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Comic collection app · Coming to iPhone and Android

Bag it.Board it.Backboard it.

Scan your comics to build your collection, then show it off. See what each book is worth, pull rarity tiers from Common to Legendary, track your pull list and the market, level up and trade with other collectors.

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The Backboard home screen: level 14 with a 6-week scan streak, collection value with its Legendary, Ultra rare and Rare counts, this week's pull list, your latest pulls in their tier colors, and hot keys
Adding books

Add a book in seconds

Use whatever works for the book in front of you, from this week's pickup to a Silver Age slab.

Barcode

Scan a whole stack in one go. It reads the 5-digit add-on too, so you get the right variant and printing.

Cover photoComing later

Take a picture of the cover and Backboard finds the match. Works on older books with no barcode.

Cert number

Enter the number on a graded slab to fill in the grade, label and page quality.

Search

Look it up by title, issue and year when you'd rather add it by hand.

Rarity tiers

Every scan is a pull

Each book you scan lands in a tier based on what your copy is worth. Key issues, like 1st appearances and origins, move up a tier, so a cheap key still feels like a find. Bring home a box from a garage sale, scan the stack, and see what you pulled.

CommonUnder $10
Uncommon$10 to $49
Rare$50 to $249
Ultra rare$250 to $999
Legendary$1,000 and up
Key issueUp one tier

Raw values depend on condition, so a raw book's tier shows the grade it assumes. Every book shows why it landed in its tier.

Bin dive haul: 24 books from a garage sale worth about $1,486, bought for $24, including 3 key issues, one Legendary and one Ultra rare, sorted by tier and by comic age
Your collection

Raw and graded, side by side

Keep every book in one place. Graded books keep every detail from the label, and every book shows its value at each grade along with recent sales.

Coming later with Gold: a rough condition estimate for raw books from a front and back photo. Add close-ups of the spine, corners or any flaw to sharpen it.

The estimate is a rough guide, not a professional grade. Don't buy, sell or submit based on it alone.

Book page for a graded copy of Night Warden #1 at 9.8: a Key issue, Ultra rare because its $142 value is Rare plus one tier for being a 1st appearance
Condition estimate for a raw copy of Moth Queen #4 from front, back, spine and corner photos: a range of 4.5 to 5.5, with spine stress lines and a blunted corner circled
The market

Watch the market before you buy

See which keys are heating up, find undervalued hidden gems, and know what your next pickup will cost before your shop places its order.

Hot keys and hidden gems

A weekly ranking of the books collectors are chasing, and why.

Pull list total

What your upcoming books will cost, with a countdown to your shop’s order deadline (final order cutoff, or FOC), so you know how long you have to add or drop a book.

Collection value over time

GOLD

See what your boxes are worth this month compared with last.

Tier change alerts

GOLD

Get a heads-up when a book’s value moves it up or down a tier.

Market screen ranking this week's hot keys, led by Skull Crown #33 up 40 percent
Pull list showing 7 books this week for $31.93, two days before the shop places its order
A collector profile with the top 3 books from their showcase shown as cards with sun cosmic and krackle borders
Profiles · Gold

Show off your top 3

Fill your showcase with the books you’re proudest of, and pin your three best to the top as cards in their tier colors. Then make them yours with cosmetic borders like sun cosmic, blue ice and krackle, earned with XP and milestones. The tier label always shows a book’s real rarity.

  • Level up as you collect to unlock new looks
  • Follow other collectors and see what they're pulling

Try the demo: tap a card, then pick a border.

Collector level · Gold

Level up as you collect

Scans, pulls and streaks all earn XP. Level up to unlock new borders, profile rings and titles.

  • Pull rare books for bonus XP
  • Keep a daily login streak and a weekly scan streak going
  • Follows and likes are capped each day, so levels come from collecting, not farming
Trading

Chat and trade with collectorsGold · Coming later

Backboard knows what everyone has and what they want, so it can find trades for you. When someone has books from your wishlist and wants books you own, you'll know.

  • Trade matches between your wishlist and other collections
  • Trade chat to agree on the deal and pick a place to meet, with block and report built in
  • Swap in person, like at your local shop, then rate each other
  • Trade ratings and verified slabs on every profile
A trade offer giving three books worth $32 for one worth $34, marked as a fair trade
Trade chat with Ink and Staples after the offer was accepted: they agree to meet at Corner Box Comics on Saturday, with a block and report button and a Mark trade complete button
Pricing

Collect for free.
Go Gold for everything.

Build your whole collection for free. When you want more, one Gold plan gets you every feature, not one at a time.

FREEFor every
collector
  • Scan by barcode and cert number
  • Unlimited books, raw and graded
  • A value and rarity tier on every scan
  • Pull list, hot keys and news feed
  • Import from another app or a spreadsheet
GOLDEverything, one plan
coming later
  • Know what it’s worth: live values for your whole collection, price history, value by grade and alerts when a book changes tier
  • Show it off: your profile and showcase, following, and XP rewards like new borders, profile rings and titles
  • Bin dives: dive mode and a haul summary of everything you found
  • Coming soon: trading, condition estimates, insurance reports and cover photo scanning

No add-ons and no second subscription. New Gold features are included as they arrive.

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Waitlist members get into the beta first and help decide what gets built next.

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