"My Vinyl Toys" app for iPhone, iPad & iTouch! Personal Designer Toy Catalog System!

There's a new iPhone, iPad and iTouch application called "My Vinyl Toys," created by Jats Gill of Bitbots, which lets you create a catalog of your personal designer toy collection. It literally is meant to allow the Designer Toy collector to store, organize, search through and even share their personal collection via one handy dandy app! So, I've downloaded it, given it a spin and — like most things in life — there are good, bad and ugly parts to it…

The Good: It works. Immediately after downloading it I was able to take a picture of one of the pieces in my collection and create a listing for it. I really like that you can take multiple pictures of each item and that your listing is uniquely your own… thus any two people with the app won't have the same images for their entry, unless they happen to steal the pic from some internet resource as opposed to actually taking a photo.

The Bad: It's really geared more towards production pieces, which is a problem for someone like me that owns mostly customs and APs; I can most certainly enter them, but it's obviously not designed with that kind of material in mind. And the fact that there is no database of information is terrible… I was hoping to be able to have the fields auto-filled out for popular items at least, but you need to know everything; a sync with my Trampt account would solve this 100% — it would fill out the fields and even tell the system what I already have, then I'd just have to take some photos.

The Ugly: The interface (pictured above) is not a thing of modern joy, it feels quite dated and is actually a bit counter-intuitive despite the simple looking design. After I entered my first item, I could find the picture but it took me a few minutes to figure out how to retrieve the information about it.

In the end, it's a new app and I'm sure it will get better over time. Personally, I was happy to plunk down my 99¢ to support this, as it is something I've wanted. If, like me, you've been desperate to catalog what you've got, then you can download the app from HERE.