Patch Vault vs Popscope
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.
Patch Vault
Organize and catalog your patch and challenge coin collections with detailed records, photos, and tracking. Easily search, filter, and view item origins on a map. Gain insights into your collection's trends and history.
- Catalog patches and challenge coins
- Add multiple photos
- Track detailed item information
- Search and filter collection
- View origins on interactive map
- Review collection stats and trends
- Sync privately with iCloud
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Keep your patches, challenge coins, and badges organized, photographed, and easy to find. Patch Vault brings your collection's details together on iPhone and iPad. Record the department, station, location, acquisition date, purchase price, tags, notes, and photos for every item, whether it came from a trade, station visit, event, or gift. - Catalog patches, challenge coins, and badges in one collection. - Search names, departments, locations, tags, and notes. - Combine tag, type, format, and favorite filters to find the items you want. - Explore where your items came from on an interactive map. - Sort by title, department, date, price, or recently added. - Earn achievements for collection size, geography, photos, and more. Track progress and share milestones. - Share individual items, collection summaries, and achievements as image cards. - Add photos from other apps using the share sheet. - Keep collection totals and achievement progress close with Home Screen widgets. - Use Siri and Shortcuts for collection stats or a random patch, and find items in Spotlight. - Sync your collection across your devices with iCloud. - Export backups with photos, restore your collection, or export a CSV spreadsheet. - Personalize your app icon and tint. Made for collectors of fire, police, EMS, dispatch, search and rescue, military, government, and other patches, coins, and badges. Start free with up to 25 items and one photo per item. Vault Unlock is an optional, one-time in-app purchase that adds unlimited items, unlimited photos per item, and collection charts.
Popscope
Organize and value your vinyl figure collection with this app. Browse a vast catalog, track owned items and wishlists, and manually add custom entries. Unlock advanced features like photo identification and market price checks with an optional subscription.
- Browse and search collectible vinyl figures
- Organize collection and manage wishlists
- Track portfolio with item quantity
- Add custom items manually
- Photo-based figure identification
- Marketplace price checks
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Popscope helps vinyl figure collectors browse, organize, and value their collection in one clean app. Search a large collectible figure catalog, save the items you own, build a wishlist, and keep your portfolio organized. When you want deeper market tools, Popscope Plus unlocks photo-based identification and marketplace price checks. FREE FEATURES • Browse and search collectible vinyl figures • View item photos, names, series details, UPCs, variants, and notes • Add items to your collection instantly • Build and manage a wishlist • Track your portfolio with item quantity • Add custom items manually with your own photo and manual price • Use the scanner camera to take or select a photo before identifying POPSCOPE PLUS • Identify a figure from a photo • Check marketplace-style pricing for item details • View image-search results from matching listings • Unlock premium scanner results and price lookup tools Popscope is designed for collectors who want a fast way to organize what they own, remember what they want, and check prices when buying, selling, or trading. Subscription Terms: Popscope Premium is an optional auto-renewable subscription and requires a separate purchase. Payment will be charged to your Apple ID account at confirmation of purchase. The subscription renews automatically unless canceled at least 24 hours before the end of the current period. You can manage or cancel your subscription in your App Store account settings. Terms of Use (EULA): https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/ Privacy Policy: https://sites.google.com/view/sv56developer/privacy-policy DISCLAIMER Popscope is an independent collector tool. It is not affiliated with, sponsored by, or endorsed by Funko, LLC, eBay, hobbyDB, Pop Price Guide, or any other collectible brand or marketplace. All trademarks, product names, and images belong to their respective owners and are used only for identification and catalog reference.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is ads: Popscope at none against Patch Vault's shown. Popscope also leads on iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On price, rating, ratings volume and update cadence 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
Both are free to download. Patch Vault sells 4 one-off in-app purchases and Popscope sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $1.99 per 7 days. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.
On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Patch Vault against 5.0 for Popscope. Both are backed by a comparable volume of ratings — 2 and 3 respectively.
Patch Vault ships an update fortnightly, Popscope every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on November 5, 2026 and October 31, 2026 respectively.
| Parameter | Patch Vault | Popscope |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Rating | 5.0 (2 ratings) | 5.0 (3 ratings) |
| Positive reviews | 100.0% of reviews | — |
| Number of ratings | 2 | 3 — better |
| Update frequency | Fortnightly — better | Every 3 weeks |
| Ads | Yes | No — better |
| In-app purchases | Yes | Yes |
| Monetization | Free with in-app purchases | Freemium |
| Devices | iPhone, iPad | iPhone, iPad |
| Requires iOS | 26.0 | 17.0 — better |
| Further details — not scored | ||
| Size | 59 MB | 44 MB |
| Age rating | +4 | 4+ |
| Developer | Robotic Snail Software LLC | Ha Quyen Ho Thi |
In-app purchases
Patch Vault
- Small Tip$0.99
- Medium Tip$4.99
- Large Tip$9.99
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- Premium$14.99
Popscope
- Weekly$1.997 Days
- Popscope Plus3 Days trial$4.991 Month









