Scanning

Quick Scan is the free one-tap scanner on the home screen. There is no session to start, no category to choose, and no setup. Tap it, center the piece in the reticle, hold steady, and capture.

A second later you get the item, its BrickLink id, and a price for the condition you have selected. If the match is not quite right, tap Swap beside the name and pick a better one. Sets get Swap too whenever there is more than one likely match. The rest of the result is laid out in tabs, covered in reading a scan result.

Because nothing is saved, Quick Scan is best for deciding whether to buy. When you want to build inventory, start a session instead so every scan is kept, counted, and totalled.

Every result opens with the item itself: its photo, name, and BrickLink number, a Swap button when there is another likely match, its condition, and its price. Part results add the color and the color lock. In a session, tap the price to set your own.

Below that, tabs hold the detail. Price shows New and Used prices from the last six months of sales and from current listings, with the one behind your price highlighted, plus quick reads on the market, demand, and supply. Market shows the trend, market health, and how fast the item sells, and for a set its retail comparison: MSRP, the difference from today’s market, and the price per piece.

The remaining tabs list what the item connects to: a minifigure’s Parts and Sets, a set’s Minifigs and Bundles, and a part’s Colors and Sets. Tick a minifigure missing from a set, or a part missing from a minifigure, and its used value comes off the price. Tap another color on a part’s Colors tab to switch to it.

A result opens on whichever tab you used last for that kind of item, and a line like Appears in 12 sets under the name jumps straight to its tab. If a price lookup fails, the result says so and offers Try again.

Tap Start session on the home screen. VueBrick drops you straight into the scanner, so the camera is already live when you get there.

Scan anything, in any order. A part opens a part result, a minifigure a minifig result, and a set a set result, each with its own price and condition, and everything lands in one activity feed with one running total. Quick Scan opens in manual tap-to-capture mode, and sessions remember the capture style you last used.

If something keeps coming back as the wrong kind of item, narrow the scanner with Identify. To add items you already know the number of, use Add items by ID in the session toolbar.

Sessions you started before a session took every type carry on as Parts, Minifigures, or Sets sessions until you complete them. In those, scanning something of another type offers to switch, and your current work saves itself under In Progress first.

The Identify menu on the session camera starts on Any item: VueBrick works out whether each photo shows a part, a minifigure, or a set, and files it under the right one.

Pick Parts, Minifigures, or Sets when you are scanning a run of one kind, or when an item keeps coming back as the wrong kind. A loose torso is a good example: with Minifigures picked, VueBrick works out which figure it belongs to. Sets also takes a sharper photo, which helps with box art.

Identify goes back to Any item for every new session. In Multi Scan, each capture keeps the choice that was on when you took it.

Rapid capture fires on its own once something is framed, which is great on a tidy table and less great on a cluttered one. The Scan speed slider sets how steady a hold it waits for. Relaxed waits for a steadier frame before it captures, so you get fewer accidental shots of the bin.

The one slider covers Rapid capture in Quick Scan and Speed mode in a session, so you set it once. The CMF Scanner uses its own shutter and is not affected.

Sealed collectible minifigure boxes carry a small printed Data Matrix code that tells you which figure is inside. The CMF Scanner reads that code with your camera, names the figure, and prices it like any other scan.

Start a CMF Scanner session, hold the code panel flat in the frame, and work the box one bag at a time. Live identification is free. Saving those scans into a session is part of VueBrick Pro.

Series 25 through 29 are supported, plus Dungeons & Dragons, Spider-Verse, F1 Race Cars, Mighty Machines, and Shrek. Coverage grows as new series ship.

On iPhone and iPad, VueBrick asks to use your camera each time you open it from your Home Screen. That is how iOS treats apps added to the Home Screen: it does not remember the camera permission between launches the way it does for apps from the App Store. Nothing is wrong with your phone or your account.

Tap Allow when the prompt appears. The permission lasts until you close VueBrick, so you can scan, look at your results and head back to the scanner without being asked again. Android phones remember your answer after the first time.

If you tapped Don’t Allow by mistake, the scanner shows Camera access blocked. Close VueBrick completely by swiping it away in the app switcher, open it again from your Home Screen, and tap Allow this time. Your session is saved as you go, so you pick up where you left off.

Multi Scan is for volume. Switch to it inside a session and photograph up to 100 items in one batch without waiting for each result. Parts take the session’s working color. Your session total has no cap, so batch after batch is fine.

When you are done shooting, the review screen shows every capture. Duplicates sort to the top with a Merge duplicates button, images open full screen when you tap them, and each row stays editable. Items arrive marked sellable, and each row has its own Sellable toggle if you change your mind about one.

Commit the batch and everything drops into Activity, with identical scans grouped into a single row and a quantity badge. Per-copy edits still live in the item sheet.

Nothing from a batch touches your session until you commit it, so the review screen is where the real work happens. Each capture gets a card with its match, its price, and the photo you took. Tap the photo to open it full screen when you need a closer look at a print or a face.

Cards keep the text at the top and the Sellable checkbox on one line, so you can run down a long batch with your thumb. Change a condition, fix a quantity, or swap a match without leaving the list.

When the batch reads right, commit it. Everything lands in Activity at once, and the session total updates in one jump rather than 40 small ones.

Photographing a tub of the same minifig means duplicates, and that is fine. VueBrick sorts identical captures to the top of the review list and offers a single Merge duplicates button.

Merging keeps one row and sets its quantity to the number of copies, so a run of six identical figures becomes one line reading six. That row carries into Activity with a quantity badge, and the item sheet still lets you edit a single copy if one of them is rougher than the rest.

Some captures come back unsure, especially on a busy background. Those rows say so plainly instead of guessing. Tap Swap to see the other candidates and choose the right one, and the price updates with it.

If a capture is unusable, swipe the row away and shoot that item again. Removing a row never affects the rest of the batch, and nothing is committed until you say so.

A capture with no match at all is worth telling us about. Tap Send Feedback in the app menu and mention what the item was, which is how those matches improve.

A single batch stages up to 100 items. Your session total has no cap, so the practical rhythm is a batch per tub or per shelf: shoot 100, review, commit, keep going.

Multi Scan works in sessions, and in Minifigures and Sets sessions started before a session took every type. It is part of VueBrick Pro. If you are not subscribed, tapping it opens the plans sheet rather than a dead end.

Recognition is good, not perfect, and near-identical molds are genuinely hard. Tap Swap beside the name on any result to see the other candidates and pick the right one. In Multi Scan review, the same picker sits behind Swap on each row.

If a session keeps reading an item as the wrong kind, a part as a set for example, narrow the scanner with Identify.

Colors are their own thing. Tap the color on a part result to pick the right one, or tap another color on its Colors tab, and the price updates for it. When a whole bin is one color, turn on color lock so every scan uses it until you unlock.

If something is still wrong, use the flag under the photo to report the item, color, or reference image. Your scan photo and the scanner’s best guesses come with the report, which is what makes the match better next time.