The collector’s guide
A little help.
A better hunt.
Learn the app, find your next step, and get back to collecting. Clear answers to the small questions and the big ones.
A good place to start
Everything you can do
90 guides
Start here
Get set up, learn the essentials, and find your way around.
Map & filters
Find locations, understand pins, and focus your map.
- Move, zoom, and search the map
- Understand store pins and drop activity
- Filter stores and collectibles
- Show locations in selected states
- Use Community Suggested, My Stores, and Open now
- Filter live activity, time, and drop types
- Group nearby store pins
- A store or machine is missing from my map
- Understand map filters, interests, watches, and alert rules
- Find and add card shows or game store events
Stores & community knowledge
Save your stops and share what you know about them.
Reports & photos
Share current stock, verify a photo, and understand your report.
- Report a drop or stock observation
- Report empty shelves
- Report multiple collectibles and specific products
- Send a quick stock update
- Make a report anonymously
- Take a verification photo
- Use a receipt as verification
- A photo could not be verified
- Who can see verification photos?
- How your report counts
- Edit or withdraw a report
- Read a drop and its report history
- Report a drop when you are not at the store
- Understand confidence, freshness, and verified photos
- Review your report result or dispute it
- Send or follow a heads up about a possible drop
Alerts & notifications
Choose what reaches you, where, and when.
- Choose how you receive alerts
- Create or edit an alert rule
- Set an area for alerts
- Watch stores or specific products
- Read, clear, and filter your inbox
- Find out why you received an alert
- Set notification categories, quiet hours, and Time Sensitive alerts
- An alert is missing, late, or silent
- What happens after I report a drop?
Feed, profiles & binders
Connect with collectors and show your collection.
- Browse For You and Following
- Create a community post
- Likes, comments, reposts, and post controls
- Find collectors and open their profiles
- Edit your collector profile
- Mute, block, or report content
- Create a binder for your collection
- Choose whether a binder is public or private
- Open profiles from the leaderboards
- Check in and comment at an event
Routes with Nav
Plan a run, manage stops, and get directions.
Style studio & rewards
Make the app yours and explore your unlocks.
- Customize your look in Style studio
- Build your collector avatar
- Style your public profile
- Customize Nav’s character and effects
- Customize the app’s appearance
- Choose a binder theme
- Understand owned items, locked items, and progress
- Understand reputation, badges, and streaks
- Customize your username color and effects
Account, privacy & preferences
Manage sign-ins, sound, accessibility, and your information.
- Link Apple and Discord to the same account
- Sign in, sign out, and use another device
- Manage camera, location, photos, and notification permissions
- Adjust appearance and accessibility
- Customize sounds and mute individual events
- Understand what is public and private
- Delete your account or ask about your data
- Show nearby activity in a widget
Help & improvements
Ask a question, fix a location, and help shape Drop Radar.
- Ask Help center a Drop Radar question
- Add a store or correct a listing
- Track a submitted location request
- Rate a help conversation and leave feedback
- Report a bug and follow its progress
- Suggest a feature and vote on ideas
- Read updates and install the latest build
- Handle a poor connection or a failed action
- Contact Drop Radar support
- A location request did not submit