DISCTALE
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Camera-first record discovery

Hold up a record. Hear where it leads.

DISCTALE recognises the record in your hands, opens its story, and plays what is genuinely available.

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The record keeps going

Out in the record racks

Real records.
Real digging.

A sleeve catches your eye. Point your iPhone, find the record and follow the music.

Filmed on iPhone · 19 September 2026
Edited highlights from one real session.

Why disctale is different ↗
A quick dig · 41 secondsDavid Bowie, St Germain, The Cure and Sex Pistols.Watch with the session notes ↗

Now in the beta · DJ Bag

The next set
starts here.

Pull records from your Crate, Kept finds and linked Discogs collection. Put together a bag, flip through the sleeves and open a record when you want another listen.

  1. 01 Choose your records.
  2. 02 Make the selection yours.
  3. 03 Flip through. Listen again.

Available in the 0.7.10 public beta. Choose your records and organise them into crates.

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Inside DJ Bag
The native DISCTALE DJ Bag with a record case, browsable sleeves and a searchable record library
Native app on iOS Simulator · demo records
The native Your crates screen for organising multiple DJ bags
Native app on iOS Simulator · demo records

One gesture, three moments

From the rack to the music.

The camera reads barcode, centre label, and sleeve evidence. When the evidence is shared or uncertain, DISCTALE asks before it plays.

  1. 01Point
  2. 02Recognise
  3. 03Play
01

Point

Keep the record inside the frame. The same camera watches for the strongest available evidence.

02

Recognise

A safe match opens the record. Ambiguous editions wait for your tap — no confident identity, no automatic sound.

03

Play

Hear a preview or a linked full track when one exists. A silent find still keeps its release and tracklist.

After the scan

More than a match.

I

Recognise.

Barcode, centre label, and cover evidence meet one catalogue. DISCTALE can show candidates instead of pretending every sleeve proves an exact pressing.

A known record is not always a known edition.

II

Listen.

Open the release and tracklist, hear a preview, continue through your own music service when the recording is available there, or watch the official YouTube upload when nothing else carries it.

Recognition and playback are separate promises.

III

Remember.

Keep a record, revisit the Crate, see what your Taste says, find your Discogs collection, and remember the places where you dug.

A scan becomes part of a collection, not a dead receipt.

The whole crate

Every kind of digger belongs here.

From Tokyo to Berlin to Milan, record culture is made by women, queer people, collectors, DJs, shop workers, first-timers, and lifelong obsessives. DISCTALE is for the whole community — without gatekeeping and without one default way to look, listen, or belong.

  • No gatekeeping.
  • No default digger.
  • Every way in counts.
A woman record digger holds Hiver’s Dream Universe sleeve in a colourful record shop
01For the selectors, the first-timers, and everyone still searching.
Two friends share a Hiver record while digging together in a colourful record shop
02Records travel further when the culture around them stays open.
First-person view of a record digger using DISCTALE to recognise Mutter by Roman Flügel and listen to Say Hello on an iPhone
03From the record in your hand to the track you want to hear.
A record digger checks the DISCTALE Crate on an iPhone beside the same Hiver Blue Hell sleeve listed in the session
04Every dig leaves a trail. Keep yours in the Crate.
A Black European woman and a white nonbinary friend compare records in a colourful Berlin record shop
05Different cities. Different scenes. The same pull toward a record.
Two European women discover a record together at an outdoor vinyl market in Milan
06The crate is bigger than any one city.

Inside DISCTALE

A real record. The real app.

A closer look at the 0.7.10 beta: the camera, your records, listening and places to dig. The native screens below were captured on iOS Simulator; the film above shows real use on iPhone.

01 · Recognise

See the sleeve. Find the record.

Keep a record in the frame. Hear a preview when one is available, or choose from the matches when the app needs your confirmation.

See the sleeve. Find the record.
DISCTALE 0.7.10 camera with lens and torch controls, Ask AI and the scanning dock
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10
The DISCTALE manual menu with Code, Label, Type it and Listen
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10
The short in-app guide highlights scanning and explains what Pause preserves
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10

02 · Explore

There’s more in the sleeve.

Open the tracklist, explore Discogs listings and the price guide, check an asking price, or add the record to your wantlist. Edition details stay visible when a pressing is still unverified.

There’s more in the sleeve.
DISCTALE release detail with listening options and record information
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data
Compact Discogs card with listing and price-guide details and an in-card wantlist action
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data

03 · Keep listening

Follow the music further.

Use Listen to recognise nearby music with Shazam. Try alternate and Try harder offer more ways to find a track. Open an available YouTube video, with autoplay set the way you like it, or continue in your music service.

Follow the music further.
DISCTALE Listen ready to identify nearby music with Shazam
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data
DISCTALE Try harder with separate search results for listening sources
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data

04 · Crate + Taste

The dig leaves a trail.

Keep the records you love, organise collections and return to saved digs. Taste brings together the styles in your Kept records, with Listen later for discoveries worth another spin.

The dig leaves a trail.
DISCTALE 0.7.10 Kept tab with the short guide explaining where kept records live
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10
DISCTALE 0.7.10 Session guide explains that kept records survive discarding a session
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10
DISCTALE Taste with genre shares and a horizontal carousel of recommendations
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data

05 · Record shops

Find your next place to dig.

Explore nearby record shops on Apple Maps, check the list, and save the places you want to visit. The next dig starts around you.

Find your next place to dig.
Native Record shops map and compact results list using demonstration locations in Milan
Native app · iOS Simulator · 0.7.10 · demo data

Keep digging

Your next favourite record may already be in your hands.

The public beta is open. Install DISCTALE with TestFlight and take it on your next dig.

Public beta
Open on TestFlight
Planned App Store launch
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Includes DJ Bag in the 0.7.10 beta. Requires iOS 18 or later and Apple TestFlight. Places are limited; App Store timing depends on testing and review.