Hello Everyone! These last months I’ve been working on a clean-room FOSS implementation of the CLZ software suite. For those unfamiliar with them, they offer collectionists applications for users, particullary aimed at physical media (comics, movies, tv shows, books, music). I hated when they made the switch to the SaaS model because they separated web and mobile apps and each has a separate subscription fee, for each one of their apps. I decided to start a free alternative to it, almost 1:1: https://github.com/collectarr/collectarr-app

The architecture of the service is centralized and can be soft hosted. The app stores everything locally on the users device, the sync service is supposed to be hosted by the user and allows syncing between devices and the core one stores only item metadata (no personal data that users stores on their entries). That metadata is manually curated and will be expanded by the community with proposals and will be hosted on my server when I’ll have the basic schema for most collection kinds going on. In the near future I’ll also make a sync bridge between Collectarr and Floppy so each physical release watching/reading status can be synced with floppy media entries.

AND YES I’VE USED AND I WILL CONTINUE TO USE AI FOR IT, IT’S A GREAT TOOL. All testing is done personally by me, my main motivation is to have a clz free alternative that I personally use. I would love if you could try this (the desktop app is the most stable currently and I recommend you trying it). I accept any ideas, issues and PR proposals. For an indepth guide there’s also the page that I hosted on github: https://collectarr.github.io/collectarr-page/ But keep in mind docs and the manual keep changing very fast these days because of the nature of the applications, and it takes a while to update all of them, I’m the only contributor so far.