Exact Item Count

How many of this do I actually own? Exact Item Count answers that question right in the item tooltip — and unlike most "how many do I have?" addons, it splits the count by item level and crafting quality, so you can finally tell your R4s from your R5s at a glance.

Why

Most inventory addons count purely by item: hover something, get one number. But in modern WoW, "the same item" often isn't a single thing. Crafted gear's R1–R5 ranks are all the same item at different item levels. Dropped gear sits at different ilvls and upgrade-track stages. Reagents come in silver and gold quality tiers. In every case a flat count of "2" hides what you actually need to know — are those the R5 you're about to craft or a lower rank? The upgraded piece or the one you've been meaning to replace? The gold-quality reagent or the silver?

Exact Item Count splits the count by item level and crafting quality, labeling each row, so there's no guessing — across your bags, banks, warband bank, the gear you're wearing, your profession tools, and every alt.

What it shows

When you hover an item, a section is added under the normal tooltip. Every count carries a dimmed where-is-it breakdown — your bags, your bank, the warband bank, the gear you have equipped, your profession tools, and each of your other characters by name. (★n below stands in for the in-game quality icon.)

Crafted / equippable gear — total, plus a row per item level (highest first) with its crafting-quality icon. Worn gear and profession tools/accessories count too, shown with an equipped tag. The variant you're hovering is always listed, even if you own none of it:

Total items owned: 3 (bags 2 · equipped 1)
  681 ★5: 0
  668 ★4: 3 (bags 2 · equipped 1)

Dropped gear shows its upgrade track instead — the track's first letter plus progress, e.g. Hero 2/6:

Total items owned: 2 (bags 1 · Liara 1)
  658 (H 2/6): 1 (bags 1)
  645 (V 4/8): 1 (Liara 1)

Reagents and other quality goods:

Total items owned: 130 (bags 40 · warband 60 · Liara 30)
  ★2: 90 (warband 60 · Liara 30)
  ★1: 40 (bags 40)

Recipes — the recipe's own count, plus the count of the item it crafts (that's usually the number you're actually after — "do I need to craft more of these?"), with its full breakdown:

Total items owned: 1 (bags 1)
Crafted items: 12 (bags 4 · Liara 8)
  ★2: 8 (Liara 8)
  ★1: 4 (bags 4)

Items you're selling — active auction listings show as their own On auction line with the same breakdown, never mixed into the owned total (a listed item is only yours if it doesn't sell). By default this covers the character you're playing (a plain On auction: N); a checkbox adds your other characters' listings, splitting each count into yours plus their names:

Total items owned: 2 (bags 2)
  645 ★4: 2 (bags 2)
On auction: 3 (yours 1 · Liara 2)
  658 ★5: 1 (yours 1)
  645 ★4: 2 (Liara 2)

Everything else — just the total:

Total items owned: 5 (bags 1 · warband 3 · Liara 1)

If you own none anywhere, the section collapses to Total items owned: 0. And if you have a small army of alts, the long tail of names collapses into a single +4 alts 22.

Sources

• Bags — live, updated whenever their contents change.
• Character bank and warband bank — snapshotted whenever you visit a bank, and remembered between sessions so the counts are available anywhere, even at a mailbox on another character.
• Equipped items — worn gear plus profession, cooking, and fishing tools and accessories.
• Auction listings — snapshotted whenever you visit the auction house, and shown as their own On auction count, never mixed into the owned total (a listed item is only yours if it doesn't sell). A checkbox adds your other characters' listings too.
• All your characters — anything scanned while playing an alt shows up account-wide, listed by name (including each one's equipped gear).

Settings

Options live under Options → AddOns → Exact Item Count (or /eic):

• Toggle each location — always shown, only while a modifier key is held, or never.
• Choose whether your other characters' equipped gear counts toward their totals (on by default).
• Compact-tooltip modes: independently control the location breakdown and the per-row detail.
• Alt detail: name your top characters, list them all, or roll them into a single total.
• A Characters page listing every scanned character, with per-character hide and delete.

All settings are display-only — they filter what you see on screen, never what's cached. Every toggle is instantly reversible; nothing is ever re-scanned to undo a filter.

Scope (current version)

• ✅ Bags (live), character bank and warband bank (updated whenever you visit a bank)
• ✅ Equipped items — worn gear plus profession tools and accessories (updated as you change gear)
• ✅ All of your characters — anything scanned while playing an alt shows up account-wide
• ✅ Per-item-level breakdown with crafting-quality rank and upgrade-track progress
• ✅ Recipes: the crafted item is counted too, with its own breakdown
• ✅ Auction listings — a separate On auction count, never mixed into the owned total (updated when you visit the auction house)
• ✅ Where-it-is breakdown on every count
• ✅ Settings (display-only filtering — what's counted on screen, never what's cached)
• ⬜ Amount of gold (planned)

Performance & safety

Light by design: it reads your bags only when their contents change, rereads your equipped gear when you swap a piece, snapshots your banks while the bank window is open, and adds a few lines to tooltips. It performs read-only operations and does nothing that could taint Blizzard's secure code.

Support & source

Source, bug reports, and feature requests live on GitHub. If it spares you some bag math, you can buy me a coffee. ☕