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)

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.
• 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
• ✅ Equipped items — worn gear plus profession tools and accessories
• ✅ All of your characters, account-wide
• ✅ Per-item-level breakdown with crafting-quality rank and upgrade-track progress
• ✅ Where-it-is breakdown on every count
• ⬜ 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. ☕