MyVillage
The MyVillage app icon: three snow-covered village cottages among pine trees

MyVillage

Every village tells a story.

MyVillage is the companion app for people who build miniature Christmas villages and Halloween towns, piece by piece — and want one honest place to keep track of it all: what you own, what it’s worth, how to display it, and who else is building.

●  In final testing now — opening on the App Store soon

See what it does When can I get it?
Holly, a craftsman elf with long light-brown hair, a brick-red cap, and a green apron, holding a tiny village house
Meet Holly. She’s the craftsman elf who guides you through the app — lantern, magnifying glass, plans, and hammer, depending on where you are.

How MyVillage works

Four stages, one village

Everything in the app follows the way collectors actually work — find pieces, plan the display, build it, then enjoy and share it. A fifth space, Learn, holds the guides.

Holly holding a magnifying glass

Collect

Browse the catalog, identify pieces from a photo, and keep your whole collection — no size limits, ever.

Holly holding a rolled-up plan

Design

Lay your display out at true size before you unbox a thing — pieces sit at their real recorded footprints.

Holly holding a small hammer

Build

Step-by-step coaching for foam bases, streets, water, lighting, and power — written for every skill level.

Holly holding a lantern

Learn & enjoy

Twenty-eight guides to read at the kitchen table, and a village square where collectors share their displays.

18,000+

pieces in the catalog — buildings, figurines, accessories, trees, and lighting

28

step-by-step build guides, each graded by experience level

None

ads, trackers, or data sold. No account needed just to use the app

Catalog & Identify

A catalog of 18,000+ pieces

Browse more than 18,000 village pieces from the lines collectors know — including Department 56 (Snow Village, Dickens Village, North Pole, and the Halloween lines), Lemax and Spooky Town, and smaller lines like St Nicholas Square, Carole Towne, and Cobblestone Corners.

Photo ID that shows its work

Found a piece at a shop, a show, or in a friend’s display? Take a photo — front or back — or pick one from your library. MyVillage compares it against thousands of catalog photos, including different angles of the same piece, and shows you the closest matches so you make the final call. Identification photos aren’t kept after the match is made.

Lines in the catalog

  • Department 56 — Snow Village, Dickens Village, North Pole, Christmas in the City, Halloween
  • Lemax — including Spooky Town
  • St Nicholas Square
  • Carole Towne
  • Cobblestone Corners
  • …and more, growing as collectors send corrections
Every line is listed by name so you can find the pieces in your village. MyVillage is an independent app — see the note at the bottom of this page.

Piece pages

Honest values, with the receipts

Where a piece has a recorded sales history, its value is the middle price of real recorded sales — and the app shows you the sales behind the number, so you can judge for yourself. Where there aren’t enough sales yet, we say so instead of guessing.

  • Photos from several angles, where they exist
  • True dimensions and weight — the numbers you plan a shelf by
  • The years the piece was made, and its original retail price where recorded
  • Every recorded sale behind the value, in plain sight
  • A plain-English guide to how easy the piece is to find
  • What owners say — reviews from collectors who have the piece

One line, up front

Every piece page leads with a single plain-English takeaway — what the piece is, what it needs on your shelf, and what it has been selling for — before any charts or details. The details are there when you want them; the takeaway is there first.

Built for collectors, not analysts: no jargon on screen, and big, readable type throughout the app.

Learn

28 guides, graded by experience

From your first foam base to resin water and a full power budget, the Learn library covers the whole craft. Every guide is graded — Beginner, Getting Confident, Skilled Builder, or Expert — and the app orders suggestions around your level: the right next step first, a gentler way where one exists, and a stretch when you’re ready. Nothing is locked; the level only changes what’s suggested first. Two pages from the guides:

Diagram of a village base built as a stack of foam sheets in three stepped levels on a base board, with a cord hole drilled through before the layers are joined
Terrain and bases. Three levels from flat sheets: a base board, then foam sheets stepped up like a staircase — and the cord hole drilled on the bench, while every layer is still separate and easy to reach.
Diagram of a pond in cross-section: three thin clear layers, each an eighth of an inch deep, stacked over a dark painted bed between two banks
Water features. Realistic water is nearly clear — the colour lives in the painted bed underneath. What you pour is patience: one eighth-inch layer at a time, each cured overnight before the next goes on.
Diagram of the same village house fronted by two streets: a wide road roll at four and three-quarter inches, and narrower roads at two and a half to three and a half inches
Streets and ground. Roads come in two widths, and the width is the brand. Buy the width on purpose, and keep one system per street — if the other brand tempts you, give it a street of its own.
Diagram of one 4.5 volt adaptor with about 1,000 milliamps to give, feeding a candy shop at about 60 milliamps and an animated piece at 210 or more, with a running-total bar staying under 1,000
Wiring and power. One adaptor has about 1,000 milliamps to give, and every piece on it spends from the same purse — so count the animated pieces first, and keep the running total comfortably under.

Design & Build

Plan it before you build it

Lay your display out at true size before you unbox a thing. Pieces sit at their real recorded footprints, so the plan you make on the screen is the space the village will really take on the table.

When you’re ready to build, step-by-step coaching walks the job in order — base, terrain, streets, water, wiring, snow — with the common mistakes and their fixes written into every step, and an easier alternative offered wherever a step can be done a gentler way.

Browse the guide topics
Holly holding a rolled-up village plan under one arm, pencil behind her ear
Holly plans with you. Tell her the piece you want to feature and the mood you’re after, and she’ll suggest a layout — and explain the idea behind every suggestion.

Share

The village square

Show off your display in the village square: post photos of your village, see what other collectors have built, and write reviews of the pieces you own. Anyone can look around; posting asks you to sign in, so the square stays a neighbourly place.

Friendly and moderated: every post and review has a Report button, you can block anyone you’d rather not hear from, and a person reads every report — we aim to look at each one within 24 hours. Questions or a problem? Write to us any time at [email protected].

Getting MyVillage

Coming soon to the App Store

MyVillage is in its final round of testing with collectors right now. It is not on the App Store yet — when it opens, this page will carry the download button, plain as day. There’s no email list to join and nothing to sign up for here; just check back.

  • Free. No ads, and we don’t sell data.
  • No account required to browse, collect, plan, and identify pieces.
  • A free account (Sign in with Apple, or email) backs up your collection and lets you post in the village square.
  • For iPhone. Built for the phone in your pocket at the flea market.

Questions in the meantime? Visit the support page or write to [email protected] — a person reads these.