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[CLZ News] Big updates for all mobile apps

Sep 30, 2024

It’s the last day of September, so here is the CLZ News for Sept 2024.

This month, a big chunk of our time went into the CLZ Comics 9.8 release, in which we strengthened our partnership with CovrPrice for comic values. The development teams on both the CLZ and CovrPrice side have worked together to finally allow subscribing to CovrPrice straight from the CLZ app itself, as an In-App purchase!

Next to that, lots of work on both the Connect web-based software and all CLZ mobile apps. This has already resulted in big updates for mobile, but not for Connect yet. Expect cool updates for the Add screens of both Movie and Game Connect in October.

These are the updates for September 2024:

  • CLZ mobile apps:
    • CLZ Comics 9.7: Improvements for Add Comics, Statistics and Main screen
    • CLZ Comics 9.8: Subscribe to CovrPrice as an In-App purchase
    • All CLZ apps: new Sort Order screen, new Date folder option, nicer Stats
  • CLZ Core updates:
    • Core for Games: “Check Covers” project, 95.6% cloud coverage!
    • Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 78.0% cloud coverage!
    • Core for Comics: New Comic Book Day summary, 2,113 new releases

Updates for the CLZ mobile apps

CLZ Comics 9.7: Improvements for Add Comics, Statistics and Main screen

In v9.7, a couple of new features and lots of small improvements all over the app:

  • Add Comics screen:
    • New “Hide Owned” toggle on Series tab, for hiding all issues that you already own
    • New snappy “Confirm” popups replace the old and slow Preview pages
    • New look for issue cards on Issue tab
  • Statistics screen:
    • Removed the “Comics by Creator” top list, and replaced it with:
    • New Top Artists list, that includes all artist type roles
    • New Top Writers list, that includes all writer type roles
  • Main screen:
    • List and Card View now include the Variant Description for each comic
    • Several layout improvements to the comic details page
    • New folder options “All Artists” and “All Writers”

Check out lots of screenshots here

But… a week later, we had received a lot of user feedback on v9.7 (both positive and negative), by email, on our Club CLZ forum and in the CLZ Comics group on Facebook.

So in a v9.7.3 update, we addressed most of the complaints and suggestions:

  • Add Comics screen – Confirm/Preview sheet: more fields are included now: Back Cover, Characters, Plot, Release Date and Cover Price
  • Main screen – Card View: Cover Date is back, Issue Number is shown *under* the cover again.

V 9.7.3 screenshots are here

Phew… another crisis averted 🙂

CLZ Comics 9.8: Subscribe to CovrPrice as an In-App purchase

Since Oct 2022 we have had a partnership with CovrPrice, one of the best comic value services available, as they provide accurate and reliable comic values for both raw and slabbed comics, updated on a daily basis. Through this partnership, you can get up-to-date comic values from CovrPrice, right there inside your CLZ Comics app.

Up till now, one had to get a subscription to CovrPrice through their website and then link it to your CLZ Account. But not anymore!
Since CLZ Comics 9.8, you can now subscribe to CovrPrice straight from the CLZ app, as in In-App-Purchase! And when you do, it is linked up and active immediately, just use Update Values and you’re set.

Here’s how to subscribe for values:

  • Open the menu using the menu icon top left
  • Scroll down a bit to the heading “Comic Values from CovrPrice”
  • There, tap the Subscription Status line, where it says “Subscribe now”

The CovrPrice Premium Plan is US $60 per year, or US $6.95 per month.

Some CovrPrice screenshots here

All CLZ apps: new Sort Order screen, new Date folder option, nicer Stats

Last weeks, we did some “framework” improvements for the CLZ mobile app, meaning that these changes resulted in nice updates for all five CLZ apps:

  • Re-design of the Sort Order screen. The sort screen has now clearer option for choosing between ascending and descending sorting, depending on the type of field (A – Z, Lowest First, Oldest First, etc.) We also removed the extra “Apply” step after change the sort order.
  • New Date and Month folder options for all date fields. Group your collectibles by Date or by Month, e.g. by Purchase Month, or Added Date.
  • Statistics: new look for Most Recent and Most Valuable top lists
  • For comics: Have/Want summaries: On Order issues are now indicated with a *

For screenshots, follow these links to the Club CLZ forum:
CLZ Comics 9.9 / CLZ Books 9.3 / CLZ Movies 9.4 / CLZ Music 9.3 / CLZ Games 9.3

CLZ Core updates:

Core for Games: “Check Covers” project, 96.4% cloud coverage!

Almost done with the games for all consoles and handhelds! Still left are 500 PS Vita games, 100 PSP games and just over 300 Commodore 64 games.
Kelvin and Martin will probably finish that this week, meaning that, in general, when you add a console or handheld game by barcode, you should get the correct cover image.

When that’s done, there’s 15 thousand PC games to go through. We’ll probably end up doing only the more popular ones for those.

Core for Movies: “Check Covers” project, 80.5% cloud coverage!

CLZ user Martin is doing most of the heavy lifting here at the moment, checking almost 1000 covers on a daily basis!

Core for Comics, New Comic Book Day summary: 2,113 new releases!

This month, our CLZ content team added 1,903 new comic books to our Core, on four big NCBD wednesdays.

Check out this month’s NCBD posts on Club CLZ:

You can find all past NCBD posts on our Club CLZ forum here.