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WEB · iPHONE · ANDROID · MAC · WINDOWS ↗Knives ✳ Pens ✳ Watches ✳ Lights ✳ Coins ✳ Everything EDC
01 / THE VAULT
The steel. The scales. The story behind the score.
Give your collection the attention you give your gear.
Snap a photo, scan a barcode, paste a product link, or import your spreadsheet. Photos, specs, receipts, and the story stay together.
Bring your collection over ↗Real completed sales, meaningful estimates, and a clear view of what you paid versus what you own. Asking prices don’t tell the whole story.
Explore market intelligence ↗Maintenance reminders, modification history, inventory labels, and a record for every piece. From the daily user to the safe queen.
Meet your new system ↗The Curator fills in specs, finds sold comps, and helps you figure out what belongs in your vault next. AI actions use credits.
02 / SNIPE BY CHOIL BETA
That auction lot might be a steal. Or just a very expensive lesson. Snipe puts sold-comp values beside the live stream so you can make the call.
G-10 · CPM S45VN · Folding knife
Snipe uses AI identification and estimated values, which can be wrong. Verify the item and its condition before bidding. Price checks use credits.
03 / THE DETAILS MATTER
Edge retention. Toughness. Corrosion resistance. Sharpenability.
Pick a steel and see what you're really carrying.
Larrin Thomas' balanced wonder-steel. The new baseline.
04 / WHEREVER THE HUNT TAKES YOU
Native apps for Mac, Windows, iPhone, iPad, and Android. One collection, everywhere you collect — with the web vault always a browser away.
12 pieces · Sample collection
CHOIL FOR DESKTOP
Spreadsheet editing. Drag-and-drop imports. Separate On Air windows. Native desktop apps for Mac and Windows, currently in alpha.
05 / FIND YOUR PEOPLE
The rabbit hole is better with company.
Buy, sell, trade, or post what you're hunting. Connect directly with other collectors. CHOIL never handles the money.
Browse The Case ↗▷THE COMMUNITYFind creators, share your daily carry, go head-to-head, and discover what everyone's carrying next.
Meet the community ↗✳GIVEAWAYS & DISCOVERYExplore giveaways, follow your favorite makers, and keep an eye on new drops and restocks.
Explore giveaways ↗THE COMPLETE SPEC SHEET
From eBay drafts and provenance to insurance documents.
All 148 features. Nothing buried.
Five ways in, sixteen categories, zero caps. Free, cloud-synced, unlimited.
Snap it — the AI names make, model and specs.
Type one sentence — or say it out loud on the web — and it comes back a filled-in draft. A credit, refunded on a miss.
Read the box's UPC, or the maker's own Code 128, Code 39, ITF or Data Matrix barcode, and match it to the catalog by part number.
Batch-scan a whole box on mobile — barcodes and photos, the camera never closes. Review once, add all, print the labels.
Paste a product URL; the specs come with it.
CSV, XLSX, or a pasted Google Sheets link — column mapping reads units as the sheet wrote them.
Edit the whole collection like a spreadsheet on the web — arrow keys, paste a block straight out of Excel, drag a corner to fill down, sort and filter any column. Nothing saves until you press save.
Knives, pens, lights, Zippos, coins, watches, multitools, wallets, fidgets, prybars — and Other.
A chip row narrows the vault to any one of the sixteen — and stacks with label filters. Web and mobile.
Lights get emitter, lumens, switch, reflector and lens; watches get movement and crystal; pens get nib and filling system. The form knows what you're logging.
Several at a time; pick the cover.
Every piece rendered like an engineering drawing.
Free-form fields for what the factory sheet doesn't cover.
Attach proof of purchase to the piece it bought.
Paid, from whom, date, shipping, tax, order number.
Rate price, value and quality on each piece. Keep your ratings private or show them when you share it.
Keep dated notes on each piece, with a separate sharing choice for every entry.
Track what you lent and borrowed, due dates and returns. Borrowed gear stays separate from your collection value.
Mint, Like New, Excellent, Very Good, User, Beater, Damaged, Project — and a separate scale for the box. Graded once, read everywhere: the valuation, the eBay condition, the listing copy, the insurance schedule.
Every record gets its own stable, never-reused number — ready to put on the matching box.
Print one item, a number range, or the active vault — Avery 5160/5163 sheets or 50×30mm thermal rolls — with a private QR link back to each record, plus optional price, coded cost and date-acquired fields for the sales table.
Name your thermal printer and the page matches its driver exactly — Phomemo M110-series gets the 48 × 30 mm media it actually indexes. The choice sticks between sessions.
Download the sheet with its page box already sized to the media — the escape hatch for a driver that fights the browser's print dialog.
The QR on a printed box label opens that record straight in the app on iPhone and Android — no browser detour.
Color-coded, renameable, filterable.
Collections inside the collection.
Spin a daily carry from the categories you pick.
Own two? Log the second in two taps.
Put 2–6 of yours side by side — every field any of them records, custom specs included, with a Differences only switch for the rows that actually diverge. Web and app.
Deleted pieces stay restorable for 30 days.
Care, service, refills, and repairs for every EDC category. Record several actions as one session, with reminders you can set.
Anodizing, scale and clip swaps, bearing swaps, re-profiles, blade swaps — each with who did the work: factory, maker, you, or a third party.
What you paid for the mod joins the piece's cost basis, so the insurance schedule and the realized P&L both stop pretending it was free.
Multiple lists; move items between them.
Set a target — get pinged when the market dips under it.
Public link with photos and specs. If the piece is listed, the link also shows your ask and lets a buyer sign in to message you. What you paid stays yours.
Real completed sales, IQR outliers cut, a median written to each piece.
Values sanity-checked against what the maker actually charges.
Total value, invested, and the delta — live on the vault.
One switch hides the portfolio total, on web and in the app. The whole card goes — nothing blurred, nothing revalued, and the number is back the moment you switch it off.
Every number says how sure it is.
Performance polygons for 85+ steels — edge, toughness, corrosion, sharpenability.
250+ stores watched — including Blade HQ, KnifeCenter, CRKT, Buck, GEC — restock pings the moment a piece is back.
How good that drop actually is, against sold history.
Follow makers — their drops come to you.
What a model really sells for — reached from any brand or piece.
Filterable search over the whole catalog: steel, lock, size, budget.
The live feed of what just landed where.
One click on a Whatnot or eBay live: identify the knife, quote retail and sold, meter the bid.
A floating button over any live stream. Android and iOS.
On iPhone, snipe without leaving the stream.
Every check you've run, kept.
List without writing a listing, publish to eBay only when you confirm, and hand the piece's history to its next owner.
The members' board: everything collectors are selling, trading, or in search of, in one place. Public discussion on every entry, a private line to the member, and CHOIL never touches the money.
Sell / List → flip it available — sell, trade, or both — with an ask and a 280-character note. Two steps in one sheet, and the public link is minted for you. No listing to write.
Hunting something you don't own yet? Say so, with a budget — no vault item needed.
Listed pieces show on your public profile with the ask. What you paid, and your history, stay private.
Link your seller account once, from Settings.
The listing is built from the piece's own record — photos, specs, category, item specifics — inspectable in Seller Hub.
Nothing goes live, and no fees exist, until you explicitly say so.
No eBay shipping/payment/return policies yet? CHOIL creates them from your ship-from address.
Venue-correct listings for BladeForums, r/Knife_Swap, Whatnot and Facebook — tags, timestamp lines and all.
Price, fees, shipping, and the currency it actually sold in.
What you netted — per piece, and across everything you've let go.
Sold pieces drop off leaderboards and your public profile automatically.
An append-only ownership record on every piece, maintenance log included.
Sell to a member, hand them the chain with a claim link. Their vault carries the history.
Generated per piece, ready for the share sheet or the buyer's inbox.
Every piece as a clean list — sorted by anything, stacked as deep as you like, photos optional.
The whole collection: values, serials, totals — with cover photos you can include or hide, and unvalued pieces flagged so the number is honest.
Four tools that go straight into OBS: a prize wheel, a tier board, a wall of your room's own knives, and a two-option vote the room settles live. All of them yours — entrants pulled from your own video, pieces pulled from your own vault. For anyone who sells or gives knives away on a stream, wherever they stream it.
Build the wheel: your prizes, your colors, your logo in the middle of it.
Pulls the commenters off your video — the whole video, not the first page — or the live chat while you are on air.
However many times someone comments, they get a single entry. Spamming the chat buys nothing.
Ask for "!enter" and only people who opt in are pooled, so ordinary chat doesn't enter anyone by accident.
A slot machine picks who wins; the wheel then decides what they won. Drawn names leave the pool, so nobody wins twice.
Optionally bar recent winners for a set number of days, and disqualify anyone who comments more than once.
Put a prize on screen, name a number, and take guesses from chat — one locked guess each, closest without going over. The win lands in the same ledger a draw writes to.
Draw from your channel members alone. YouTube only shows those badges in live chat, so the studio says so rather than quietly loading nobody.
Load a handful of test handles and a practice draw cannot land on a real entrant.
Who won what, and when, grouped by week — it survives resetting the wheel, because you still owe them the knife.
Three links: the pair, the wheel alone, the draw alone. Put them wherever they fit your layout.
The reel rolls and the wheel turns on all of them at once — your audience watches it happen, rather than being told the result.
Rank your own pieces on a board you built — your rows, your labels, your colors. Start with Classic or Power rows.
Pick one from your vault, or name a piece and upload a photo you took.
Catalog pictures can't go on a public board, so we grey them out and tell you which pieces need a shot of your own.
Move a knife with a finger or a mouse. One private link is both the board you capture in OBS and the one you place from, so there is no second screen to keep in sync.
Rename a row mid-show, recolor it, move it above another one. The board is the joke as much as the ranking.
The wheel with no background, so it sits straight on your scene instead of in a box.
One press turns the finished board into a PNG worth posting.
Paste one link in chat and your audience ranks every piece on the board from their phone, at their own pace, while you talk.
No submit button to miss. A viewer can change any pick right up until you reveal that piece.
The room's answer stays sealed until you press Reveal on that knife's tile — on the board you are already looking at, not in a settings panel.
When they disagree with you, a marker appears in the tier they chose, with the vote count on it. One vote never reads as a landslide.
Best-effort, and honest about it: a rate meter shows you if a room is gaming a piece, and you can reset that piece and re-run it.
Publish the finished board at a permanent, indexable CHOIL link.
"Show us what you're carrying" — answered. Paste one link in chat and a viewer's own knife goes up on your stream, with their name on it.
Live chat can't post pictures, so the room types their knife out instead. Here they tap the link, take the shot, and send it. No account, no app.
Every photo is identified before it reaches you. If it isn't a knife or a piece of EDC, it's deleted and you never see it.
The queue is yours alone, and a stranger's photo reaches your broadcast only when you put it there.
Turn on auto-air and each photo holds the stream for 10–60 seconds before the next one goes up, oldest first, so you can talk instead of tapping. Off by default — it puts an unreviewed photo on a live broadcast, so it is something you switch on, never something you inherit. Discard and Block sender keep working either way.
Your OBS source shows the photo you chose and nothing else. What you're reviewing is never what you're capturing.
End the show and every photo is deleted. Nothing a viewer sends outlives the stream by more than two days.
Your audience can't click a link on a livestream, so the board and the wall put a QR on screen — plus a card you can drop straight into chat.
Paste a link or upload the file, on the wheel, the board and the wall. Upload once and it's one tap on the other two.
Two options, one question, and the room picks a side. "Which is the better juice?" works as well as two knives — the choices are yours to type.
While voting is open the stream shows the count going up and nothing else. Nobody can see which side is winning and pile onto it.
One press closes the vote and animates the split onto the broadcast. It is the moment, so it happens when you say.
Queue up twenty matchups before you go on, then press Next between rounds.
The OBS source and the link in chat stay the same all night, however many questions you run. Paste once.
Show everything, favorites only, or nothing at all.
Hide any piece; add public notes to the ones you show.
Size, value, steel diversity, donor — earned, not bought.
Two collections, head-to-head.
Fourteen field-level toggles on exactly what a friend sees.
A reasoned winner with a margin — and a public link for the receipts.
Bugout vs. PM2, argued in the open and settled by votes.
One owner-shot cover earns the community ribbon every week.
Share today’s pocket lineup with the community, with an optional caption.
Creator videos, unfiltered — every upload from every knife creator you follow, newest first, with no algorithm deciding what you see. Filter to any subset from the chip row, play one in a floating window while you keep scrolling the feed, and the push the moment a creator posts opens that video right here rather than out on YouTube.
The drops mirrored to a room you can talk in — and The Case's own channel for the pieces people are arguing about.
Collection score, value, streaks, hottest — global or friends-only.
Gear given away live on stream, announced on the CHOIL channel. Free to enter with a CHOIL account, in the app; you must be present to win. Open to U.S. residents 18+; no purchase necessary.
Official CHOIL giveaway winners can submit shipping details and see claim status and shipment tracking in Giveaways in the app. Emailed claim links also work.
Connect your YouTube channel to the CHOIL account you entered with, so an admin can verify you as the live winner before shipping.
Creators can announce prizes to their followers, link to external entry or collect entries in CHOIL, and choose a host-run or automatic draw. Each host handles their own prize and rules.
Pro members get 10 entries as a membership benefit — and any member can get the same 10 free by mail, with a free CHOIL account and no app or paid membership, in the same drawing. A paid membership is never required to enter or win.
Who's exhibiting at which table, before you're on the floor.
Invite by link, or by email with a personal note.
DMs with photo attachments and knife cards pulled from your vault.
Blocking, reporting, community ban votes — with admin appeals.
"What would level up my collection?" answered from your actual inventory.
A blunt read: strengths, gaps, and the one piece to chase next.
Confirm the ID, or say it missed. A second model takes another look for free — and if that can't place it either, the credit goes back to you. You're only charged for an identification that was actually right.
Off by default. Opt in and your vault photos — with the make and model you recorded, nothing else — become visual reference so scans sharpen for everyone. No name, notes, prices or values are ever attached, and switching it off stops it.
Factory specs filled in from make and model.
Finds a clean product image when yours is a drawer shot.
The judge behind head-to-head vault comparisons.
The full vault in your pocket — logging, valuation, The Case, eBay, documents, Snipe.
Save your vault, sold pieces, sub-vaults, daily carry, maintenance, labels, wishlists and photos to one device.
Log a piece or fix a spec with no signal — changes queue on the device, marked pending, and sync themselves on reconnect. Photos, labels and sold flows wait for a connection, and say so.
When CHOIL detects a reconnect or launches online, it checks the server again. Settings also has a manual Refresh.
Pull down on vault, sold, item, photo, maintenance, trash, and wishlist pages to fetch the latest web changes — including from empty and error states.
From a knife's Photos screen, crop, rotate, flip, straighten, tune and filter a new camera shot before it uploads.
Messages, drops, price alerts — with app-icon badge counts.
Per-channel toggles. Account and security messages always send.
The vault is free forever; credits and Pro power the AI heavy lifting.
Buy credits or Pro time for another collector — a redeemable link does the rest.
Support the project, earn the donor badge.
Profiles start private. Review sharing controls, photo visibility, and deletion options.
YOUR COLLECTION STAYS YOURS.
Start with a free, unlimited vault. Add AI credits or Pro when you want more intelligence behind your collection.
AI features use credits. Explore credits & Pro →
A FEW THINGS WORTH KNOWING.
Yes. Your unlimited vault, manual logging, photos, maintenance records, and cloud sync are free. AI actions such as identification and valuation use credits. Pro adds a monthly credit allowance and additional benefits.
Knives are where it started. CHOIL now supports 16 EDC categories, including pens, watches, lights, lighters, coins, multitools, wallets, and fidgets, with specs that fit each category.
Yes. Import a CSV or XLSX, paste a Google Sheets link, scan barcodes, or add pieces from product links. You can also enter everything manually.
CHOIL uses real completed-sale comparisons to estimate market value, with outliers filtered and a confidence indication. Values are estimates, not appraisals; condition, configuration, and the available sales data matter.
Profiles start private. You choose what to share, with controls for individual fields and photos. You can delete your records or your account whenever you want.