VinylSnap: Scan & Value Record Customer Service

Lightweight but very useful to give ball park price evaluation very quickly. Been doing with an AI agent I made which is way more precise and gives a lot more info but is also too slow to be useful and does not work with low bandwidth anywhere near as good as this app. I would like it scan matrix codes too and give more exact versioning and related pricing. A csv export would be good too.

Overall, I really like this app. My wife and I recently inherited a lot of records (200+). The snap accurately identified every single record and gave us a rough idea of their value. The value is a guess though. There can be a big difference between pressings and releases. I had a couple that were more valuable, but most were much less valuable reprints. While the app is great at getting records in the UI is not good for organizing 200+ records. I submitted some feature requests, so I’ll give the dev some time and see if it improves. All that being said, I value its simplicity over the much more complicated Discogs app.

Doing the 7day trial, like the app so far, but needs a better way of correcting info for us 80/90s DJs who have tons of White Labels promos, Test Press, Acetate. Would prefer if the valuation be near Discog since that’s site been around and basically the Gold standard for valuation and history tracking on bought and sold records. Not a big fan of subscription model so if this app would consider lifetime purchase at a reasonable price, I’d would do it. Also like how Discog will let you printout/download your collection PDF/excel/sheet form so hopefully these small thing are added later on.

My sincere congratulations to the staff of VinylSnap for providing an app that is truly customer friendly. It provides more than you expect. Being able to print out your collection of vinyl and getting a good guesstimate of the value of your collection is well worth the cost. They set the bar for providing an app the really delivers. Can’t wait to tell my friends about this app.

I just downloaded this app and have only put in some records but so far it’s great. There has been only one album out of 16 that it can’t seem to get correct. It’s very easy and user friendly.

I’m enjoying the process of scanning and discovering the surprising value of my collection. I wish the app allowed for reorganizing the records as I would in my physical collection instead of it being just one list. That way I could go through a specific folder instead of the entire listing. Ability to add an audio sample for each vinyl would also be nice.

It would be nice we you could copy and paste the tiles and artist to another app to share my collection. I see that you have found a way to make it happen. Thank you. My bad, it does do it.

The app is functional but needs improvement from my perspective 1:better grouping and sorting for storage in a collection (ie)grouping by label,genre,artist. 2:better identification,and valuation fo boxed sets 3:evaluation of printed material included in some albums(ie)the inclusion of a 45, poster. 4: when identifying picture discs the app should better note that the album is indeed a pic. Disc.

This review will be brief. It does exactly what you want it to do, and what it said it would do. To quote Carly Simon “You always answer my questions, but they don't always answer my prayers”. Still looking for that $10,000 record!

I’m thoroughly impressed with this app. All this app is missing is someone or a place to list the items for sale. Maybe an offer. Just a thought! Thank you all for this app.

Made pricing and organizing much easier. Took a lot of time and energy off my hands. It also simplified my process of identifying and pricing the records. I would recommend anybody to try this app.

I had no idea what my vinyl was worth but but thanks to a referral from my friend, I have this app and was able to catalog over 300 albums in three days. I’m absolutely amazed. Highly recommend.

Howdy, I’ve got around 11 or 1200 LP’s that I’ve collected over 50 years and purchased to play, as I loved the music. They include a wide variety & although I know folks with larger collections it’s nice to finally catalogue mine & get an idea of their worth. Thanks.

VinylSnap is easy to use pretty accurate and it’s very easy to get used to. I would definitely recommend it to friends and family.

I love this app it seems to work perfectly, it helps getting to know my record collection better. I wish they didn’t use the word “vinyls”, it’s like saying “waters”.

Easiest thing to do. I have a 100 of the old records and have just done 7 so far but it tells me what I should do with them. They are all from the 60’s - 75’s. Thank you.

This app is the most amazing app ever!!! You can take pics and it tells you everything about your LP. It is all it says it is! Out of this world!!!

Great app but you should add an order option like alphabetical are from most expensive least expensive

I like the App! I wish there were additional features such as allowing users to add photos of the cover art to each record.

This is an awesome app. My only complaint is that if it doesn’t recognize the album like it did with a couple of the horizon albums there’s no way to add it manually.

For looking up a vinyl quickly to make sure your getting what you are paying for

I really appreciate this application. At least I know what is worth value and what the world is looking for thank you, VinylSnap.

Really wanted this to be great, it’s got a great user interface but the info is not clear in app. Picture of both sides of vinyl and I get 2 different prices and 2 different releases

So far, it has been a very useful app. I am enjoying it. I would recommend it to any vinyl collectors.

Just tried this app out for ~50 album scans. I’m impressed that VinylSnap was able to capture some fairly obscure records. So far, so good.

Easily scan, price and log my collection. Very accurate. Highly recommend.

Very helpful

Great app, would recommend a feature to export records in a spreadsheet.

Exactly what I needed, no hassle, straight to the point, no ads/paywalls

It’s a great app, finding out the value of my records. Fantastic

It’s about time they come out with a review on all vinyl and actually know how much it cost before you give it away.

Great

Very fun and easy to use if u love vinyl you’ll love this app. 10/10

What a great concept, great idea but needs much work as a pricing guide IMHO as a 50 year record collector. In fairness I cataloged only 40 LP’s, picking out 1st pressings, limited editions, highly collectible hard to find items i.e. Muddy Waters original Chess Record pressing from 1958 listed here for $20 while Discog’s has it priced low end $29, middle $78 and high $127 (when I say hard to find, my edition isn’t even for sale on Discog’s). This example is a pretty consistent of what I saw overall with quite a few seriously underpriced, some were close, not a 1 did I think was overpriced . For me this app has value as a quick guide in a used record store but not much more. My hope is that this app in its infancy will get better as a price guide. If they can pull that off, this could be a great tool

I was somewhat impressed that it was able to identify some of my records, though it misidentified the artist on one out of the 13 I have scanned so far. It’s a good app if you want to have your collection on your mobile device and you don’t want more details than artist and title, such as condition, release version, and runout codes. For that you’d need an app like Discogs, which is free. This would be much more useful if you could enter the record’s condition and get the value based on that. It’s definitely not worth an ongoing subscription fee, but I unfortunately forgot to cancel it before the one-week trial period expired, so now I’ve paid for it for a year, which is what creators of apps like this count on. I don’t even have any further use for it, but that’s on me. Lesson learned. Update after response from the developer: It didn’t identify “most” of my records. It identified 12 out of my 600+ records and misidentified one. I fell for the suggestion of trying to request a refund, only to be told that I don’t have any purchases that are eligible for a refund. For wasting my time and making me think they might be magnanimous about my lack of diligence in canceling my trial in time, I took off a star.

So I’m using my the app taken a pic of all the vinyls I have an I’m not even halfway done ! Now on advertising video I see it shows the guy selling the vinyls after he takes a pic! Well be taken hella pics and got priced for them and it seems reasonable to the price! How and Where do I sell them tho or is this just an all that shows you the price of what it’s worth and then we have to go sell em on our own which is a complete waste of time cause if could take god knows how long if ever to sell these vinyls at the prices thsi app says the are worth! Is it because I’m using the trial that I can’t sell them yet or what please let me know cause if it just shows market value and that’s it then this is not worth subscribing to unless this app lets us sell them on there

Correctly identifying a record version takes a lot of work, so I was very skeptic. I gave it a try with my first press variant C of the album “Revolver” by The Beatles and the app wasn’t able to identify which press variant it is (as expected) … and this is KEY to correctly price the copy. For starters to properly value/identify a record you definitely need to check the runout markings .. and there are 10s of variations of this record. You identify the versions by checking small details such as the spelling of a song’s name, which songs are mentioned in the first line, if it includes additional notes, etc etc. Maybe this could be considered a nice app for people just getting into collecting records, but not for people looking to accurately price a large collection, specially if you have expensive copies.

I have a pretty extensive vinyl collection and was extremely excited to use this app…however, trying to log my first few albums - I tried 3 (fairly common, recognizable albums). Unfortunately, the scanning tech identifies any record as an unbelievably way off album. Very inaccurate and unreliable app currently. That said - I do have high hopes the developers will work this flaw out in time to create a very useful app with maximum functionality. Regardless of my 2 star review now, (honestly wanted to scale it at 1 star, but felt due to the concept of the app, a second star should be given) - I will be checking back in on this app in 6 months to see if any progress has been made.

Hi VinylSnap team, I like the app overall — it has a great interface and it’s easy to use. However, it doesn’t let me edit anything, and that really limits how useful it is for managing my vinyl collection. Right now there’s very little flexibility to organize records. If the database gets something wrong, I can’t correct it or edit the entry, so I’m basically stuck with inaccurate info. It also doesn’t allow subdivisions (like folders, categories, or custom groups) or any other tools to organize a collection in a more detailed way. I’ll be using the app until February 1. I’m hoping you can add features like editing/corrections and better organization options — otherwise I’ll probably move to a different app. Thanks.

Finds the correct album, but can’t decipher versions and variants. In my opinion, the most important part when looking at value. Usually I’d just delete it and move on but came back to give a 1 star after seeing a horribly done AI ad on instagram. You guys can’t hire someone to talk about it? You can’t do it yourselves? Seriously I might’ve even sat back and waited for an update if I’d seen a good ad. Don’t trust any company that cuts corners in favor of using AI where people should be involved. Telling as to why the service may not work very well

Why would I pay for a service I can get for free? Discogs is the way to go so I’m not going to pay for a subscription that really adds no value to my collecting experience. Did I mention there’s absolutely no sure fire way to estimate value based on a PICTURE?!?! Do the words deadwax and serial number mean nothing to you guys? Serious collectors won’t take you seriously and once a few hundred buyers get screwed by inaccurate valuations your app is gonna tank. Go back to the drawing board or you will fail….fast.

While I find the snap-to-scan feature, and it is fairly accurate (especially for better known releases) I have had some issues. The app occasionally crashes. The camera functionality stopped working today (a very important component to the app working properly). A lot of my records have been mis-labeled by the app. Fortunately the edit feature is simple to use. However, if it ever assumes your copy is a repressing and not an original, whether you edit it or not, it will always remain in the description. That actually happens with some of the other editable parameters as well. Not a huge deal, but a little annoying.

I tried this app out to check on my record collection. The first three or four albums I took pictures of, they were correct. But when I looked some of my rare stuff, the recommendations were way off. I even tried on others with some luck. So out every ten, maybe one would work correctly. Some of my collection don’t have bar codes. I’m glad I remembered to cancel my free trial. It’s a great concept, but needs some love.

It has trouble identifying records not on major labels or older ones. The prices seem to be very arbitrary and conflict with other sources. No way to edit all the way. Good for tracking if you think you’ve already have something in your collection. I hope to see improvements.

It’s a cool Idea but still needs work, it’s not accurate enough it doesn’t work with picture discs you have any other way to add data other than picture the center, doesn’t give details about your particular version and values are not very accurate will cancel and check when and they improve.

Have used this app several times and it’s been spot on, however, it has underappreciated a few albums. Not sure where they’re getting their value readings from. Otherwise, the app does exactly what it advertises.

I showed this a local band limited print the AI read the label and just said it was $15. Then hand drawn a record label for a fictional band and said it was $15. Then showed it an obviously bootleg album and it said it was for $15. Then showed it a rare pressing and it said it was worth $45. This app just reads the label, does a quick internet search of the average value of the album regardless of released or pressing.

So unfortunately the function to take a picture isn’t working for me. I have to go to my camera app take a picture then open this app and upload my picture.

I can just imagine people scanning their hacked up 20th pressings of beetles albums and thinking they can retire. Half the records they don’t have and what they have they price incorrectly. 20$ Christmas albums, hard to find records for a buck… stuff in stores now for 20$ at $1,000. You don’t want this if you know anything about vinyl and you really don’t want it if you don’t!

It gets the overall album right but can't decifer which version so your value is often inflated or deflated as such. However it gives you a starting point I suppose

This app doesn’t correctly identify albums and if you attempt to edit and save, it doesn’t lock in to your collection after. Good idea, in theory….but poor execution. I’ll come back in a few years, once this app has enough followers and backing to work properly.

So out of the 10 records I scanned, only half of them were correctly identified. Every single wrong identification comes up as “The Devil Wears Prada”. For an app that requires a paid subscription I feel it’s unacceptable that it doesn’t work correctly the majority of the time.

It’s fine recognizing albums with the artist information on the center label. But anyone with eyesight can do that. If the center label is a picture or doesn’t have a lot of information about the album…it’s useless. It also can’t identify between different types of pressings. Great concept for an app. Just falls short of being useful.

When you install this app it immediately asks to set up a subscription. You can’t even test saving albums until you pay for it. I scanned an album and got a price of $17. Scanned it again and got a price of $35. Scanned again multiple times and never got the same result. Deleted 5min after installing.

I made sure to take very clear pics of the center label on my vinyls, but it was only able to get about 50% of them. It’s better if you have very clear words on the label that tells it exactly what it is.

I downloaded the app to try for free. First Scanned Deep Purple Burn. Results no problem Second Nazareth Razamanaz. No problem. Johnny Winter Second winter Network error? no results? Steve Hackett Please don’t touch, network error? no results? Both with “network errors” try again. These artists are not that obscure…. Didn’t work for me. Canceled the trial

Does not always give the correct record. Also if you snap it several times it will give you a different price of value. Needs to be away to update value of your collection. Too me not worth the year subscription but I’ll stick it out to see if it improves.

I downloaded this app after seeing an advertisement claiming that it can identify vinyl records by reading the etched runout numbers inside the record (the small matrix codes near the center). That is the correct way to identify a specific pressing, so the feature sounded genuinely useful. However, the app clearly does not do this. It only asks you to take a photo of the center label. I even tested covering the runout area completely and the app still returned the same results. This strongly suggests it is not reading those numbers at all. That makes the advertising misleading. Many records share identical center labels across multiple pressings and reissues, sometimes across different decades and countries. Identifying a record from the label alone is simply not reliable. Because of this, the app frequently matches records to the wrong edition and the value estimates it shows can be completely inaccurate. I would strongly warn other users not to rely on the values provided here. If someone bases the price of their records on this app, they could easily end up selling valuable pressings for far less than they are actually worth. The concept of scanning records quickly is great, but advertising that the app reads runout numbers when it clearly does not is false advertising and misleading to collectors.

Trial period ended earlier, no warning unlike what they claimed when you try the « free trial » and off course no reply from the developer when you contact them!

Scan both side and got 2 different price. Some of them where not Even the album i scan.

No way to export your own data, and support email does not reply. Cancelled and deleted.

This app doesn’t know the current values for vinyl - I don’t know where they’re sourcing info, but it’s way off

Remember to cancel subscription before deleting the app after trial