DownloadKeep your vinyl, CDs and digital albums in one library. Cratto brings back the records you haven't played in a while, and when you want something new, follows your taste to the next must-hear album.
A1 · Player Ⅰ — Berliner
On iPad the record fills the room. Everything you need is on the table; everything else steps back.
The tonearm swings in, lowers the needle and slowly tracks toward the label as the album plays.
Classic Vinyl, Marbled Magma, Clear Splatter, Marble Jade or a picture disc. The marble and splatter finishes take their colors from the sleeve; the picture disc prints the cover itself.
Catalog number, your collection number, genre, label and country sit quietly in the corner.
On iPad, tap the cover to turn it over: the tracklist by side, and other pressings of the same album. On iPhone the same details slide up.
Named after Emile Berliner, who gave the world the flat disc record.
A2 · Player Ⅱ — Lou
The album is printed on the spinning disc, and the records to come wait beside it in jewel cases.
The cover is printed on the disc, a segment display shows the track, and every key along the front works.
Brushed aluminium in one piece, or Rams: a white face with wooden sides.
Cover print, silver or colour print. Each jewel case spine carries your collection number and genre.
Named after Lou Ottens, who led the invention of the compact cassette at Philips and helped develop the CD.
A3 · Player Ⅲ — Steinweiss
The cover player gives the artwork the whole screen. On iPad, drag a sleeve from the queue onto the cover to play it.
Named after Alex Steinweiss, who put the first illustrated covers on records in 1939.
A3 · iPhone & iPad
Flip through your shelf on iPhone in the record shop, then settle in with iPad at home. With Gold Record, iCloud keeps them in step.
B1 · Scan
Point the camera at the barcode or the catalog number on the spine. CRATTO finds the pressing on Discogs, so you can check the label, year and country before it goes on your shelf.
Try it · sample record
Pressing found
B2 · Today's Pick
Today's Pick shuffles your shelf so every album comes up once per cycle. Shuffle, play, or pull down to open the player.
B3 · Crates
CRATTO files your records into crates by genre, or A–Z by artist or album, and you can build your own. Pick acrylic, walnut, aluminum, or wood + acrylic.
B4 · Liner notes
Record media and sleeve condition on the Discogs scale, from Mint to Poor.
Label, catalog number, country and year — and other versions of the same album.
Collect what you own, want what you don't. Both live side by side.
Share a record as a poster. Turn on its release code and any CRATTO user can scan it to open the record.
C1 · Taste Map
1,203 genres sit on a turning globe. The genres you own records in light up; open one to see where it came from, what it influenced and which must-hear album to try next.
Lit genres are the ones in your collection, and the more records, the bigger the dot. Drag to turn it, pinch to zoom, or tap Roam to land on a genre at random.
Tap a genre and dashed lines show where it came from and what it influenced; its card holds its must-hear albums and subgenres. Add one straight to your collection or want list.
Open the card into a page: must-hear albums by decade, the record you're looking at on the left, and the genre's roots and subgenres on the right to keep digging.
The Taste Map is free. Playback needs an Apple Music subscription. Share your map from the top right as an image or a video.
Also on this site
The same globe as in the app, on the web: follow where your records come from.
Open the genre mapCRATTO / JOURNAL
From identifying a pressing to caring for your collection. A few useful reads before your next record.
Collecting
Think a record might be a fake? Work through seller photos, the exact release version and the runout etchings on both sides, step by step, and see why a missing label or one odd character is not proof of a counterfeit.
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Vinyl Knowledge
What M, NM, VG+, VG and G mean, why the disc and sleeve are graded separately, how grades affect price, and how the same scale applies to CDs. Includes a downloadable one-page grading chart (PDF).
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Collecting
What is a sample record? From free records for American radio in 1942 to Japan's white-label, red vinyl, and CD sample records, understand its origins; then learn to identify them by labels, catalog numbers, and matrix codes, and distinguish claims about sound quality, rarity, and price.
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Music Stories
Why do turntables have 33 and 45 RPM? Columbia's 1948 LP spun at 33⅓ to fit a symphony on one disc; RCA answered in 1949 with the 7-inch 45 single. After a year of format war, LPs took albums and 45s took singles.
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Collecting
Choose a sorting system, identify your pressings, record shelf locations, and build a manageable catalog that brings your collection back into everyday listening.
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Vinyl Basics
A beginner's notes on what the stylus, MM and MC cartridges and the phono stage actually do, how a groove turns into sound, and four playful kinds of vinyl listener so you can spot yourself.
Read articleLiner notes
CRATTO is free to download. Gold Record is a one-time purchase that unlocks both immersive players with every finish, plus iCloud sync between your iPhone and iPad. One purchase, yours forever.
Playback uses Apple Music and needs an active subscription. Scanning, cataloging, crates and Today's Pick work without it.
Yes. CRATTO has its own iPad layout — a sidebar, a floating mini player and a full-screen turntable. It needs iOS or iPadOS 26 or later.
Scan the barcode, point the camera at the catalog number, scan the release code on a CRATTO poster or choose a photo. Release data comes from Discogs, so connect a Discogs account first.
No. Finishes change how the player looks, not the pressing saved in your collection.
Run-out groove
Free on the App Store for iPhone and iPad. Gold Record: one purchase, yours forever.
Download on the App StoreRequires iOS or iPadOS 26 or later
