For meteorite collectors
Catalogue every fall and find. Record every classification. Keep it off the cloud.
ClearBench is a native desktop app for serious meteorite collectors. Classification, fusion crust, total known weight, provenance: every field a buyer or museum would expect to see, on your computer alone.
[ Detail view of an oriented chondrite + classification card ]
Three things, done well.
Classification, weight, provenance: the three things that determine a meteorite's value. ClearBench treats each as a first-class field, not a free-text afterthought.
A real catalogue
Official name, fall or find, recovery date, recovery location, classification, group, total known weight, your specimen weight, dimensions, fusion crust state, provenance, ex collection. Every field the Meteoritical Bulletin records.
Display + classification labels
Six bundled templates at 50×40mm, which works for display cases, classification cards, and per-specimen documents. Exact-size PDFs print correctly on every printer. Design once, save your house style.
Off the cloud
A serious meteorite collection has values that warrant private cataloguing. Classification numbers, valuations, and recovery locations stay on your computer.
Built for the field, not generic cataloguing.
The fields are the ones a Meteoritical Bulletin entry carries, drawn from how the field actually describes a piece.
Recovery locations stay yours.
Precise recovery coordinates in a searchable database can attract amateurs to a productive find site or expose collectors to regulatory scrutiny. ClearBench keeps them on your machine alone.
Stored on your device only
Every meteorite, photo, recovery location, and price sits on your computer. No upload, no copy on any server, no third-party access, including ours.
No analytics on your records
We don't track which classifications you search, which falls you collect, or which dealers you buy from.
Insurance and legal documents stay yours
The PDF provenance document and valuation schedule live on your hard drive until you choose to share them.
Backups stay yours
Full-catalogue backups are plain .clearbench JSON files you save where you want: your hard drive, an encrypted external, your own cloud. For day-to-day work, export any collection straight out to CSV, Excel, plain text, or a vCard for contacts, then round-trip back in after a bulk edit. The format is documented and stable.
No lock-in
If we vanish tomorrow, your collection is still yours, in a format you can re-import into other tools. The .clearbench backup file is plain JSON that opens in any text editor; the CSV, Excel, and plain-text exports open in tools you already have.
One price when it launches. Everything in.
No tiers, no upsells, no monthly billing. Every paying user gets every feature.
all in, no upsells
Pay in your local currency at checkout — we'll convert automatically.
- Six professional label templates, fully editable on a free-positioning canvas
- Build a catalogue around any collection: pick a starter or design your own field set
- Drag-and-drop photo gallery, plus add photos from your phone over local WiFi
- Type-aware fields with smart defaults per collection type
- Sharp, exact-size PDFs for printing
- Real macOS and Windows app with fast launch, native menus and keyboard shortcuts, dark mode that follows your OS, and no browser tab eating your RAM
- Local backups you control: export and restore the whole catalogue as one file
- All updates free for the licence year
30-day money-back guarantee · macOS and Windows · Your data stays on your device
First launch walks you through setting up your first collection in three short steps.
Common questions from meteorite collectors.
Does it record classification properly?
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Yes. Group is a dropdown: chondrite, achondrite, iron, stony-iron, pallasite, mesosiderite, lunar, martian. Classification is its own free-text field for the full classification string ('LL3.15', 'IAB-MG', 'eucrite, brecciated'). Combined, that's the way the Meteoritical Bulletin records a meteorite, and the way buyers expect to read one.
Fall vs find, recovery dates, and total known weight?
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Each is its own field. Fall-or-find is a dropdown (observed fall vs find). Fall / find date is a date field. Recovery location is structured free-text. Total known weight (the worldwide TKW) and your specimen weight are separate numeric fields with units, so a 14-gram individual can sit beside a 9.8-kilogram main mass and the catalogue understands both.
How does it handle fusion crust and slices?
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Fusion crust is a dropdown: complete, partial, fragment without crust, oriented (with the aerodynamic shape preserved), or slice / cut surface. The classification matters when you're selling a piece or insuring it; ClearBench keeps it discoverable in search rather than buried in free text.
Provenance for legality and authenticity?
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Provenance is a dedicated long-text field for the chain of ownership a serious meteorite buyer expects to see. Ex collection is a separate structured field for the previous-owner attribution that goes on the catalogue label. Both render on printed labels and are exportable to a per-specimen PDF document.
Selling, not just collecting?
ClearBench has a full dealer side: a stock list kept separate from your collection, show mode that tracks every sale from setup to pack-up, sales and ROI reports, and price-tag sheets from the same label engine. Same app, same privacy, no extra purchase.
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