How to export your collection to a spreadsheet

Yes, your photos come with it

This is the question collectors ask most often, so it goes first. Every row in the export carries a direct link to that item's photos, in two columns:

• Image URL: a link to the item's main photo.
• Additional Images: links to every other photo on that item, separated by commas.

These are the same links the app itself uses to show your pictures, so they open in any browser, on any device, without signing in to Minti. Paste one into a spreadsheet and it becomes a clickable link. Tools that display images from a URL can pull them straight in.

One thing to know: the CSV holds links to your photos, not copies of the image files. The links keep working for as long as the photos exist in your account, so if you delete an item or replace its photo, the old link stops resolving. If you want the pictures themselves embedded in a document, the PDF report is the export that does that.

Exporting is free on every plan

You do not need to upgrade to get your data out. CSV export is included on the free plan, alongside Pro and Collector. If you want to see the file before deciding anything, export one collection right now and open it.

Two related features do sit on paid plans, and it is worth knowing which is which:

• CSV import, which reads a spreadsheet back into Minti, is on Pro and Collector.
• The PDF insurance report, which lays out your items with the photos embedded and values totalled, is Collector only.

What is in the file

You can export a single collection, or your whole portfolio in one file. The portfolio export is identical except that each row starts with the Collection and Category it came from, so you can filter or pivot by either.

Every export includes these columns:

• Title, Quantity, Condition, Tags, Notes and Date Added: the basics of each item.
• Value: the item's current value, converted to whatever display currency you have set.
• Purchase Price, Purchase Date, Acquisition Source, Unrealized P/L, Sold Date and Sold Price: your cost basis and profit or loss, for the items where you have recorded one.
• Image URL and Additional Images: the photo links described above.
• Every attribute your items actually use, each as its own column. A card collection gets Set, Card Number, Rarity and Grade; a coin collection gets Year, Mint Mark and Denomination. Minti only adds the columns your items have filled in, so you do not get a wall of empty fields.

After those, you may notice some columns whose names start with an underscore, such as _ebayAvgPrice or _purchaseCurrency. Those are Minti's own bookkeeping, included so the file can be imported back without losing anything. You can ignore or delete them; nothing about the spreadsheet depends on them.

Opening it in Excel, Numbers or Google Sheets

The file is standard CSV with UTF-8 encoding, written so that Excel on Windows opens it correctly on a double-click rather than mangling accented characters. Google Sheets and Apple Numbers both open it directly too.

From there it is an ordinary spreadsheet. Sort by value to find your most valuable pieces, filter by tag or category, total a subset, chart your cost basis against current value, or hand the file to an insurer or an accountant.

Getting it back into Minti

The export is designed to round-trip. A file you exported from Minti can be imported back in, and it will restore titles, values, cost basis, attributes, tags and photo links rather than a stripped-down version. That makes the CSV a genuine backup, not just a report.

Import also accepts spreadsheets you did not export from Minti, which is how most people move a collection over from another app or from a sheet they have kept by hand. Column names are matched leniently, so common variations such as Image, Photo URL or Image 1 are all understood as an item's picture.

One deliberate exception: if a row records that an item was sold through Minti's marketplace, the import does not carry that sale's internal identity across. A newly imported item cannot inherit another item's completed sale. Everything else comes back.

How to export

Open Minti, go to your profile or the insights screen, and choose the export option. Pick CSV Backup for the spreadsheet, and choose whether you want one collection or your whole portfolio. The file downloads straight to your device.

If you collect across several categories, the portfolio export is usually the one you want: one file, every item, with the collection and category on each row.