Version 1.3 · May 1, 2026

What's new in
Spinstack 1.3

Crate Dig is free. Japanese is here. Your collection loads instantly. Ten features that make your shelves feel alive.

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Ten Features

Everything in 1.3

01 / 10 Now Free

Crate Dig for Everyone

The feature that started as a Pro exclusive is now free for every user. Swipeable discovery from your own shelves - no subscription required.

  • Swipe through your shelves. Four deck types - Artist Dig, Label Mates, Connected Artist, Style Match - surface records you forgot you owned.
  • Save gems. Bookmark records that catch your eye. Build a running list of rediscoveries.
  • Find wishlist picks. Records you don't own yet surface alongside your collection. Tap to add.
  • Dig Report. After every session, see a breakdown of what you browsed, what you saved, and what the algorithm learned about your taste.
  • Zero operational cost. Runs entirely on your own collection data. No API calls, no CloudKit writes. That's why it's free.
Swipe · Save · Dig spinstackios.app
02 / 10 New Language

Now in
Japanese

1,575 strings. Every screen, every button, every notification - translated into natural Japanese. Spinstack joins the world's second-largest vinyl market.

  • Full coverage. Tab labels, navigation, toolbar, empty states, alerts, errors, notifications, Siri phrases - all in Japanese.
  • Plain polite register. です・ます throughout. Not casual, not keigo. Matches Apple's own system voice.
  • Product names stay English. Spinstack, Crate Dig, Vinyl Vision, B-Side - with first-use parenthetical glosses.
  • Paywall, Crate Dig, What's New. Three previously stuck-in-English screens now fully localized across all languages.
  • App Store metadata. Description, what's new, keywords - all in Japanese.
日本語 · Complete · Native spinstackios.app
03 / 10 Instant

Cache-First
Launch

Your collection, wishlist, and folders paint from disk the moment you open the app. No spinner. No waiting for the network.

  • 5-minute freshness window. Reopen within 5 minutes and the network is skipped entirely.
  • Stale but instant. After 5 minutes, the cache paints first while a silent background refresh runs.
  • Offline mode. Airplane mode? Your last-synced collection, wishlist, and every folder load normally.
  • Pull-to-refresh. Always forces a live network fetch, regardless of cache age.
  • Full folder caching. Every folder's complete contents cache to disk - not just preview covers.
Instant · Offline · Synced spinstackios.app
04 / 10 Browse

Decade Sort +
Original Year

Sort by the album's original release year - not the pressing year. Decade section headers with an era-jumping scrubber.

  • Two new sort orders. Original Year (Oldest) and Original Year (Newest) in the sort menu.
  • Decade sections. Records group under 1960s / 1970s / 1980s headers that pin while scrolling.
  • Era scrubber. The right-edge scrubber shows decade tags. Tap or drag to jump.
  • Master release lookup. Fetches the Discogs master release to find the original year. Cached forever.
  • Smart fallback. Records without a master release fall back to the pressing year.
Sort · Jump · Explore spinstackios.app
05 / 10 Browse

Artist Banners
& Smart Names

Records group under artist banners in list view. On-device name classification powers display formatting and sorting.

  • Banner rows. Sort by Artist A-Z and records cluster under collapsible artist headers.
  • Sort within artist. Choose Title A-Z, Original Year Oldest, or Original Year Newest inside each group.
  • Classify All. One-tap sweep classifies every artist in your library. Batched with a progress bar.
  • Artist-scoped overrides. Long-press an artist name, set a display override - every record by that artist updates.
  • Disambiguation stripping. "Beck (2)" becomes "Beck." The raw Discogs name stays intact for API lookups.
Group · Classify · Override spinstackios.app
06 / 10 Spin Log

Log Spin
From Anywhere

Long-press any record anywhere in the app and log a spin. No more navigating to the release page first.

  • Collection & Wishlist. Grid or list view - long-press any tile.
  • Search results. Find a record, long-press, log. Tracklist populates in the background.
  • Friend's collection. Spot something a friend is spinning? Long-press to log it as your own.
  • Artist & Label views. Browse an artist's discography and log directly.
  • Full Log Spin sheet. Same sheet as always - tracks, ratings, notes, Last.fm scrobble.
Long-Press · Log · Done spinstackios.app
07 / 10 Insights

Weekly Digest &
Memorable Moments

Sunday recap of your listening week. First spins, 5-star listens, milestones, streaks, and anniversaries - all detected on-device.

  • First-spin moments. Play a record for the first time? Spinstack notices.
  • Five-star moments. Rate a record 5 stars on a re-listen? "A new favorite."
  • Milestones. 100th spin, 500th spin, 7-day streak, 30-day streak.
  • Anniversaries. "One year since you first played this record."
  • Weekly Digest. Sunday evening notification with the week's recap. Silent if you didn't log anything.
Moments · Milestones · Streaks spinstackios.app
08 / 10 Social

Vinyl Reactions
& Trending

React to your friends' spins with eight emoji reactions. See what's hot in your circle with Trending in Your Circle.

  • Eight reactions. A curated emoji set designed for vinyl culture. No free-text, no spam vectors.
  • React from the feed. Tap a friend's spin in The B-Side to react. They get a push notification.
  • Trending in Your Circle. The 5 most-spun records among your friends this week, surfaced on Home.
  • Albums in Common. Visit a friend's profile to see the records you both own.
  • Block & Wipe. Block a user or wipe your entire B-Side history with one tap.
React · Trend · Connect spinstackios.app
09 / 10 Siri

Three New
Siri Shortcuts

Talk to your collection. Three new voice commands that read from your spin log and queue - all on-device, no network calls.

  • "What was my last spin?" Returns the title, artist, and how long ago you played it.
  • "What's my spin streak?" Returns your current consecutive-day streak count.
  • "What's next in my queue?" Returns the next record in your Play Next Queue, or tells you the queue is empty.
  • All on-device. Local-only reads from existing services. No API calls, no writes.
  • Shortcuts app. All three appear in the Shortcuts app for automation and widget use.
Ask · Listen · Know spinstackios.app
10 / 10 Last.fm

Last.fm
Simplified Login

Username and password. That's it. No more registering your own API keys on last.fm/api. Connect in seconds.

  • Two fields. Username + password. Tap Connect. Done.
  • Session key in Keychain. Your credentials are used once for authentication, then discarded. Never stored.
  • Scrobble everything. Log a spin and it appears on your Last.fm profile within seconds. Full tracklist, correct timestamps.
  • Disconnect anytime. One tap clears the session key from Keychain.
  • Less surface area. Users no longer paste third-party API keys. Spinstack's own credentials handle the handshake.
Connect · Scrobble · Done spinstackios.app
Under the Hood

Stability for big libraries

Built for 1,000+ record collections

The image cache now enforces an 80 MB byte budget (down from ~290 MB uncapped) so Spinstack is never the jetsam target on 4 GB devices. A memory-warning observer instantly drops in-memory caches while keeping disk untouched - recovery is a fast file-decode, not a network round-trip.

The Original Year sort now takes a snapshot of the master-year cache at sort start, so background enrichment can't shuffle records mid-sort on large libraries. Notification-tap crashes during heavy SwiftUI layout are gone - the handler now fires synchronously to satisfy UIKit's watchdog.

Plus: trap-prone force-unwraps in the notification scheduler and ML pipeline hardened with guard-lets. Pull-to-refresh now walks every page. Collection/Wishlist footers report real-time loading state. Full-library loads continue in the background when navigating away. Scrobbles always send the real tracklist regardless of where the spin was logged. Apple TV gets decade and A-Z section headers to match iOS.

Available now.

Spinstack 1.3 is live on the App Store. Free update for every existing user. $9.99 once for new users. No subscription. No ads. Ever.

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