Soutenir First Finder

There's something magical about discovering your first rare or collectible book. It's more than finding an old volume on a shelf—it's stepping into a world filled with history, craftsmanship, and stories that have survived generations. Every collector remembers that first find.

As your collection grows, so does the challenge of keeping track of it. What starts as a simple spreadsheet slowly turns into a maze of formulas, colors, and tabs. Eventually, you look for a better solution, only to find software that's clunky, confusing, or built without collectors in mind.

That's why we created First Finder.

First Finder is designed to help you catalog and care for your collection—from your very first find to your next great discovery. Whether you're browsing your favorite used bookstore, exploring a rare book fair, or uncovering a hidden gem online, you can quickly record your purchase, photograph its condition, save receipts, and keep everything in one place. And while we started with rare books, First Finder is equally at home with comics, manuscripts, and other cherished collectibles.

To us, collecting is about more than ownership. It's about preserving art, protecting knowledge, and ensuring that remarkable stories continue to be passed from one generation to the next. That happens because of collectors—people who care enough to seek, preserve, and share these pieces of history.

First Finder was built for you.

The Collector. The Seeker. The First Finder.

FirstFinder is free, and always will be. It's a passion project I built and pay for out of my own pocket to help fellow collectors keep track of what they love. Running it — hosting, storage, the database, all of it — costs real time and money as more people use it. If you've gotten value out of FirstFinder and want to help keep it free for everyone, any donation is genuinely appreciated.