iCollect Action Figures: Toys

I have tried putting in a review for this app a few times and for some reason it does not go through. The app serves its purpose but the bugs that I have continued to have over the last year or two that I’ve had it are starting to get more frequent and outweigh its usefulness. I don’t know if any other toy collection tracking apps so I’m stuck with this also I paid for it so I’m not trying to waste my money even though it seems I already have

I’ve done over 350 entries so far on a very new iPad and here is my assessment: While the app is easy enough to hand enter data, its inability to recognize 99% of barcodes is annoying, as is the no capability to export the images taken with the collection. If I wanted to export the list to a potential buyer they would have no way to see condition via photo. It’d be my word only. The sort function could use a lot more criteria choices. The total # listed for entries does not include duplicates or is there any elegant way to note different locations for dupes. There is only buyer support but no way to advertise what you want to sell. Why not? On the good side it’s been largely bug free and the tie in to the iPad camera works very well along with crop function. The photos ONLY show up in the app as far as I can tell. It would be very helpful to dump them into the iPad image folder too. OK for the money, but only 3 stars for all the improvements that are needed and lacking. Update 2025: my collection has disappeared and my login now gives an error. ZEROstars!!

I purchased the Vinyl collector app a while ago, and it largely works great. I loved it enough to get a few of the other versions. Then one day, much of it disappeared. This happed to my Book collection as well. (That collection only had about a dozen items.) Not all of the figures vanished, like the books, but enough did to cause me a lot of frustration. When I emailed the company, they said to log out and log back in. That didn’t change anything. They did say they had a server issue and were working on it. A few days later everything seemed back, with some minor issues. Then, a week ago, all the books were gone again, and a lot of the figure list. When I emailed them again, they said there was a server issue with a little more details than previously provided. Not their fault, but nothing they can do. So I’ve been fixing what was lost and re-entering the items completely lost. BUT...I keep losing info I just entered. Images I just added, now gone. Even as I hit save the changes don’t save. Or if I leave the app to find a suitable image (because the search engine won’t find the basic image,) the app refreshes and I have to start that entry over again. It is extremely frustrating. I’ve been working on entering stuff for the last 2+ hours and half of it hasn’t kept. So, this app is being deleted. As is the Book one. Fortunately the Vinyl Pop one seems relatively intact. For an app that was a purchase, this is disappointing. I appreciate the speed the emails came from support, but they provided little help. And it would have been nice to have been notified about the server issue and that data was lost after they fixed it. Especially considering that they told me that everything entered since some point in November didn’t save despite being in the app until a week ago. So, thanks but I have to rate this 1*, sorry.