Scan vinyl.
Hear the music.
Point your phone at a record label and Label Mate identifies the tracks and plays them instantly through Apple Music or YouTube.
Made by a DJ, for DJs, collectors, and crate diggers.
Point your phone at a record label and Label Mate identifies the tracks and plays them instantly through Apple Music or YouTube.
Made by a DJ, for DJs, collectors, and crate diggers.
Have you been in a record store without a listening station? ...or the needle was broken? ...or just want to hear what you're holding - right now?
Hear the record within seconds via Apple Music with full album context and tracklist. Falls back to YouTube — or a 30-second preview — when a match isn't on Apple Music.
OCR, barcode scanning, and album cover matching — multiple strategies work together to identify your records against a catalog of 7.5M+ Discogs pressings.
Musical key in Camelot codes, BPM detection, and a waveform view — everything you need to read a record and plan your next mix straight from a scan. Tap along to set the tempo by ear.
Find every remix, repress, and variant of any track via Discogs. Tap to play any version through Apple Music or YouTube.
List a record for sale straight from a scan. Pick the exact pressing, grade media and sleeve condition, and set your price from Discogs's suggestions — save as a draft or publish live.
Log in with your Discogs account to manage your collection and wantlist, browse release images, and see live marketplace pricing in six currencies.
Save tracks to a prepare list for later, view your scan history, and print vinyl crate labels via AirPrint.
Auto-add every record you scan to an Apple Music playlist — build your collection as you dig.
Share what you're spinning as a polished card to Instagram Stories — artwork, track details, and a tap-to-open deep link back into the app.
Getting from a scratched-up label to the right track is a waterfall of decisions — each step narrowing the field, with a fallback ready whenever one comes up empty.
Apple's Vision framework reads every line of text on the label, building consensus across multiple camera frames so glare or a shaky hand doesn't throw it off — and correcting for common misreads like O / 0 or an upside-down label.
From that raw text, Label Mate teases apart catalog-number candidates, artist names, and titles — splitting mashed-together fine print and throwing out boilerplate. The catalog number is the strongest signal, so it leads.
Candidates go to Label Mate's catalog service in a single batched request, matched against 7.5M+ Discogs catalog numbers. Back come the releases each one belongs to, with artist and format attached. Barcodes and album covers feed the same lookup.
When one catalog number maps to several pressings, the artist and title read off the label break the tie. If the number turns up nothing, the cascade falls back to resolving straight from artist + title instead.
Before a note plays, the chosen release is verified against Apple Music. Fuzzy matching handles punctuation, featured artists, and various-artists compilations so you land on the real track — not a re-recording or a lookalike.
The full tracklist loads into the player. Each track streams from Apple Music; when Apple Music doesn't have it, Label Mate drops to a YouTube video, and when only a clip exists you'll still hear a 30-second preview.
Five free scans every day. Go Pro for unlimited scanning and the full DJ toolkit.
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