Is Rips by Triumph Legit? What 270,000 App Ratings Don't Tell You

Yes, Rips by Triumph is a real business that sells real Pokémon cards and pays people out. It’s run by Triumph Labs, the company behind the Triumph skill-game apps, and plenty of users say they’ve cashed out in minutes.

Legit and good value are different questions, though. Rips has two problems you should know about before you deposit anything: there are no odds for you to check, and what people say they get offered on buyback doesn’t match the advertising.

How the app works

You buy a digital Pokémon pack in the app, open it, and it reveals a real card, raw or graded. Then you pick what happens to it. You can sell it back for cash, leave it in the vault, or have it shipped to you. Packs start at about a dollar, which is a big part of why the app took off. It isn’t available in Nevada.

The good part is the money coming out

Most of this category is slow to pay, or pays in site credit, or pays in crypto. Rips advertises instant withdrawals that average around 10 minutes, with bank transfers in 1 to 3 business days, and the app store reviews we read back that up. That’s the main reason its Payouts score (6.9) is one of its better numbers.

It also has an account lock you can use to take a break or shut yourself out entirely. That sounds minor. It isn’t. Most of the platforms in our directory don’t offer anything like it.

The part that drags the score down

We found no odds tables and no provably-fair system. When you open a pack, there’s nothing published you can hold the result against. Fairness is 20% of our score, and Rips gets 0.5 out of 10 there, the lowest of anything we’ve researched. It also lines up with the most common complaint in its critical reviews, which is that the odds feel off. We can’t prove that either way, and that’s the problem.

Buyback doesn’t match the ad. The App Store listing promises 100% of fair market value, held for at least seven days. Several users say the offers they actually saw were closer to 75%. We scored Value on what people report getting, so it lands at 6.0 instead of near the top.

Support on big pulls. A recurring theme in low-star reviews is that support goes quiet once a high-value card is involved. We found one report of a big pull still unshipped after more than two weeks. Triumph Arcade, LLC also holds an F from the BBB, with 37 complaints in three years, though that covers all of Triumph’s games and not just Rips.

About that 4.7 rating

Rips has about 215,700 ratings on the App Store at 4.7, and around 57,000 on Google Play at 4.5. Those are huge numbers. But apps that ask you for a rating right after a good pull tend to collect a lot of five-star taps, and we think that’s part of what’s going on here. The only Trustpilot page is an unofficial one with 12 reviews, all one-star. Neither of those tells the whole story. We still count the app-store ratings, but we flag them on the listing and take 1.5 points off Rips’ Reputation score for the likely inflation.

How we got to 5.5

The PackRipper Score is a weighted average of six sub-scores:

Category	Score	Weight
Reputation	7.5	30%
Fairness	0.5	20%
Payouts	6.9	20%
Value	6.0	15%
Experience	6.5	10%
Support	3.5	5%

That comes out to 5.5 out of 10. Reputation is what keeps it up: over 270,000 ratings is more than any other platform we track, even after the 1.5-point deduction. Nearly all the damage is from fairness. If Triumph published per-pack odds tomorrow, the score would climb a long way, and we’d happily update it. One thing to keep in mind is that this is a score built from public information and user reviews. It isn’t a hands-on test.

Should you use it?

If you want to rip a few cheap Pokémon packs on your phone and get cash back quickly, Rips does that well. Treat it as money spent on entertainment, screenshot any buyback offer before you accept it, and use the account lock if you notice you’re chasing.

If knowing your odds matters to you, look elsewhere. Courtyard at least shows a value distribution for each pack, and we’ve put the two side by side here. There’s also a Packz vs Rips comparison and a full list of Rips by Triumph alternatives.

Every figure above is sourced on the Rips by Triumph listing, and the scoring rules are on our methodology page. You must be 18 or older to use these apps.