I don’t know if you’re like me, but I am someone who really likes to review and keep my stuff in order and organized as much as I can.

It seems like we live in the gold rush of apps right now, everyone is rushing to develop their own app, whether it’s needed or not. Over the past couple years there have been quite a few apps developed that really help us to rate, review and organize our goodies. For instance, one app that I use quite a bit for my comics is called Comic Geeks, one of a few that I use to keep track or rate & review things.

I haven’t tried other comic apps but this one does a very good job of making it easy to collect & input your issues into the app. What I really like about this app is that its database is pretty big. Of the 150 comics I’ve inputted, only a few didn’t come up in the app and required me to input manually. It’s great because it includes information such as the authors and illustrators involved as well as all the variant covers available for some comics. When collecting issues, I tend to gather a stack at home and then once I have about 5-7 comics gathered, I open my app and start inputting them. 

One of the newest features, I’m not sure how new it is, but recently I’ve come to notice that you can now scan the barcodes on your comics and it’ll search its database for the comic! Of the 20 or so comics I tried out, it was able to pull up all of them, some did require a bit of scrolling. It has come in handy lately because I purchased two mystery boxes last month, so I have a total of 72 comics; DC and Batman comics that I need to go through and sort and add to my collection. Even the older comics it was able to pull the information, for instance one was from 1992, two years after I was born and had no problem finding it. The major pros from this app is the ability to mark whether you have a comic, want it, or have read it. I love going in my app and marking comic books I’ve read and adding new ones to my wishlist, though my wallet doesn’t. Comic Geeks does have a social aspect to it, that I occasionally post on. For instance, whenever I finish a review on my website, I post it on Comic Geeks. But other than that I don’t really go searching for other people or check out my feed that much. For now, Threads has done a good enough job to fill my feed with comic geeks like me.

For my movies and tv shows, I like to use IMDb which is an Internet Movie DataBase. I recently started reviewing my movies in the past year. Though I tend to use this app almost daily because I’m constantly looking up voice actors from shows or looking up where the content is streaming. Instead of using Google, this is my go to app for searching for movie or tv information. I do wish I had created an account from the very start so that my recommendations were a bit better, although since I’ve started rating and reviewing more, my options have improved quite a bit. Overall this app is kind of a good way to keep track of everything that I’ve watched, since there are a multitude of streaming platforms now.

Now this might be a bit controversial but I kind of want a social aspect to the IMDb app. For instance seeing what my friends are watching or if they could send me direct recommendations in the app. I have looked up some other apps like Letterboxd which seems to be exactly that, movie and tv reviews from a social aspect. Though I am not sure if I want to start a new app and abandon what I have on IMDb. 

One app that caters more towards the collector nerds is the Funko app. With this app I keep track of all my Funko collectibles. Besides keeping track of your own collection, you can make separate collection lists as well as a wish list. Oftentimes I come across a collectible that I like and I’ll just put it in my wishlist rather than just buying every single one I see. I’ve found out that’s the fastest way to run out of money without getting what you want first. It also has a scanning feature that makes logging your collectibles really easy. Simply scan the barcode on the box and it pops up the right product information for you. It also has some additional information sometimes for collectibles that are on the market right now and if the prices are changing. Ideally I’d like to look for an app that keeps track of all my collectibles, for instance I have a few Transformers that I would like to log but since it’s not a Funko product, I’m unable to.

The final app that I use is one that I’m shamelessly going to plug into this, but it’s one that I developed with a buddy of mine called Chronicle. As a parent now, I need something quick and easy to keep track of what I’m smoking. Easy things like what I like or don’t like, products that give me a bad reaction, or strains that are good for one thing but make something else difficult. For instance when I smoke certain types of strains, I can’t really focus my eyes on reading some of these comics. Especially if it’s one of the more wordy ones, but on the flipside, I can be extremely focused while doing something else like designing, building or doing yard work. 

The main reason I use Chronicle is to keep track of products that really help me with my appetite. I’ve struggled with my appetite over the years and cannabis helps jumpstart it while also reminding me to take a break during the day. I’m unfortunately one of those creatives who just kinda gets a little bit too busy and in the zone that I’ll forget to eat. I will go an entire day without eating sometimes. Chronicle launched last year on the Apple App Store and have started to gain traction in users. There are a few things that we would like to improve over the next couple months; like partnering with more companies to have their products in our database so users can have the ability to scan a product and review it, right then and there. This is the best experience that we could ask for, at the moment if the product is not in the database it needs to be added manually(sorta like the comic geeks app). So if you’re from Threads or follow me on Threads, you’ll see some of these features get fleshed out in real time. Hopefully we will build some more relationships and improve the effectiveness of our scanning feature.

That’s pretty much it in terms of my collection of apps that I to use to keep track of collections, rate and review or just organization. There are some new ones out there that I want to try, one of my followers mentioned Sequel App that helps you keep track of movies, shows and more like games, books and audiobooks. I’m always on the lookout for apps to use especially since I can take some of those experiences and compare them to our own. What are things to avoid or things that annoy users and make sure we don’t commit the same problems. What’s something you love about an app but also has something you hate too? Let me know on Threads or below in the comments!

My Most Used Apps

1. Threads

2. Comic Geeks

3. Pinterest

4. Chronicle

5. IMDb

6. TikTok

7. Instagram

8. Discord

9. Funko