Vitrio — Catalog What You Collect

Your collection, catalogued.

Vinyl, LEGO, whisky, retro games, board games — and anything else you collect. Scan a barcode, and the record fills itself in. Insurance-ready in one tap, and never locked in.

iPhone · iOS 18 or later No account, ever 12 languages Free tier, no ads
What it catalogues

Five catalogues built in. Then whatever you invent.

Each catalogue knows its own vocabulary: a record has an artist and a Goldmine grade, a LEGO set has a theme and a box, a bottle has a distillery and a fill level. You are never typing into a generic form.

Vinyl records

Artist, year, pressing, edition. Cover art fetched automatically.

LEGO sets

Set number, theme, part count. Sealed, complete, or parts only.

Whisky

Distillery, bottling, and fill level from neck to mid shoulder.

Retro games

Platform, and how the market actually grades: sealed, CIB, loose.

Board games

Designer and publisher, with completeness rather than condition.

Your own category

Coins, stamps, watches, comics. Give it a name, an icon, and a label for its second field — it then behaves exactly like the built-in five.

Adding an item

Point the camera. Vitrio does the typing.

Slow adding is the loudest complaint about every other collection app, so this is the part Vitrio takes most seriously.

Scan the barcode

Live camera scanning for EAN, UPC, Code 128, QR and PDF417 — the sleeve, the box, the bottle.

Fields fill themselves

Title, artist, year and cover art arrive from open catalogues. Only blank fields are filled — anything you typed always wins.

Pick the right pressing

One barcode often covers several editions, so the runners-up stay on screen under “Not the right one?” instead of being silently discarded.

Save & scan next

Batch mode keeps the scanner open with a running count, so a shelf becomes a catalogue in one sitting.

Catalogue Looked up in Setup How
Vinyl records MusicBrainz + Cover Art Archive No key needed Barcode, or by album title
Whisky & drinks Open Food Facts No key needed Barcode, or by bottling name
Board games BoardGameGeek No key needed By name — BGG has no barcode index
LEGO sets Rebrickable Your own free key By set number or name
Retro games Manual No open index exists, so you fill it in

“You already have this”

A duplicate warning before you buy a second copy — the reason people scan in a shop at all. It matches on barcode first (normalising UPC-A against EAN-13, which differ only by a leading zero), then falls back to the title within the same category.

Search by name

Barcodes go missing, wear out, or were never indexed. When one fails, type the name instead — the form searches whichever catalogue covers that category and offers the matches it finds.

Where it lives

Shelf A row 2, loft box 3, the cabinet. Storage location, where you bought it, purchase date, notes and serial number — the details that matter later, when you actually need to find or prove something.

Value & insurance

What it’s worth, and proof that you owned it.

Collections get lost, flooded and stolen. The unglamorous half of a catalogue is the half an insurer will ask for.

Value over time, honestly

The chart plots the values you have actually recorded. There is no invented market curve and no fake trend line — with one data point, Vitrio says so instead of drawing something decorative.

  • Estimated value next to what you paid
  • Unrealised gain per item and across the collection
  • Every change kept as a dated point

Condition the way your market grades it

Free-text condition means “NM”, “near mint” and “Near-Mint” all coexist and none of them sort. Each catalogue offers its own established scale instead — and still accepts wording of your own.

  • Goldmine for records: M, NM, VG+, VG, G, P
  • Sealed / CIB / boxed / loose for games
  • Fill levels for bottles, box completeness for LEGO
  • Third-party grades: PSA, BGS, CGC, SGC, WATA, VGA, AGS, CBCS

An insurance-ready PDF

A proper A4 document, not a screenshot: every item with its photo, purchase details, identifiers and market value, headed with your name and policy number.

  • Summary of value, purchase total and unrealised gain
  • Appraisals — value, appraiser and date
  • A “documented N of M complete” score, so you can see which items would fail a claim

CSV export, free forever

Every field, RFC-4180 clean, opens in Numbers, Excel or Google Sheets — wishlist included. It is free on the free tier and it always will be. A catalogue you cannot get out of is a trap, not a tool.

Private by design

No account. No servers. No feed.

A list of everything valuable you own, and where in your home it is kept, is not data anyone should hand to a start-up. So Vitrio never receives it.

Your iCloud is the login

There is no sign-up, no password and no profile. Your collection lives in your own private iCloud database and syncs between your devices — and nowhere else.

Nothing measured, nothing sold

No analytics, no tracking, no advertising, no third-party SDKs watching what you collect. The catalogue lookups are the only network calls the app makes, and they only ever send a barcode or a title.

Sharing without publishing

Share a piece or the whole collection as an image rendered on your device, handed straight to the normal iOS share sheet. Nothing is uploaded, and there is no public profile to be found.

  • The value is off by default — posting a total is a shopping list for burglars
  • You see exactly what will leave the device before it does
Everywhere you actually collect

Basement record shops have no signal.

That is where the good finds are, so “works offline” cannot be an afterthought.

Scan now, complete later

With no connection, Vitrio saves what it has and finishes the lookup by itself the moment you are back online — filling only the fields still blank, so nothing you typed in the shop is overwritten.

Your currency, your totals

Items keep the currency you bought them in, and the collection totals in the currency that actually dominates it — not whichever one your phone’s region happens to suggest. Where currencies mix, Vitrio says what it left out rather than adding numbers that don’t belong together.

Fully translated into 12 languages

English Deutsch 日本語 Français Español (España) Español (México) Italiano Português (Brasil) 한국어 Nederlands Slovenčina Čeština

Not just the buttons: condition scales, category names and the insurance report are translated too, with real plural rules — so Slovak and Czech say “1 položka” and “5 položiek” correctly. Vitrio follows your device language, and you can override it in the app if you’d rather read another.

Pricing

Free is genuinely usable. Pro lifts the ceiling.

Every feature above is on the free tier. What Pro buys is room and the insurance PDF — not the app working properly.

Free

No card, no trial countdown

  • Up to 100 items you own
  • Unlimited wishlist — it never counts
  • Barcode scanning and autofill
  • Duplicate check and title search
  • Value history and insights
  • Condition, grading and appraisals
  • Custom categories
  • Sharing
  • CSV export of everything

iCloud sync included. No ads at any tier.

Vitrio Pro

€4.99 / month · €34.99 / year · €69.99 once

  • Everything in Free
  • Unlimited items
  • The insurance-ready PDF report
  • Owner name and policy number on the report
  • Documentation completeness scoring

Lifetime is a single purchase, not a subscription. Subscriptions renew until cancelled and can be managed in your Apple account at any time.

Things worth being straight about

  • Values are estimates, not appraisals. They are figures you record and adjust yourself, useful for insurance paperwork and for watching how a collection moves. Vitrio does not pretend to be a valuer, and every screen that shows a number says so.
  • LEGO lookup needs a free key of your own. Rebrickable issues it in about a minute at rebrickable.com/api and Vitrio shows you where; the key is stored in your device Keychain, never synced and never included in an export. Rebrickable has no barcode index and no prices, so LEGO is found by set number or name.
  • Retro game titles are entered by hand. No open, free-to-use index of them exists, so the form doesn’t offer a search button that could only disappoint.
  • iCloud sync needs iCloud. Signed out of iCloud, the app still works — it simply keeps the catalogue on that one device.

Vitrio — catalogue what you collect. iPhone, iOS 18 or later. Your data stays in your own private iCloud, and CSV export is free forever.

Questions, bug reports or a catalogue that keeps missing your edition? Write to email@varadzin.com — a real person reads it. See also the privacy policy.