CHOIL

Your blades are premium.
Your vault should be, too.

Blueprint spec sheets, live metallurgy vectors, and real sold-comp values for every folder and fixed blade you own — with an AI curator that knows your collection cold.

Unlimited knives. Cloud-backed and synced across phone and web — free, always.

Steels Indexed
85+
Brands Tracked
190+
Knives Cataloged
2,000+
COMPRESSION LOCK3.44"CPM MAGNACUTCHOIL · SPEC SHEETSpydercoPara Military 2
Snipe by CHOIL · beta

Know what it's worth before the hammer drops.

Snipe is CHOIL's browser extension for live auctions. It reads the lot as it comes up and pins our real sold-comp value right next to the stream — median, range, and a deal meter that flips green the second the bid is a steal. Works on Whatnot and eBay — or right-click to price a knife on any page.

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CHOIL for iPhone & Android.

The full vault in your pocket. The native apps are live on the App Store and Google Play now — build out your collection on the web and pick up right where you left off. Have a spreadsheet already? Import it in one paste.

Steel vectors, not steel marketing.

Every blade in your vault renders a live performance polygon. Compare against the S30V baseline — or any steel — and see edge retention, toughness, corrosion resistance, and sharpenability snap into focus.

Metallurgy MatrixHRC 6264
EDGE RETENTION8.0TOUGHNESS8.5CORROSION RESISTANCE9.0EASE OF SHARPENING6.5

Larrin Thomas' balanced wonder-steel. The new baseline.

Active Steel
CPM MagnaCut
stainless powder
Library
Compare
Delta vs CPM S30V
  • EDGE+1.5
  • TOUGH+3.5
  • CORR+1.5
  • SHARP+1.0

The UI anodizes to your gear.

Carbon-fiber scales drop a 5% twill weave into the background. Raw titanium clears it and shifts the accent to electric blue. Zirconium pulls in iridescence.

Saves feel like lockup.

Haptic detent click on save. Spring-physics modals that snap like a perfectly tuned frame-lock. Zero blade play in the interaction model.

Sold prices, not asking prices.

Our proprietary process pulls completed secondary-market sales, throws out IQR outliers, and writes a median to each piece. Your portfolio ticks like a trading terminal.

Know what holds value — and what just dropped.

CHOIL tracks real completed-sale prices so you can see which brands and models actually hold their value. Follow brands and stores, paste any product link to import it, and get pinged the moment a watched piece comes back in stock.

An AI that actually knows your gear.

Values every piece from real sold comps, fills in factory specs, hunts down a product photo, and writes a blunt read on your whole collection — its strengths, its gaps, and the one piece that would level it up. Then ask it anything about your vault.

you
which piece would level up my collection?
the curator
Your vault skews hard-use: 14 of 22 pieces are working folders under $250. The gap is a heat-treat flagship — a MagnaCut or ZDP-189 piece from a maker you don't own yet. Based on your brand spread, a Spyderco K2 or a Rockstead HIGO would raise the collection's ceiling, not just its count.
Snipe · browser extension · beta

Seller titled it "CUSTOM DROP"? One click identifies the knife on sight.

On live-shopping streams where lots close in sixty seconds, Snipe reads each lot as it comes up and pins CHOIL's sold-comps value next to the stream — median, range, and a live deal meter on the current bid. When the title tells you nothing, you box the item on screen and the AI uses the image plus the page's available item details to make its best identification.

Market value while you bidDeal meter on the live bidCheck prices · 3 crChrome · Edge · Safari

Snipe uses our best efforts to identify items from what's on screen, but we can't and don't guarantee it will always identify a lot, or identify it correctly. Values are estimates, not appraisals — always verify before you bid.

Whose collection wins? Let the AI call it.

Put two vaults head-to-head. The AI scores both on steel, brand caliber, diversity, rarity and more, picks a winner with a reasoned verdict, and tells each of you the next piece to chase. Share the result with a public link — bragging rights, receipts included.

AI verdictWinner & marginShareable link

A members' trading post — never a checkout.

Post what you're hunting, what you'd let go, or what you'd trade — and attach a piece straight from your vault. Deals happen directly between members; CHOIL never touches the money. Community-moderated, with admin appeals, so it stays civil.

ISO · Looking forWTS · For saleWTT · For trade

Your collection stays yours.

Every piece is backed up the moment you save it and synced across phone and web — no piece limits, no paid backup tier. We store what you put in CHOIL, use it only to run the app, never sell it, and let you delete anything — or everything — anytime. No ad trackers.

Dispatches

Steel intel, occasionally.

New features, steel deep-dives, and the rare drop alert. We'll email a confirmation link — no spam, unsubscribe anytime.