Crate: vinyl record catalog

About this app

What Crate does

Crate is the offline-first catalog for your vinyl collection. It's the shelf you browse, not the marketplace you get sold to. Vinyl passed $1 billion in US revenue in 2025 — 46.8 million records sold, a sustained revival — and the average record now costs $37. Collections hold real value. But the de facto cataloging tool, Discogs, is marketplace-first: it wants an online account and pushes you through pricing and listing UI when you just want to log and browse what you own. People are self-hosting servers to escape it. Crate is the simple native app that should exist. What Crate does: — A beautiful shelf. Your records as cover-art tiles, sorted and filtered by artist, label, format (LP/7"/10"/box), genre, or decade. — Add in seconds. Scan the back-cover catalog number with VisionKit OCR, snap the cover, fill artist/title/year/label. No barcode database call, no account. — Condition grading. Standard Goldmine scale (M / NM / VG+ / VG / G) for sleeve and media, plus the price you paid and what you think it's worth now. — Shelf location. 'Crate B, slot 14.' Find any record in a 2,000-piece collection instantly. — Collection insights. Records by decade, genre, label; total declared value; most-played notes. — Wantlist. The records you're hunting for, so you don't buy a dupe at the shop. — Export. CSV or a printable PDF catalog for insurance or your own records. — No account, no marketplace, no cloud, no subscription. Your collection lives on this phone. For the millions of US vinyl collectors who want to catalog and enjoy their records — not list them for sale.