ShadowTag · version history

Release notes

Everything that has shipped in ShadowTag, the free price-label printing app for card vendors. Newest first.

Version 1.7 September 2026 Latest

A new Detailed sticker, a print list that only shows what needs a label, imports that update instead of doubling, and a warning before your tape runs out.

A new sticker

  • Detailed: pick it in the Label studio. The card name across the top, the number and set under it ("#199 · OBF"), a box for the condition or the grade (PSA 10), and the price, with room for your QR code or your logo.
  • Happy with your labels? Nothing changes until you pick it.

Faster at the table

  • To print shows just the cards that need a sticker: new ones, and ones whose price moved, with an up or down arrow and what the old sticker said.
  • Already labelled? Mark cards as printed without printing them.
  • Print 2 of your 5 copies, tap a price to change it, or hold a card to print just that one.
  • The printer's status sits at the top of the list.

Importing, fixed

  • See what a file will do before anything changes: new cards, cards you already have, cards with no price.
  • Re-import an updated file and your counts update instead of doubling. Collectr, TCGplayer and ShadowSnap files come in with their prices and grades.

More cards, more pictures

  • Cards from Collectr, ShadowSnap and other apps find their picture far more often, including the ones already in your list.
  • The 30th Celebration sets are in search.
  • Tap + and choose Single, Slab or Sealed. Each one searches its own shelf.

How much tape is left

  • ShadowTag learns how many labels a roll holds and warns you before you run dry mid-show.

Printer fixes

  • Nelko P21: the Darkness slider works, and batches no longer stop with a false "lid open" or "out of labels".
  • QR codes print square, so phone cameras read them.
  • Two-finger select works again.

Also

  • A faster list, pictures that stay on your phone, one Settings page with Help, room for large text, and a printer log you can send us if a print goes wrong.
Version 1.3 August 2026

The door comes off, and pricing gets rebuilt. No more codes: ShadowTag opens straight into your inventory. Nothing to enter, no account to make, and nobody to DM at midnight asking for one.

Pricing, rebuilt

  • Every rule is its own row now, with its setting in plain sight instead of buried in a sentence.
  • Live preview on top: type a price, watch the label price move. You'll know what a rule does before you print forty of them.
  • New rounding options: round up or down, then add or subtract a fixed amount. Round up to the nearest $5 and knock a dollar off, if that's how your table prices. All four combinations, no fine print.

Printers

  • NIIMBOT D11: the D11 comes in two versions that have to be driven differently, and ShadowTag assumed everyone had the newer one. On the other kind a label would print and then the app would stall. It now recognizes which one you've connected, with nothing to set up.
  • Nelko P21: printers that connected but wouldn't print now do. ShadowTag tries every way your printer might be listening instead of just one.
  • Errors that explain themselves: printer problems now say what went wrong instead of timing out and blaming the printer.
  • Out of tape mid-batch? ShadowTag says so, points you at the roll that fits your printer, and holds your place in the queue. Load, tap Resume, carry on.
  • No printer yet? There are two on the printer screen that work out of the box, starting under $17.

Thanks to the vendors testing on printers we don't own. Keep it coming.

Version 1.1 August 2026

Printer reliability update.

  • Rebuilt the Bluetooth printing pipeline so batch runs stop stalling mid-print.
Version 1.0 August 2026

The first App Store release: import your collection, price it your way, and print only the labels that changed.

Import & pricing

  • CSV import from Collectr, TCGplayer and other scanning apps, or any generic spreadsheet, with "Open in ShadowTag" from Mail, Files, or Drive.
  • Your prices stay yours: no internet lookups, no market overrides.
  • The price ladder: split inventory into bands you control, each with its own rounding rule, and reprice everything in one tap.

Labels & printing

  • Label studio: your logo, your QR code, your words, previewed at true printer resolution.
  • Sticker memory: ShadowTag remembers every label it prints and flags New and Changed cards on re-import, so you print the 23 labels that moved, not all 400.
  • Batch printing with time estimates, plus Pause and Resume that survive closing the app.
  • Live print status in the Dynamic Island.
  • Fully offline: importing, pricing, and printing all run on the phone.
  • Printer support: Nelko P21 and NIIMBOT D11/D110 over Bluetooth.