Comparison

db'sCOMICSdb vs Comics Elite

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

db'sCOMICSdb

Organize and browse your comic book collection with this visually rich database app. It allows you to add details like condition, valuation, and custom cover scans. Access your collection offline and sync across devices.

Highlights
  • Create and maintain comic databases
  • Add condition, valuation, and custom scans
  • Search by creator, character, and date
  • Offline access to your collection
  • Sync across mobile and desktop
  • Open-data architecture
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A beautifully simple mobile app to create, maintain and browse comic collection databases. db'sCOMICSdb was developed by db who has dabbled in comic collecting since the 1970s. db needed a way to organize his collection and this is the result. Unique among comic-collector apps, db'sCOMICSdb is ad-free, has an open-data architecture and can be useful without internet access. It's a simple, no-nonsense, highly visual comic database! db'sCOMICSdb is available for both Mobile and Desktop platforms and designed for smooth interoperation across devices. If you find this free (and ad-free!) app to be useful we hope you'll contribute to its ongoing support via in-app purchases. With a back-end based on the open-data project, Grand Comics Database (https://comics.org), you have access to details for hundreds of thousands of comics from all over the world. To build your own database, add comics by entering Series and Issues. Now you can search through comics by creator, character and date. You can also provide details about each of your comic's condition, location and valuation and even add custom cover scans or photos. Convenient links to online resources like ebay and GCD allow you to update and monitor your collection. As you build your collections you can stash them onto your Desktop computer fixed-drive or your own online storage solution like Google Drive, Apple iCloud, Dropbox, etc. An online storage solution makes it easy to synchronize results between Desktop and Mobile sessions and it also makes it simple to share your collection with friends and with your favorite comic stores. db'sCOMICSdb has direct support for Google Drive but if your collection can be accessed via a URL it can be loaded and viewed with db'sCOMICSdb. You can view, sort and edit previously entered comics with no internet access. This is especially helpful when you're trying to remember your want-list while in the subterranean chambers of your friendly neighborhood comic store. Or perhaps during the zombie apocalypse. System Requirements The mobile app runs on modern (6th generation and newer) mobile phones. We recommend screens with at least 400 pixels of horizontal resolution. The app caches cover images for your collection and can therefore consume storage in proportion to the size of your collection. db's collection is approximately 2500 comics and we expect the app to scale to collections of at least 10000 comics. Larger collections will benefit from beefier model mobile devices. The desktop app runs on recent (post-2015 models) Windows 10 and Macintosh computers with at least 4GB RAM. For Data Geeks and Web-Slingers The central philosophy behind db'sCOMICSdb is that it's *your* collection and *your* database and it's to be stored wherever you wish. A collection is represented as a single JSON file coupled with optional custom cover-scans into a standards-compliant .zip file. The database schema is publicly available and this makes it easy for capable programmers to view and to import, export or manipulate the data. GCD Notices The Grand Comics Database Project (GCD) is a volunteer project with the goal of documenting and indexing all comics for the free use of scholars, historians, researchers, and fans. The GCD acknowledges that the all-encompassing research nature of the project may result in the posting of cover scans for comics with images that some may find objectionable. *Viewer discretion is advised.* Cover thumbnails are used for identification purposes only. All rights to cover images reserved by the respective copyright holders. All portions of the Grand Comics Database™, except where noted otherwise, are copyrighted by the GCD and are licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International License (CC BY-SA 4.0). This includes but is not necessarily limited to our database schema and data distribution format.

About

Comics Elite

Discover and shop for new comic releases, preorder weekly books, and access exclusive sales and discounts. Get early access to variants and enable push notifications to stay updated on all the latest offerings.

Highlights
  • Shop new releases
  • Preorder weekly books
  • Early access to exclusive sales
  • App-exclusive variants
  • Discount codes
  • Push notifications
Features
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The App for Comics Elite! Shop for new releases, preorder weekly books and so much more! - Early Access for Exclusive Sales - Variants EXCLUSIVE to the App! - App Exclusive Sales and Discount Codes - Enable Push Notifications so you don't miss anything!

Screenshots

db'sCOMICSdb4 screens
Comics Elite4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: db'sCOMICSdb at 100% against Comics Elite's 33%. db'sCOMICSdb also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (12.0 vs 14.0). Comics Elite's advantage is rating (4.7 vs 4.0) and in-app purchases (none vs 4). On price, monetization model and device support there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. db'sCOMICSdb sells 4 one-off in-app purchases. Comics Elite asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Comics Elite holds the better App Store score, 4.7 against 4.0. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Comics Elite has 131 ratings behind it against 1, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 100% of db'sCOMICSdb's written reviews are positive against 33% of Comics Elite's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

db'sCOMICSdb ships an update every 4 months, Comics Elite every 5 weeks. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and June 1, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard7 real differences · 3 level
db'sCOMICSdb versus Comics Elite: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdb'sCOMICSdbComics Elite
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.7 (131 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews — better33.3% of reviews
Number of ratings1131 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 5 weeks — better
AdsNo — betterYes
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPod
Requires iOS12.0 — better14.0
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB99 MB
Age rating17+17+
DeveloperThe Lost Quill, LLCComics Elite LLC

Customer experience

db'sCOMICSdb

All ratings1 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Comics Elite

All ratings128 ratings
Positive93.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative7.0%
Written reviews6 reviews
Positive33.3%
Neutral0.0%
Negative66.7%

In-app purchases

4 purchases

db'sCOMICSdb

One-time4
  • Coffee Fund$1.99
  • Comic Fund$4.99
  • TPB Fund$15.99
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  • Key Issue Fund$74.99
None

Comics Elite

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is db'sCOMICSdb free?
db'sCOMICSdb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Comics Elite free?
Comics Elite is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, db'sCOMICSdb or Comics Elite?
Comics Elite is rated higher. db'sCOMICSdb averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Comics Elite averages 4.7 from 131 ratings.
Do db'sCOMICSdb or Comics Elite have ads?
Comics Elite shows ads; db'sCOMICSdb does not.
Which is updated more often, db'sCOMICSdb or Comics Elite?
db'sCOMICSdb ships an update every 4 months, and Comics Elite every 5 weeks. Most recently, db'sCOMICSdb was updated on June 4, 2026 and Comics Elite on June 1, 2026.

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