One free scan, no account
Scan a lottery ticket
Photograph your Powerball or Mega Millions ticket. We read every play line on it, work out which draw it belongs to from the date printed on the ticket, and tell you what it did. One free scan, no account, and your photo is not stored.
One free scan. Enough to see whether we read your ticket correctly, which is the only thing worth taking our word for. The app scans as many as you like and watches the draws for you.
Prefer to type them? Enter your numbers by hand.
How it works
- Photograph the whole ticket. Flat, in even light, with the play lines, the price and the draw date all in frame.
- We read it, and check our own reading. The number of lines has to agree with the price printed on the ticket. If it does not, we say the reading failed rather than show you numbers we do not trust.
- Every line is checked against its own draw. Not the latest draw, the one printed on your ticket, which is why an old ticket works.
Why we would rather refuse than guess
Across the most recent one and two star reviews of the largest independent lottery scanner app, roughly half say the same thing: the scan failed, or it read the wrong numbers. Nothing else comes close. A scanner that quietly invents a line is worse than one that admits it could not read the photo, because you only find out at the counter.
So this one checks itself. An invented play line still has to be paid for, and the price printed on your ticket says how many lines you bought. When those two disagree we throw the reading away and ask for another photo. Results here are unofficial either way: verify a winning ticket with the retailer or the official operator.
What this page cannot do
It checks one ticket, once. It does not keep it, watch the next draw, or tell you anything tomorrow, because a web page with no account has nowhere to remember you and no way to reach you. If your ticket is for a draw that has not run yet, this page can read it and then has to ask you to come back and check for yourself.
That is the whole reason the app exists: it watches the draw and tells you the morning after, without you having to remember.
Frequently asked questions
Can you scan lottery tickets with your phone?
Yes. Open this page on your phone, tap to take a photo of the printed ticket, and the numbers are read and checked against that ticket’s own draw. Nothing to install and no account to create for that first scan. It works on any phone with a camera and a browser.
How do you scan a lottery ticket?
Lay the ticket flat in even light and photograph the whole thing, top to bottom, so the play lines, the price and the draw date are all in frame. Avoid a folded or curled ticket and heavy glare. Photograph one ticket at a time: two tickets in a photo have two prices and two draw dates, and reading them together would silently drop one.
Is there a lottery ticket scanner online that is free?
This one, and it needs no account. You get one free scan, which is enough to see whether we read your ticket correctly. The reading itself is not degraded in any way: it is the same extraction the app uses, because a demo that reads your ticket badly would be an argument against installing rather than for it. Scanning more than one ticket, and having them checked automatically after each draw, is what the app is for.
Which games can be scanned?
US Powerball and US Mega Millions. If the ticket is a different game we say so rather than guessing at a prize table we do not hold, because a confident wrong answer is worse than no answer.
Is my ticket photo stored?
No. The photo is passed to the reader and returned as numbers; it is not written to disk, not logged, and not kept after the response. The ticket numbers are matched in your own browser and never recorded either.
Can it check a ticket for a draw that has not happened yet?
It reads the ticket and tells you which draw it is for, but there is no result to check against until that draw runs. That is the one thing a web page genuinely cannot do for you: it cannot come back on Saturday night on your behalf. The app watches the draw and tells you the morning after.
Why did it refuse to read my ticket?
Most often the photo shows a play slip rather than the printed ticket, shows more than one ticket, or the numbers are not legible enough to read with certainty. We decline in those cases rather than guess. Roughly half of all negative reviews of lottery scanner apps are about wrong numbers, and refusing is how we avoid being one of them.
Also useful: the lottery tax calculator for what a win is worth after tax, and Powerball most common numbers for what the draw record actually shows.
On iPhone
Point the camera at the ticket instead
Typing six numbers is fine for one line. A ticket with five lines and a week of advance play is thirty numbers, and that is what the app is for: scan it once, and it tells you when a draw it covers has been published and what it did.
- Scans printed draw-game tickets with the camera, on the device.
- Keeps the tickets you already bought and checks each new draw against them.
- Notifies you when a jackpot passes a figure you pick, or when a ticket wins.
- No account, and no way to buy a ticket. It reads results, nothing else.
Coming to iPhone
iOS 18 and later. Unofficial, and it says so on first launch.