"What's in this one?"
Uncap, squint at the feed, write a mystery line on scrap paper. Was it Kon-peki? Tsuki-yo? You genuinely cannot tell, and the bottle's long back on the shelf.
Fountain Pen Studio · pen, ink & nib records
Every pen. Every ink. Every fill. Remembered.
"…gazing forlornly at a pen, wondering which of the four thousand teal inks I had it filled with." — ink between the teeth, on the problem you also have
Your collection, your currently-inked rotation, your nib work and your cleaning schedule — kept in one offline file you own, personalized with your name. No account. No cloud. No subscription. $15.99, once.
Works offline · No account · Insurance-ready export · Yours for keeps
The rotation problem
A dozen pens inked. A memory that isn't.
The notebook you won't keep
Everyone tries the dedicated logbook next to the inking station. Everyone stops by week three. The system that requires discipline is the system that fails.
The pen that dried shut
The one you forgot was inked — three months ago. Now it's a restoration project instead of a writer, and it was the good pen.
The collection nobody could list
Forty pens across three cases. If you had to list them tomorrow — for insurance, for a sale, for your own sanity — could you? With nib sizes and what you paid?
"I usually have a dozen inked pens in rotation, so it's hard for me to remember." — Paul-in-SF, Fountain Pen Network, "How do you keep track of ink in pens?"
"I get even less enjoyment when the disorganization gets to a point where it prevents me from actually using what I have." — The Gentleman Stationer, on why this actually matters
Where does the record live?
Your collection is an asset. Treat its record like one.
A modest collection is worth more than the laptop it's cataloged on. Every way collectors keep that record has the same flaw — it isn't really theirs, or it doesn't really happen.
Memory — "I'll remember what's inked"fails by pen #6
The notebook by the inking stationabandoned week 3
The spreadsheet — "I despise Microsoft Excel" (The Pen Addict said it, you thought it)unwieldy, unloved
Free tracker websites — your collection on their server, behind their login, alive as long as their donations aretheir rules, their uptime
Fountain Pen Studio — one offline file, your name on it, insurance-ready CSV/JSON export whenever you want$15.99 · yours forever
Three entries, kept for you
Ink it. Write it. Flush it.
Currently inked
One tap when you fill
Pen, ink, date — logged in seconds. The rotation view shows everything inked right now, so "what's in this one?" is never a mystery line on scrap paper again.
rotation view · fill history per pen · ink library
Collection & nib workshop
The whole story of each pen
Nib size, grind, who ground it, material, filler, what you paid, what it's worth. The service history of your collection — the record a grail pen deserves.
nib grinds & tuning · values · photos
Cleaning log
Flush before it's forensic
It knows what's been inked how long. The good pen gets flushed before it turns into a crime scene — not restored after.
time-inked tracking · cleaning history
The Community Board
Owners pin their real builds — nib grinds, materials, current inks — to a public board. Browse free, cheers the good ones, drop any build into your demo. Your grail could be pinned up there too.
Built like you'd want it built
No account. No cloud. No expiry.
One file, yours
It opens in your browser and runs entirely on your device. Your collection — with its values — never touches anyone's server.
Insurance-ready
Full CSV and JSON export any time. If you ever need to prove what you own, it's one click, not one weekend.
Personalized
Your name greets you on the dashboard. It's your study, not a web service you're borrowing.
Bought once
No renewal will ever ask you to keep access to your own pens. That's the whole philosophy.
The last entry in the mystery-ink era
Know your collection completely.
$15.99 · once free cloud trackers rent you a page — this one you own
— signed, your collection