Your vinyl shelf, remembered.
Read the matrix code etched into a record's run-out groove and VinylCrate tells you which pressing you own — not just which record. Then it remembers what you actually play, and hands you back the ones you'd forgotten.
iPhone · iPad · CarPlay On-device intelligence No tracking
Cataloguing tells you what you own. VinylCrate tells you what you actually listen to.
Drop the needle.
Playback happens on a real turntable — spinning platter, tonearm, pitch fader. Because a progress bar was never going to cut it.
Play a whole crate.
Drop the needle on a whole stack. VinylCrate matches each record to Apple Music and plays them back to back through the turntable — from the crate screen, or from CarPlay without touching your phone.
Every spin, logged.
Each play is recorded automatically — single albums and every record in a crate as the queue moves on. Most Spun This Month surfaces what you keep returning to. Rediscover hands back what you haven't played in a year.
A native iOS app, made for the shelf.
Which pressing,
not just which record.
Every record carries a matrix code scratched into the blank run-out groove by the cutting engineer. It's the difference between a first press and a reissue — and it's most of what the record is worth. Version 4.0 reads it. Every scan runs on your iPhone; no photograph of your records ever leaves it.
- Dead Wax ScanPoint the camera at the run-out groove and slowly rotate the record. The etchings accumulate as chips across frames, so a line that's legible for only a moment isn't lost.
- Identify PressingMatched against every Discogs version of the release and ranked by confidence, with close calls flagged as co-leaders rather than a false-certain answer. Relink your entry and play history, crates, notes and conditions all move with it.
- Sleeve ScanPoint the camera at a jacket instead of hunting for a barcode. On-device AI reads artist, title, label and catalog number into an editable review card.
- My PhotosDiscogs artwork isn't your record — it hasn't got your ring wear or your price sticker. Photograph your own copy, disc sides and all.
- Copies & PressingsOwn a record twice and VinylCrate handles it properly. Each copy keeps its own condition, purchase price, notes, scan and photographs.
- iCloud SyncYour collection and your own photographs restore onto a new device. The photos in particular had no recovery path before — deleting the app destroyed them.
- Six languagesEnglish, Spanish, French, German, Japanese and Simplified Chinese — across the app, the widget, CarPlay and Siri Shortcuts.
Built for people who buy records.
Collection Management
Scan a barcode to add an album instantly, or search the Discogs database by hand. Artwork, tracklists, and pressing details come with it.
Custom Crates
Organise records into crates with their own names, colours, and icons. Genre collections, favourites, or whatever system you actually use.
Discogs Integration
Connect your Discogs account to sync a collection you've already built. The world's largest music database, with pressing variants and artwork.
Built-in Turntable
A spinning platter, a tonearm, and a pitch fader. Playback that behaves like the object it's standing in for.
Collection InsightsUpdated
Total value and its 30-day trend, your most valuable records, and a breakdown by genre, artist, and decade as the collection grows.
Apple Music
Play any record in your collection digitally without leaving the app — single albums or a full crate, queued in order.
CarPlay
Your crates come with you. Browse and play a whole stack from the dashboard without picking up your phone.
Discover
Recommendations drawn from what's already on your shelf. Each one tells you why it was suggested and what it was based on, with marketplace pricing attached.
Every scan runs on your iPhone. No photograph of your records — a sleeve, a run-out groove, your own copy — is ever sent to us or to anyone else. VinylCrate reaches Discogs only when you ask it to. If you turn on iCloud sync, your library travels to your own private iCloud database, scoped to your Apple Account and shared with no one. No tracking, no selling your data. Your collection is yours.
Go and put something on.