What's new

Recent updates on Shelf Life. Click an entry for a bit more detail on what actually shipped. Sign up to start your own collection.

Sep 30, 2026
Fixed: Browse Books by Author, and Creator pages for cards
Clicking through to an author's or illustrator's actual page on "Browse Books by Author" or the new trading-card Creator pages was showing "not found" for almost any two-word name. Both are fixed — try a real author or illustrator now.
Sep 30, 2026
Fixed: Magic card search and master sets
Searching Magic: The Gathering illustrators (the new Creator pages below) and "See master set" on a Magic card were both silently coming up empty due to a bug in how the site talked to its card database. Both are fixed and working now.
Sep 30, 2026
A new "Browse trading cards by illustrator" page (linked in the footer) lets you search a Magic: The Gathering or Pokémon TCG artist by name and see everything on file for them — greyed out except what you already own, same as the other Creator pages for comics, books, and games.
Sep 29, 2026
LEGO sets: a "Built" checkbox
LEGO sets now have a "Built" checkbox — mark a set as assembled and it shows a badge on the card and in the detail view, separate from "100% Complete" (which is about having every piece/box/manual, not whether you've actually put it together).
Sep 29, 2026
Search now fills in Minifigures included automatically for LEGO sets, pulled from Rebrickable's real per-set data. And "See master set" on a LEGO set now shows every real set Rebrickable has for that Theme, greyed out except what you already own — not just sets other Shelf Life collectors have logged.
Sep 29, 2026
LEGO Set is a new collectible type — Theme, Set number, Minifigures included, Exclusive to, and Grading, plus a "Search" button that fills in the theme and set number for you from a real live set database.
Sep 21, 2026
Pages should load noticeably faster
Cover art and avatars across the site were loading at full original size no matter how small they actually showed on screen. They're now resized and lazy-loaded automatically, so pages with a lot of covers — your collection grid, a profile mosaic, search results, the leaderboard — should feel snappier, especially on mobile.
Sep 21, 2026
If you ever change your currency in Settings, an old purchase price, asking price, or wishlist price alert won't silently relabel itself under the new symbol anymore — it'll show which currency it was actually entered in instead.
Sep 21, 2026
You can now use your own photo as an item's cover art
The Cover image field used to only accept a pasted link. Now there's a "take/upload a photo instead" option right below it — handy for anything without decent cover art findable online, like an obscure VHS tape or a Funko Pop still in its box.
Sep 21, 2026
Typing something like "got Fifa 06 for £8 today" into Quick Add used to leave the price blank unless you typed a plain $. It now recognizes every currency symbol the site supports — £, €, kr, CHF, and the rest — in front of or after the number.
Sep 21, 2026
Tightened up privacy for the "share just my gift list" option
If you've turned on sharing just your gift list (without making your whole profile public), a few spots — the homepage's discovery rows, Find Collectors search, and an item's "Owned by" list — could show a gift-list item alongside your name in places that were only ever meant to show your public collection. Fixed so those items now only show up on your actual gift list page, where sharing it is the point.
Sep 21, 2026
Fixed: VHS tapes now work right as a physical-only item
VHS items could accidentally get marked "Digital," which doesn't make sense for a tape and was quietly breaking price checks and leaving them out of your collection's estimated value. VHS now works the same physical-only way consoles and Funko Pops already did.
Sep 21, 2026
Fixed: the wishlist's Amazon link now matches your region
The "Buy on Amazon" link on a public wishlist used to always point at the US Amazon site. It now uses your own currency's local Amazon store (amazon.co.uk, amazon.de, and so on) when one exists.
Sep 21, 2026
Fixed: missing items now send you to the right store
Clicking a greyed-out missing item to check its price used to always point at CeX, even for things CeX doesn't actually sell, like books. It now goes to CeX for games, consoles, and DVDs, and eBay for everything else.
Sep 21, 2026
Another new page lets you search a game studio or publisher and see their whole catalogue on file with IGDB — greyed out except what you already own, and a click on anything missing takes you straight to a price check.
Sep 21, 2026
A new page lets you search any author's name and see their whole bibliography on file with Open Library — greyed out except what you already own, and a click on anything missing takes you straight to a price check.
Sep 20, 2026
A preview of what Lists can look like
Before anyone's made a public list yet, the Lists page now shows a few example cards instead of just an empty message — so you can see what it looks like before you make your own.
Sep 20, 2026
A softer look for empty-state icons
Those same icons on "nothing here yet" messages now sit inside a soft gold-tinted circle, a bit more polished than a bare icon on its own.
Sep 20, 2026
Icons on every "nothing here yet" message
Following up on the new card look for empty states, each one now shows a fitting icon too — a trophy on an empty leaderboard, a lock on a private profile, a gift on an empty wishlist, and so on.
Sep 20, 2026
A cleaner look for "nothing here yet" messages
Empty states across the site — an empty search, an empty list, a private profile — now sit in a proper card instead of floating as bare text on the page. Cosmetic only, nothing about what they say changed.
Sep 20, 2026
The top menu now shows which page you're on
My Collection, Feed, Discover, and Account in the top menu now highlight in gold when you're actually on that page, matching the same highlight the bottom bar and the collection page's sidebar already show.
Sep 20, 2026
Icons on Search, Articles, and Lists
A few more pages picked up icons — the Search button on the Search page, "Submit your own" on Reviews & Articles, and the "Back to Lists"/"Reviews & Articles" back links now show a small icon instead of a plain arrow.
Sep 20, 2026
Icons on the item form: Cancel and Save Item
The Cancel and Save Item buttons at the bottom of the add/edit item form now show a small icon too, matching the icon style the rest of the app picked up recently.
Sep 20, 2026
Icons on profile pages: Follow, Share, Compare, and more
Profile pages now show icons too — Follow/Following, Share my shelf, Compare collections, Edit profile, and the "More"/"Manage" menu buttons all have a small icon now, matching the icon style the rest of the app picked up recently.
Sep 20, 2026
Icons on the collection page: Add Item, Tools, and more
The collection page's own buttons now have icons too — Add Item, Refresh all prices, Settings, Tools, Select items, and the Import/Export buttons in Settings. Matches the icon style the rest of the app picked up recently.
Sep 20, 2026
A small polish pass on "more actions" menus
The "⋯ more actions" button on item cards and the collection page now shows a cleaner icon instead of a text character. Cosmetic only — nothing about what these menus do changed.
Sep 20, 2026
Light/Dark and text-size controls now have icons too
The last two plain-text controls in the top menu — the Light/Dark toggle and the text-size dropdown — now show a small icon too, matching everything else up there.
Sep 20, 2026
Top menu: the bell is back, and every link now has an icon
The Alerts bell icon is back (with a small red count badge instead of the number in the text), and My Collection, Feed, Log in, and Sign up all show an icon now too — the top menu is fully icon'd again.
Sep 20, 2026
Top menu: icons on the Menu button, arrows on dropdowns
The top-of-page Menu button now has an icon next to it, and the Discover/Account dropdowns each show a small arrow so it's clearer they open a menu instead of taking you straight somewhere.
Sep 20, 2026
More icons back: collection menu, and item type icons
The collection page's mobile menu button and the small icon shown on a missing cover image (one per type — game, book, record, and so on) now use the same cleaner icon style as the phone menu bar and star ratings look a little crisper too.
Sep 20, 2026
Phone menu bar: icons are back, plus a quick Add button
The bar at the bottom of the screen on phones now shows an icon on each button again, and there's a raised "+" button in the middle for adding a new item straight from wherever you are. Alerts moved from this bar into the main Menu — still one tap away, just not down here anymore.
Sep 20, 2026
Cleaner nav, a reorganized add/edit form, and fewer icons
The menu at the top is now grouped into a Discover menu and an Account menu instead of one long row, and the add/edit item form is split into four clearly labeled sections you can jump between instead of one long scroll. The navbar and phone menu bar also drop their icons in favor of plain text labels.
Sep 20, 2026
Cleaner series grids for Vinyl/CD/DVD/VHS and Comics too
The same cleanup Games and Books just got now covers more types: Vinyl/CD/DVD/VHS creator pages do a best-effort job of leaving out foreign-language editions, and Comics no longer shows the same issue number twice. Trading Cards and Funko Pops were checked too and didn't need any changes.
Sep 19, 2026
"Series" grids are cleaner for Games and Books
Games: a franchise/series grid no longer includes DLC, expansions, or bundles alongside the real games. Books: a full bibliography no longer shows the same book twice, and does a best-effort job of leaving out foreign-language editions (it's not perfect — a few may still slip through).
Sep 19, 2026
Books: "See full series" now shows a real bibliography
Checking an author's full series used to only show what other Shelf Life users had also logged — often nothing. It now pulls a real bibliography from Open Library, the same kind of upgrade Games, Comics, and Trading Cards already have.
Sep 19, 2026
Fixed: "Back to Shelf Life" took you to the home screen
Coming back from an eBay/CeX listing used to always drop you on the home screen, no matter where you actually were. It now takes you back to the exact page you were on.
Sep 19, 2026
Tapping a missing series entry now goes straight to CeX
Clicking a greyed-out item in a series used to check eBay first and only go to CeX if eBay had nothing. It now goes straight to CeX every time — fixed pricing instead of an auction, which is what most people actually want here.
Sep 19, 2026
Fixed: tapping a missing series entry showed a blank screen
Tapping a greyed-out item in a series opened a blank white screen inside the iPhone app instead of a listing. Fixed — it now takes you straight there.
Sep 19, 2026
Gift list page: fixed buy links, cleaner layout
The "Buy on eBay"/"Search Amazon" links on a shared gift list actually take you to eBay/Amazon now — they were bouncing back to the home page inside the iPhone app. Also redesigned the whole page to be a simple scannable list instead of a crowded card grid.
Sep 19, 2026
Fixed: three collection-page bugs found while testing the iOS app
Buy on eBay/Search Amazon buttons on a shared gift list now show up on phones (they were being hidden there). Tapping a card in your own collection no longer shows an edit pencil on the card itself — open the card first, then Edit. Tapping a card on a profile page now opens that card, not straight into the full series.
Sep 19, 2026
Fixed: "Check eBay price" wasn't actually working
A broken connection to eBay meant price checks (and "Refresh all prices" on your dashboard) had been silently failing for over a month. Both are fixed now — real current listings should show up again.
Sep 18, 2026
The iOS app is live — search "Shelf Life" on the App Store to install it on your iPhone, with a real home-screen icon and no browser bar.
Sep 8, 2026
Small polish pass: cleaner tab titles, a homepage layout fix
Browser tab titles across the site no longer show "Shelf Life" twice, log in/sign up now have their own tab title, and a text-wrapping glitch on the homepage's demo cards is fixed.
Sep 8, 2026
A new "Browse by Creator" page (linked in the footer) lets you search any comic writer or artist and see their whole body of work in one grid — every issue on file for them, across every series, greyed out except what you already own.
Sep 8, 2026
A public profile now opens with a genuine "Recent activity" feed — what this collector's actually been adding, finishing, rating, and earning trophies for, mixed in with comments people have left them — instead of jumping straight from stats into the collection grid.
Sep 3, 2026
A new "Import from Discogs" button (Settings > Data, next to Import/Export CSV) pulls in someone's Vinyl and CD collection in bulk from Discogs, the same idea as the existing Import from Steam.
Sep 3, 2026
Public profiles now show recent activity
A public profile with any comments now shows a "Recent activity" preview above the collection — the last few comments, with a link to see them all — so a visitor gets a sense of the social side of the page before scrolling into the grid.
Sep 3, 2026
Upcoming Releases used to only show a game if it was a direct sequel/entry in a franchise you already owned something from. It now looks at the genres and platforms you collect instead, so it can surface real upcoming games you'd likely be interested in, not just ones tied to a specific franchise you already own.
Sep 3, 2026
Tapping a filter pill (Video Games, Trading Cards, Consoles, Funko Pops, etc.) on your collection screen was already filtering correctly, but the item grid sits below the fold, so it looked like nothing happened. Picking a filter now scrolls you straight to the filtered results.
Sep 3, 2026
Upcoming Releases: wider page, less scrolling
The Upcoming Releases page was squeezed into a narrow column on desktop, same issue the Full release catalogue had before. It now uses the full width of your screen, and releases lay out side by side instead of one long single-file list.
Sep 3, 2026
Clicking an eBay, CeX, or Amazon link from anywhere in the app used to leave you with no way to get back to Shelf Life. Those links now pass through a quick landing page first, so there's always a clear "Back to Shelf Life" link waiting for you.
Sep 3, 2026
Found and fixed the real reason this page usually showed "Nothing upcoming yet" even for franchises you own plenty of — a mismatch behind the scenes meant your own titles almost never matched up with the series data we'd already fetched for them.
Sep 3, 2026
A handful of games weren't finding their series on the Upcoming Releases page because of small spelling differences (like "MegaMan X" vs. "Mega Man X"). Those cases now get picked up correctly.
Sep 3, 2026
Price-drop alerts, the weekly stats email, master-set refreshes, and the Upcoming Releases calendar were all quietly doing nothing in the background due to a missing setting on our hosting side. That's fixed — everything is now actually running again.
Sep 3, 2026
In the Full release catalogue and any "See master set" / "See full series" grid, a wishlisted (or sold) item was showing up highlighted as if you owned it. Now only items you actually own count.
Sep 3, 2026
Games you don't own yet in the Full release catalogue are now clickable — checks eBay for it, same as everywhere else in the app. The grid also uses the full width of your screen on desktop instead of a narrow column.
Sep 3, 2026
Cleaned up a bunch of slightly-mismatched text sizes across the site so headings, body text, and labels follow one consistent scale instead of a dozen near-identical one-off sizes.
Sep 3, 2026
The dropdown behind the "Manage ▾" / "More ▾" button on public profiles now actually opens — it was rendering invisibly right after the profile header redesign.
Sep 3, 2026
Picking a platform on the "Full release catalogue" page now actually shows games instead of "No results" every time.
Sep 3, 2026
The profile header background is calmer now, and the row of buttons at the top is back down to a couple of buttons plus one "Manage"/"More" menu instead of 6+ buttons at once.
Sep 3, 2026
Compare collections, Shelf mosaic, Gift list, Manage showcase, Manage lists, and Refresh prices are now their own buttons on a profile instead of hidden behind a "More actions" menu.
Sep 3, 2026
The bottom bar on phones now has a 5th icon — Alerts — so you can check your notifications in one tap instead of opening the menu first.
Sep 3, 2026
Fixed a squeezed-looking profile background on phones
The faint cover-art mosaic behind your public profile header could look like a stretched, sliced-up strip of photos on a phone screen — that's fixed, it now lays out as a proper grid on any screen size.
Sep 2, 2026
On a phone, a persistent bar along the bottom now gets you to My Collection, Search, Feed, and My Profile in one tap — no more opening the menu first.
Sep 2, 2026
The "Xbox/PlayStation trophies & achievements" card that used to show on your public profile is gone.
Sep 1, 2026
Collection insights, Your Wrapped, Collection appraisal, Upcoming releases, Full release catalogue, Print labels, and API access all used to be one click deep inside a "More actions" menu — they now live in a real sidebar, visible on every dashboard page.
Sep 1, 2026
A new Upcoming Releases page shows what's still coming for the game franchises and comic series you already own something from, grouped by month, with a running spend total from prices you type in yourself.
Sep 1, 2026
A "Text" control next to the Dark/Light switch in the navbar now offers Normal, Large, and Larger — scales the whole page, not just body copy.
Sep 1, 2026
The page for any game, comic, or collectible now has a Reviews section — a star rating plus your own written thoughts, separate from your private personal rating, visible to anyone browsing that item.
Sep 1, 2026
Generate a token and pull your collection as JSON into a script, spreadsheet, or your own dashboard — no more exporting a CSV by hand.
Aug 30, 2026
A new "Print labels" page lays out a small QR sticker per item on standard address label sheets — scan one to jump straight to that item on your phone.
Aug 30, 2026
New: 8 more Shelf Life trophies to earn
New badges for owning 20 items on one platform, 10 genres, or at least one of every collectible type, plus new ones for tagging, writing notes, attaching condition photos, marking items for sale, and marking items sold. Platinum Shelf now takes 8 more to earn, same as every past trophy addition.
Aug 30, 2026
New: "Wishlist matches" panel on the dashboard
A new panel (inside Tools > Insights) shows which public collectors you follow already own something on your wishlist — and flags when they own more than one, a hint they might have a spare worth asking about.
Aug 30, 2026
New: opt-in weekly activity digest email
A new "Email me a weekly activity digest" checkbox in Settings > Data sends a Sunday email with your own week (what you added, completed, rated, or earned a trophy for) plus a rundown of what the public collectors you follow have been up to. Off by default, and it skips itself entirely on a quiet week with nothing to report.
Aug 30, 2026
Leaderboard "Most valuable" now shows a converted figure, in your currency
The ranking itself was already fair across currencies — a €5,000 collection correctly outranking a $6,000 one, say — but there was no way to see why. The podium now shows a converted amount alongside a collector's own-currency total, in whatever currency you've picked in Settings, whenever it's different from theirs.
Aug 30, 2026
A new "Full release catalogue" page (find it in the sidebar under Utilities, or click "See full release list" on an active "Browse by system" tile) lets you pick a platform — PlayStation 2, Switch, whatever — and see every major game released for it, greyed out except what you've already logged. Handy for spotting real gaps in a system you're actively completing.
Aug 29, 2026
Editing one of these now shows a "See full series" button, same as games/comics/trading cards/Funko Pops already had — it groups everything by the same artist, director, or author that Shelf Life collectors have logged, so you can see the rest of a discography, filmography, or bibliography you might be missing.
Aug 29, 2026
The site's dark theme stays the same, but the accent colors are new — warm gold and mint instead of the old purple/teal — cards and pills got rounder corners, missing cover art now shows a clean category icon instead of a broken-image look, and the Trophy Case got a real "velvet panel and medallions" redesign with locked trophies showing a lock icon.
Aug 28, 2026
A new option in the dashboard's "+ Add Item" menu lets you just type something like "fifa 06 on ps2 CIB $8 today" — it picks out the title, price, date, platform, and completeness as you type, shows you what it understood, and hands it to the normal Add form so you can double-check before saving.
Aug 28, 2026
Pokémon master sets now show every real print variant
"See master set" used to only expand a card into Normal/Reverse Holo/Holo tiles once you already owned one of its variants. Sets you've logged cards from now build up a real, complete variant checklist behind the scenes, so you can see prints you don't have yet — not just confirm the ones you do.
Aug 28, 2026
New: real master sets for Magic: The Gathering
"See master set" now works for Magic cards, not just Pokémon — a genuine per-set checklist (including foil and etched foil prints) instead of only showing what other Shelf Life collectors happen to have logged.
Aug 27, 2026
New: opt-in monthly email backup
A new "Email me a monthly backup" checkbox in Settings > Data sends you the same collection CSV and full data export you can already download on demand, automatically, once a month. Off by default.
Aug 27, 2026
Fixed: broken cover images now show a placeholder everywhere
A dead cover-art link used to show the browser's generic broken-image icon in a few spots — search results, the item detail view, master-set grids, and public lists. Now it shows the same clean placeholder covers already use elsewhere.
Aug 27, 2026
Fixed: keyboard tabbing through the leaderboard podium
If you navigate by keyboard, tabbing through the top-3 podium now goes left to right the way it looks, instead of jumping to the middle card first.
Aug 27, 2026
Removed the letter badges on the shelf hero
The small two-letter badge next to each row on your dashboard shelf (GM, CM, TC, and so on) is gone — each row already shows its name and accent color, so the badge wasn't adding anything.
Aug 27, 2026
Fixed: hard-to-read colors in light mode
Owned/Sold badges, the leaderboard's gold/silver/bronze podium, and success messages were much lighter than intended if you use light mode — now darker and easier to read. Dark mode was already fine and isn't affected.
Aug 26, 2026
A comics-only account now sees "your long box," not "your shelf" — same for backlog (games), binder (trading cards), crate (vinyl), and setup (consoles). A few trophies pick up a little flavor line too, once earned.
Aug 26, 2026
Emoji removed site-wide
The colored icon next to each row on your shelf is now a small letter badge instead of an emoji — same color, same spot, just no emoji.
Aug 26, 2026
The colorful, per-type shelf your dashboard got recently now shows on your public profile's Collection tab too — so anyone visiting sees a shelf shaped like your collection, not a generic one.
Aug 26, 2026
Backlog health and trophy completion for games, raw vs. graded and top sets for trading cards, top series for comics and books, record labels for vinyl/CD, and more — each one only shows up if you actually collect that type.
Aug 26, 2026
Fixed: Add Item and Quick add now let you add any type again
Picking a type you'd turned off in Settings > Collecting used to be blocked outright. Now you can always add any type — doing so just checks it back on automatically.
Aug 26, 2026
A new shelf at the top of your dashboard shows real cover art from your collection, one row per type you collect, each in its own color. Comics, vinyl, cards — however many types you have, your shelf looks like yours.
Aug 26, 2026
"Settings" (renamed from "Profile settings"), with a new Collecting tab
The settings panel is now just "Settings" — most of what's in there was never really about your profile. A new Collecting tab lets you change which item types you collect any time.
Aug 26, 2026
Signing up now asks which of the 10 item types you actually collect — pick just Comics and Books, say, and everything else disappears from Add Item, Quick add, and the Filters panel. Existing accounts get asked once too, next time you visit.
Aug 26, 2026
Searching Consoles (Add Item or Quick add) now finds the right one even with a typo or two — "nintendo swithc" still finds Nintendo Switch.
Aug 26, 2026
Fixed: closing Quick add (search) could silently lose your batch
Clicking outside the window (or pressing Escape) used to close it instantly with no warning, even mid-batch. It now asks first if anything's queued — clicking to save or add is untouched.
Aug 26, 2026
Click a search result released on more than one platform (Add Item or Quick add) and you'll get a quick "which platform is this copy for?" choice, instead of the item getting tagged with all of them.
Aug 26, 2026
Quick add (search)'s queue now shows your newest pick at the top
No more scrolling to the bottom to see what you just added — the queue lists newest first.
Aug 26, 2026
Game search results now show which platform(s) they cover
Searching a game (in Add Item or Quick add) now shows up to a few platform names next to each result, so you can tell which one you're actually about to add.
Aug 26, 2026
Each item in your batch gets its own small controls before you commit — Ownership and Condition always, plus Completeness for games/consoles or Price for everything else. Search still fills in the rest.
Aug 26, 2026
The camera barcode scanner and "Scan multiple" are gone. Search auto-fill (already used by Add Item and Quick add) finds more titles more reliably than a UPC lookup ever did, including older and import releases.
Aug 26, 2026
"+ Add Item" is now a chooser, so Quick add (search) is easier to find
Click "+ Add Item" and pick "Add one item" or "Quick add (search)" — no more digging through More actions to find the bulk-search option.
Aug 26, 2026
Search a title, pick the right result, repeat — then add the whole batch at once. Uses the same auto-fill search the Add form already has for each item type.
Aug 26, 2026
A shareable buy link on the gift list
Every item on someone's gift list now has "Buy on eBay" and "Search Amazon" links, so whoever's shopping for them can go straight to a real place to buy it.
Aug 26, 2026
A new document view of your owned items — grouped by type with subtotals and a total — built for printing or saving as a PDF, useful for insurance documentation.
Aug 26, 2026
The star rating now supports arrow keys, motion now respects your system's "reduce motion" setting, and the delete-undo countdown pauses while you're looking at it instead of a fixed 6 seconds.
Aug 26, 2026
A new "Lists" page collects every public custom list — Favorites, For sale, whatever people have built — in one browsable directory, not just visible on each owner's own profile.
Aug 26, 2026
See a title's crowd rating without opening it
Search results now show the average rating right on the tile (e.g. "4.5★"), not just after you click through to a title's page.
Aug 26, 2026
Collectors you might like
A new dashboard panel suggests public collectors who rated the same things highly as you did, with a Follow button right on the tile.
Aug 26, 2026
"For sale" flag for anything you own
Mark an owned item for sale with an asking price, and it shows as a badge on the card wherever it appears — including your public profile.
Aug 26, 2026
A new end-of-year recap card: items added, your busiest month, completions, ratings, and how your collection's value changed — built entirely from what you already track.
Aug 26, 2026
Game franchises, Magic card sets, and comic runs all show more complete, more accurate results now in "See full series."
Aug 25, 2026
"See master set" now works for real for Pokémon trading cards
The Pokémon master-set checklist now pulls genuine per-print variant data (Normal, Reverse Holo, Holo, 1st Edition) instead of missing some of the tiles it should show.
Aug 21, 2026
Mute any of the 5 notification types individually, browse your full notification history (not just the last 30), and filter it down to one type at a time.
Aug 21, 2026
Mark wishlist items High, Medium, or Low priority so whoever's shopping from your gift list knows what to get first.
Aug 20, 2026
A lightweight page showing just your wishlist — perfect for sending to family before a birthday or holiday instead of handing over your whole collection to dig through.
Aug 19, 2026
Filter your dashboard by tag or list
Click any tag on a card, or pick one of your custom lists, to filter your collection grid down to just that.
Aug 19, 2026
Bulk-manage your custom lists
Select multiple items on your dashboard and add (or remove) them all from a custom list at once, instead of one at a time.
Aug 19, 2026
Comics get a real master set too
The comics "See master set" checklist now pulls genuine per-issue data for the whole run, including long-running 1000+ issue titles, instead of only knowing about issues someone here happened to log.
Aug 18, 2026
"On this day" collection memories
Your dashboard now surfaces what you added, finished, or rated on today's date in a previous year — when there's anything to show.
Aug 18, 2026
Dashboard tools, all in one place
Filters, Select mode, Views, and your recommendation panels now live behind a single "Tools" button instead of several separate toggles.
Aug 18, 2026
Profile Settings, now organized into tabs
Profile, Notifications, Security, and Data & danger zone — four tabs instead of one long scroll of unrelated settings.
Aug 16, 2026
A few real-world fixes
Mobile pages no longer look slightly zoomed in with room to scroll sideways; Add Item now remembers the item type you used last; and CSV import now flags rows that look like duplicates of what you already have.
Aug 16, 2026
More accessibility improvements
Icon-only buttons now have real descriptive labels, form fields are properly linked to their labels for screen readers, images have meaningful alt text, and import progress is announced as it happens.
Aug 15, 2026
Real password reset, plus sign-out-everywhere
A genuine "Forgot password?" flow on the login page, and a new "Sign out of all other devices" button in Account security for when you've just changed a password you suspect someone else had.
Aug 15, 2026
Missing series entries now open a real listing to check
Clicking something you don't own yet in a "See full series" grid now opens an actual eBay or CeX search for it, so you can see what filling the gap would cost.
Aug 14, 2026
Clicking a card in your collection now opens a clean detail view — including notes, purchase price, and condition photos, which never had a place to show before — instead of jumping straight into editing.
Aug 14, 2026
"See full series" now links a missing entry to an eBay check
The full series/set view already greyed out what you don't own — clicking one of those now opens a pre-filled Add Item form so you can check what it'd actually cost you.
Aug 12, 2026
Deleting your account no longer happens instantly — you get a window to change your mind before anything is actually, permanently removed.
Aug 12, 2026
Signing up now checks your chosen password against a database of known data breaches and asks for a different one if it's been compromised before.
Aug 12, 2026
Rankings for estimated collection value now account for currency instead of just comparing raw numbers.
Aug 11, 2026
Auto-fill when adding a Pokémon trading card had been quietly broken for a while — it's fixed now, running on a different free database.
Aug 10, 2026
Comics get auto-fill too
A Search button next to Title now auto-fills comic details — cover, series, issue number, writer, artist, and publisher — the same way games and trading cards already work.
Aug 7, 2026
Anyone signed in can now write their own review or article for the Reviews & Articles section, not just the Shelf Life team.
Aug 7, 2026
Signing in now takes you somewhere actually useful instead of the same "sign up" page everyone else sees — real stats, quick shortcuts, and a new Reviews & Articles section with genuine written content.
Aug 6, 2026
Tap any game, comic, trading card, or Funko Pop and hit "See full series" to see the whole franchise or set, with anything you don't own greyed out.
Aug 6, 2026
A "Sign in with a passkey" option using your device's real Face ID, Touch ID, or screen lock — no password typing.
Aug 6, 2026
A poster of your real cover art arranged like items standing on a shelf, one wood-plank row per category.
Aug 6, 2026
VHS joins the collectible types
VHS tapes are now trackable alongside DVDs, with the same auto-fill Search button.
Aug 6, 2026
Combined search, with a detail page for every title
Search now finds collectors and collectible titles at once — click a title to see who owns it, the average rating, and useful links (like time-to-beat and guides for games).
Aug 6, 2026
Feedback form
A quick bug report / suggestion form, linked in the footer — no account needed to use it.
Aug 6, 2026
Bulk edit
Select multiple items on your dashboard at once to change their status, platform, or tags — or delete them — in one go instead of opening each individually.
Aug 6, 2026
Collection Insights
A new stats page beyond the value chart — item counts by type/platform/genre, tracked value by type, spending by month, and your busiest month for adding things.
Aug 6, 2026
Condition photos
Attach up to 4 real photos to a physical item, separate from cover art — handy for high-value collectibles where actual condition or grading matters.
Aug 6, 2026
Mobile: four cards per row
Your collection grid on phones now shows 4 cards per row in a denser, more scannable layout — tap any card for the full details.
Aug 6, 2026
The home page now shows real card/trophy previews and a live collector count instead of a mockup.
Aug 6, 2026
A real icon now shows in the navbar, browser tab, and link previews, replacing the old placeholder "S" badge.
Aug 6, 2026
A new "Friends" tab ranks just the public collectors you follow, with the same 5 categories as the site-wide leaderboard — a smaller, more personal ranking.
Aug 6, 2026
Save your search/filters/sort combo as a named shortcut and reapply it with one click.
Aug 6, 2026
Deleting an item now gives you a few seconds to Undo instead of asking "are you sure?" up front.
Aug 6, 2026
Two more collectible types can now auto-fill from a Search button next to Title, same as games and trading cards.
Aug 5, 2026
The phone nav and the dashboard’s Play Next/Recommended/Value chart panels now live in slide-in drawers instead of stacking down the page.
Aug 5, 2026
A new leaderboard tab ranks public collectors by estimated collection value.
Aug 5, 2026
A new collectible type — series/line, Pop! #, character, exclusive-to, grade, and Chase variants, right alongside everything else.
Aug 5, 2026
Public profiles now show a Collection value stat, and a "Refresh prices" button lets you re-check eBay for someone else’s whole shelf.
Aug 5, 2026
Track your hardware too — Nintendo Switch, PS5, Xbox, retro consoles, and more, right alongside everything else.
Aug 5, 2026
Based on your currency, prices now come from your local eBay site (ebay.co.uk, ebay.de, etc.) instead of always the US one.
Aug 5, 2026
Digital items are skipped automatically, and condition now factors into game price searches too.
Aug 5, 2026
A remembered toggle in Filters to keep your digital library out of the grid.
Aug 5, 2026
A bell in the navbar for follows, comments, and new trophies — check it anytime, not just in the moment.
Aug 5, 2026
Create as many curated sub-lists as you want — Favorites, For sale, whatever — beyond the 5-item showcase.
Aug 5, 2026
28 Shelf Life trophies now, up from 18 — new ones for wishlists, variety, following, and more.
Aug 5, 2026
Find what’s closest to platinum in your backlog, or see everything you haven’t tracked yet.
Aug 4, 2026
See what you and another collector both own — and what's only in one shelf — with a click from their profile.
Aug 4, 2026
A "Sync achievements" button pulls real completion % straight from Steam for your imported games.
Aug 4, 2026
Adding something you might already own now gets a gentle heads-up before you save.
Aug 4, 2026
Landing a trophy now shows up here for your followers too, not just item activity.
Aug 4, 2026
Tabs for each ranking plus a gold/silver/bronze podium for the top 3 — including a new Trophy case ranking.
Aug 4, 2026
Rate things in 0.5 steps now — click the left half of a star for a half rating.
Aug 4, 2026
Download your whole collection as a spreadsheet any time, as a backup or to move it elsewhere.
Aug 4, 2026
Track your real console trophies/achievements per game — separate from Shelf Life's own trophy case.
Aug 4, 2026
A dashboard pick from your backlog, weighted toward what you already rate highly.
Aug 4, 2026
Titles other collectors with similar taste rated highly, that you don't already own.
Aug 4, 2026
Log in with Steam and import your owned PC games automatically instead of adding them one by one.
Aug 4, 2026
See what the collectors you follow have recently added, finished, or rated — right here.
Aug 4, 2026
Pin up to 5 favorite items to a featured row at the top of your public profile.
Aug 3, 2026
A one-tap "Share my shelf" button on your profile for sending friends a link to your collection.
Aug 1, 2026
A chart tracking your collection's estimated value across snapshots, so you can watch it grow.
Aug 1, 2026
Bulk-add items from a CSV file instead of typing each one in by hand.
Jul 30, 2026
Look up an item's current eBay asking price with one click, or refresh your whole collection at once.
Jul 28, 2026
Five more collectible types joined games and comics, each with its own tailored fields.
Jul 20, 2026
Bronze-to-platinum badges for real collection milestones, shown on your public profile.