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Version 1.5 · Arriving with iOS 27

What's new in
Spinstack 1.5

Spinstack knows the actual condition of every record you own. Not the grade someone typed once, but the groove itself, measured with the hardware in your pocket and read entirely on your device.

iPhone iPad Apple Watch Apple TV

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Apple Intelligence surfaces, all on-device

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languages, including two right-to-left

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Siri and Shortcuts intents

715

automated tests in 73 suites, all passing

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trackers, third-party SDKs, or new permissions

Record Condition

Grade the groove, not the guess

No other vinyl app measures a record from the groove up. The tools that lived in Labs are now a tab of their own, and they produce things you can actually hand to a buyer.

01 / 08 Now a tab

The Condition Tab

A fifth tab dedicated to record health, on with Spinstack Pro. It changes shape with what you are doing, scanning, listening, or grading.

  • A health card that counts how many records are graded and what the ungraded ones are worth.
  • A check-these-first queue sorted by value, so the expensive unknowns come first.
  • Groove Vision reads scratch depth with LiDAR across four macro captures, and the worst quadrant sets the grade, because the needle hits every scratch. Requires an iPhone Pro or iPad Pro.
  • Scratch Detection listens through the microphone during a Silent Session and confirms marks when they recur across plays.
02 / 08 Builds 106 and 107

Your copy, at its price

Every price surface tracks the lowest Discogs listing, the market floor across all conditions. Now any record with a media grade also shows what that specific copy is plausibly worth.

  • A Near Mint copy roughly doubles the floor. A Fair copy falls to about a tenth of it.
  • Price Watchdog shows the per-copy value on every graded row, plus a Your Copies total.
  • The Collection Appraisal, its PDF, and the Condition tab card run the same arithmetic, so all four surfaces agree to the dollar.
  • Two tiers, always labelled. Discogs's own per-grade sales data where your account can reach it, marked at your grade. The standard collector percentages otherwise, marked rough est.
  • These are estimates and every surface says so. They are not professional appraisals, and the collector percentages are a longstanding convention rather than something we invented.
  • Built from public tester feedback, and the TestFlight notes say so.
03 / 08 Shareable

The Condition Card

A shareable image of one record's condition, with a drawn vinyl disc showing every detected scratch placed where it actually sits in the grooves.

  • Sized and coloured by severity. Confirmed marks are solid, tentative ones are faint rings.
  • Media and sleeve grades, spins logged, and when you last played that copy.
  • Three styles: Classic, Dark, and Color. Save to Photos or straight to the share sheet.
  • It is a rendering of data the app already holds, not an illustration.
04 / 08 Free for everyone

Condition Receipt and Appraisal

The paperwork collecting has always needed and never had a one-tap way to produce.

  • The Condition Receipt is a one-record document for a buyer or an insurer, and in 1.5 it is free for everyone.
  • The Collection Appraisal is an itemized PDF of your whole collection's value and condition, included with Pro.
  • Both lead with album artwork and both export offline.
  • Marketplace figures carry an as of date, because Discogs caps displayed price freshness at six hours.
05 / 08 On the record page

Condition, in reach

Grades, the Condition Card, and the Condition Receipt now sit in their own row under a record's buttons instead of hiding in a menu.

  • Tap the grades to change them in place.
  • A sparkles button flags a record as needing a clean.
  • Ungraded records show a tappable chip instead of nothing at all.
  • The overflow menu shrank from eight items to five.
06 / 08 For 7 inch singles

Generic sleeve grade

Most 45s arrive in a blank paper or company sleeve, and grading that Mint to Poor says nothing.

  • The sleeve grade now offers Generic, which is Discogs's own value for a plain sleeve.
  • It saves to your collection like any other grade and shows on the website.
  • Sleeve only, because Discogs does not accept it for the record itself.
  • Asked for by a tester who buys a lot of singles.
07 / 08 Apple Intelligence

Condition Read

The on-device model reads a record's own evidence and writes a short appraiser-style note for its page and its Condition Receipt.

  • Grounded in the record's Groove Vision scan, your grades, and the scratch map.
  • On iOS 27 the model is actually shown the scan photo, so the note describes what it sees.
  • The photo never leaves the device and is not newly stored.
  • Switch languages and the note is rewritten in the new one.
08 / 08 Builds 122 and 123

Groove Vision says what it thinks

The scanner estimates a grade. You set it. The result card now says so in as many words.

  • The grade leads the card in the app's condition colour, with a confidence pill: high, moderate or low.
  • Underneath, in plain text: Spinstack's estimate. You decide the grade below.
  • The quadrant that set the grade is marked, so you can see which part of the record the scanner was worried about.
  • A scan-sourced grade is labelled wherever it prices a record: a camera mark in the Appraisal list, and (scan) on the PDF.
  • What the scanner sees reads in your own language, and the tool is offered only on devices that have LiDAR.
NFC

The Tap Card

01 / 01 Instant and offline

Tap the sleeve

Tap a tagged record and Spinstack answers with everything it knows about that copy, on one card, instantly and entirely offline.

  • The pressing: label, catalogue number, and variant tags.
  • Your condition grades, the Groove Vision scan, and the scratch map for that copy.
  • Current value, how many times you have played it, and when.
  • The tempo and key measured from that very copy during Silent Sessions.
  • Five actions on the card: quick-log a spin, open the full log sheet, start a Silent Session, add to Play Next, or open the record.
  • New tags carry a per-copy token, so two copies of the same album keep separate histories. Every tag written by an older build keeps working.
  • Sections with no data are simply absent. A record you have never played gets one line: Never played. Tonight could fix that.
On-Device Intelligence

Nineteen surfaces, none of them in the cloud

Every AI feature in Spinstack runs on your device with Apple Intelligence. There is no server-side inference anywhere in the app, because there is no Spinstack server.

01 / 05 With tools

Ask Your Collection

Ask about your records in your own words and get an answer from your own shelves. Follow-up questions work.

  • Do I own anything by Talk Talk? What have I played most this year? How many records do I have from the 70s?
  • The first Spinstack feature to give Apple's on-device model tools: it searches the collection, counts it, and reads the spin history itself.
  • Under each answer it shows what it checked, so you can see the working.
  • Nothing about your collection is sent anywhere.
02 / 05 Hands free

Ask Spinstack from Siri

Say "Ask Spinstack about my collection" and the same on-device model answers, spoken and as a text tile.

  • For the moment you are in a shop holding a record and want to know whether it is already on your shelf.
  • No audio and no question text leaves the device.
  • Every phrase is translated, so it works in your language.
03 / 05 Measured, not guessed

Sonic Fingerprint

On iOS 27 a Silent Session measures the record as it plays: tempo, musical key, loudness, and which instruments carry it.

  • Records connect in Sonic Connections when they truly match, and the app says why: Measured kinship, both in A minor.
  • Every other similar-records feature works from metadata. This one is measured from your own copy.
  • Rides the same microphone session as Scratch Detection. No new permission, no background listening.
  • Audio is processed in memory and discarded. What is stored is a few numbers.
04 / 05 Camera

Find It With the Camera

Point the iPhone's visual intelligence camera at a record and Spinstack tells you which records in your own collection match.

  • Vinyl Vision identifies a record to add. This one tells you what you already own.
  • It matches on the artwork itself as well as any text, which catches stylized sleeves and pressings with no words on them.
  • The record-store bin problem, solved without opening the app.
  • No API key, no account, no internet.
05 / 05 Build 62

Scratches in the music

Every detected scratch is stamped with the loudness of the music around it, so the app can tell you which marks you will actually hear.

  • Three verdicts: prominent, noticeable, or under the music.
  • It needs the scratch map and the sonic analysis of the same play. No other app has either, which is why no other app can do this.
  • Requires Apple Intelligence on a supported device.
Scanning

The record-shop workflow

The three scanners received the largest set of changes in this release. The 7 inch single was the hardest case, and the most improved.

01 / 06 Macro

Scan up close

Vinyl Vision and the barcode scanner now open the wide camera system, so iOS hands off to the macro lens at close range.

  • A 45's catalogue number used to go soft at exactly the distance you needed to read it.
  • Pinch to zoom, tap to focus, and a Macro badge when the close-up lens takes over.
  • Phones without a macro lens fall back to the wide camera.
02 / 06 Read the label

Pick text from the photo

After a scan, open the picture with a box drawn around every string the camera read, sitting where it sits on the label.

  • Tap the artist, the title, or a hand-stamped catalogue number. Tap more than one and they join in label order.
  • It keeps the small print the suggestion chips filter out, which is often the only thing identifying a private pressing or a white label.
03 / 06 Accuracy

Vinyl Vision reads more

A barcode in the same photo as label text is tried first, because a barcode names one exact release.

  • Catalogue numbers get an uncorrected read, so 1A is not spell-checked into a word.
  • The scan fits a circle to the label and favours the small text on the rim, where catalogue numbers live.
  • The recogniser detects the label's language instead of assuming, which matters for Japanese and Cyrillic pressings.
  • Label names that collide with ordinary words, like Chess, Verve and Warp, are protected.
  • Reads happen on your iPhone first. Google Vision is optional, and only a fallback.
04 / 06 Barcodes

Won't scan? Read the numbers

When shrink wrap or a sticker stops the bars scanning, Spinstack reads the printed digits instead.

  • It checks them against the check digit before searching, so a misread never becomes a search.
  • iOS returns a UPC-A as an EAN-13 with a leading zero while Discogs stores what the sleeve prints. Both spellings are now treated as one barcode.
  • Exact matches float to the top with a blue Exact barcode badge.
  • Code 128, ITF-14 and GS1 DataBar are recognised, for box sets and distributor stickers.
  • Hear it before you keep it now finds singles too, and names the album a clip came from.
05 / 06 Builds 84 to 86

The wishlist reveal

Scan a record you have been hunting and the screen goes dark.

  • The sleeve rises out of a crate of records, straightens, and light rakes across it.
  • Underneath: Wanted since March 2024, taken from your real wantlist date.
  • Cross-pressing on purpose, because the reissue turning up in a crate is the find.
  • A record you already own under another pressing never celebrates.
  • Two haptics and no sound, because this fires in a record shop.
06 / 06 Builds 87 to 99

The App Clip

A printed App Clip Code on a partner store's counter opens a store-welcomed mini-Spinstack. No install, no account.

  • Scans any barcode in the bins and identifies the exact pressing.
  • Carries the real Vinyl Vision pipeline, so sleeves without a barcode still work.
  • A staff-picks shelf and a storefront, hours, site, phone and Instagram, that the store edits by updating one file. No app build, no review.
  • A small fraction of Apple's 15 MB clip ceiling, in all sixteen languages.
  • Per-store analytics with zero new tracking.
Around the App

Every Apple platform, every language

01 / 08 Discovery

Never Spun and Your Story

Two new ways to look at a collection you thought you knew.

  • Never Spun surfaces the records you own and have never once played.
  • Your Spinstack Story turns your collecting history into something worth reading.
  • Credits are finally visible, so you can see who played on what.
  • The Wax Timeline now carries exact release dates.
  • Search keeps going, and has a tab of its own.
02 / 08 Social

The B-Side, refreshed

One social surface, an Activity inbox, and crews that work for real.

  • React to anything, not just a record.
  • The Activity inbox collects what happened while you were away.
  • Crews are private circles of collectors with a shared feed and a crate you build together.
03 / 08 watchOS 27

The watch keeps up

A session started on Apple Watch counts a record's side down on the iPhone Lock Screen and in the Dynamic Island.

  • Push-updated complications, so the watch face is current without opening anything.
  • Smart Stack relevance worked out from your own listening hours.
  • A Control Center control opens the barcode scanner for the record-shop moment when the app is closed.
  • Spotlight indexes your collection on-device.
04 / 08 Sixteen languages

Your language, everywhere

It is common for an app to translate its screens and forget everything else. This release translates the rest.

  • Permission dialogs, Home Screen quick actions, every Siri phrase, the widget catalog, and the 158-entry Guide.
  • Arabic and Hebrew mirror the whole interface, right to left.
  • Plural forms are real, including Croatian's third form and Arabic's duals.
  • Portuguese genuinely diverges between Brazil and Portugal.
  • Colour is drawn from your own cover art, and the paywall is rebuilt on Liquid Glass.
05 / 08 Yours, everywhere

Replace Cover Art

Discogs covers are sellers' condition photos, so the main image often carries glare or a crooked angle.

  • Swap it for a cleaner image from the same release, or a photo of your own.
  • It applies everywhere that record appears, and it is reversible.
  • Synced through your own iCloud. Nothing is sent to the developer.
06 / 08 Builds 108 to 113

Apple TV, caught up

Until build 108 the Apple TV app was a browser. Six builds later it is a member of the family, and it is the largest tvOS release Spinstack has shipped.

  • Now Spinning: the full-screen sleeve with a disc turning at a real 33 1/3 rpm and a running clock. Press Finish and the spin logs with its true listening time, counting toward Stylus Hours like any other.
  • Game Night: a pass-the-remote quiz built entirely from your own records. Guess the year, name the record from an extreme close-up, spot whose move it was. Two to eight players, three rounds, nobody types anything.
  • Collection Appraisal and Price Watchdog reach the big screen and agree with the iPhone and the PDF to the dollar.
  • Crews come along read-only: the crate, the weekly challenge, recent activity and the roster.
  • Custom cover art set on iPhone syncs through iCloud onto every shelf, grid and record page.
  • Build 131 hardened Game Night after a brute-force pass, guaranteeing four distinct answers and building the engine once per game, redesigned Now Spinning to tvOS conventions, and put every button on the TV onto the standard focus style.
07 / 08 Builds 116 to 119

The store knows you are a regular

The App Clip was built to win strangers. The people most likely to scan a shop's counter card, existing users, got the least.

  • Once per store per day, a typographic welcome takes the screen: the store's name in the clip's warm light, its neighbourhood, its promo.
  • It hands off to Vinyl Vision, with the free barcode scanner as the fallback so a lapsed trial never meets a paywall mid-crate.
  • A persistent store chip on the scanner opens the staff picks shelf and the store's card: blurb, hours, phone, promo, links.
  • Picks open as real record pages wearing your own owned and wanted badges, which the clip cannot draw.
  • Six partner stores now, and Big Love Records in Harajuku, Tokyo is the first outside Puget Sound.
  • A store can print one App Clip Code per experience, and each code reads its own storefront entry. Big Love's Japanese card shows a Japanese blurb, links and picks while the English card keeps the English ones. Both count as one store for the welcome, the daily gate and attribution.
  • A store's promotion line can carry a last day and retires itself.
08 / 08 Build 120

The first run, rebuilt

Most of 1.5's condition and intelligence work sat behind switches a new user never met. A first run that hides both is a demo that never starts.

  • AI Liner Notes is on by default wherever Apple Intelligence is available, disclosed on the welcome tour rather than flipped silently.
  • An On Your Device page states it plainly: everything is written on this device, nothing leaves it.
  • A Use my weather for picks toggle that stays off until you turn it on, at which point the location prompt appears right there.
  • Every permission prompt rewritten as one complete, specific sentence, in all sixteen languages. The Photos prompt says the access is add-only; the location prompt says the app keeps no record of where you have been.
  • Anyone who had switched AI Liner Notes off keeps that choice.
Privacy, plainly

Your listening life stays yours

Discogs stores your collection. Spinstack stores its story, and that story lives on your device and in your iCloud. All nineteen Apple Intelligence surfaces run on-device. Nothing is sent to a Spinstack server, because there is no Spinstack server.

No third-party SDKs. No analytics. No ad identifier and no tracking prompt. Scans and audio are processed on the device, and 1.5 asks for no new permissions.

Background reading

The thinking behind 1.5

How to Set Up Vinyl NFC Tags for Your Collection Why Track Your Vinyl Collection Before It Grows Why Vinyl Pressings Sound Different at Home Vinyl Condition Scanner Review for Serious Sellers

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