Offline by default
Collection software that works completely offline.
Most collection apps need internet because they store your data on a server. ClearBench stores everything on your computer. Open it on a plane, at a show booth with no WiFi, in a remote-site cabin — the whole app works, the same as it does at home.
Why offline matters.
Three reasons the difference between "cloud app" and "local app" actually shows up in your day.
Privacy
A cloud collection app has a copy of your collection on a server. Even with the best intentions a vendor can be subpoenaed, bought, breached, or simply decide to mine the database for a feature you didn't ask for. ClearBench doesn't have a copy. We can't lose what we never received.
Show-booth reliability
Mineral shows, coin shows, fairs, conventions. Half the venues have flaky WiFi and the other half have none at all. Cloud apps spin a loading spinner; ClearBench opens straight to your stock, lets you check items off, and prints labels at the booth like it's a Tuesday morning at home.
Vendor-shutdown and price-change risk
A cloud app that 10x's its price or shuts the service down takes your catalogue with it. ClearBench is a binary that lives on your machine. If we shut down tomorrow, the app keeps running and your backups still open in any text editor. You are not renting access to your own collection.
What you can do without internet.
Pretty much the whole app. Six things you can do at 35,000 feet, in a venue with no WiFi, or in a cabin off the grid.
Run your whole catalogue
Add, edit, search, filter, and tag every record. The full database is on your machine, so there's no spinner waiting for a server to answer.
Design and edit labels
The free-positioning canvas, every starter template, every font and field — all of it works the same offline as it does at your desk.
Print sharp PDFs on the spot
Exact-size PDFs straight to whatever printer you brought to the booth. No 'connect to the cloud to render' step in the middle.
Run a show
Mark stock as sold, capture buyer details, log payment methods, and watch the running total — all the show-floor essentials on the local DB.
Generate reports and exports
Margins, top items, aging stock, sales by show, day-by-day takings. Export the whole catalogue to JSON or CSV any time.
Restore from a backup
Bring a backup file on a USB stick or pull one off your laptop. Restore on a fresh machine in seconds, with no account to sign in to first.
What you can still do connected.
The short list of things that do use the internet. None of them transmits your collection.
Licence activation
On first launch you paste in the licence key from your purchase receipt. The app sends the key and your computer's name to Lemon Squeezy's licence service so the activation can be tracked against your purchase. That's it. The catalogue itself isn't part of that request.
Occasional licence re-checks
When the app starts and there's a network around, it asks Lemon Squeezy whether the licence is still active — roughly once a week. If you're offline that day, it skips and tries next time. The app stays fully usable for 30 days at a stretch between successful re-checks; past 30 days offline it drops to read-only-with-export until it can re-check again.
Photo transfer from your phone
Scan a QR code on your computer with your phone, and the phone uploads photos directly to your computer over your local WiFi — peer-to-peer between the two devices on the same network. Nothing reaches our servers. Works at home; works at a show with the venue WiFi; works on a mobile hotspot.
Optional encrypted sync (on the roadmap)
Off by default. If you ever switch it on, your catalogue is encrypted on your computer before any data leaves it; our server holds an unreadable blob. The passphrase that decrypts it never reaches us. Sync is between your own machines, not a cloud workspace.
Auto-update check
The app checks our update server for a newer version. The request carries the current app version and OS; it does not carry your data, your licence key, or anything about your catalogue.
Built for the show floor.
If you sell at shows, the offline story is a workflow story, not a privacy story. No spinner when you go to check a price, no payment-capture failing because the booth WiFi dropped, no batch of fresh labels stranded behind a login screen.
Read the dealer story →ClearBench vs cloud collection apps.
Cloud apps win on multi-device-out-of-the-box. ClearBench wins on everything that matters when the WiFi is gone.
Your catalogue. Your computer. Online optional.
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