mycollections.fr

What It Is

myCollections is a Windows desktop collection manager, not a typical cloud-based SaaS product. It is designed for individuals and households, letting users manage movies, books, music, TV series, games, software, NDS titles, and private collections in one application. The product emphasizes local, offline control: catalogs are stored on the user’s own computer, while internet access is mainly used for metadata lookups, downloads, and future synchronization.

Core Features

Its core strength is multi-category cataloging with automatic metadata completion. It can fetch covers, descriptions, ratings, cast information, track lists, ISBNs, release dates, and more from 35+ sources, including TMDB, IMDB, Google Books, OpenLibrary, GoodReads, Discogs, Spotify, MusicBrainz, Amazon, and others. It also supports ISBN/EAN/UPC barcode scanning, making it suitable for entering physical books, discs, and game collections. For imports, it supports XML, CSV, GCStar, BibTeX, DataCrow, DVD Profiler, Filmotech, Kodi NFO, and Collectorz, making migration relatively friendly; exports are available in HTML, PDF, XML, and CSV. Day-to-day management features include duplicate detection, loan tracking, wishlists, grouping and filtering, custom metadata, and multiple views.

Pricing and Plans

The free version is quite usable, allowing up to 100 items per category and including core cataloging, metadata lookup, barcode scanning, import/export, loan tracking, views, and database tools. Pro costs €25/year, or about €2.08/month. It mainly removes the 100-items-per-category limit and adds Bing image search plus future mobile sync features. The iOS/Android mobile apps are still in the planning stage.

Pros and Cons

The main advantages are a feature-rich free version, local storage, multilingual support including Chinese, extensive import/export options, and a wide range of metadata sources, making it well suited for long-term personal collection management. The downsides are that it only clearly supports Windows and lacks mature mobile apps. There is also no information provided on team collaboration, permissions, APIs, enterprise compliance, or security certifications, so it is not suitable as an enterprise-grade asset management SaaS.

Who It’s For and Access from China

myCollections is best suited to individual users who collect movies, books, music, games, or maintain a home media library—especially those who want offline control over their data, need to migrate from older tools, or want to generate collection lists. For users in China, whether the software itself can be downloaded reliably cannot be confirmed from the source text alone. However, some of its metadata sources, such as Google, GoodReads, Spotify, and Amazon, may be unstable or require a specific network environment in mainland China, so access is assessed as “partially restricted.” Alternatives include Calibre, Kodi, GCStar, DataCrow, Collectorz, and others.