An iPad sits in a useful spot for collectors. It has enough screen to enter details comfortably and scan down a long list of items, but it still goes with you to the shelf, the storage room, or the dining table where the boxes are spread out. Classifier runs on iPadOS 16 and later with the same free download as the iPhone and Mac versions.
The easiest way to catalog a collection is to work through it where it lives — a binder of cards, a drawer of coins, a crate of records. Propping an iPad up beside the pile and adding items one at a time is far less awkward than doing it on a phone, and far more practical than carrying the collection to a desk.
Once a collection grows past a few hundred items, finding things is the whole game. Custom tags for condition, era, origin, value, or anything else you care about let you filter down to exactly the items you mean, and the larger screen makes it easy to take in the results at a glance.
Charts are more readable on an iPad. Classifier breaks your collection down by category and tracks estimated value over time, so you can see where the collection is growing and what it adds up to without building a spreadsheet.
Items added on your iPad appear on your iPhone and Mac automatically through iCloud. Catalog on the iPad at home, then check your wishlist on your iPhone at a show — no account to create and nothing to configure.
One free download covers every device. See Classifier for iPhone, Classifier for Mac, or our guide to choosing a collection app.