efore I get into this let me give a disclaimer: I very much like this app, I do strongly recommend it. I am a premium user and will stay one. Just because there are some things I do not like does not mean I do not have a positive impression of it. Everything critical here is meant to be constructive.
I have been wanting a PC collecting app for years, as someone who obsessively collects lots of things intensely (comic books, playing cards, photocards) it is always nice to have a way of keeping up with every collection to stop myself from accidentally buying dupes and make it easier to trade and fill in the gaps of my collection.
Someone on a Reddit post recommended this app and out of all the ones I’ve tried, it is the first one that does everything I want.
Pros:
– It has a Discord where community members are helpful and mods are responsive, they also post detailed information on updates
– As long as your photocard is in the database, taking a picture and identifying it is fairly quick and easy
– I like that if it doesn’t 100% recognize your PC it gives you three ‘maybes’ that you can choose from even if they aren’t a definite. Most of the time, it is in those three.
– I like how it makes it easy to see how many PCs for each group and member I have at a glance. I had expected I would have the most Dreamcatcher out of any group for instance, but I was not prepared for just how many Kyujin PCs I have.
– I enjoy the Bias selector option so you can see at a glance on someone’s profile who their biases are and how many they have.
Cons:
– I came across quite a few Nugu/smaller groups that have a bunch missing from the database, such as Lee Chaeyeon’s first Season’s Greetings – which had a LOT of photocards – and a handful of Billlie POBs.
– They do have a system for submitting PCs! I did a few. However I do have some minor complaints about it, some of which I think are just inevitable and I have to deal with, to be fair.
- I had one PC that I kept scanning and it was saying “!00$ this is ____!” No! Not even the correct group! So when I submitted it as a new PC it got an automatic duplicate flag “WE already have this one! Here is a picture.” Which was the PC that was definitely not the one in my hand
- It is a very tedious process. You have to make sure that it is not crooked and the quality is good and then you have to crop it exactly right etc. For one or two this was not the end of the world but an entire Season’s Greetings? Oh boy.
- That being said, I know as a good community member I should contribute and help so the database is more complete. I probably will at some point but I was focused on getting the bulk of my collection scanned, as you can see by the picture, it was quite a bit and I didn’t want to get bogged down.
– If you have a PC that is just not scanning you can go into the database, find it manually and add it. However, and someone is free to correct me if I’m wrong, it’s not the most user friendly to search through there if it is a group with a large amount of PCs. There are tags, such as Album Version, Pre Order, Season’s Greetings, but Album Version covers a lot, heck, Pre Order Benefit can cover a lot for some groups. So you are left scrolling through sometimes 100’s of PCs that are not organized by era to find a single one. I’m glad there is a plan B for when scanning the PC doesn’t work, but for certain idols I didn’t even think it was a good use of my time.
– I wish the UI was more customizable. I think this is a planned update but it is not a priority one, which is fair. They recently added Toploader Decoration which I don’t particularly care about, and when I go to my home page I can scroll through people’s top loader decoration highlights. I will likely never use an electronic toploader feature, and do not care how other people are using this feature. I don’t want it on my home page and I wish I could get rid of it completely. There’s also an In Demand This week section, I am most likely sticking to Mercari for Buying/Selling (though I will possibly try this app later for trading) so I do not care about this either, I would like to get rid of it.
This reminds me a bit Facebook, how the UI (User Interface) became terribly crowded because of how much they were adding in.
That being said, nothing in that last point is a deal breaker.
– I almost didn’t include this last point but I figure I might as well. Scanning one PC in a sleeve has a 3/5 chance of working fine on the first go, but scanning a page of PCs in a binder is time consuming. 3/9 MAYBE (as I have 9 PCs in a page) will work, two or three more will be in the “Maybe one of these three?” Options I mentioned earlier, and the rest will be complete duds I have to rescan. I almost didn’t mention it because to me, this is no fault of the app. With the reflections on sleeves and reflections of binder pages, this makes sense, and once I figured out it was faster to just yoink my PCs from the binder the whole process got a lot faster. If I had a bunch of PCs with no sleeves I would put them on a table and take a picture and had a higher success rate, but even then it isn’t a 100% because of the glare from the lights in the room.
Not the biggest deal, again, but I thought I would help anyone who is just getting started.
Last con….
– If you are scanning a large collection like me I think you sort of have to upgrade to Premium in order to get your collection scanned in within a timely manner. I dislike this habit of apps but I can’t blame small start ups when they need money. C’est le vie I guess, I could have been more patient with it but daily limits drive me bananas.
Going to cap this off with my ‘credentials’ aka, the result of my Affirm debt. Insert meme about adult money and no one to stop me here.My profile on Bias Room so you can see how irresponsible I am with my paychecks ;~;
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