A curated everyday-carry reference: 1,300+ items across 27 categories, each with real specs, honest pros and cons, and an editorial Index Take. Build kits, compare gear side-by-side, pick the exact color you own, track your carry, and find your style with the quiz.
Weights are the brand's published figures — never estimates. When a brand publishes no weight, we show an approximate figure clearly marked "approx". Prices are street prices (what you'd actually pay today), with the original MSRP shown struck through when an item has a standing discount. Gear that is no longer sold (see Vaulted) shows no price, because there is no street price to quote.
Vaulted marks gear that has been retired by its maker and is no longer sold. We keep it in the Index because plenty of people still carry it, so you can still view its specs, weight and Index Take, add it to a kit and mark it as owned. Vaulted items have no Buy button and no price, since there is nothing to buy new. Weights and specs come from the maker's own retired-products page or manual, never estimates, and we only list a color when the maker published it. The first batch is retired Leatherman tools. The badge is on carryindex.com now and arrives in the iPhone app's next update.
Many items let you pick a color, and the product photo changes to match. Each color uses the brand's own photo, and we only list a color when the brand currently sells that exact model in it. Items that come in a single finish, are discontinued, or only had limited editions show no color picker. When you add an item with several colors to a kit, the app asks which one you own, and your kit shows that exact photo. If a photo does not match its color name, tell us through Feedback and we will fix it.
Pick gear for a kit from one picker that shows everything in one list. You can select several items at once, filter to only the gear you own, and long-press an item for a large photo before adding it. The gear you mark as owned syncs across your devices. If an item shows as owned that you never owned, choose "I don't own this" on it (on carryindex.com now, and in the next iPhone update) and it is removed from your owned list on every device.
If you keep more than one kit, set one as your Default Kit: tap its star on carryindex.com now, or long-press a kit on iPhone in the next update. The Apple Watch app follows it, so its Carried Today ring and checklist show the kit you actually carry. The choice syncs across your devices and the newest choice wins.
Yes. Sign in with the same account on iOS and the web and your saved items, kits, streaks, achievements, the gear you mark as owned, your color choices and your metric or imperial preference all stay in sync. Sync never downgrades: whichever device has the more complete data wins, so nothing you have earned is ever lost. If the app ever cannot reach your cloud data it tells you, and it will not overwrite what is saved. Deleting a kit syncs too: a kit you delete on one device stays deleted everywhere instead of coming back from another device.
Pro unlocks the premium tier — unlimited grails with price-drop alerts and more. On iPhone it's a standard App Store subscription: manage or cancel any time in Settings → your Apple ID → Subscriptions, and use "Restore Purchases" in the app if Pro doesn't show after reinstalling. An annual plan ($49.99 a year, versus $6.99 a month) with a 7-day free trial is arriving in the next iPhone update, with the same Restore Purchases and cancel-anytime rules.
Yes. Open your Profile and tap the Units toggle to switch between metric (g/kg) and imperial (oz/lb) for totals and stats. The choice follows your account across iPhone, Apple Watch and the web. Individual catalog items always show the brand's published weight in grams alongside.
Each kit has a priority: weight, bulk, cost or balanced. You choose it when you create the kit or change it from the kit menu. The fit verdict then tells you, in plain words, how well your kit serves that priority. It replaces the old letter grade.
Your streak grows for every day you check in — miss a day and the current run resets, but your longest streak is kept forever. Seasonal achievements are earned from what you actually do during a season (carry days logged, items saved, kit coverage, gear researched), and timed challenge events run alongside them. Streak reminders are scheduled for the evening after your last open and move to the next day every time you open the app, so you only get one on a day you have not opened it. If you get one anyway, update to the latest build.
Yes. Open the item and find Carry history (on iPhone, iPad and Mac it is a row under Own this; on carryindex.com it is the Carry history button on the item). Turn on I've owned this since the release date, or turn it off and pick the day you started carrying it. For gear you got early, such as a Kickstarter, beta or review unit, pick the day it reached you: it can be before the public release date, and the days before launch count as yours. Choose how often you carry it, and whether you still do, and the app estimates your carry days. It works for any item, whether or not it is in a kit or you have logged days, and you can edit or remove it later. Days you log in the app are counted separately, and the higher figure is shown.
A release date is the day the maker first made the item available, taken from the maker's launch post or press release, or from dated coverage when there is no post. When we can only place an item to a year or a month, the date shows as c. 2022 or c. Mar 2022 (c. means circa, an estimate) instead of an exact day. An estimated date still works as the start day if you say you have owned an item since its release. If you know the real day, tell us through Feedback and we will fix it.
Open your Profile and find the Carry Journal. On iPhone, iPad and Mac tap Manage carry history; on carryindex.com open the Carry History list in your profile. Every item with logged days or an estimated carry history is listed there, including items that are not in a kit. Tap Remove and confirm. That deletes its logged days and carry history from your profile, Hall of Fame and rankings on every device, and it cannot be undone. You can also tap Not mine on an item you never owned and choose Delete carry data. If you carry the item again later, new days start fresh.
Our image system usually heals broken pictures automatically within a day. If one stays broken, send it through Feedback → "Bug or issue" with the product name and we'll fix it.
Absolutely, that is our favorite kind of feedback. Send it through Feedback > "Share an idea". New gear is reviewed and added regularly, with specs verified against the brand's own published data.
Mark an item as a grail and set an alert. We watch the price and email you when it drops — and on iPhone, signed-in users get a push notification too.
Send a request through Feedback → "Have a question" (include the email you signed up with) and we'll remove your account and synced data promptly.
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The iPhone app (with an Apple Watch app, widgets and an App Clip for shared kits) is on the App Store, and carryindex.com works everywhere. You can install it to your home screen on Android and desktop for an app-like experience. One account keeps them all in sync.
Yes. On iPhone open Profile, then the gear menu, then App Icon, and pick Orange, Stealth, Titanium, Ranger or Coyote. The choice stays on that device.
Most carried ranks gear by how many different people logged it as carried in the last 30 days. Each person counts once per item, however often they log it, and an item only appears once at least 5 people have logged it, so the ranking never points at an individual. Until enough people log their carry, the app says so instead of showing a ranking. Log what you carry from your kit (or tap Log all on your Apple Watch) to count toward it.
Yes, it is optional and off by default. Turn on Make me discoverable in Community, then switch on Give it a public web page. Your display name and your default kit appear on a page anyone can open and search engines can index. Switching either setting off removes the page. Kits with fewer than 3 items are never indexed. The page link looks like carryindex.com/c/yourname, and it updates a few seconds after you change your default kit.
You earn XP from real activity: a daily visit, saving or comparing gear, building a kit, finishing the quiz and completing challenges. Each kind has a daily limit, and saving an item only pays once, so XP reflects real use and cannot be farmed. XP sets your rank on a ten level ladder from Casual Carry to Carry Legend. Past 50,000 XP you earn a prestige star for every further 25,000 XP. Share your rank as a card from your profile. Levels unlock real things: a rank-color accent on your public kit page at level 4, a Top Carrier mark there at level 6, and a gold frame on your Wrapped card at level 8. Your profile lists everything you have unlocked and what comes next. The leaderboard and the Hall of Fame (level 9 and up) are opt-in: you appear only if you switch it on, and you can leave any time.
After the July category split, some kits held the same item under two categories (for example a power bank under both Charging and Power Banks), so the item count, value and weight were too high. The apps now clean this up on their own: when an item also sits under its correct category, the extra copy is removed. Nothing is ever removed from your kit entirely. Owning two different items, such as two phones, is never affected.
Open the item and tap Missing a color? under the color chips, then tell us the color name from the brand's site (a link or photo helps). The color lists were built in bulk and some are incomplete, so these reports are how we find the gaps. Whoop MG was missing its black Obsidian color until a carrier reported it.
Yes, on iPhone, iPad, Mac and carryindex.com. In Add Gear, tap Can't find it? Add from a link and paste the product page link. We read the page, show you the name, brand, price, weight, colors and photo plus a few checks (is it a real product page, is it already in the catalog), and you confirm or fix anything before it is added. Anything we cannot read is left blank for you to fill in, never guessed. Some retail pages, Amazon for example, only give us the name, so expect to type the price yourself. Gear you add this way is private to you. We may add popular items to the shared catalog after checking them.
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