Comparison

Dead Media vs Disc Collection

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

Head to head
About

Dead Media

Catalog your physical media collection with a realistic shelf view. Scan barcodes to add discs, track what you've watched, and connect with other collectors to buy and sell. Analyze your collection's statistics and discover new releases.

Highlights
  • Realistic digital shelf display
  • Barcode scanning for quick entry
  • Track watched movies and ratings
  • Buy and sell discs with other collectors
  • Collection statistics and reports
  • Import from other collection apps
Features
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The app for 4K UHD, Blu-ray, and DVD collectors. Scan a barcode and your disc lands on a shelf that looks like the one in your living room: real spines, at real widths, in your pocket. With the rise of streaming, owning your movies has never mattered more. Track your collection, review what you watch, and buy and sell with collectors who get it. THE SHELF Log every disc you own and see it lined up spine by spine, growing with every haul. Sort by title, director, label, or year. Filter to your steelbooks, your Criterions, your blind buys, your unwatched pile. Box sets and TV seasons included. THE DATABASE Scan a barcode and the details fill themselves in. Over 100,000 physical releases with covers, spines, labels, and editions, built by collectors and growing every day. Bulk scan an entire haul in minutes. Bringing a collection with you? Import from Letterboxd, Blu-ray.com, CLZ, or My Movies Pro. THE REVIEWS Rate and review every movie you watch. Follow fellow collectors, see what the community is watching, and find your next favorite through people whose shelves you trust. Your Letterboxd rating history comes with you. THE MARKET Buy and sell discs directly with other collectors. No fees, no middleman: message the seller, agree on a price, and settle up between yourselves. Sellers verify with a phone number, and ratings keep everyone honest. THE REPORT Your collection, in numbers: formats, genres, directors, decades, labels, streaks, and what it's all worth. BONUS FEATURES • New release calendar and pre-orders • Movie of the Week, chosen by the community • Share a snapshot of your collection Start your shelf.

About

Disc Collection

Digitally capture your physical media collection in 3D. Create interactive models of your games and movies by taking just two photos, then explore your collection in a virtual gallery or organized stacks. Track your progress and share your collection with others.

Highlights
  • Create 3D models from photos
  • Explore cases front, back, and inside
  • Virtual gallery of user collections
  • Organized stacks by spine
  • Track scores, reviews, and hours played
  • Home screen widgets
  • Automatic data extraction from photos
Features
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A photo is flat. Your case isn't. Disc Collection is built for people who own the disc. Take two photos of a game or movie you own, and it becomes a 3D case you can pick up. Turn it over to read the back. Open it to see the inside art and the booklet. Take the disc out and flip it to the shiny side. It's built from your photos, so it's your copy: your edition, your scuffs, the sticker from the shop you bought it at. Then put it on display, and see what everyone else owns. YOUR COPY, IN 3D • Turn, open, and explore every case • Lift the disc out and turn it over • Each case comes in the size and plastic of its platform or format, from PlayStation blue to Xbox green to the red of PlayStation Hits THE GALLERY Every case in the Gallery is a real copy on someone's shelf, newest first. • Show your score and review with your case, or keep them to yourself. Mark a review as spoilers, and its words stay hidden until someone taps • Search the Gallery by title and see every copy of a game on display, next to your own • Heart the ones you want. They go on your wish list, a checklist for your next trip to the store • Already have it? Mark it with the check, and it waits in your collection, ready to capture with its name and platform filled in • Heart or check any case from its own page, however you found it • See who else wants or owns a case. Names only, never a count • Tap a collector to see everything they have on display • Pick a Collector Tag, like #retro_rhea, or stay a collector number. It's up to you • When someone wants one of yours, you'll get a quiet notification. Tap it to go straight to that case • No followers, no likes, no algorithm • Share an image of any case, from any side STACKS Every case on display, on one shelf, A to Z. • Each spine is the real case, plastic and all, at its true size: a Switch case thinner than a PS5's, a DVD taller than a Blu-ray • Jump to any letter with the index down the side • Hold a shelf and slide along it to pull out a spine, the way you'd run a finger along your own • Shuffle to land somewhere new • Old posts never get buried. They keep their place on the shelf TWO PHOTOS, THAT'S IT • Scan the outside and the inside with Apple's document scanner, the camera, or a photo you already took • The app flattens each photo to the exact shape of the case • It reads the title, platform, and year off the case for you, all on your device • Picked the wrong platform, or a photo came out upside down? Fix it anytime with Edit • Start a capture from Control Center, the Lock Screen, or the Action button KEEP TRACK • Games and movies, each in their own tab • A score out of 10 and a review in your own words • Hours played, finished or watched • Every case numbered as you add it, like a real catalog • See your whole shelf without pulling a single case off it ON YOUR HOME SCREEN • Widgets for your newest covers, open cases, or a shelf of spines • Every size, from small to extra-large on iPad • Show games, movies, or both PRIVATE BY DEFAULT Your collection and your wish list sync between your iPhone and iPad through your own iCloud. In the Gallery you're a collector number, or a Collector Tag if you choose one, and your review goes up only with a case you display. No accounts, no ads, no tracking. Disc Collection isn't affiliated with or endorsed by any console maker, game publisher, or film studio. The app includes no cover art: every case shows photos its owner took of their own copy, and the artwork in them belongs to its copyright holders.

Screenshots

Dead Media4 screens
Disc Collection4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is rating: Dead Media at 4.9 against Disc Collection's 4.7. Dead Media also leads on ratings volume (32 vs 10) and iOS requirement (15.1 vs 26.0). On price, ads, in-app purchases and monetization model 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. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

Dead Media holds the better App Store score, 4.9 against 4.7. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 32 and 10 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 6 level
Dead Media versus Disc Collection: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterDead MediaDisc Collection
PriceFreeFree
Rating4.9 (32 ratings) — better4.7 (10 ratings)
Number of ratings32 — better10
Update frequency—Every 4 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationFreeFree
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.1 — better26.0
Further details — not scored
Size54 MB13 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperBymike LLCAkshat Saladi

In-app purchases

None

Dead Media

No in-app purchases

None

Disc Collection

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Dead Media free?
Dead Media is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Disc Collection free?
Disc Collection is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Dead Media or Disc Collection?
Dead Media is rated higher. Dead Media averages 4.9 out of 5 from 32 ratings, while Disc Collection averages 4.7 from 10 ratings.
Do Dead Media or Disc Collection have ads?
Neither Dead Media nor Disc Collection shows ads.

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