Comparison

db'sCOMICSdb vs Washington Quarter

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

Washington Quarter

Organize and track your Washington Quarter coin collection. Add images of each coin, manage a want list, and view your collection in an entertaining way. The app also provides a running tally of your collection's cost.

Highlights
  • Organize coin collection
  • Track coin collection
  • Add coin images
  • Manage want list
  • View collection images
  • Track collection cost
  • Three color themes
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This app was developed for the collectors of Washington Quarters. Please keep in mind that the app is intended for organizing and tracking your coin collection. Therefore it does not contain information regarding how to grade coins. One of the most enjoyable things to anyone who has the collector bug is keeping track of their collections. So, we have developed a series of apps to allow you to do just that. This app will provide the ability for the user to organize, track and manage their collection of coins. Images of each coin can be included with the collection. There is also a means within the app for the user to peruse all of the images in an entertaining manner. The app has three (3) color themes which help to make the app more enjoyable. A running tally of the cost for the entire collection is provided. A want list is also included in the app to allow you to ear-mark coins that you are searching for.

Screenshots

db'sCOMICSdb4 screens
Washington Quarter4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Washington Quarter at 4.5 against db'sCOMICSdb's 4.0. Washington Quarter also leads on monetization model (free vs free with in-app purchases). db'sCOMICSdb's advantage is iOS requirement (12.0 vs 18.6). On price, ratings volume, update cadence and ads 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 and Washington Quarter sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Washington Quarter holds the better App Store score, 4.5 against 4.0. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 1 and 2 respectively.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

db'sCOMICSdb ships an update every 4 months, Washington Quarter every 3 months. The most recent releases landed on June 4, 2026 and September 17, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
db'sCOMICSdb versus Washington Quarter: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
Parameterdb'sCOMICSdbWashington Quarter
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.0 (1 ratings)4.5 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings12 — better
Update frequencyEvery 4 monthsEvery 3 months — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
MonetizationFree with in-app purchasesFree — better
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS12.0 — better18.6
Further details — not scored
Size6 MB35 MB
Age rating17+4+
DeveloperThe Lost Quill, LLCTom Johnson

Customer experience

db'sCOMICSdb

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

Washington Quarter

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

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
1 purchases

Washington Quarter

One-time1
  • Washington Quarters ProVersion$2.99

Questions

Is db'sCOMICSdb free?
db'sCOMICSdb is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Washington Quarter free?
Washington Quarter is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, db'sCOMICSdb or Washington Quarter?
Washington Quarter is rated higher. db'sCOMICSdb averages 4.0 out of 5 from 1 ratings, while Washington Quarter averages 4.5 from 2 ratings.
Do db'sCOMICSdb or Washington Quarter have ads?
Neither db'sCOMICSdb nor Washington Quarter shows ads.
Which is updated more often, db'sCOMICSdb or Washington Quarter?
db'sCOMICSdb ships an update every 4 months, and Washington Quarter every 3 months. Most recently, db'sCOMICSdb was updated on June 4, 2026 and Washington Quarter on September 17, 2026.

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