A long way from milk crates.

I started buying records in college in Greenville, South Carolina. There was one shop I stopped at most afternoons. The guy who ran it always had something interesting spinning, and every so often he'd slide a record across the counter with a look that said you were going to want to take this one home. I bought a lot of records that way. A few of them I still own.

Years later I had a few hundred records in milk crates and zero idea what was in there. Every time I bought something new I had a small panic that it was a record I already had. The apps and sites that tried to help all had the same problem: they wanted me to type a catalog number into a form. On a Saturday. With the record on my lap. After a beer.

That's not a thing anybody actually does.

So we built the version of the app that uses the camera. Open it, point it at the record, watch the record appear in your collection. The hard part is figuring out which pressing you're looking at, and we've spent most of our time there. Especially on the records the big sites get wrong or don't bother with. First pressings of jazz records. Private-press soul. Regional punk. The kind of stuff that doesn't scan into a database easily but matters a lot if you collect deep.

If you've been waiting for a vinyl app that respects how you actually use it, this is the one we're trying to build. Free on the App Store. Add one record and see what you think.