Meet Crate — Catalog your records. No account

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Crate

Catalog your records. No account.

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.

A look inside

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What's inside

• Shelf — Cover-art grid, sort/filter by artist/label/format/decade
• Add record — OCR catalog number, snap cover, artist/title/year/label
• Record detail — Condition grade, price paid, current value, shelf location
• Wantlist — Records you're hunting; avoid dupes at the shop
• Insights — By decade/genre/label, total value (Swift Charts)

Why we built it

Vinyl collectors want a local, offline, collection-focused catalog with condition grading and shelf location, but Discogs is marketplace-first and account-required, CLZ Music is a subscription, and the offline alternative (DVinyl) requires self-hosting a server.

What makes it different

Crate is the only native iOS vinyl catalog that is offline-first with no account and no marketplace — VisionKit OCR scans catalog numbers, Goldmine-scale condition grading + shelf-location tracking + wantlist, CSV/PDF export — Discogs is marketplace-first and account-required, CLZ Music is subscription/cloud, DVinyl r…

Who it's for

Hobbyists who want a tool that respects their time, their gear, and their offline life.

In one line: Catalog your records. No account.

Try it

See the Crate app page for the full feature list, the info table, and support links.

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