Catalog your records by
taking pictures of them.
Crown Vinyl is the iPhone app that recognizes a record from any side and saves the exact pressing — not the closest guess — to your collection. Artist, label, year, value. No typing catalog numbers. Ever.
Install on your phone
Scan with camera
Cloud syncPrivate by defaultiPhone & iPad
Cataloged this week
Real collections, building in real time.
Every record below was scanned by a Crown Vinyl user, today.
How it works
Point. Shoot. It's in your collection.
01
Take a picture
Front of the sleeve. Or the back. Or the inner label. Or just the barcode. The camera handles framing.
02
We identify it
Image recognition plus a release database tuned for collectors. The right pressing, not the closest guess.
03
It's in your collection
Photos, pressing, year, label, catalog number, condition, and what it's worth right now. All saved.
Everything in the app
Built for people who actually collect.
Camera-first scanning
Point at the sleeve, the label, or just the barcode. The app reads what's actually on the cover, not just what's in a list.
A real catalog
Every record in one place with the photos you took. Sort however your brain works.
Current value
Per-record estimates from real recent sales. See your whole collection move with the market.
Search that works
By artist, year, label, country, color, pressing plant. If it's a field, it's searchable.
Pressings, not approximations
Originals vs reissues. Color variants. Promos. Misprints. The differences that matter to anyone who actually collects.
The photos you took
The record in your catalog is the record on your shelf. Ringwear, signatures, insert quirks, all of it.
A few questions
The ones people ask before they install.
Yes — that's mostly what we built it for. First-press jazz, private-press soul, regional punk, color variants, promos, audiophile reissues. The records the big sites get wrong are the ones we got right. If it misses one, you correct it and it remembers.
Free to download. You get a set number of scans every month at no cost — most people never hit the cap. Unlimited scans and richer value tracking are part of an optional Pro upgrade.
You log back in and there it is. Records are saved to the cloud the moment you scan them. New iPhone, new iPad, dead device — doesn't matter.
Not unless you decide they should. Your collection is private by default. You choose whether anything ever shows up on a public profile or in the community feed.
Free to startNo adsPrivate by defaultCloud syncBuilt for iOS