Say it, type it, photograph it, or play it — GrailVinyl identifies any record on your phone in milliseconds. See which pressing you're holding, drop the needle and track every spin across vinyl and streaming, and turn your collection into cards worth sharing.
Whatever fits the moment in the shop or at home — all matched against a catalog that ships inside the app, so results come back in milliseconds.
Tap the mic and speak the artist, album, or catalog number — even in a noisy shop. Point the camera at the label or sleeve and Apple Vision reads the text on-device. Or scan the back-cover barcode. Every mode matches the on-device catalog in milliseconds.
Speak the artist, album, or catalog number — even in a noisy shop.
Search anything you can read off the sleeve.
Point at the label or cover; Apple Vision reads the text on-device.
Let the app listen to a track that's spinning. (Plus barcode scan.)
An original, an early repress, a foreign import, and a 1989 budget reissue can be worlds apart. GrailVinyl shows which pressing you're looking at and how it sits among every other pressing of the same album — by era, country, and pressing markers. Type the dead-wax codes etched in the groove to narrow down your exact copy, and see curated notes on the pressings collectors talk about.
How to read the dead-wax on a record →
Context and reference for collectors — for entertainment, not an appraisal or authentication. Always do your own research before you buy or sell.
Start a spin and GrailVinyl tracks it, side by side. Connect Last.fm and your vinyl spins join your streaming scrobbles in one place — finally see what you actually listen to, across formats. Then surface the albums you've played a lot but don't own on vinyl yet.
Walk a record shop with your phone in your pocket. Call out what you see — "Bob Dylan, Blonde on Blonde" — and Crate mode transcribes it, matches the pressing, and tallies your finds and their value in real time. Every row shows exactly what you said, so you can confirm with a tap. No typing, no stopping the dig.
GrailVinyl reads your shelf and leads with what's most interesting about it: your collector personality, your collection's value and grails, the records you own but never spin, and what to buy next. The standout insight leads — then you drill into every detail.
Turn your whole shelf into a cover-grid card — clean, or with your collection stats — themed to match the app and built to look good on a story.
Every new collector gets the full experience for 14 days. After that:
Identification happens on your device. Photos, voice, and audio captured for identification are processed locally and never uploaded.
