A working catalogue your whole household shares
Built for the household.
Not for sale
Cratewise catalogs your household's vinyl, CDs, and cassettes and logs every spin — one shelf, shared by everyone who lives there. No marketplace, no listings, no one pricing your grails.
Every entry hand-approved. No spam.
What's inside
06 ItemsShelf-first library
Art-forward grid of everything you own. Filter by genre, decade, format, tag — vinyl, CD, cassette. Sort by least played and rediscover the back row.
Spins & stats
Log every play with a rating and a note. See what you actually listen to — most-played, top artists, and a year-end Wrapped for your turntable.
Point. Shoot. Filed.
Snap a photo of a sleeve and AI identifies it, fetches the artwork, writes the bio, and files it under your own genre taxonomy.
Wishlist & lists
Keep the want-list next to the have-list so you never double-buy in the bins. Browse canonical lists — Rolling Stone 500, Pitchfork, Jazzwise — and track what you own against them.
One shelf, whole household
Collections are shared. Invite your partner or housemates — one library, everyone's spins, everyone's wishlist.
Talks to Claude
A first-class API and MCP connector. “Did I play the new Waxahatchee yet?” — manage the whole crate from chat.
How does Cratewise compare to Discogs, RateYourMusic, and CLZ?
Discogs
A marketplace with a price guide bolted on. Every pressing has a value. Not many of them have a story.
RateYourMusic
A social network built on ratings. It knows what you scored an album. It doesn't know what you own.
CLZ Music
A barcode scanner wearing a spreadsheet. Thorough. Nothing files itself.
Cratewise
For the shelf you already have. No listings, no ratings war, no manual entry — point a camera, Dexx does the filing.
Meet Dexx
The AI in the cratePoint, and Dexx files it. The owl handles the tedious part of collecting — naming, filing, and annotating — so you get back to the record faster.
Identify
Snap a sleeve — Dexx names the record.
Artwork
Dexx pulls the cover art, no hunting.
Notes
Dexx writes the liner note for every record.
Genre
Dexx files it under your own taxonomy.
Missing
Dexx finds the gaps in an artist's run.
Chat
Manage the whole crate from Claude.
Every Dexx note is AI-written and labelled — regenerate or thumbs-down any of it. Your shelf, your call.
Pricing
No ads · No marketplace · No price-gouging your grails30-day free trial. No credit card required.
Why this exists
I built Cratewise because nothing else just told me what was on my own shelf. Discogs prices it. RateYourMusic rates it. I wanted a tool that knew it — every pressing, every spin, filed the way I actually think about a collection. So I built that, for me first, and now for whoever else wants the same thing.
— Ron, Austin TX
Pressing history
Questions
Is my shelf public by default?
No. Everything is private until you say otherwise. Publishing a shelf is a toggle you flip yourself — nothing goes public on its own.
Why pay when Discogs is free?
Discogs is free because the marketplace pays for it. Cratewise has no marketplace — no listings, no fees, no one bidding on your grails. The $2 keeps it that way.
Can I get my data out?
Full API access on every plan. Export everything, any time, in plain JSON. Nothing is held hostage.
What happens to my shelf if Cratewise shuts down?
Your export works the day before that happens same as any other day. We built the exit on purpose — your collection was never ours to keep.
How does the household work?
One collection, shared by everyone in it. Invite your partner or housemates and the shelf, the spins, and the wishlist are common property — same as the actual records.
Just vinyl?
Vinyl, CD, and cassette — including the same album across formats, filed as one entry with two sleeves.
Know your crate
Features as they ship · Screenshots from the actual app · No spam