About
The shelf comes first.
Cratemint is built by one collector in the UK, for collectors who love their shelves and have nowhere beautiful to keep them.
The dominant tool for cataloguing records is a marketplace with a database bolted on. It's built to move inventory, not to celebrate a collection. You can log a thousand records in it and never once feel proud of what you own. That gap is the whole reason Cratemint exists.
So Cratemint is the other thing. A light ivory precision instrument for your collection: record-label geometry, hairline rules, tabular numbers, and a scan that lands with real weight. Point your phone at the shelf and covers fall into place one after another, with a stamp and a haptic, at the speed of flipping a crate. The records we can't match get a beautiful label-typography sleeve, so your shelf never shows a broken image.
Two stances hold the whole thing together.
Honest pricing is a principle, not a tactic. What's free stays genuinely useful. Pro is announced plainly, and the trial tells you before it converts. No bait, no dark patterns.
Your data is yours. You can export your whole collection in one tap and delete everything just as easily, from the first day.
That's the promise. The most beautiful home a record collection could have.
Wilson, founder