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A private ledger for everything you collect.
Archive catalogs your collection with real cover art, real market pricing, and enough structure that it actually replaces the spreadsheet — instead of just dressing one up. No account, no cloud, no subscription: the database and every photo live on your own Mac.
Free to run locally. Bring your own AI and API keys, or skip them entirely.
The shelf
Seven built-in categories. Unlimited custom ones.
Each category ships with fields tailored to what actually matters for that kind of item — and its own connection to the right specialty database, so enrichment pulls real, structured data instead of a generic web search.
Comics
Enriched via Comic Vine, with key-issue detection on notes & descriptions
Games
Enriched via IGDB — platform & completeness aware
Trading Cards
Magic via Scryfall, Pokémon via TCGdex, Yu-Gi-Oh! via YGOPRODeck
Books
Enriched via Google Books, backed by Open Library
Movies
Enriched via TMDB
Music
Enriched via Discogs
Toys
Enriched via Wikidata
Anything else
Vinyl, sneakers, action figures — build a custom category with its own fields and news feeds, unlimited
Every category comes with grid and list views, full-text search, A–Z navigation, and filters built from what that category actually has.
See how items get added →Getting items in
Point a camera at it. Archive fills in the rest.
Take or upload a photo of a cover, box, or card, and Archive identifies the item and pre-fills the form. Choose whichever AI does the identifying — or skip it and enter things by hand, which works just as well.
- Manual entry, with every field a category has — including your own custom ones
- Enrichment shows exactly what it found before anything is applied; nothing overwrites silently
- "Key issue" flags for comics call out the specific phrase that triggered them — a flag and a reason, not a verdict
Once it's in
Every item gets a real record, not a row.
Multiple photos with one marked as the cover shown everywhere else. Platform, edition, condition, and every enrichment field the source has to offer. A storage location so you actually know which box it's in.
- Resizable detail panel that remembers the width you like
- Search across title, issue, publisher, notes, and storage location
- Per-category filters, A–Z jump, and sort by name, year, or recently added
Value tracking
Know what the shelf is worth, without leaving the app.
Your own estimate rolls up into a running total at the top of your collection. When you want a second opinion, the market is one click away.
Your own estimate
Entered and edited freely per item, and rolled into your collection's total the moment you save.
Quick-link price checks
One click out to PriceCharting, PicClick, and eBay search results — pre-filled with the right search terms for that exact item.
Live eBay asking prices
Optional, with your own eBay API credentials. Clearly labeled as asking prices, not sold — and everything else works fine without it.
Category news
A quiet headline strip for the hobby you're actually in.
Each category page carries a small strip of recent headlines from real sources for that hobby — ComicBook.com and Bleeding Cool for comics, GameSpot and Game Informer for games — sitting between your filters and your collection, never taking over the page.
- Fully editable — add, edit, remove, or disable any feed per category
- Works on custom categories too, with your own feeds attached
- A slow or failed source degrades silently; it never holds up your collection page
Bringing a collection in — and getting it back out
Your existing spreadsheet isn't starting over. It's importing.
Whatever you've been tracking your collection in, Archive is built to receive it — and to hand it back in a form you can actually use elsewhere.
Universal import
Upload any CSV or Excel file — not just ones Archive made. Pick the category and sheet, and Archive suggests how each column maps to its own fields, with a visible confidence level, so most imports need little to no manual work.
Columns it doesn't recognize route into their own custom field instead of getting dropped. Re-import a file Archive itself exported and everything — including custom fields and embedded photos — lands back exactly where it came from.
CLZ collections
CLZ's own export is a clean spreadsheet with no cover images. A small pair of Python scripts fetches matched covers from Comic Vine, builds a spot-checkable preview, and packages everything into the ZIP shape Archive's CLZ import expects.
One-time setup for a real collection to land with real, matched cover art — not blank rows. A smaller collection can skip the tooling entirely and use the universal import plus Archive's own Comic Vine lookup, one item at a time.
Every import is tracked as its own batch, with a clean undo if something doesn't look right.
Getting it back out
Export a CSV, or a spreadsheet you'd actually want to look at.
CSV export gives you a plain, universal spreadsheet — every field in its own column, nothing flattened into an unreadable blob. Excel export goes further: the same complete data, but with each item's real cover photo embedded directly in its row, sized and proportioned correctly.
Both respect whatever you're currently viewing — export everything, or just the one category on screen.
Backup & restore
Your whole archive, as one portable file.
A full backup is a single ZIP: your entire database and every photo, checkpointed and verified. It excludes your API credentials by default — the same "don't archive private keys" principle used everywhere in the app — unless you explicitly choose to include them, for moving your whole setup to a new machine.
On your machine, not someone else's
The archive is a folder, not a subscription.
There's no account to create, no cloud subscription, and no company holding your collection data. Everything you catalog — the database, every photo — is just files on your disk, under your own control.
One app, native to your Mac
Archive is a real, double-clickable Mac app.
Not a browser tab pretending to be one — its own window, its own icon, its own place in the dock.
Download Archive for Mac
Built with Electron, wrapping the full app and its data model in a native window. Everything runs and lives on your machine — nothing to host, nothing to sync.
- Platform macOS
- Account required None
- Data location On your disk
- Price Free to run
Start your shelf
Your collection has been a spreadsheet long enough.
Free to run on your own Mac. Add your first item in the time it takes to take a photo of it.