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[CLZ News] Coming up: values for CLZ Books mobile and web / catalog your Amiibo’s, Skylanders, etc…

Mar 31, 2025

This is CLZ Alwin, with another “what’s cooking” version of our CLZ Newsletter.
Again, with the entire content and dev team working on three big upcoming releases, the month of March saw no feature releases whatsoever.
We did do some important maintenance builds though.

So… this is what’s cooking:

  • Various maintenance updates for CLZ iOS and Android apps
  • Coming up: Automatic book values for CLZ Books Mobile and Web
  • Coming up: Toys-to-Life support for CLZ Games Mobile and Web
  • Coming up: More “compact” look and layout for CLZ Web
  • Available tomorrow: CLZ Core for Comics in 12 leather bound books!

Various maintenance updates for CLZ iOS and Android apps

This month, we spent quite some time on maintenance builds with optimizations and bug fixes. We recommend all app users to update their apps to the latest update:

  • Android: Optimized startup process and faster syncing
  • CLZ Comics Android: fixed a freezing problem while Cover Scanning
  • CLZ Comics iOS: fixed a problem when subscribing for CovrPrice
  • CLZ Movies Android: Fixed a crash in Pre-fill Settings

Coming up: Automatic book values for CLZ Books Mobile and Web

Coming up soon, yet another huge update for the CLZ Books mobile app and web-based software! Automatic book values and retail prices!

In more details, this is what will be new:

  • Get values for your books, based on average selling prices of the books on various online used book stores.
  • The old “Current Value” field will be renamed to “My Value” and will let you either OVERRIDE the automatically provided value, or just fill in a value for books that did not get an automatic value.
  • Get automatic retail prices in the Retail Price field (previously named “Cover Price”).
  • Use the new Update Values screen to regularly update your book entries with up-to-date Value and Retail Price information.
  • Optionally use the Retail Price as a “fallback value”, when an automatic Value is not available.
  • See Value statistics and totals in the Statistics screen
  • Sort your book list by Value

With close to 40 million books in our CLZ Core database, we will not be able to provide a value for all books in your collection. In particular, books without ISBN will not get values, as our value system is purely based on ISBN lookups.

Currently, our Core and Cloud statistics show that CLZ Books users will get a value for around 83% of their books, on average. Your mileage may vary, for example, if you own mostly mainstream US books with ISBN, your percentage may be closer to 90%. If you own mostly antique books, or only books in the Polish language, your coverage will probably be much lower.
The coverage of books with a value may slightly improve over time, as we are still gathering value information for less popular books.

ETA? We are aiming to release this feature for the CLZ Books Web web-based software this week, with the mobile app following soon after.
Sneak Preview: some preview screenshots of values in the CLZ Books app

Coming up: Toys-to-Life support for CLZ Games Mobile and Web

This has been on our ideas list for quite a while. But now it is finally coming to the CLZ Games mobile app and web-based software. Soon, you will not only be able to catalog your video games and gaming hardware, but also your “toys to life” collection, with full support for the following TtL types:

  • Amiibo’s
  • Skylanders
  • Disney Infinity
  • Lego Dimensions
  • Starlink
  • Rumble U
  • UB Funkeys

In the past few months, we have been working on our own Core online database for these “toys to life” collectibles, with images of the boxed toys, loose toys, links to PriceCharting for values, etc… This huge project is slowly coming to an end, so the CLZ web and mobile developers have now started building the actual features for the iOS, Android and Web apps.

Still lots of work to do, so the release is at least 4 weeks away, maybe even longer. Will try to post sneak preview screenshots as soon as we have something “presentable”.

Some photos of our recent team meeting:

Coming up: More “compact” look and layout for CLZ Web

We have been able to free up web-developer Sven from his other duties, so we are back on track with this one. In the meantime, we have decided to do a re-design of all screens of CLZ Web, not just the main screen and edit screens.

From what I have seen so far, it’s gonna be a huge step forwards for Web!

Available tomorrow: CLZ Core for Comics in 12 leather bound books!

We’ve all been there, at your local comic book store, or at a comic con… you wanna check CLZ Core and bam… no internet, no data, no nothing.
Sadly, there is nothing our tech guys can do to resolve that problem, there’s no app for that 🙁
UNLESS… we go offline, oldskool and back to PAPER!

Available starting tomorrow: CLZ Core in 12 leather bound books!

  • Purchase this beautiful set of 12 leather bound books for just US $495!
    The full CLZ Core database, all series, all issues, all variants, in actual paper books for your offline browsing.

  • Keep track of your comic collection. All issues are listed with checkboxes, so just use a pencil to checkbox the issues you own.
  • Wanna stay up-to-date with all new releases? We’ve got you covered! Subscribe to the monthly “Update from Core” paperbacks, for only US $5.95 per month, or US $60 per year. Receive all NCBD releases in compact booklets, sent to you on a monthly basis.

Enjoy!