COLLECTION
Build your vinyl shelf
Scan a barcode, or search Discogs by title, catalog number, or matrix number. Your collection lives on your phone and works offline — your own photo, a Goldmine grade, the tracklist, and the pressing country on every card. The shelf card someone shared with you is built from those numbers.
Reading is open to everyone. The collection and the tools need a free account.
Android is in closed testing on Google Play. iOS is next.
CRATECORE · SHELF
MY SHELF SOUNDS LIKE THE 1970s
Demo data
54 RECORDS FROM THAT DECADE
What does yours sound like?
BUILD YOUR SHELF →
An example of the card people share from the app — the data is invented, not a real person's. Brands and records are named as examples only; they are not partners of CrateCore.
What you get
Scan it or type it
Point the camera at the barcode on the sleeve and CrateCore looks the release up. No barcode, or a pressing too old to have one? Search by title, artist, catalog or matrix number, or enter it by hand.
Works with no signal
The collection lives on the phone. In a shop with no reception you can still check whether that pressing is already on your shelf.
The pressing, not just the album
Label, catalog number, country, matrix / runout and the tracklist on every card — plus your own photo of the sleeve and a Goldmine condition grade.
How it works
Scan the barcode
Point the camera at the sleeve; the release is looked up in the catalog.
Pick the right pressing
When several editions match, you choose which one is actually yours.
It's on the shelf
Add your photo and a grade. From then on the collection is searchable offline.
Honestly
Not every pressing is in the databases. When a barcode comes back empty, manual entry is there — and the card stays yours to correct.
More in the app
The app is in closed testing. The stories are not.
Android is going through closed testing on Google Play, and we're not collecting emails for a waiting list — there's nothing to sign up for yet. What is open today is the feed: a new story about records and the people who made them, every day, free and without an account.
Android is in closed testing on Google Play. iOS is next.
We read everything, but while testing is closed we can't promise a slot.