VinylSnap: Scan & Value Record

I was somewhat impressed that it was able to identify some of my records, though it misidentified the artist on one out of the 13 I have scanned so far. It’s a good app if you want to have your collection on your mobile device and you don’t want more details than artist and title, such as condition, release version, and runout codes. For that you’d need an app like Discogs, which is free. This would be much more useful if you could enter the record’s condition and get the value based on that. It’s definitely not worth an ongoing subscription fee, but I unfortunately forgot to cancel it before the one-week trial period expired, so now I’ve paid for it for a year, which is what creators of apps like this count on. I don’t even have any further use for it, but that’s on me. Lesson learned. Update after response from the developer: It didn’t identify “most” of my records. It identified 12 out of my 600+ records and misidentified one. I fell for the suggestion of trying to request a refund, only to be told that I don’t have any purchases that are eligible for a refund. For wasting my time and making me think they might be magnanimous about my lack of diligence in canceling my trial in time, I took off a star.

What a great concept, great idea but needs much work as a pricing guide IMHO as a 50 year record collector. In fairness I cataloged only 40 LP’s, picking out 1st pressings, limited editions, highly collectible hard to find items i.e. Muddy Waters original Chess Record pressing from 1958 listed here for $20 while Discog’s has it priced low end $29, middle $78 and high $127 (when I say hard to find, my edition isn’t even for sale on Discog’s). This example is a pretty consistent of what I saw overall with quite a few seriously underpriced, some were close, not a 1 did I think was overpriced . For me this app has value as a quick guide in a used record store but not much more. My hope is that this app in its infancy will get better as a price guide. If they can pull that off, this could be a great tool

Lightweight but very useful to give ball park price evaluation very quickly. Been doing with an AI agent I made which is way more precise and gives a lot more info but is also too slow to be useful and does not work with low bandwidth anywhere near as good as this app. I would like it scan matrix codes too and give more exact versioning and related pricing. A csv export would be good too.