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Keep a grip
on your
collection.

Ricasso is the collector's record for knife people. Log every piece, value the vault, and know what you own. Private, exportable, yours.

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Status
Live · Android
Platform
Android · iOS soon
Cost
$0 to start
Storage
Phone + cloud
§ 01

Three things.
Done well.

FEATURE · 01

Log

Scan the UPC, type notes, or capture by hand. Every piece in your collection gets a serialized record: make, model, steel, edge, weight, lock, photos, acquisition. Once. Forever.

  • UPC + camera scan
  • Multi-line notes per piece
  • UPC pre-fills brand + model
  • Photo grid per piece
  • Acquisition record
FEATURE · 02

Value

Each piece carries an estimated value pulled from active eBay listings, refreshed when you ask, never spoofed. See vault total, gain since purchase, and the line between collector pieces and carry pieces.

  • Active eBay listings
  • Vault total + gain/loss
  • Range + median per condition
  • Estimated · marked clearly
  • Cached · refresh anytime
FEATURE · 03

Own

This is your vault, not ours. Free tier stays on your phone. Paid tiers add cloud backup. No ads, no tracking, no aggregation. CSV export when you want out.

  • Local · free tier
  • Cloud backup · paid tiers
  • No ads · ever
  • No tracking · ever
  • CSV export · live
§ 02

Built for
the people who
actually own knives.

Ricasso is opinionated about who it's for. We build for people who already have more pieces than they can list from memory and who flinch at "smart inventory app" copy.

01
The Serial Collector
Has 30+ pieces. Knows every steel by feel. Already lost track of which Spyderco Para 3 is which sprint run. Wants the database they've been threatening to build for five years.
02
The Quiet Investor
Buys discontinued runs the morning they drop. Watches BladeForums classifieds at 2 a.m. Needs comp data, gain/loss, and an insurance-ready export. Not a forum poster.
03
The EDC Rotator
Carries a different blade every day. Tracks which pivot is loosening, which clip is bent, what got carried last week. Sees the collection as a working tool kit, not a museum.
04
The Inheriting Custodian
Just got handed a tackle box of their grandfather's Bucks. Doesn't know the steel, doesn't know the year. Needs help putting names to objects without being patronized about it.
05
The Maker / Smith
Forges their own and a few customs for friends. Wants a private record of every piece that left the shop, with serials and hand-off photos. The vault as a maker's-mark archive.
06
The One-Maker Deep
Owns more Sebenzas than pants. Can date a Reeve by the thumb-stud profile. The database their spouse already accused them of needing.
⊘ Not for

Casual buyers. People who own one knife and want a pretty app to remind themselves of it. Anyone shopping for "smart inventory". Anyone who says "blade enthusiast". You'll find us joyless. That's fine.

§ 03

Origin.

Founder
Disco
Started
2026
In vault
271, counting
Today
SMKW Para 3

I built Ricasso because my collection lives in a Google Drive folder I dread opening. 271 pieces, give or take. I can tell you what I bought last week. I cannot tell you what I sold three years ago, or which Para 3 is the SMKW dealer-exclusive and which is the regular run. The spreadsheet doesn't care.

I've tried everything to stay on top of it. Spreadsheets I update for a month then abandon. Notes apps that turn into walls of untitled entries. The one knife-collection app I could find wanted me to share with friends and earn badges. None of it worked. I wanted a clipboard.

So Ricasso is a clipboard. A serious one. It looks like a maker's mark, behaves like a spec sheet, and stays out of your way. If you've spent twenty minutes trying to remember which sprint run of which knife you sold to which guy in which subforum, this is for you.

If you haven't, that's fine. Plenty of other apps will be glad to onboard you to your knife journey.

Disco
§ 05

Questions
we've already had.

Is this just an inventory app?
Technically yes. Spiritually, no. Ricasso is a serialized record built specifically for blades. UPC parsing knows knife packaging, the spec sheet asks about steel and lock type, the value comp data is sourced from knife marketplaces. A generic inventory app gets you a row with a name. We get you a record.
Where does my data live?
On your phone at the free tier. At paid tiers, we back it up to a Firebase database (Google Cloud) tied to your account. Encryption: HTTPS in transit, AES-256 at rest with Google-managed keys. Client-side encryption (where the most sensitive fields are encrypted with a key only you hold) is on the V1.1 roadmap; until that ships, our admins can technically read your records, and we don't. We don't share, sell, or aggregate. CSV export is in Settings if you want a copy or an exit.
Will it identify a knife from a photo?
Eventually, yes. It's the obvious feature and we're building toward it carefully. Knife identification is harder than it looks (the Internet is full of "AI" tools that'll confidently call your Spyderco a Buck). For V1, you'll get UPC scan, manual entry, and search across brand, model, type, and condition. Visual ID lands later, when it's good enough to ship.
Where do the value estimates come from?
Active eBay listings, labeled "LISTED" so you know it's what sellers are asking, not what knives sold for. Always marked "estimated" because anyone who tells you a knife has an exact market price is lying to you. Premium tiers compile more comprehensive sold comps from eBay (coming soon).
How does provenance work?
V1 ships the foundation: every change to a piece in your vault is logged: purchases, photos, transfers, marked-for-sale, sold. Append-only, yours, exportable. After launch, we open it up: a public registry where a buyer can verify a seller's chain of ownership before they pay, where makers can sign their own COAs, and where verified dealers can attach grading entries. The endgame is a knife where you hand a buyer a URL and they see the maker's stamp, every owner since, and any work that was done, all signed by the people who actually held it. We're building toward that carefully. V1 is the storage; the registry comes after.
Is it free?
Founding Lifetime Collector ($99 one-time, first 200 buyers only, gone after July 31) gets every feature we ship, free, for life. That includes the paid tiers we're still building out with even more premium features. Free ($0) and Collector ($29/year) handle the basics if you'd rather wait and see. Limited seats on Founding Lifetime. Once they're gone, they're gone.
Will my collection get reported anywhere?
No. We don't share, sell, or aggregate your data. Your vault is yours; we use it to give you a vault, period. Client-side encryption of the most sensitive fields (price, serial, location) is on the V1.1 roadmap. We're not building "data on the knife market"; we're building a private record. If we ever change that, you'll get an email titled something like "we're going to do something dumb" first.
Do I need to scan every knife with the camera?
No. UPC scan is the fastest path for new-in-box pieces. For older blades, you can type or pick from a known-models list. The vault doesn't care how the row got there.
Why "Ricasso"?
The ricasso is the unsharpened section of a blade above the guard, where the maker's mark gets stamped. We thought that was the right metaphor for a private record of who owns what.

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