A web-app catalog for your collected items 🗂️
Spreadsheets don't have room for a photograph, and social apps don't care about provenance. CollectionBuddy is neither: a quiet, photo-first catalog for the things you collect, whether that's coins, stamps, records, or cameras. Every entry leads with a picture, carries a place and a few tags, and stays searchable once the shelf outgrows memory.
| Sign in | Your collection | Every item on a map |
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- Photo-first entries: one photo, a pair, or a whole strip. Phone photos are compressed to WebP in the browser before upload, so there's no manual resizing.
- Categories to keep collections apart, with sharing so someone else can browse (read-only) yours.
- Place and map: give an item a location, then see your whole collection pinned on a map.
- Tags and search across title, description, place, and tags at once.
- Import/export a category as a portable archive.
- Bilingual, themeable: German/English and light/dark/system, both remembered per visitor.
- Built to work with a keyboard and a screen reader, not just a mouse.
See the user guide for the full rundown.
Full docs live in docs/, organised by Diátaxis:
- Tutorial: Getting started
- How-to: User guide · Developer guide (checks, migrations, new environments, deploy)
- Reference: Architecture · Configuration
- Explanation: Design decisions
Contributions are welcome. Whether it's a bug fix, a new feature, or just improving the docs, open an issue or submit a pull request.
Before contributing, please check out CONTRIBUTING.md for local setup and the checks CI runs.
This project is licensed under the MIT License.