I built a free app to track my physical Criterion Collection — My CC Closet (iOS)
With the B&N/Amazon Criterion sale, and being sick of streaming, I picked up a copy of Wall-E on a whim. I fell in love with it and just kept going. I'm up to about 12 movies now, and can't stop thinking of getting more.
I feel like, as my collection grows, I will have trouble knowing what I have, want and seen. Hence, why I built this — I see so many posts here of people accidentally rebuying a movie they already had, just because there's no easy way to check before you're standing in a store or scrolling a sale. So I made myself a simple, private way to look it up, and figured other people probably want the same thing.
My CC Closet on the App Store — free, no ads, no account, no login and available worldwide.
How it works
- Browse the full spine-numbered Criterion catalog, searchable and sortable
- Mark each title Owned, Wishlist, or neither
- Criterion won't allow me to download all the cover art, and I get it, its their IP, so I added a feature where you can manually add every cover or bulk add them in a zip (more of this feature at the end)
- Everything syncs across your devices automatically through iCloud, no server of mine involved
Features
- Grid or list view, with adjustable tile sizes for phone and iPad
- Mark titles as Watched, separate from Owned
- Track official Criterion box sets — marking a set owned marks all its included spines, with a badge showing it came from a set rather than individually
- An Overview dashboard: how many you own, how many are on your wishlist, how many you've watched, and a growth chart over time
This is a small passion project built for a pretty niche audience, so if you use it and hit something annoying or want a feature, I'd genuinely like to hear it. Also curious how other people here track their collections currently — spreadsheet, memory, or something else — since that's basically the problem I was trying to solve for myself.
ZIP file upload
Like I said before, we can't preload or pull the images, but I come here asking for your help. I added a feature in settings (top right gear icon) where we can import a zip like this one I made of all movies in the Wes Anderson Archive https://drive.google.com/drive/folders/1sxEBzVv0Z4E-jfWtH5dsvLCPO7svR7Dh?usp=sharing, feel free to download it and test it on your device. I wanted to see if you guys are willing to help me out by trying the app, and using it. If you like it we can create a big zip file of all the covers, so when people use the app they can just get this file and get it working and looking beautiful.
To have the zip un compress by itself and add all the images accordingly, we need to named them their spine number.
Thank you so much!