In thinking about it, I realized that I'm not entirely certain which movies I still own. Now, I have them all organized alphabetically in my living room, but it can still take time to look through that collection and find what might be missing--especially with the puzzle table which necessitates either moving the table or crawling under it to get at the back end of the alphabet. Long ago, I started a spreadsheet to track what we owned, but the process was cumbersome and I gave up after a while.
I decided to look at what apps (especially free or low-cost apps) that might be available to help with this process. I especially wanted one that would work by scanning existing barcodes and automatically cataloging the data. It turns out that there are a lot of them out there. Not only that, but it is really difficult to figure out how much one actually has to pay for the app to do what I want.
Some of the top hits were apps that require yearly fees (one was about $50 a year). Others say they have a one-time fee, but--according to online sources--then sneak in fees (such as, you want to store more than 20 items? Pay $5 a year). Some said they had the barcode feature, but could just scan the barcode and record it, not automatically find and catalog information about it. I spent over an hour looking through reviews, rankings, and articles.
I'm going to try Libib. It says it's free (nothing about in-app purchases; although I read in one review that you have to pay if you catalog more than 2,000 items); it is supposed to work for movies, books, video games, and others; and it has a scan and go feature for barcodes. It will take a while to inventory everything even with that, but I'm interested in knowing how well this will work.
I might even get my gift list updated.