About Digidex

Digidex is a community-maintained Digimon encyclopedia: every Digimon browsable with artwork, lore, skills, equipment and evolutions — and every field of it editable by fans like you. It exists because no single source has the whole picture: the official encyclopedia has the canon but not the connections, fan wikis have the depth but not the structure. Digidex pulls it together into one structured, checkable database.

This site is also the living source for the Digidex app: snapshots of this database are bundled into new app releases, so every correction you make here eventually ships in people's pockets. That's the pitch — sign up, fix the thing that's been bugging you, and drag every Digimon fan you know in here to do the same. Every edit is reviewed by a moderator before it lands, so you can't break anything by trying.

The database was seeded from these sources, most-foundational first:

• Digi-API — the original data spine: profiles, attributes, levels, skills, evolutions and base artwork.
• Wikimon — the enrichment layer: Japanese attack names and kanji, debut years, equipment, name variations, and the media-appearance counts our evolution ranking uses.
• Digimon Encyclopedia (official) — Bandai's own reference book: the final say on which Digimon officially exist, plus official profiles and artwork.
• Appmon Encyclopedia (official) — the whole Appmon catalog: names, grades, types, moves, profiles and art.
• With the Will — the community sprite-animation thread the animated battle sprites come from.

Since the one-time seed, this database is the source of truth — the upstream sources demote to contributors: bots periodically diff them against our records and file suggestions into the same moderation queue as everyone else. Digimon is © Bandai/Toei Animation; Digidex is an unofficial fan project.

Bandai has never numbered Digimon — the reference book is sorted alphabetically (in kana) and reshuffles with every addition, so there is no official numbering to copy. Any number we print is ours, and we'd rather it mean something than decorate.

So a dex number on Digidex means exactly one thing: this Digimon's position in the official reference book's canon. Only official entries carry numbers — #0001 through #1325 today, in lockstep with the book, growing by one whenever Bandai profiles a new entry. The order tells the franchise's story: numbering runs by debut year, then the digivolution ladder within a year — #0001 Botamon is the first thing a 1997 V-Pet screen ever showed, and the final numbers are the book's newest additions in the order Bandai registered them.

Variants wear their parent's number (the same way an Alolan Vulpix is still #037 — a form, not a species), and extended Digimon carry no number at all — they wear an EX mark instead. That's why the dex can honestly say "1325 official Digimon" while letting you browse 1576 records.

Every record here lives on exactly one of three shelves, and the split follows one source: Bandai's reference book. The book isn't a taxonomy — it's a publication ledger. An entry exists when Bandai's editorial team has published an official profile for it, which is why Agumon's 2006 redesign has its own entry (a full redesign with its own line and profile) while a game-only recolor of Kyubimon doesn't (nobody ever wrote it one).

• Official — has a reference-book entry. Carries a dex number. Exactly 1325 today, matching the book one-for-one.
• Variant — an alternate depiction of an official Digimon: recolors (Kyubimon Silver), game/anime-specific versions, DigiXros power-ups. The same creature re-skinned, so it hangs off its parent and shows the parent's number. The rule of thumb: if it evolves from or into something, it is not a variant — different stages are separate records joined by evolution links.
• Extended — a real Digimon the book has never listed: manga originals, game-only creatures, old V-Pet obscurities. Kept and fully browsable (a dex that dropped them would be worse than the wikis), just clearly marked non-canon.

When Bandai profiles something that currently sits on the variant or extended shelf, it gets promoted: it claims its new reference-book slug and takes the next dex number. The official count can never drift from the book.

Hub Digimon can have a hundred-plus recorded evolutions, so the evolution graph ranks its links by relevance rather than dumping them alphabetically. The ranking blends a few signals, strongest first:

• Canonical lines — hand-curated anime evolution lines (Agumon → Greymon → MetalGreymon…) are pinned to the top, always.
• Reciprocal link order — where the other Digimon lists this link in its own data: being someone's first-listed evolution counts for a lot more than their fortieth.
• Media prominence — Wikimon's appearance counts, so partners you've seen on screen outrank one-off card evolutions.
• Name family — Agumon-to-Greymon-shaped links (shared name tokens, and a decisive bonus for a Digimon's own modes/X-Antibody forms) rank above cross-family hops.
• Taxonomy & sanity checks — shared attributes/types and debut-era proximity nudge scores up; skipping evolution stages or carrying restrictive conditions ("Warp Evolution") nudges them down; plain base forms edge out parenthesised variants.

The same algorithm ships in the app, so the graph you see here is the graph the app shows.

Every change — yours, a moderator's, even a bot's — goes through one door: a suggestion filed into the moderation queue, reviewed by a human, and recorded in a public audit trail. Nothing edits the encyclopedia directly.

• Signed in, every editable field grows a pencil. Suggest a better value and a moderator sees your proposal side-by-side with the current one.
• New Digimon proposals declare their shelf up front with the evidence that shelf needs: official entries need their reference-book slug, variants need their parent, extended need a source a moderator can verify.
• Bots only ever fill blanks automatically; anything that would change an existing value files a suggestion like everyone else.
• Approved contributions are credited — every contributor's edits are public.