The best toys & hobbies apps

Mindzai Toy Shop

Mindzai is a designer toy shop based in Markham, Ontario, selling blind boxes, art toys, and collectible figures from labels including Medicom Toy Bearbrick, POP MART, tokidoki, and Sanrio. The range extends beyond figures into plush, minifigures, display cases, apparel, pins, and stickers, alongside a blind box subscription and gift cards, sold online and through its physical store with pickup available.

GameStop

GameStop is the largest specialist video game retailer in the world, selling new and pre-owned games, consoles, accessories, and collectibles across thousands of stores. The business trades in used games as well as new, and has expanded into toys and pop-culture merchandise alongside its core gaming range.

Disney Store

Disney Store is the official retail arm of The Walt Disney Company, selling exclusive collections, designer collaborations, toys, costumes, homeware, and apparel across Disney, Pixar, Marvel, and Star Wars. The business sells online and through stores worldwide, with much of its range produced as limited runs tied to film releases and park anniversaries.

Funko

Funko is the pop-culture collectibles powerhouse best known for Pop! vinyl figures spanning thousands of licenses across movies, TV, music, games and sports, alongside apparel and accessories. With over 27,000 collectibles across its catalog, Funko sells directly to collectors while its products trade actively in a passionate secondary market.

Hobbii

Hobbii is a Danish online yarn shop selling yarn, knitting needles, crochet hooks, and craft accessories at budget prices, alongside a large library of free knitting and crochet patterns, pattern books, and seasonal kits such as its advent calendars. The company sells direct to hobbyists in Europe and the US, with a range that spans cotton, wool, and blended yarns, and a stated goal of giving as many people as possible access to the joy of making. It holds a 4.7 Trustpilot rating across more than 36,000 reviews.

Lakeshore Learning

Lakeshore Learning makes educational materials, classroom furniture, and learning toys for early years and elementary education. The American family business sells to schools and teachers as well as directly to parents, and designs most of what it sells in-house around specific developmental stages — which is why its catalogue is organised by what a child should be learning rather than by what the product is.

POP MART

POP MART is a Chinese designer toy company whose Americas business sells blind box collectibles and art toys, including the Labubu, Molly, and Skullpanda characters. The blind box format — you do not know which figure you have bought until you open it — has driven a global collecting phenomenon, with rare chase figures trading well above retail.

Altenew

Altenew is a paper crafting brand making stamps, dies, stencils, inks, watercolours, and cardstock for card makers, scrapbookers, and mixed-media artists, known for its layered floral stamp sets and its own artist-designed colour ranges. Beyond products, the brand publishes tutorials, classes, and project inspiration, building a community of crafters around regular new releases and collaborations with designers.

Hasbro Pulse

Hasbro Pulse is Hasbro's direct-to-fan collectibles destination, offering premium products from G.I. Joe, Marvel, Star Wars, Transformers, Dungeons & Dragons and more — including fan-voted HasLab crowdfunded projects. It positions itself as a fan-first channel, pairing shopping with community events like Hasbro Pulse Con and Fan First Fridays.

Sanrio

Sanrio is the Japanese company behind Hello Kitty, My Melody, Kuromi, and Cinnamoroll, selling character merchandise through its own stores and online. Its US store sells plush, stationery, homeware, apparel, and accessories across the full character range, much of it produced as limited seasonal collections and collaborations that are not restocked once they sell through.

Pusheen Shop

Pusheen Shop is the official store for Pusheen, the chubby grey cat that began as a webcomic and became a merchandise franchise spanning plush toys, stationery, apparel, and accessories. The shop sells direct to a fanbase that follows the character across social media, releasing seasonal collections and limited plush designs.

Needlepoint.Com

Needlepoint.Com sells hand-painted needlepoint canvases, kits, threads, accessories, and self-finishing items, carrying designer lines including Kirk & Bradley, Two Sisters Needlepoint, Associated Talents, and Elizabeth Bradley, with products graded across four skill levels. Operating from Raleigh, North Carolina and Charleston, South Carolina, the company has served stitchers since 1999 and pairs its shop with stitch guides, online classes, and professional finishing services.

Kidrobot

Kidrobot is recognised worldwide as a creator and curator of art toys, blending sculpture, street art, and pop culture into collectible pieces. The range covers vinyl figures, plush, apparel, and lifestyle accessories, produced with artists and under licence from major entertainment properties, and sold as limited editions and exclusive drops as much as open stock.

Craftelier

Craftelier is a Spanish online craft supplies store specialising in scrapbooking, stocking patterned papers, albums, journaling and stationery supplies, dies, punches, tools, paints, and adhesives. The shop positions itself as a home for creative people who like working with their hands, covering a spread of techniques and styles and releasing new collections regularly.

Strangecat Toys

Strangecat Toys is an American designer toy store selling soft vinyl figures, blind boxes, and art toys from independent makers and Japanese studios. The shop specialises in limited-run collectibles and runs its own exclusive colourways, with drops that routinely sell out within minutes of going live.

Sports Trading Cards UK

Sports Trading Cards UK is a British trading card retailer covering soccer, NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, UFC, and WWE. The shop sells sealed product and singles from Panini, Topps, and Upper Deck, adding new releases weekly as they come to market — unusually broad coverage of American sports for a UK seller, alongside the soccer product its home market expects.

Magic Madhouse

Magic Madhouse is a British online retailer of trading card games and tabletop gaming, covering Magic: The Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh, and board games. The business serves newcomers and competitive players alike, stocking singles, sealed product, and accessories across the major card games, and has grown into one of the UK's established destinations for release-day product.

Legacy Toys

Legacy Toys is an American toy retailer selling quality toys and games for children and adults, operating stores across the Midwest alongside its online business. The company carries established toy brands rather than mass-market discount lines, and runs in-store events that it also streams to customers at a distance.

Top Fun RC

Top Fun RC is an American retailer for remote control hobbyists, covering RC cars, drones, planes, boats, and the parts and accessories that keep them running. The business serves enthusiasts and vendors alike, stocking both complete models and the replacement components a hobby built on crashes and rebuilds constantly consumes.

Grabie

Grabie sells premium art supplies — paints, brushes, sketching and mixed-media materials — curated for artists and hobbyists, with gift finders that filter by skill level, hobby, and budget. The brand blends its shop with a social platform where customers share work, and channels a share of every purchase into the Grabie Art Fund, which distributes free art kits and therapy resources to schools and shelters.