1. The deal, in short
Cratemint is the most beautiful home for the records you own. You catalogue what you have, we keep it safe and show it back to you. The app is free, and every feature in it is free. Our privacy policy covers what we do with your data, and it is part of this agreement too.
2. Who we are
Cratemint is built and run by its founder in the United Kingdom. The registered legal entity and its address are being confirmed with our solicitor and will be named here before the app goes on sale.
Contact us at cratemint.com/contact. Ask us for a postal address and you will get one. For anything about your data, choose "Privacy and my data" there and it reaches the same person faster.
3. Your account
You need to be 16 or older to use Cratemint. You sign in with Apple or Google; keep your device and account secure. Cratemint is for cataloguing the records you own. Some parts of Cratemint are social: you can pick a public handle, share a crate or your shelf as a link, and follow other collectors. Sharing is always your choice, and your notes, prices, and listening log stay private (see sections 5 and 9).
4. What it costs
Nothing. Cratemint is free to download and free to use, and every feature in it is included for everyone: unlimited records, the Discogs import, barcode and search adds, your listening log, wantlist, crates, crate mode, full stats, your Year in Vinyl, needle drop spin recognition, what your shelf is listed for with the insurance report, wantlist price watch, and every share card design and widget.
There is no subscription, no free trial, no paid tier, and no in-app purchase. Nothing in the app asks you for money and nothing in it is held back until you pay. Cataloguing the records you own, including importing them, is free and stays free. That is the point of the app.
If we ever introduce something you have to pay for, it will be new and it will be optional, we will tell you in the app before it takes effect (section 14), and it will not take away anything that is free today.
Buying and selling records between collectors is a separate thing with its own terms, and section 10 covers it.
Our privacy policy is at cratemint.com/privacy and is part of this agreement.
5. Your content
Your photos, story notes, and everything else you add stay yours. You give us the licence we need to store, process, and show them back to you, and to render the share cards you ask for, and nothing more. Do not upload content you have no right to use, or that is unlawful.
When you choose to make something public (your handle, display name, a shared crate or shelf), you give us the further licence to show that content to the people you share it with and, for a public link, to anyone who opens it. You are responsible for what you make public, and you can unpublish it any time.
6. Record data and values
The record details in Cratemint come from open data sources (see the privacy policy and our attribution). We work hard to match your records accurately, but we do not guarantee that every catalogue detail is correct or complete, and some pressings will be missing until the catalogue grows. If a record will not match, it still gets a home as a ghost entry.
Cratemint can show you a caveated range of what a pressing is currently listed for elsewhere, built from public listings and cached against the pressing. It is an indication for your own insurance and curiosity, not a valuation, not a price guide, and not advice. Do not rely on it to buy, sell, or insure without your own judgement. Any insurance value you enter is your own figure, stored for you and shown to nobody else.
7. Crate mode
Crate mode tells you whether you already own a record you are looking at. It uses a signal on your device and no location tracking. It is a helper, not a guarantee; always trust your own eyes on a pressing.
8. Acceptable use
Do not: access another collector's private data or any part of their collection they have not shared publicly; scrape, probe, or overload our services; resell or redistribute our catalogue data as a dataset; or interfere with other users. Cratemint connects to no third-party record service on your behalf; your Discogs import is your own file, and you must not try to make Cratemint do otherwise.
9. Community standards and objectionable content
Cratemint has zero tolerance for objectionable content and for abusive behaviour towards other collectors. When you make content public (your handle, display name, a shared crate or shelf, or anything else visible to other users), you agree not to post content that is unlawful, hateful, harassing, threatening, sexually explicit, or otherwise objectionable, and not to harass, abuse, impersonate, or threaten any other user.
Every collector can report content or a profile they find objectionable, and block any user, from inside the app. We review reports and act on them, and we remove objectionable content and remove or suspend the users who post it or who abuse others, without notice where the breach is serious. Using Cratemint's social features means agreeing to these standards; breaking them can end your access (section 12).
We act on a report within 24 hours: we remove content that breaks these standards and we remove or suspend the account that posted it. Blocking a collector is immediate and needs no report and no explanation, and a blocked collector cannot see or reach you.
If we act against your account we tell you what happened and why, and you can appeal at cratemint.com/contact, choosing "Report or appeal a takedown". A person reads it.
10. Buying and selling
The Cratemint marketplace is not open to the public yet. When it opens, selling is opt-in and carries its own terms, which you accept at seller onboarding: the marketplace terms, the prohibited items policy, the dispute policy, and the seller tax notice. In a sale the seller is the merchant of record and Cratemint is the venue and the payment rails. Nothing in this section applies to you unless you choose to buy or sell.
11. Our stuff
Cratemint's app, design, and brand are ours. These terms give you a personal licence to use the app; they do not transfer anything else. The open catalogue data we build on carries its own terms, set out in our attribution.
12. Ending things
You can delete your account any time in the app; deletion is permanent and covers everything (privacy policy, section 16). You can export your whole collection before you go. We can suspend or close accounts that break section 8 or the community standards in section 9, with notice unless the breach is serious. If we ever discontinue Cratemint we will give you reasonable notice and a way to export your collection.
13. What we are responsible for
Nothing in these terms limits liability that cannot be limited under UK law, and nothing reduces your statutory consumer rights. Beyond that, Cratemint is provided as is: we are not liable for incomplete or incorrect catalogue data, for a missed wantlist alert, or for losses that were not foreseeable when you agreed to these terms.
14. Changes to these terms
If we make a material change we will tell you in the app before it takes effect. Continuing to use Cratemint after that means you accept the change; if you do not, delete your account (section 12).
15. Law and disputes
These terms are governed by the law of England and Wales, and disputes belong to the courts of England and Wales, except that consumers resident elsewhere in the UK or EU keep the protections and venue rights their local law gives them.
16. This website
These terms also cover cratemint.com. Screens on the site are faithful recreations of the app, and the features described are the ones it ships with, though the app keeps changing as we improve it. Where the site says the app is free, it means it: there is nothing to buy inside it. The Cratemint name, mark, design, and the content of this site belong to us. Record catalogue data comes from open sources, as the footer of every page says.
Effective 29 July 2026