Private collection management

Know what you own —
and what it’s worth.

Photograph a work. Collecta reads the signature, the edition and the medium, then places it against a continuously growing index of published auction results. You confirm every detail before it enters your record.

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Free to start · No card · iOS, Android and web

7,465,000
Auction results
3,481
Auction houses
4
Passes per work
Private
By default

How it works

Photograph. Identify. Estimate.

Four passes over a single photograph — what it is, who made it, what it is worth, and how sure. Nothing enters a record until you confirm it.

01Photograph the workStraight on, even light. The guide frame handles the rest — no lightbox, no rig.
02Read the reasoningNot a spinner and a number. You see what was recognised, why the style matched, which three lots it was compared against, and why the range is as wide as it is.
03Confirm the recordCorrect anything wrong. Only then does the work join your collection — with its estimate, comparables and provenance attached.

Nothing enters your record until you confirm

Capturing a work on iPhone: the guide frame over a painting, with the shutter below.

Market Pulse

7,465,000 auction results. The ones that touch your walls.

A live feed of hammer prices across 3,481 houses, growing by the hour and filtered to the artists you actually hold. Records broken today, twelve-month movement for your names, and one clear insight at a time — never a wall of dials.

The reading is done against your collection, not the market in general. A record price means something different depending on the medium, the edition size and the year of the work on your wall — so that is what the analysis reasons about, and what the insight names.

Tracked live
3,481 houses
Growing
Every hour
Per screen
One insight

Failed sales are shown, not hidden. A lot that didn’t sell tells you as much as one that did.

See Market Pulse
Market Pulse on iPhone: records broken today and twelve-month movement for the artists in a collection.
An artwork record on iPhone: the work, its estimate range and the lots it was measured against.

The record

Everything about a work, on one page.

An estimate with a confidence range. The auction lots it was measured against. Provenance, invoices and condition reports in a timeline. Not nine tabs — one dossier you can read top to bottom.

Valuation
A range with a confidence meter, and the reason it is wide.
Comparables
Named lots, named houses, dated. Verifiable.
Provenance
Acquisition, exhibitions, documents — in order.
Documents
An insurance schedule your broker can file as-is.

Built for trust

Private by default.

Your collection is among the more sensitive things you own — what it is, what you paid, and what it is worth. So rather than assure you, here is how it is actually handled.

01Visible only to youA new work is private the moment it is created. There is no public-by-default state, no collector directory and no discovery feed to opt out of.
02Never sold, never advertised againstWe do not sell personal information, do not share it for cross-context behavioural advertising, and do not permit advertising networks to track you across our properties.
03Insights come from the public auction recordMarket analysis reads published auction results — never another collector’s holdings. Nothing you own contributes to anyone else’s numbers.
04Encrypted in transit and at restOn named infrastructure, with the handling set out in full in the privacy policy. We tell you before it changes.
What we holdAnd for how long
Artwork photographsTo identify a work and hold its recordUntil you delete
Collection recordsThey are the product — your record of what you ownUntil you delete
Email and nameSign-in, and replying when you contact usWhile you have an account
Order and provenance dataWarranty claims, disputes and regulatory dutiesSeven years
Logs and diagnosticsFinding the bugs that lose your workUp to 24 months
Sharing
Opt-in, scoped and revocable
Your data
Export as CSV or PDF
Deletion
From inside the app, at once

When you share, you choose what a guest sees — works only, or works with provenance, and your estimates only if you say so. Links expire, and you can revoke one at any time. Full detail is in the privacy policy.

Sharing controls on iPhone: what a guest may see, and when the link expires.

Beyond the spreadsheet

Hang it before you hang it.

A private virtual gallery on iPhone: works hung along a wall, walkable.

A private show, hung properly

Arrange a wall, walk through it, and send one link to whoever should see it. Rooms save, so a hang you like survives.

Wall placement on iPhone: a work held against a real wall with its span and height to centre.

Measured, not eyeballed

Hold a work against a real wall and get the span, the height to centre and a level line before a single hole is drilled.

For galleries

The same tools, at gallery scale.

Inventory, valuation and documentation across a whole programme rather than one wall — with portals for your artists and virtual exhibitions on top. We’re building it with a small number of partner galleries, by invitation.

  1. Every work in the programme on one record, shared across your team
  2. A portal per artist — their works, their market, their sales
  3. Virtual exhibitions and shared viewing rooms, straight from inventory
Talk to usEarly partner programme
Gary Simmons, EverforwardTauba AuerbachAn Te Liu, The Party’s OverAmie Dicke, Political Horizon

Pricing

Catalogue everything free. Pay to keep it current.

Your whole collection belongs in one record, so we don’t cap how many works you can add. Premium is for the part that keeps working after the record exists — the comparables, the revaluation, the market, the documents.

Collector

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For collectors just getting started.

  1. Unlimited artworks
  2. 5 AI-assisted intake analyses per month
  3. Wall placement workspace
  4. Private collection workspace
  5. Basic share links
  6. CSV export
  7. Community support
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$29.99Per month

Or $289.99 a year — two months free

Unlimited analysis for growing collections.

  1. Unlimited artworks
  2. Unlimited AI-assisted intake analyses
  3. Market trends
  4. AI provenance research
  5. Auction comparisons
  6. Insurance packet exports
  7. Wall placement + camera workflows
  8. CSV + PDF reports
  9. Private sharing and embeds
  10. Billing portal and usage controls
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Your collection deserves a record.

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