Collectionception

Collectionception: progress

A rough percentage, deliberately cautious. As of October 9, 2026.

All the planned features are in place and the app installs on a phone. What remains is to check everything in real-world use, then to prepare the release.

Latest changes

• After a reinstall, the app flags missing photos and offers to restore them from a backup (October 2026).
• Sync: photos only travel over Wi-Fi, unless the setting is changed (October 2026).
• Optional sync of collections and their photos across several phones, with no account to create (October 2026).
• Sharing a collection, as a file or through a link, plus automatic backup by the phone (October 2026).
• Two home screen widgets: collection progress and upcoming purchases (October 2026).
• App rebuilt to work entirely offline, with a redesigned interface (October 2026).

In progress

• Checking every screen on a real phone: display, animations, smoothness.
• First real-world trials of sync and link sharing.
• On-phone trials of photos, barcode scanning, the lock and the widgets.

Coming next

• Preparing the release: the app's final identity, the store listing and the privacy policy.
• Trying the final version in internal testing, before any release.
• Idea kept for later: estimating the value of items automatically.
• Idea kept for later: recognising an item from a photo.