Meeple Scan

Meeple Scan is a free, no-account board game scanner for phones. Users point their camera at a single board game box or a whole shelf, and the tool uses OCR and AI vision to identify games and display BoardGameGeek rating, complexity and best player count in about two seconds. The page states about 90% of boxes are recognised right away, with users confirming any remaining matches in a tap. It also offers hot and top-ranked games from BoardGameGeek, typo-tolerant search across BoardGameGeek games, and a history of scanned games kept on the user's device. It can be installed to a phone home screen, and gallery photos can be used if camera access is declined. Scanning requires a phone; the page states the code is open source on GitHub and that photos are not kept, only recognised box titles.

Key features

• Scan a board game box or a whole shelf of games from one photo
• BoardGameGeek rating, rank and number of ratings
• Complexity, play time and age
• Best player count, with BoardGameGeek's player count poll
• Recognition of boxes in other languages and stylized titles
• Hot board games right now and top-ranked games of all time
• Typo-tolerant search across every board game on BoardGameGeek
• History of scanned games kept on the phone
• Installable as an app to the home screen
• Gallery photo upload as an alternative to camera access

Best suited for

• Board game owners checking ratings and player counts from their shelf
• Players deciding what to play before opening a box
• Board game enthusiasts browsing hot and top-ranked BoardGameGeek games

Pricing

Free, with no ads, no paid plan and no account required, according to the page.