# Comic Book Collection App: Find Any Issue in Any Long Box

> Hoardo is a free comic book collection app built around boxes: each long box, short box and shelf gets a number, each issue goes in as an item, and search shows its box.

Published 2026-10-04 by Hoardo. Original: https://www.hoardo.com/articles/comic-book-collection-app

A comic book collection app should tell you which long box holds Amazing Spider-Man #300 without lifting a single lid. Hoardo does that for free. Each long box, short box and shelf gets a number, each issue goes in as an item, and search shows the box it's in, along with every other issue from the same run.

## Number your boxes first

Most collections already live in boxes, so start there:

1. **Write a number on every box.** Long boxes, short boxes, magazine boxes.
2. **Add each box to Hoardo** with that number and a name, like "#1 Long box: Spider-Man".
3. **Add shelves too.** Trades and graphic novels usually sit on a shelf, not in a box.
4. **Keep a box for keys.** Slabs and key issues in one place, with a place note like "Wardrobe, top shelf".

*A long box in Hoardo: each issue in it, with how many copies you have.*

## Add issues quickly

- **Typing** works well for runs: series name and number.
- **Speech** is faster when you flip through a box: "Amazing Spider-Man 298, 299, 301".
- **Photo** helps for a stack of trades: take a picture of the spines and Hoardo lists what it sees.

Use a category such as "Run" or "Key issue" to tell the everyday issues from the ones worth protecting.

## Find any issue in any box

Search covers every box at once. Type "Spider-Man" and you see every issue across your long boxes, the keys box and the pile still to bag, each with the box it's in.

*One search across every box: each issue with the box it's in.*

## QR labels for the long boxes

Print a QR label for each box and stick it on the short end. Point a phone camera at it and Hoardo opens the box, so you can see what's inside without unstacking anything.

## What Hoardo isn't

Hoardo isn't a price guide and doesn't look up covers, grades or barcodes. It's a quick, searchable record of what you own and which box it's in.

## Free for every long box

[Hoardo](https://www.hoardo.com/) is free for all your boxes and items. There's no billing and no paid tier. Collecting records too? See the [vinyl record collection app](https://www.hoardo.com/articles/vinyl-record-collection-app) guide.