What you get

Everything a crate-digger needs.

From cataloguing and pressing-accurate valuation to a local marketplace and wishlist alerts — here's what VinylSonar does.

A Rush LP in VinylSonar showing a market value of CA$109.60 for the 1985 US Mercury pressing, with separate media and sleeve condition selectors.
What your pressing is worth — not the album, the pressing.
VinylSonar's add-a-record menu: scan barcode, photograph barcode, photograph the disc label, photograph the album art, read the runout matrix, search catalogue, or enter manually.
Seven ways to add a record, including the runout matrix.
The VinylSonar dashboard showing a collection valued at CA$2031.48, a value-over-time chart, and the highest-value records in the collection.
Your whole collection, totalled and tracked over time.
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Scan & identify

Snap a barcode — or even a label photo. Our AI recognises the pressing and auto-fills cover, artist, year and label from Discogs & MusicBrainz.

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Catalog & value

Build your collection in seconds, track condition and how many copies you own, and watch its estimated value update from live market prices. Try it on one record — free, no account →

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Marketplace nearby

List records for sale and find them on a live map. Distance-based search means you meet up local — no shipping headaches.

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Deals near you

Unlock exclusive deals from record shops around you — store-wide discounts, bundles and special prices on the records you want.

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Wishlist sonar

Tell us what you're hunting. The moment a match lists within your radius — or drops in price — your phone buzzes.

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Community & chat

Follow sellers, build a reputation, drop into genre chat rooms, and message in real time to close the deal.

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For record shops

A branded storefront, unlimited listings, and deals posted to nearby collectors. We take no commission on your sales — ever, and nothing here asks you to ship. What shops get →

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Safe & moderated

AI-moderated listings and chat, seller ratings and reputation, and report/block tools keep the marketplace clean.

Dead simple

From shelf to sold in three moves.

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Scan & stack

Build your collection by scanning covers or barcodes. It auto-fills everything.

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List or hunt

Put spares up for sale, or set wishlist alerts for the white whales you're chasing.

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Meet & trade

Chat, agree a price, and meet a fellow collector down the street.

Start your collection tonight.

Free to catalogue and value your records. Founding members get 3 months of Premium on us — no credit card.