Crate Cruiser reads the records on your shelf from their spines, then comes with you to the shop and tells you which sleeves you already own or want.

Walk the phone slowly along a shelf. The camera reads the text on each spine and matches it against a copy of the Discogs database that comes with the app. You end up with a list of your records, each with a photo of its spine as you shot it.

WHAT IT DOES

- Sweep a shelf and get a list of what is on it. When it is not sure, it asks.
- Dig: in a shop, hold up one sleeve at a time -- or scan its barcode, read its label, or type a name. The phone buzzes for a record you already own, and differently for one on your wantlist. Naming sleeves by their cover art is free and unlimited, no account needed.
- Wantlist: on the phone, and kept in step with your Discogs wantlist if you sign in and connect one.
- Hear a record: 30-second previews of anything the app can name, plus links to open it on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal or Discogs.
- Pressing check: scan a barcode, or read the label and catalogue number, to pin down which pressing you have.
- A journal of your digs: what you flipped, where, and what you want to listen to later.
- Search your shelf, browse it as covers, and correct any record by hand.

WORKS WITH NO SIGNAL

Reading spines, matching, Dig, barcodes and your shelf all run on the phone. A record fair in a basement is fine. Cover art, previews and tracklists need a connection; nothing else does.

IT DOES NOT DO PRICES

There are no valuations, no price guides and no "what's it worth". That is deliberate. If you are in a shop, you are standing in someone's livelihood.

IT WILL SOMETIMES BE WRONG

Spines are worn, the light is bad and the print is small. When the app is not sure it says so and asks, rather than guessing. You can correct any record, and a correction you make is remembered for next time.

PREMIUM, IF YOU WANT IT

Everything above works for free. Premium adds Look closer (a tap and an AI takes a second look at a sleeve the app could not name), the pressing check by label and catalogue number, and keeps every dig in your journal (free keeps the latest). Yearly with a 7-day free trial, or monthly.

NO ACCOUNT NEEDED -- UNTIL YOU WANT ONE

Sweeping, identifying, Dig by its cover, barcode, label or name, previews and your shelf all work without an account. A free account keeps your shelf in sync across phones and adds Discogs. Sign in with Apple, Google, Discogs or an email address.

DISCOGS, IF YOU WANT IT

Connecting a Discogs account is optional and needs a free account -- Continue with Discogs signs you in and connects in one step. With it, the app brings in your collection, knows your wantlist, and adds records to your collection only when you ask.

YOUR SHELF ON EVERY PHONE

Sign in and your shelf lives in your account (Google Firebase), so it follows you to any phone you sign in on. Your photos stay on the phone.

PRIVACY

Your shelf and your photos stay on your phone. To name a sleeve the phone cannot, numbers worked out from its photo -- never the photo -- go to our naming service. Look closer, only when you tap it, sends that one photo to Google's Gemini. Album names go to Deezer for cover art and preview order, and to Apple for previews, and album numbers go to Discogs for tracklists. If the app crashes, a report of the fault goes to Firebase Crashlytics so it can be fixed. Anonymous usage counts -- a dig finished, a buzz, under a random id, never your records -- go to us to see what works; turn them off in Settings. No ads, no tracking. The privacy policy lists everything that leaves the phone.

Record data from the Discogs data dumps (CC0) and the Discogs API. Cover art from Deezer. Previews provided courtesy of iTunes. Not affiliated with, endorsed by or connected to Discogs, Deezer or Apple.

Crate Cruiser terms: https://vinyl-organizer.web.app/terms