Free cosmetic-only simulator — no real money, no prizes, no redemption, no opportunity to win anything of value.
PackRip is a free, browser-based Pokemon Trading Card Game booster pack opening simulator. Currently 128 English booster sets live — from Base Set in January 1999 through Pitch Black in July 2026, the entire WotC + EX era, the complete Diamond & Pearl + Platinum era, the full HGSS era, the complete Black & White era, the full XY era through Evolutions, the complete Sun & Moon era, the complete Sword & Shield era, the Scarlet & Violet era through White Flare with lowercase ex, Illustration Rare, Special Illustration Rare and Hyper Rare cards, and the new Mega Evolution era through Pitch Black with Mega Pokémon ex and the gold Mega Hyper Rare chase tier — plus 11 vintage Japanese Pocket Monsters Card Game expansions. New sets ship every few weeks as the catalogue expands chronologically through every Pokemon TCG era, each shipping with matching pack art, era-specific rarity tiers, interactive holographic foil effects, and the same per-rarity rate table PackRip publishes for every set, tuned to feel like the sets Pokemon collectors remember. The rates are the simulator's own model, not measurements of the real print runs, which have never been published.
PackRip ships 21,380 collectible cards across 128 English booster sets, 11 vintage Japanese Pocket Monsters Card Game expansions (1996-2001), 53 WotC Black Star Promos, 153 POP-series promos, and Trainer Gallery subsets. The catalogue is built from the open-source Pokemon TCG API and includes Charizard, Blastoise, Venusaur and the original 16 holos from Base Set, the 8 Shining Pokemon from Neo Destiny, all 9 Crystal cards from Aquapolis and Skyridge, every Pokemon-ex from Ruby & Sapphire through Power Keepers, Gold Star Pokemon, Delta Species, Diamond & Pearl Lv.X, HGSS Prime and LEGEND, BW Full Art, XY Mega EX and BREAK, Sun & Moon GX, Sword & Shield V/VMAX/VSTAR, and Scarlet & Violet Illustration Rare/Special Illustration Rare chase cards.
Players can earn 16 Gym Badges (8 Kanto, 4 Johto, 4 Hoenn) with permanent perks, complete 50+ achievement milestones across four tiers (Bronze through Rainbow), tackle 16 Professor Oak research tasks (Eeveelution Master, Legendary Birds, Living Dex Kanto, Pokemon Professor and more — themed cross-set collection challenges paying coins + XP per completion), claim a daily Wonder Pick (5 face-down cards, date-seeded), tick off a 28-day Monthly Login Calendar with escalating rewards, and run the Pack Dust crafting system that lets every card you pull contribute set-specific dust toward guaranteed acquisition of missing cards.
I grew up collecting WotC-era Pokemon cards in the late '90s and early 2000s. The thrill of ripping open a booster pack and hoping for a holographic Charizard is something that stays with you. PackRip is my way of recreating that feeling — free, accessible to anyone with a browser, with no cards getting lost in a drawer and no money on the line. Every detail is built with nostalgia in mind: original-era pack art, published pull rates, interactive holo effects you can tilt with mouse or finger, and the slow reveal of flipping each card one by one before seeing the rare.
PackRip runs in your browser with no account and no sign-up, and also ships as a free native iPhone app, PackRip: TCG Card Packs, on the App Store. Your collection, coins, dust pool and progress are saved locally on your device via the browser's localStorage API. Card data and images are sourced from the open-source Pokemon TCG API and the ptcg-assets repository for pack art and set logos. TCGPlayer market prices are bundled as a static snapshot refreshed monthly. Programmatic SEO generates 18k+ prerendered pages — one per card, one per Pokemon hub, plus per-set value/EV/rarity landings — so each unique pull has its own dedicated page with pull odds, market value, attacks, and Pack Dust craft cost.
PackRip is created and maintained by Arınç Elhan, a software engineer based in Istanbul. Built with React 19, TypeScript, Vite, Tailwind CSS, Zustand for state, and Firebase for analytics & remote config. The codebase is mobile-first (GA4 28-day split on 2026-05-21 was about 66% mobile, 32% desktop, 2% tablet) with all interactive elements meeting 44×44 touch-target minimums.
PackRip is completely free to play. The full simulator — 139 booster sets, every rarity, every era — is free, with no signup and no paywall. It is paid for by TCGplayer affiliate links plus Google AdSense display ads on eligible pages; the rip animation, the embed widget and the card database pages stay ad-free. Have feedback, questions, or want to suggest a feature? Reach out at arinc@packrip.co.
Pokemon, The Pokemon Company, Nintendo, Game Freak, and Wizards of the Coast are trademarks and copyrights of their respective owners. PackRip is an unofficial fan project made entirely for entertainment and educational purposes. It is not affiliated with or endorsed by any of these companies.
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Card data and card images come from the open-source Pokemon TCG API; pack art and set logos from ptcg-assets; market prices are a bundled snapshot of TCGplayer data. Pull rates shown on PackRip are the simulator's own published rate table, not official figures.
Pokemon and all related properties are trademarks of Nintendo, The Pokemon Company, and Game Freak. This is an unofficial fan project.
