For physical media collectors
Arkiv catalogues every disc you own, then does the part a spreadsheet never could: it writes you a Collector Portrait from what is on your shelf, and rewrites it as your collection grows.
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One real collection
Collector Portrait
Half your collection is from the 2010s, which tells you something about your tastes and timing: you came of age or came back to film during a decade of technical mastery and genre ambition.
Action and Adventure dominate, but never alone. Drama and Thriller sit alongside them, which means you're after films where spectacle serves character, where the scale of the world matches the size of the stakes. Spielberg leads your directors, but you've balanced him against Villeneuve, Scott, Bay, and Fincher: filmmakers who share his command of image but pursue different kinds of emotional truth. Over 800 copies in, the pattern is clear. You collect films that treat audiences as intelligent, that trust movement and sound and production design to do the heavy lifting.
This is a living room built for cinema that earns its budget.
Arkiv, on a 798-title collection. Unedited.
Yours will read differently.
Beyond the catalogue
A collection is a record of years of decisions. Arkiv is the only place that treats it that way.
Collector Rank
Every disc added, watch logged, review written and film lent earns XP toward your Collector Rank, from Newcomer to Legendary Collector. Achievements unlock alongside it: some in your first session, others reserved for collectors who go deep and wide.
Chronicle
Chronicle turns your history into a narrative. The bursts and the quiet stretches on your XP timeline, the milestones worth remembering, and an Archetype Spectrum showing how your taste shifted as the shelf deepened.
Statistics
Formats, genres, decades, runtimes and spend, and how the shelf has grown over the years. The People and Studios view names the directors, writers and studios filling your shelves more than you had realised.
Shelf Resonance
Arkiv scores every story against your actual shelf and leads with the ones that score highest. A Kubrick retrospective surfaces because Kubrick is on your shelf. Not a general news feed with your name on it.
Friends
Send your invite link to the collectors you already know. Once you are friends, you can browse each other's shelves, see where your collections overlap and react to each other's recent finds. Prices, purchase details, condition and notes stay yours, and any shelf can be hidden from friends. Introductions to collectors with similar taste are there too, if you opt in.
The basics
Before you switch
Export a CSV and Arkiv maps title, year, format and purchase date, then shows you the mapping to confirm or correct before a single title lands.
Yes. A box set or combo pack is one copy, classified by the highest format inside it, because that is how collectors count.
Any time, as JSON or CSV, in full. Nothing about your collection is held hostage.
No. Friends see your titles, formats, editions, ratings and public reviews, but never prices, purchase details, condition, value, notes, tags or where you bought a copy. You can also hide any shelf from friends.
Arkiv is free, and everything here today stays that way: no trial period, no card, no paywall on what already exists. Running costs are small enough that free works, and charging for something already free would break the trust the whole project depends on. If a future feature carries a real running cost (barcode scanning, for example, since lookup providers charge per scan), it would launch as an optional premium add-on, never a toll on anything already here.
Add your first disc in under a minute. Your portrait starts writing itself once there are ten.
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