Magpie
Pretty loot, kept on purpose.
A private catalog for the things you meant to keep — coins, watches, vinyl, ceramics, or whatever your friends won’t shut up about.
Other apps were bloated, or built for dealers. Magpie is the list: what it is, what you paid, what it’s worth, and where it went if it left.
It looks like a website. Add it to the Home Screen and it behaves like an app. There is no account. Nothing is uploaded. How to use it is in Help.
On this phone
The catalog lives only in the browser (or Home Screen app) you opened Magpie in. It is not in Photos, not in iCloud or Google Photos, and not on a Magpie server.
- Records
- Name, serial, values, insurance, status, storage, notes — stored in IndexedDB, a local database this browser keeps for this site.
- Photos
- Compressed on the phone to JPEG (about 1600 pixels on the long edge, plus a 480-pixel thumbnail) and saved as files inside that same database. They never copy into Camera Roll.
- Appearance
- Light, dark, Magpie, or system is a small preference in this browser’s local storage.
- Phone and computer
- Magpie never signs into iCloud or Drive. You can still drop a backup in a folder you own. Lock it with a password — then that cloud only stores scrambled data. Magpie does not keep the password. Restore → Unlock → Merge to bring devices together. Replace is only for a clean move to an empty device.
Where to find it
Storage is tied to this site, in this browser, on this phone. Safari and Chrome on the same device are two different catalogs. A private or incognito window forgets everything when it closes.
- iPhone. Settings → Apps → Safari → Advanced → Website Data, then this site. A Home Screen icon is its own copy (iOS 16.4 and later), not the Safari tab.
- Android. Chrome menu → Settings → Site settings → this site. An installed Magpie icon uses that same Chrome storage.
Clearing this site’s data, switching browsers, or letting the phone reclaim space will delete the catalog and the photos. A Magpie backup (More → Save backup) is the copy that moves between phone and computer — pieces and photos together. Merge is incremental. CSV is only the spreadsheet.
Made by Tito Patrick @hammond_pj