About Comic Scry
Comic Scry is a solo project by Adam Kinney. It started as a personal tool. It's now in the App Store because the architecture proved out and the use case kept coming up.
Why this app exists
I need to clean my house.
As part of that, I needed to figure out what to do with about 4,000 comics I'd been carrying around since I was a teenager. I knew some of them were worth pulling out. I didn't know which.
Comic Scry started as a weekend tool — Apple Vision + a bundled cover catalog + a pricing lookup that said "I'm not sure" when it wasn't sure. I built it for me. It worked. Other people started asking for it.
The shape of the product
Comic Scry is a triage tool. It tells you which covers in a stack are worth slowing down on, and which head straight for the bulk lot. It doesn't replace a collection tracker — it's the moment before a tracker matters.
The pricing model is one-time, not subscription, because triage is sporadic. You don't need to rent a tool you use twice a year. 5 free scans to try. $19.99 unlocks 500 lifetime scans. Credits don't expire.
The data comes from two places. The Grand Comics Database for cover catalog metadata — a nonprofit volunteer archive the Library of Congress mirrors, 30 years of work. PriceCharting for the raw price ranges. We pay both. We attribute both.