Hi everyone, I’m Houston. I’m a designer, art director, and longtime collector. My Collection Ledger started as something I was building just for myself. Over the years I’ve used different collection apps and services, and I kept running into the same frustrations: subscriptions, paying extra for certain features or collection types, and having my collection spread across different tools. I wanted one place where I could organize the things I collect, keep the data and photos on my own computer, and not have to pay a subscription just to keep track of things I already own. What started as a pretty simple idea grew quite a bit. I added support for comics, games, trading cards, books, movies, music, toys, and custom collections. Along the way I added optional AI-assisted identification from uploaded photos, enrichment from sources like Comic Vine and IGDB, marketplace price research, spreadsheet and CLZ importing, backups, and a lot of the smaller organizational tools I found myself wanting as a collector. I’m a designer, not a traditional software developer, so building this has also been an experiment in how far I could take an idea using my design and product experience together with AI-assisted development. It eventually reached the point where I thought, “Maybe other collectors would actually find this useful too.” That’s really why I’m launching it here. I’d love for people to download it, play with it, add a few things from your own collection, and tell me what happens. There’s a sample item and documentation included to help you get started, and you can use the app manually without setting up any AI or external services. I’m especially interested in hearing: Was getting started clear? Did the way collections and items are organized make sense? What felt confusing or harder than it should have been? Did anything simply not work? If you’re already using another collection tool, what would you need before you’d seriously consider using this instead? This is the first public release, so useful criticism is genuinely welcome. I’m less interested in adding features just because I can and more interested in finding out what actual collectors need once they start using it. Thanks for taking a look. I built this for my own collection first, and I’m really curious to see what other collectors think of it.

My Collection Ledger

Your collection. Your computer. No subscription.

Your collection. Your computer. No subscription.