Features
What ItemScan does.
A collection is more than a list of names. ItemScan keeps what each item is, where it is, what you paid, what shape it is in and what it is worth to you, and it gets all of that into the app by scanning.
Scan to add
The camera is the front door. Point it at a card, a slab, a boxed figure, a coin, a stamp or a guitar headstock. ItemScan reads what it can (the text on a card, a barcode, a cert number, a serial), finds the best match and asks you to confirm. If it is not sure, it says so and shows you the closest options instead of guessing.
Batch Scan is for the big jobs: a binder, a shoebox, a long box. The camera takes each item as soon as it is in focus, buzzes, saves and is ready for the next. Items it is unsure about go to a review list you clear at the end. How scanning works explains each mode and what it can and cannot identify.
Collections and places
- Collections the way you think about them: Hockey, Childhood binders, Guitars, The safe. An item can live in more than one.
- Storage places with a real hierarchy: room, shelf, box, binder, page. Move items between places when you reorganise.
- Common items as a quantity, special items as individual copies. Split one copy out of a stack when it gets graded, damaged or sold.
- Search, filter and sort across everything, however large the collection.
The record for each item
- Identity: year, brand, set, number, player or character, variant, language, grade and grader where they apply.
- Identifiers: cert number, serial, barcode, catalogue number.
- How you got it: purchase, trade, gift, inherited, or owned before ItemScan, with the date, price and seller.
- Condition as a timeline, not a dropdown: when you noticed a corner ding or a finish chip, how bad it is, whether it was repaired.
- Where it is, and when you last checked it was there.
- Your notes and your own custom fields.
Values you can trust
ItemScan keeps three numbers apart and never mixes them up: what you paid, the value you put on it yourself, and a market estimate when one is available. A market estimate always shows where it came from and when it was last updated, as a range when the data supports it. It is an estimate, not an appraisal, and the app says so.
Exports and reports
- A spreadsheet file (CSV) of any collection or the whole lot.
- A full backup file you keep yourself and restore on a new phone.
- Clean reports for an insurance file or an estate folder: every item with its identifiers, condition, location, values and dates, with a timestamp.
Private by design
Your collection lives on your phone. Photos used to identify an item are discarded as soon as the identification is done; none of them are kept on our servers. The privacy policy is short and written in plain words.