Cabinet of Curiosities

What's inside

Everything Cabinet of Curiosities does.

Halls and cabinets

A hall for each collection, cabinets inside. Records, books, coins, cans, figurines, magnets, stamps and model cars come with their own card fields; your own hall takes any fields you like.

A card for every thing

Photos, inventory number, where from, when and for how much, where it is kept, condition and story.

Do I have it?

Photograph a thing at a flea market and the app compares it with every hall, wish list included. It runs on the phone. Long-press the icon to go straight there.

The background cut away

Things come in through the phone's camera or by the dozen from the gallery, and stand on the shelves cut out of the background.

Faded until described

A thing with an empty card stays faded. Write where it came from or what you remember, and it gets its colour back.

Series and wishes

A series shows the places still empty. A wish list for what you're hunting and a swap fund for duplicates.

The evening round

One question a day about one thing: where it came from, what you remember, where it is kept. The answer goes into its card.

Exhibitions and visitors

A theme each week, from everything red to the old-timers, with a poster to share. Visitors linger at the best described things.

Screens

Captured in Cabinet of Curiosities.

Cabinet of Curiosities: The museum — **The museum**Halls and the level.

Cabinet of Curiosities: Halls — **Halls**One for each collection.

Cabinet of Curiosities: A hall — **A hall**Cabinets and things.

Cabinet of Curiosities: A card — **A card**And what visitors said.

Cabinet of Curiosities: Do I have it? — **Do I have it?**A 1924 rouble: you have it.

Cabinet of Curiosities: Editing — **Editing**The background cut away.

Cabinet of Curiosities: Search — **Search**By name or by photo.

Cabinet of Curiosities: The arrivals book — **The arrivals book**In order of arrival.

Ready halls

Hall	Cabinets	Card fields
Records & tapes	vinyl, tapes, CDs	artist, year, label
Books	classics, children's, antique	author, year, publisher, binding
Coins & notes	coins, banknotes	country, year, denomination, metal
Cans & bottles	beer, soda, tea & coffee, rarities	brand, country, volume, series, year
Figurines	ceramics, toys, keyrings, wood	material, size, maker
Magnets	cities, countries, gifts	city, country, material
Stamps & postcards	stamps, postcards, tickets	country, year, series
Model cars	cars, trucks, racing	make, model, scale, maker

Get it

Get Cabinet of Curiosities.

Install

Version: v1.0.0 · the first version
File: Cabinet.apk, 10.8 MB
Requires: Android 9 (API 28) or newer.
Permissions: None worth mentioning: photos go through the phone's own camera and the system picker. No internet permission at all, no account, no ads, no analytics. The background cut-out model comes with Google Play services on first use.
License: MIT · font Manrope (OFL) · demo photos from Wikimedia Commons

Download the APK on the phone.
Open it and allow installs from this source when Android asks.
Name the museum, open the first hall and bring in a few things.

Everything stays on the phone: the app has no internet permission.

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Build from source

JDK 17+ (Android Studio's bundled JBR works) and the Android SDK. Kotlin, Jetpack Compose, Room, DataStore; ML Kit subject segmentation cuts things out, a MediaPipe MobileNet V3 embedder compares them.

git clone https://github.com/bigdevwhale/cabinet.git
cd cabinet
./gradlew testDebugUnitTest assembleDebug
./gradlew assembleDebug -Pdemo              # app.cabinet.demo: a museum of real records, coins and books

Good to know

Questions people ask.

How sure is «you have it»?

The lens compares the shape and the picture of the thing, not its text. Two coins of one year and design look the same to it, so check the card it shows: number, cabinet, where it is kept.

Can I move my collection to a new phone?

Yes. Settings makes a backup file with all the photos; open it on the new phone. There is also a PDF catalogue and a CSV table.

It's the first version — what if something breaks?

Then please tell us: Settings has buttons to report a bug or suggest an idea through the StillCraft bot.