The key insight

One half of your wallet got a century of engineering. The other got a rubber band.

Locked down

Already solved

IDs. Credit. Debit.

Chips, holograms, tamper seals, issuer approval. A whole industry protects these three, and Apple Wallet already took them off your hands.

EncryptedIssuer-controlledHandled

Left over

Nobody's problem

PUBLIC LIBRARY

EST. 1962

CARDHOLDER

John Doe

CARD NO.

EXP 12/29

21982 0123 4567

Gift cards. Memberships. Loyalty Programs. Passes.

No chip, no issuer, no bank approval - just a number you're allowed to keep. So they ended up in a hundred brand apps, a junk drawer, and an email you'll never find again.

A hundred appsA junk drawerExpired unnoticed

But every card on the right scans the same way.

One standard, one scanner, one place they can all live. That is the entire idea behind Arca.

Code 128
QR · PDF417

Scan · Store · Access

One capture. Every field.

Launch the camera straight from the home screen. Front, back, barcode, brand - Arca compiles the whole card in a single click.

Two shelves, zero clutter.

Gift Cards and Personal cards sit side by side, ordered by how close you are and how recently you used them. No brand silos, no ads, no lost cards.

Open, tap, scanned.

The card you need is one tap from the lock screen, and the barcode fills the screen at full brightness for the scanner - with or without a signal.

Scan · Store · Access

One capture. Every field.

Launch the camera straight from the home screen. Front, back, barcode, brand - Arca compiles the whole card in a single click.

Two shelves, zero clutter.

Gift Cards and Personal cards sit side by side, ordered by how close you are and how recently you used them. No brand silos, no ads, no lost cards.

Open, tap, scanned.

The card you need is one tap from the lock screen, and the barcode fills the screen at full brightness for the scanner - with or without a signal.

Why now

Forgotten value is reclaimable cash.

$0B

in unused U.S. gift cards, sitting in drawers and inboxes right now.

is the average person's share of it - money already earned, never spent.

of Americans are holding a card they've completely forgotten about.

Balance tracking

Every dollar accounted for.

Log what you spend the second you spend it. Arca lets you keep a running balance, warns you before a card expires, and works with no signal at all.

Spend entry on every card$25 → $12.40

Expiry warnings8/10/27

Stored on-device, encryptedoffline

You're near Targetnow

3 cards · $61.20 available

Expires 8/10/27

Proximity

You've earned the discount.
We make sure you use it.

A card you forget is a card you wasted. Arca watches the map, not you - a quiet nudge as you get close, tuned to whatever radius you set, and the barcode is one tap away.

Pricing

No ads
Nothing leaves your phone

Individual

Free

Unlimited local card storage and every offline feature, secured by your phone's own encryption.

Pre-order

Family

$3/month

Unlimited sharing and transfers for up to six people, with cloud backup for every card.

~6 months out

Brands

Partner

Sell discounted gift card packages at the point of purchase, distributed through Arca.

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One half of your wallet got a century of engineering. The other got a rubber band.

One capture. Every field.

Two shelves, zero clutter.

Open, tap, scanned.

One capture. Every field.

Two shelves, zero clutter.

Open, tap, scanned.

Forgotten value is reclaimable cash.

Every dollar accounted for.

You've earned the discount.We make sure you use it.

Pricing

You've earned the discount.
We make sure you use it.