Some of you may remember a post I made here a while back about Bag Dragon, a project I started because I wanted a better way to catalog and manage my own bag collection.

I received some really helpful feedback from this community after that post, and I've been working on it pretty relentlessly since then.

It's changed quite a bit, so I wanted to share an update.

🔎 First and most importantly: the Bag Dragon Catalog is FREE

I've been building a searchable database of collectible bags, and the catalog is completely free to use.

There are now two ways to use it:

🌐 On the web: https://bagdragon.com
📱 On iPhone/iPad: through the free Bag Dragon app

You don't need to purchase anything or have the Desktop software to browse and search the catalog.

The goal is to create a genuinely useful resource where collectors can search and browse bags by things like character/theme, franchise, brand, bag type, exclusives, and keywords, with individual pages containing photos and information about each bag.

I've spent a ridiculous amount of time identifying bags, organizing characters and franchises, cleaning up information, and adding older releases — and I'm still adding to it constantly.

So even if you have zero interest in using Bag Dragon to manage your collection, the catalog is there for you to use for free.

Use it to identify a bag, research something you're considering, hunt for bags from a particular character or franchise, or just fall down the rabbit hole looking at bags you didn't know existed. 😂

📱 Bag Dragon is now on iPhone & iPad!

This is probably the biggest change since my previous post.

I now have a Bag Dragon mobile companion app, and the iOS version is officially available on the App Store.

The catalog portion of the app is free, so you can essentially carry the Bag Dragon Catalog around in your pocket.

That's something I've wanted since I started this project.

If I'm at a store, convention, thrift shop, live sale, etc., I want to be able to pull out my phone and quickly look up a bag instead of trying to remember what it was called or who made it.

🍎 Bag Dragon for iPhone/iPad:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bag-dragon/id6799671849

🤖 Android is coming

Android is built too.

It's currently submitted to Google Play and I'm waiting for Google to finish the approval process.

Assuming everything goes as planned, Android users will have access to the same free catalog once Google signs off on the release.

🌐 Dragon Web has grown a LOT

The website has probably changed just as much as the apps since my original post.

BagDragon.com now hosts the free public catalog, individual bag pages, powerful search and filtering tools, information about the project, downloads, tutorials, and a Help Center.

You don't have to install anything to use the catalog.

Just go to https://bagdragon.com and start searching.

🖥️ The original Desktop app is still here too

Bag Dragon actually started as a Desktop collection manager because my own collection had reached the point where I wanted something more purpose-built than a spreadsheet.

That side of the project has continued growing too.

There are now Windows and Mac versions, and I've put a lot of work into making the releases more polished. The current Windows release is digitally signed, and the Mac release is signed and notarized by Apple.

Desktop is where the more advanced collection-management side of Bag Dragon lives, while the website and mobile app make the catalog much easier to access wherever you are.

🔄 And I've been connecting everything together

Another major project since my original post has been Dragon Sync.

The long-term idea isn't to have a random website, Desktop program, and phone app that happen to share the same name.

I'm trying to build them as one connected ecosystem:

🌐 Web — free searchable bag catalog
📱 Mobile — free catalog in your pocket
🖥️ Desktop — deeper collection-management tools
🔄 Dragon Sync — connects your collection between them

There's still plenty I want to build, but this is finally starting to resemble the thing I had in my head when I started.

🎒 I could still use the community's help

The catalog has grown tremendously, but collectible bags are a MUCH bigger rabbit hole than I realized when I started this. 😂

There are old releases, obscure exclusives, regional releases, convention bags, collaborations, bags with almost no information left online, and probably entire groups of bags I haven't discovered yet.

So I'd genuinely love for collectors here to try the free catalog and try to break it.

Search for your favorite character.

Search for something obscure.

See if I've categorized something incorrectly.

And especially — see if you own something that isn't in there.

If something is missing or wrong, I'd like to know. That's how I can keep making the database better.

🐉 Free Bag Dragon Catalog:
https://bagdragon.com

🍎 Free iPhone/iPad App:
https://apps.apple.com/us/app/bag-dragon/id6799671849

🤖 Android: Built and submitted — waiting on Google Play approval

Thanks again to everyone who checked out the original version and gave me feedback. It's come a very long way since that first post, and I'm excited to finally be able to put the catalog in people's pockets.