Brickit: Your Brick Collection

What Brickit is for

Brickit is a brick scanner for people who have a box, a pile or any loose collection of bricks at home. The developer describes it as a way to scan those bricks, organize them and find out what they can build from them. It is pitched at people who want to build something new from existing parts, people who look after a shared family collection, and people hunting for one specific piece in a heap.

Everything starts from a photo of the bricks you already have. The app does not work from a shopping list or a set you have to buy first.

Photographing a pile to identify parts

You spread the bricks out and take a photo with the Brickit scanner. The app recognizes individual parts within that image, so a mixed pile is broken down into the pieces it contains. The listing ties this recognition to the organizing side of the app, which is how the scanned parts are kept track of across the collection.

Finding builds you can make from your own bricks

Brickit suggests thousands of builds that use the parts it has identified in your collection. The listing names animals, robots, vehicles, spaceships and favourite characters as examples, but says you can build anything you want.

Each build comes with simple step-by-step instructions. You can follow the steps exactly, or treat them as a starting point and change the design as you go.

Locating a specific piece and following a build

To find a particular part, you select it in the catalog and Brickit highlights where it sits in your photo. This is the feature the developer points to for finding bricks faster in a large pile.

While you are building, the app also highlights the pieces each step needs. Those highlights are drawn from the photo of your own bricks, so you can see which parts to pick up at every stage of the instructions.