Free Collectors Inventory app for knives and swords.

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I've posted this before and for all you folks who keep sayin' you're gonna hafta start an inventory of your collection. Well there's no excuse now. If you suck at spread sheets and your collection's too big to hand write with real pictures in an envelope than this app's most definitely for you, it's called Sort It! And just click on the app's name in blue and it'll take you right to the site.

I think one of the problems people have just checkin' it out is because they can't imagine what it looks like. So here are some screen caps so you can get an idea of what it's like.

A great free app for knife collectors it allows you to take a pic, add the knife to a catalog/inventory on your phone and internet that's backed up and updated regularly. The nice thing is you can download/email/forward or whatever a text copy of the catalog.

Again the app for makin' an inventory of your knives using your phone is called Sort It! (click on the link to check out their site)

It even allows you to share your collection on social media and you can view and edit your collection on line with your computer too.

Sorry to sound like a broken record but this app is so great for people like us so I have to share. With your phone and this app you can take a pic of a knife, look it up on the internet and if you find it download the specs to your inventory spec page on the phone app. Plus there's spots for notes and customization on the free version and a lot more on the bought upgrade but honestly you could get by fine with the freeware. Click on this link to take you to the thread with some screen caps of the app from my iphone.

Here's the screen caps, feel free to ask any questions, I've been using it for 2 years or so now and it's a great app for collectors, there's even a lot of other collector's inventory apps available for free from them.

First 2 pics are of the 2 home scenes you access it through. One is like a a spreadsheet and the other like photo album.

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Click on any knife on either page and you get the knife specifics and specs with a front and rear pic availabe for reference

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Plenty of control on how it looks, for free there's still a lot you can change.

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The ability to create a wish list with pics and info,

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Some of the options on the free version.

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Some of the many collectors apps they have available.

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Hope this helps some of you folks out and you finally get that inventory goin' that you keep puttin' off ;) .
 
Thanks for the info. Unfortunately there is no free version on android as far as I can tell.
 
Can you do an online version from their site. I know I posted this again because I noticed I had a version accessible through the Chromebook so there must be other versions out there. Here's a screen cap of the version that shows on my Chromebook . If I find a copatable version I'll post up a link here.

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I got mine awhile back possibly when it was a beta and I don't remember payin' for it. Either that or I have a lite version. I do like the way it's set up and how it has search function with available info and specs. I know if I have my phone I can even look up the info off a product barcode. It's an all in one app for collectors that gets rid of any excuses for not starting an inventory of your collection.
 
In France, we can use since last year a free web application:

I really hope the developer will continue the evolution of the tool.
For the moment, when you have an account, it's possible to public share (or not) your pictures.
To add a new knifemaker, you have to ask the developer to add it with some details (address, facebook/instagram, web site, email of the knifemaker if you have it)

For me the most interesting evolutions could be:
- English version.
- A dedicated TAG on pictures for the Tan stamp to create a Tan Stamp inventory, with a free text description, and search.
- A dedicated TAG on pictures for documents (old catalog page, old or new advert,...)
- Web links (or public free text) to link Forum discussion. (There is already a private free text field for personal remarks)
- A search fonction : date, steel, country, free text description, ...
- A personal reporting (how many knives, total value, how many by knifemaker, by year...)
- A knifemaker sort/filter (with country for exemple).
- A knife sort/filter.
 
Unfortunately, Sort it went away and was replaced by iCollect Everything and my data could not be ported over to the new app because they didn't do weapons and such. (This is what I was told). Sort it let me export my data but not my photos to a CSV file. So I began using Collections database and had to rephotograph all of my knives which took days. Collections DB was the simplest app that I could find that allowed import and export of photographs and data. I has some things I don't like but at least I should never need to start from scratch. Also, there is no windows app and I cannot post links to my database like before.

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