What's new.
Weekly summary of GrailBot product updates, improvements, and fixes.
Week of August 10, 2026
- NewGrailSense learns from what you actually buy
Pro collectors can now turn on automatic eBay purchase sync in Settings → Integrations — GrailBot quietly pulls in what you actually buy on eBay and keeps your collection and GrailSense recommendations current, no more remembering to re-upload a CSV.
- NewA real Help Center — and a GrailBot Academy
The old FAQ is now a full Help Center: 13 categories and 100+ searchable articles, so you can actually find how something works. Alongside it, a new Academy teaches the collecting side — grading, parallels, print runs, and how to read a listing the way GrailBot does.
- NewDiscover — a browsable catalog and Scouting Reports
A new Discover tab lets you browse a catalog of players and cards worth chasing, plus curated Scouting Reports — editorial takes on names and cards worth a look. Find one you like and hand it straight to the search builder to start tracking it.
Week of August 3, 2026
- NewGuided Search Builder — good eBay searches, no guesswork
Not sure how to write a search that catches the right cards? The new Guided Builder asks a few plain questions — paste your list of names, pick sports or TCG, and set what matters (rookie, auto, graded, and more) — then builds clean, well-formed searches for you in one go. No eBay-search expertise required.
- ImprovedNew searches start ready to work
Searches you create now default to auto-watching your best matches from the start, and the prompt to connect eBay is clearer — so a new search begins filling your watchlist instead of just listing results.
Week of July 27, 2026
- FixedYu-Gi-Oh!, Magic, and One Piece searches look in the right place
Searches for those three games were pointed at the wrong eBay categories and missed listings they should have caught. Fixed — TCG searches now scan the correct shelves.
- ImprovedGrailSense and your weekly digest got sharper
A wave of personalization fixes: no more cross-hobby picks leaking into your feed (soccer collectors, no stray Charizards), your digest never arrives empty, lookalike suggestions cover far more players, and anyone you've muted stays muted. (Pro)
- ImprovedGrailScore reads the player — and more baseball sets
Closed a gap where a listing's player wasn't always reaching the scorer, so cards are judged on who's on them again — plus added premium baseball set tiers (Topps Luminaries and more) so those cards score where they belong.
- ImprovedManage your subscription from one place
Billing now lives in a single Settings → Billing tab, and the Manage subscription button opens the Stripe portal directly — update your card, view invoices, or change your plan without hunting for the link.
- ImprovedTips built right into search creation
The search builder now shows inline tips drawn from the mistakes we saw most in real saved searches — so you sidestep the common traps while you're building, instead of finding out later.
Week of July 20, 2026
- NewNew Grail Sets: Aaron Judge and Shohei Ohtani
Baseball's biggest bats get the treatment — a fresh curated set for Aaron Judge (11 cards) and a rebuilt Shohei Ohtani (12 cards), each built around the player's real firsts and the true grails worth the chase.
- ImprovedGrailScore gets numbered autos — and fake grades — right
Serial-numbered cards now earn a scarcity boost that scales with the print run — a /25 lifts toward the top while a /299 barely moves — so a low-numbered auto no longer scores like a common parallel. And a grade in a listing's title is only trusted when it names a real grader (PSA, BGS, Beckett, CGC, SGC), so a bogus "OCE 10" can't inflate a card anymore.
Week of July 13, 2026
- NewYour daily watchlist slots go to your best finds
Free accounts get a limited number of auto-watch adds per day, and Pro users have the eBay watchlist cap to consider. Instead of first-come-first-served per search, GrailBot now pools every match across all your searches and first spends those slots on the highest-GrailScore listings overall, so a grail from one search never loses its spot to a lesser card from another.
- NewSee what each search is actually doing
The Searches table now shows Found / Scored / Watched for every search — how many listings it surfaced, how many cleared the GrailScore bar, and how many landed on your eBay watchlist — with a totals row and a 7 / 30 / 90-day window. Tell which searches are pulling their weight at a glance.
- ImprovedSharper scores from each listing's full details
GrailScore now reads every listing's full card details — parallel, print run, grade, and features — instead of scoring from the title alone, so parallels, numbered cards, and graded slabs are judged on what they actually are.
- NewA Pedri Grail Set — and a dual rookie worth chasing
Fresh curated set for Pedri, built around his real firsts (down to the Emerson #76 background cameo — his first-ever appearance on cardboard). We also added the sought-after 2020-21 Topps Now UCL dual rookie — Jude Bellingham's rookie card with a young Erling Haaland cameo — to both players' sets.
- FixedGrail Set pages read cleanly on your phone
On mobile, the Tracking / Copy / Copy link buttons could spill off the edge of the card, and card captions stranded stray bullet dots. The buttons now stack neatly under the title, and each card shows its significance blurb — the same note explaining why it matters that the public page uses — instead of a cramped year/set string.
Week of July 6, 2026
- ImprovedGrailScore reads more of the card
A big scoring upgrade for sports cards. Marquee inserts (Downtown, Kaboom, and friends) are now scored on their own — they used to get mixed up with plain base cards. Donruss Optic reads as Optic instead of base Donruss, we enhanced print run clarity for scoring (a /5 will always score better than a /99), and we taught GrailScore 33 more sets so an unknown set can't outscore a real one. Sharper scores mean the right cards rise to your watchlist.
- ImprovedA perfect 100 should mean a real grail
GrailScore's top of the scale is more honest now: a minor player's maxed-out card will never score like a superstar's, and a strong-but-not-grail card of a star will never round up to a perfect 100. Reaching the elite band now takes a card collectors actually chase — so a 100 is reserved for true grails.
- NewPokémon cards now scored on real market value
GrailScore for Pokémon used to sometimes read rarity names — "Secret Rare," "Alt Art" — as scarcity, which badly over-scored the modern cards that are mass-printed. It now scores Pokémon against actual market price from TCGPlayer, the same value-anchored scale sports cards use: everyday bulk settles down where it belongs, and genuine vintage chase cards rise. Cleaner scores mean the right Pokémon reach your watchlist.
- ImprovedYour GrailSense digest reflects what you actually collect
The weekly digest leaned too hard on GrailBot's own auto-watches and let premium Pokémon monopolize every This week's picks slot. Now it weighs your real engagement, interleaves picks by your taste, and the Players you might also like row rotates fresh names each week — with a dismiss button so you never see one you've waved off again. (Pro)
- NewGrail Sets for Haaland and Bellingham
New curated sets for Erling Haaland and Jude Bellingham, plus richer firsts and per-card notes backfilled onto Neymar, Maradona, Aitana Bonmatí, and Zinedine Zidane — every card now says why it belongs.
- Fixed"Start this set" sticks now
Starting one of our curated sets could quietly forget itself on reload, showing you as not subscribed even after you'd started it. It now persists correctly, so your set stays tracked.
Week of June 29, 2026
- NewWatch GrailBot work before you finish signing up
Onboarding now ends with a live reveal: GrailBot scans real eBay auctions for what you collect and shows you the top grails it found, right there in the wizard. One tap adds them straight to your eBay watchlist — so you leave setup with a watchlist that's already working, not an empty one.
- NewYour searches auto-watch their best matches
Every search now automatically pulls its strongest few listings — ranked by GrailScore — onto your watchlist, instead of just stacking them in a feed for you to sift. It's capped to a short list per search and skips weak, low-score matches, so you get the real finds without your watchlist flooding.
- ImprovedKeep auto-watch running on its own
A new setting lets you tell GrailBot to keep adding your top matches to eBay automatically after onboarding, so you don't have to confirm each time. Leave it off and GrailBot still finds everything — it just waits for your tap before touching your watchlist.
- NewA day-two welcome back
The day after you sign up, a banner greets you with the fresh auctions GrailBot pulled overnight — so your second win lands the moment you return, before the regular scan cadence takes over.
- ImprovedNarrow searches won't come up empty
If a very specific search finds nothing on its first pass, GrailBot now broadens it just enough to surface real listings — so even the most niche collectors see it working from day one instead of hitting a dead end.
- FixedYour reveal shows your finds, not the crowd's
While your first scan was still running, the welcome reveal could briefly fall back to the site's trending cards. It now waits for and shows your own top matches — and any house picks used as a backstop are labeled honestly as such.
Week of June 22, 2026
- NewNew Grail Sets for the names everyone's chasing
Fresh curated sets dropped for Lamine Yamal, Vinícius Jr, Jamal Musiala, Florian Wirtz, Mohamed Salah, Son Heung-min, Christian Pulisic, Cristiano Ronaldo, and Harry Kane — each built around the player's real firsts: first card, first rookie, first autograph, first World Cup, and the true grails worth the hunt.
- NewGrail Set pages built to be found
Public Grail Set pages got a redesign, and every set now opens with a written intro, an FAQ, and a note on each card explaining why it matters — the 1st rookie, the 1st auto, the 1st flagship. They're optimized for search too, so a set you build can pull in other collectors straight from Google.
- ImprovedCurated card images that stay sharp
Set covers and card photos are now self-hosted at full resolution and won't get overwritten when prices refresh — so your sets keep their hand-picked look, with proper image credits.
- NewFree members get auto-watch
Free accounts now auto-add your strongest matches to your eBay watchlist too — up to 10 a day, resetting cleanly each day — so you can watch GrailBot work before deciding to upgrade.
- ImprovedDeals — fresher, and sortable
The Deals feed refreshes daily now for fresher numbers, and you can sort by Net % spread or by freshness to put the newest gaps on top. (Pro)
- ImprovedOne-click TCG set watching
Starting a watch from a TCG set now matches any version of each card and defaults to auto-watch, so a single click can cover the whole set.
- FixedCopied Grail Sets keep their card images
Copying a Grail Set to chase it yourself now carries the curated card images over too, so your copy looks just like the original instead of falling back to plain listing thumbnails.
Week of June 15, 2026
- NewGrail Sets, rebuilt
Grail Sets got a full makeover. Open a set into a binder view with tiered pockets, build your own by searching, pasting a list, or pulling straight from your collection, and watch your completion climb as you check cards off — with a little celebration when you finally finish the chase.
- NewShare your sets with the world
Every set now has a public page at its own link you can drop anywhere. Claim a username, and other collectors can track your set, copy it to chase themselves, or climb the new contribution leaderboard. Your checklists are something to show off now, not just keep.
- NewUpload your own card images
Set a cover image for any set and photos for individual cards — uploaded straight from your device. Your Grail Sets finally look like the binder in your head.
- NewDeals — real eBay vs TCGplayer spreads
A new Deals feed surfaces cards selling on eBay below their TCGplayer price, net of fees — the actual spread, not the sticker one. Per-card deal chips show you the gap at a glance. (Pro)
- ImprovedA sharper dashboard, end to end
A wave of polish landed at once: search schedules now show in your own timezone, prices read clean across the app (no more "$405.00"), you can turn a hot auction into a saved search in one click, drill any run into exactly the listings it found, and free members can finally see a real GrailSense preview before deciding to upgrade.
- NewStickers count too
Album stickers are a first-class card type now — track your Panini World Cup sticker grails right alongside the chrome and the autos.
Week of June 8, 2026
- ImprovedBatch your price alerts into the daily recap
Don't want a separate email every time a card dips under your target? You can now roll price alerts into your daily recap instead — one digest, all your drops, no inbox pile-up. Keep them real-time if you'd rather pounce the moment a listing breaks your number.
- FixedGrailSense Picks match the card, not the title
Picks now match on the actual card a listing is for — set, parallel, player, grade — instead of whatever words the seller stuffed into the title. Fewer near-misses, more genuine fits.
Week of June 1, 2026
- NewTypo Finder — a free misspelling checker
A new public tool: type a card or player and see the misspellings sellers actually use — "Chrizard," "Bowmen Chrome," "Prizim." Those listings get fewer eyes and lower bids, and now you can see them at a glance. It's the same misspelling-catching engine GrailBot runs on every search, opened up for anyone to try.
- NewGrailSense discovery
GrailSense now surfaces players adjacent to the ones you already chase — "you watch Bellingham, here's Yamal." It's discovery, not just retrieval: the grails you didn't know to look for, bridged from the ones you love. (Pro)
- ImprovedGrailScore knows your stars by nickname
Scoring now recognizes the names collectors actually use, so searches and matches hold up even when a listing leans on a nickname instead of the full name.
- ImprovedRun your searches on day one
New searches can kick off their first run right away instead of waiting for the next scheduled pass — set it up, hit go, and start seeing matches.
- ImprovedPicks in your weekly digest
Your Sunday GrailSense digest now folds in the week's top Picks alongside everything else it surfaces, so the best consignment finds land in one place. (Pro)
- FixedNo more ended auctions in Picks
Picks that had already closed could linger in your feed. They're now cleared out, so everything you see is still live and bidding.
- Fixed
Patched a few broken upgrade links that 404'd, and fixed the username showing wrong in the mobile top bar.
Week of May 25, 2026
- NewGrailSense Picks — deals from the big consignment houses
Twice a week, GrailBot scans the major consignment auctions — PWCC, Probstein, COMC and more — and fans out the ones that match your taste. No search setup required; the deals just show up, filtered to what you actually collect. (Pro)
- NewYour Collection, leveled up
A reworked Collection surface ties your owned cards, Grail Sets, and TCG Sets together with live market value, so what you own and what you're still chasing live in one place.
- NewPro now runs 200 searches
Pro's saved-search cap jumped to 200 — matching eBay's own limit, so you can mirror your entire eBay saved-search list one-to-one and let GrailBot run every one of them.
- ImprovedTune what GrailScore rewards
A new settings page lets you see how GrailScore weighs set tier, parallel rarity, grade, and features — so the score lines up with what matters to you.
- ImprovedSharper search building
The AI Search Builder got better at turning a plain-English ask into a clean saved search — tighter filters, smarter exclusions, fewer junk listings to wade through. (Pro)
- Improved"You already own one" badge
Listings for cards already in your Collection now carry a quiet badge so you can spot them instantly — without hiding them, in case you're stacking copies.
- ImprovedA fresh look for grailbot.ai
The homepage got a rebuild around how the hunt actually works — hunt, uncover, score, capture — with a real side-by-side of two near-identical cards GrailScore correctly tells apart.
- Fixed
Tightened up comp matching so fair-market values pull from closer sales, and removed a cap that was trimming the daily recap short.
Week of May 18, 2026
- NewGrail Sets
Track every card you'd chase for a player. Choose from curated 50-player checklists across basketball, football, baseball, soccer, and hockey — or build your own custom set. Mark cards owned, watch your completion fill in, and either jump straight to eBay or have GrailBot track each one for you.
- NewPublish + fork Grail Sets
Built a list you're proud of? Publish it so other collectors can browse and copy it. Find someone else's public set you like? Fork it into your account as a starting point — no manual rebuild.
- NewClosest-to-completion widget
Your three Grail Sets nearest to done now surface on the dashboard home so the chase is one click away.
- NewSend feedback from anywhere
A Send feedback button is now in the sidebar and the mobile menu. Bugs, ideas, questions — every submission lands in our queue and we read all of them.
- ImprovedColor-coded search source tags
Every saved search now shows where it came from — TCG Set, Grail Set, AI Builder, Weekly Pick, or manual — with a tag in the list. Filter by source from a row of chips above the table.
- ImprovedSmarter rookie searches
Any search containing rookie or RC automatically expands to catch both spellings. Stops you missing listings sellers tagged with the shorthand.
- ImprovedPick a display name that isn't your email
Your sign-in email stays your account ID, but the name shown in greetings and emails is now editable to anything you want from Settings.
- ImprovedConsistent Collection tabs
My Collection / TCG Sets / Grail Sets now share one tab bar across every collection page. No more double-stacked or differently-labeled rows.
- Fixed
Onboarding checklist now dismisses properly once you've created a search and connected eBay — no more lingering after the work was done.
- Fixed
Other users' published Grail Sets no longer leak into the Your custom sets section. They live in Discover only.
- Fixed
Dropped a duplicate GrailScore entry that mobile users were seeing labeled as Signals.
Week of May 11, 2026
- NewAffiliate links on every eBay click-through
When you click any Find on eBay link, it's tagged so GrailBot earns a small commission from eBay at zero cost to you. It's how we keep the lights on and ship faster.
- NewHonest comp data in the FMV drawer
Click any market-value badge and you'll now see the exact comparable listings used to compute it, with clear labels explaining the data window. No more black-box estimates.
- NewMisspelled-listing matcher
Searches now catch listings where sellers misspelled the player name or set name — the underpriced ones nobody else finds because the typo killed the title.
- ImprovedTighter comp matching
When pricing a serialized card (a /65 Red Wave, for example), we no longer mix in /99 Camo or other variants that would distort the average. Matches by parallel, serial number, and grade strictly.
- ImprovedFree tier signup pitch rewritten
Rewrote both pricing cards to lead with what GrailBot does for you — auto-watchlists, GrailScore on every listing, misspelling matches — instead of internal feature names.
- ImprovedThree-agent landing layout
Search Agent, Set Agent, and GrailSense now render as equal peers on the landing page — each gets the same visual real estate.
- Fixed
The Run all now button on the dashboard now actually runs your searches.
- Fixed
Watchlist near-cap warning stops nagging once you've dismissed it — at most once per day, not on every dashboard refresh.
- Fixed
Listing card images now show the whole image regardless of orientation. No more cropped graded slabs.
Week of May 4, 2026
- NewGrailSense — the brain behind the bot
GrailSense learns what you actually collect from every decision you make — watches, skips, collection adds, search history. After a couple of weeks it personalizes scoring, surfaces lookalikes you might also want, and emails a weekly digest tuned to your taste.
- NewBootstrap GrailSense from your eBay history
Upload a CSV from eBay's order-history export to bootstrap GrailSense instantly. Skips the two-week learning window.
- New70+ curated player and character subjects
Pick from a vetted list during onboarding instead of typing keywords from scratch. Covers sports cards and TCG — Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh!, Magic, One Piece.
- ImprovedBrand refresh
New logo mark, palette, and consistent treatment across the dashboard, emails, and landing page. Should feel a little more like a real product.
- ImprovedReorganized dashboard
Your stats are above the fold. Hot Now lives full-width below the agent row. A new Did You Win? section celebrates recently-ended auctions that were on your watchlist.
- Fixed
Mobile bottom nav no longer collides with the iOS home indicator.
- Fixed
When you finish onboarding, your initial scan fires immediately instead of waiting for the next scheduled cycle.
Week of April 27, 2026
- NewTCG Set tracker
Track Pokémon (with Magic / Yu-Gi-Oh! / One Piece on the way) set completion against the full master checklist. Mark cards owned, see what's missing, jump straight to live listings or spin up a tracking search in one click.
- NewPer-edition pricing for vintage Pokémon
Base Set / Jungle / Fossil cards now surface 1st Edition / Shadowless / Unlimited prices separately. Vintage cards aren't one price — and now your portfolio knows that.
- NewCard variant + misspelling expansion
Searches automatically catch common misspellings and abbreviations across eBay's noisy listing titles. Fewer missed deals.
- ImprovedBulk actions everywhere
Bulk select / deselect on Searches and Set pages so you can edit, run, or delete a whole batch at once.
- ImprovedCleaner set-detail layout
Clearer card pricing, three stacked action buttons replace the cramped action row.
- Fixed
Page no longer loads scrolled past the header on mobile.