Collection Cataloging Apps/Programs Recs? 0

[Yale Stewart]

Forgive me, everyone. I know this gets asked a LOT, but I've never really been in the market until recently.

I'm looking for recommendations for cataloging one's collection. Literally just cataloging. I don't really care about value info or anything like that. I imagine most programs/apps will feature that, but if an app has a great database but lousy pricing info, I'm okay with that.

Anyway, let me know if there are any good solutions out there! Hell, I wish someplace like mycomicshop.com would institute a collection feature.

[KirbyTown]

On 8/12/2022 at 8:12 PM, Yale Stewart said:

I wish someplace like mycomicshop.com would institute a collection feature.

You're in luck! Check out webuycomics.com

That's a link to MCS's back-end buying database, the one you'd use if you intended to sell or consign comics with them. Even if you don't intend on selling comics, you are free to create what is essentially a personal mobile comic database. I admit, it's not going to be a breeze to search through later like a regular comic database app would, but it's free if you really just need to log comics. If you ever decide to purchase your own app, you can consult the database you already created.

A benefit of logging your comics there is that you'll always be aware of the prices they're paying for your particular issues and you'll know which are eligible for consignment.

(I'd tell you about the phone app I use, but it's free to me because I was grandfathered in, and if it wasn't free I'd likely be using something else.)

Edited August 13, 2022 by KirbyTown

[james_c]

I use CollectorZ for my collection and use a barcode scanner to add in my books every month. Super easy.  

[Axelrod]

So, I'm hesitant to "recommend" this app but I have the iCollect comic comic book app and it is almost very good.  Sounds like you may be like me and just looking for something to catalogue your books and not necessarily track values in real time.  All I wanted was something where I could enter my books and have a nice reference I could look at for what I had.  The iCollect app does that pretty well.   And it's not a subscription service that charges you every month.

The app is free but you will almost certainly want to pony up for the "pro" version which I think lets you input more books and also edit the data fields.  That appears to be $10.00 now.   

I think the app is supposed to let you bar scan books to enter them, but I never tried that function, I always just entered manually.  Which is searching for a title and then adding it to your collection.  They have a pretty large database and I was almost always able to find my books.  In the event you can't find a book, you can create an entry yourself and do an internet search to find pictures of the front/back covers.  

And it's this last thing that is the single biggest issue.  Because the database is full of images that have been uploaded by other people, and apparently there are a ton of people who think it's hilarious to hide pornographic images on the backside of the comic books.  So, you go to add a book, you find a nice clean entry/image of it in the database and add it.  You won't know if someone has hidden a pornographic image on the back unless you specifically "flip" the image to see the backside.  I didn't realize this for a while, and then had to spend a significant amount of time going back through the images I had uploaded and editing out all the porn (this is another reason you have to get the "pro" version.)  

Once you know to be aware of that, though, it's actually pretty decent.  For me, it's much better than a subscription service.  

[universal soldier]

I've been a Comics Price Guide user for over a decade but have been considering migrating to CollectorZ. They are going to have a tie in to CovrPrice values which has me thinking seriously about the move. Comic Price Guide is okay from a ease of use and adding your collection.

[ExNihilo]

The most popular one is CLZ (CollectorZ), but there's a subscription fee.

I personally have been using League of Comic Geeks (which has a desktop and mobile app that sync) and it fits the bill perfectly which to catalog your books.  It's also free.

[The lips]

I use Collectionary. 
 

totally free and does exactly what I require which is cataloging each series I collect. 

[Yale Stewart]

On 8/15/2022 at 7:04 PM, ExNihilo said:

The most popular one is CLZ (CollectorZ), but there's a subscription fee.

I personally have been using League of Comic Geeks (which has a desktop and mobile app that sync) and it fits the bill perfectly which to catalog your books.  It's also free.

I checked out League and I really like it! Thanks so much for the rec!