About
The shelf comes first.
Cratemint is built by collectors, for collectors who love their shelves and have nowhere beautiful to keep them.
A record collection is one of the most personal things a person builds: the covers, the pressings, the memory of where each one came from. Yet most of us keep it in a spreadsheet or a database that makes it feel like stock to be counted. Cratemint exists to give it a home that feels worthy of it.
So Cratemint is the other thing. A dark, machined instrument for your collection: record-label circles, hairline rules, tabular numbers, and a scan that lands with real weight. Point your phone at the shelf and the covers drop into place one after another, each with a stamp and a haptic, at the speed of flipping a crate. Bring your whole collection over in one guided import, and the records we can't match get a beautiful label-typography sleeve, so your shelf never shows a broken image.
It's more than a catalogue. Log what you're spinning, hunt the pressings on your wantlist, and turn your shelf into share cards worth posting. Collecting happens in bursts. Listening happens every day. Cratemint is built for both.
That's the promise: the most beautiful home a record collection could have.
Wilson, founder