The android app is free 
. A pity it is not present in iOS…
System? What’s that? 
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I don’t have a local hobby store, I’m buying everything online at modelbouwkrikke.nl.
Overall I have good experiences with that shop and I’m playing to stay a customer of them.
I can highly recommend it.
Fair enough. Still it is a handy way to make/keep a shoppinglist… I am in the lucky position that Modelbouwenzo is my LHS 
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I don’t have a system and my looooonnnnggg term ambition is to reduce my stash to zero and buy/build one kit at the time.
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Can we get a doctor…we need a doctor now! This man needs help.
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Which one of the many ?
Good one, yes which one? 
I just got a little of the opposite.
There are a few of us (I am not pointing you out Robin 
) that at some point will decide on which kits will never be built due to the volume of kits owned. A spread sheet will be helpful because the aftermarket items will be identified that went with the kit so when selling a kit, the aftermarket items can be identified and be sold with it or individually. Without the spreadsheet you would end up with a pile of aftermarket and would not know if the kit for it had been sold and then keep it for fear of selling something you had planed on using on a kit you still have.
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My method is very easy. I have a very small stash. If I had thousands of pounds to blow on kits, I still probably wouldn’t have a massive collection. At the moment I have about 16 kits in boxes and probably 8 boxed accessory sets and 6 boxes of figures. The figures are usually only used 1 or 2 at a time to go with a completed vehicle to give scale and perspective.
It is a little easier for me as I will only ever buy in areas I have an interest in… For example I would never buy any early Pzrs or rarely a large wheeled vehicle. I was very fixed on mid to late German armour.
Last year when I properly got back into modelling I got involved in I think 8 or 9 campaigns ( which were all completed) luckily I had kits in my limited stash I could use in most of them, and only ended up buying about 3 kits.
Late in the year the Stryker and Gulf ODS campaign ideas were made so I thought that would be a great time to branch out and get more into modern kits, so the Stryker ESV and the M1A1 mine plough were bought and added. I usually only buy what’s needed or something may jump out and scream buy me .
I have 3 1/72 armour kits to buy for the A4dio group build and I have a kit ready for the build a photo2 group build. And I have 1 kit to get for the Star Wars alternative cam build.
Now I have branched out into more modern areas, I have recently got hold of an M1a2 SEP 2 from RFM and I intend to get a Chally2 from RFM and also a Leopard 2 A6.
So my stash/stock is quite precise and not complicated at all, and even with all the ones mentioned I should still be under 25 kits in all…
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When it comes to paint and supplies, I pretty much remember what I have and what I need. Usually when I need something, it’s already there, since I keep a regular stock of the lines I use and I’ve been modeling so long. The stuff I like is always in stock, the stuff that was so - so has long since been binned. If I need something for an upcoming kit, I pre-order it so there’s no lag time. So I really don’t have to keep track of my consumable supplies.
When it comes to the stash, well, that’s a different story. I have 500 - 600 armor kits, most with aftermarket. But early on I found a super simple way to manage it all. Since you can’t always (especially with new releases) fit all the AM in the kit box, I have 4 categories of plastic bins: photo etch, barrels, tracks & wheels, and resin. At the office supply store, I bought packages of color - coding dots : yellow, red, blue, and green. Yellow for PE, red for barrels, blue for tracks or wheels, and green for resin. Whenever I buy aftermarket, I just stick the appropriate colored dot on the end of the kit box and put the AM item in its bin. Done. Now with a glance I can look at a kit in the stash and know what aftermarket I have for it. If I’m going to a show or online shopping, I can look at a kit and see what it needs and put that on my shopping list if I want to put that kit in the que. Very simple yet very effective.
As for what kits I have, I generally remember but, yeah, I keep a list on my computer.
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Matt,
I like the color- coding dot system very much and - with your permission- will copy it,
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Of course Angel, glad it’s useful to you. I think it’s a bit of genius, my wife says it’s anal - retentive.
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Thanks again for the answers.
To be honest, I didn’t login to the forums for some time.
Some personal reasons for that.
Interesting to see some other, non-digital systems to organize your stash.
I’m now using scalemates for keeping track of stash and things and I love it.
It’s easy to use, looks nice and works really nicely.
Thanks for sharing and I will try to keep an eye on this topic again.