer instead of a shrug.
Phone screen: real capture, release build — $148.67 and rank 356k are that scan's own numbers. The cards around it illustrate states the app returns.
Scouts put back more than nine of every ten books they pick up.
what we see across 100,000+ BookToCash intakes
Every book sale near you. On one map.
The built-in Sale Finder pulls real sourcing from public listings: dates, hours, bag-sale days and distance, with calendar reminders the day before. Plan my day orders the stops so the gas goes where the books are.
Sourced from public listings: library sale calendars, city garage-sale permit records, government surplus auctions and estate firms. Every sale links back to its source.
Map view — real capture · release build
Same screen, list view — dates, distance, bag days
Sales are already on the map for this weekend.
Free during the beta on Android and iPhone. Join the list and we'll send an invite with the next batch.
Get early accessno card · no ads · a human sends the invites
Everything a book is hiding, before it leaves the shelf.
Like whether that spotless hardcover is a penny race — dozens of sellers racing to the bottom — or the ugly one next to it pays for the whole trip.
See why. Not just what.
Every verdict carries a WHY trace: the exact trigger that fired, in your own rules' language. Minimum profit, rank ceiling, price drops, or a row in your rank-tier table.
Your rules, your floors, your call.
The ladder is table stakes. The verdict on top of it isn't.
You already read ladders — used and new, FBA/FBM split, condition letters, Buy Box and Amazon anchors. Every serious scanner shows you this much. What RakeScan adds is the line above it: a decision, and the exact trigger of yours that produced it. Same data, one less judgement call per book.
25 used (19 MU · 6 FU) · 1 new · every anchor visible
A verdict in 1.3 seconds.
That's the fresh-ISBN median, measured on the shipping build — fast enough to keep rhythm at a bag sale. Repeat scans answer from cache even faster.
median 1.3 s · measured, not promised
Dead zones don't stop the count.
Every scan lands in the on-device ledger first; the network is optional. Lose signal in a basement and keep scanning — queued books resolve on their own the moment you're back.
Scan first; sync when the signal comes back.
Bin speed, eyes free.
Pair a Bluetooth or USB scanner in wedge mode — it types like a keyboard, so any scanner works — and let sound and vibration carry the verdict without looking down.
free during the beta · Android & iPhone · invite-only
Run one book through it.
A sample of our book database, scored by the real verdict engine on default triggers. In the app your own floors and tiers decide — on live data, every book.
The reject pile is worth money here.
Most scanners stop at no. RakeScan checks every reject against BookToCash — buying books from people since 2019, 100,000+ so far — and shows an instant cash offer with free shipping when there is one. Build the sell cart as you scan; ship everything in one box.
the “no” books just paid for lunch
One tap on the offer and the book is in the cart with the payout on it. Free shipping label at checkout; ship the whole cart in one box.
Why trust the verdict? Because we're the buyer.
When RakeScan says REJECT, BookToCash is often the one paying for the book — a bad verdict costs us real money.
Your whole hunt, on the record.
Scan history syncs across your devices with search, filters and CSV export — and your stats build for life, not for a rolling month.
Two more things, both deliberate
A second scanner, on their own phone
Add a helper for whoever is working the other aisle. They sign in as themselves and see BUY / REJECT with rank and score — never your prices, triggers or profit — and every copy they pull is logged to your team ledger. Included during the beta.
Private by default
No ads, no advertising SDKs, and your scan history is visible only to you (or, on a team, to the owner who invited you). The privacy policy is short and honest.
Real scans, straight from the field.
No paid quotes, no invented fans — the beta is invite-only and young. Here's what the app actually says, on real books.
sells faster: 602k → 356k over the year
flagged at the shelf, not at the FBA check-in
the ladder isn't the last word
→ BookToCash offer: $11.25
2 BUY · 1 offer
Get in the next batch.
We'll read the market; you work the shelves. Free during the beta on Android and iPhone — invites go out in small batches.