iCollect Everything: Inventory

Update: I’ve sent two emails in three weeks for support and received no response so maybe an updated review will get their attention? The app has turned buggy. It doesn’t save images correctly and it won’t save item location. I found out after updating 750 books that 70% have saved correctly while 30% pretended to save information. That meant I had to go back through all 750 to double check which books were missing information. It’s incredibly frustrating. I have over 4000 books. I do not want to spend more time and money on another app. I need this one to work and I need communication from the creators. Normally they’ve been great in the past. I downloaded every major book app I could find and then went through each one to find the one I felt would meet my needs. This app was the best one. It has the most customizations. I personally need to see front and center: the cover artwork, author, title, series, format, and if something is a special edition. This app allows me to see all those things in an organized and simple list. It’s super easy to add books in bulk. The app does a great job finding even the most obscure book. Right now I’ve catalogued over 1800 books and the app still quickly loads. I love that it even tracks my wishlist items. A few things I would change (some of these are bugs): Add a decimal for series numbers to easily catalog novellas in a series. Let’s say I buy a book that was on my wishlist and I scan it in, it says I own a duplicate. It would be nice is the wishlist wasn’t connected in this way because it makes me think I own two of the same book but I don’t. There’s a bug where sometimes I will click a book and when I change to a different book, the first book’s image is now associated with the second book. When manually adding a book to the wishlist, it asks if I have an ISBN twice if I say no, I don’t have one.

I started using this app back in 2023 or so, it’s been very useful for keeping track of my manga collection and various other book collections of mine. But recently, it’s been frustrating even adding new books to the app. Even when I use the “scan barcode” option to manually enter it, the titles and images are still not completely accurate. I’m assuming this is due to further addition of AI features. This app did not need AI to begin with. I’m highly considering switching my collection tracking to another app. Screw genAI.