Features

Everything you can do in PhaseCrate.

Five surfaces, one app, no upsell. Below is a tour of the parts of the app you'll use every day — and the ones you'll only meet at 1am when something has gone sideways.

Feature 01

A library you can actually read.

PhaseCrate's library view is a dense, sortable, filterable table for your records. Every column is real information you control — catalog number, year, BPM, key, sleeve grade, your own tags. No "Discover" tab. No "For You" row.

Filter by any column. Save filters as libraries. Group, pivot, and export the result.

Custom columns Saved libraries Bulk edit Harmonic wheel
Library view — harmonic mixing wheel on the left, BPM distribution and collection stats, the full record list, and a release detail panel on the right.
Feature 02

Sets are a thing, not a tag.

The Set Planner gives each set its own canvas — warm-up, peak, and closer as three columns, each tracking its running time. Build a Friday set without mangling the Sunday set.

Drag a record between columns and PhaseCrate flags the BPM jump or key clash before you make it. Save the set, jump back into it whenever.

Three-column flow BPM curve Key clash warnings Saved sets
Set Planner with Warm-up, Peak, and Closer columns — each tracks the running time and warns on BPM or key clashes between picks.
Feature 03

Discogs sync — both directions.

Connect your Discogs account once. After that, every change you make in PhaseCrate — added records, condition updates, sleeve notes, sales — flows back to Discogs on a schedule you set.

Or don't sync at all. Discogs is the connector, not the parent. Your collection works fine offline.

Connect once Conflict review Plays nice with rate limits Manual or auto
PhaseCrate · local
318
records on disk
two-way
Discogs · cloud
320
in collection
14:32 Connected to your Discogs account
14:32 Looking for changes since yesterday…
14:32 ✓ 6 new records pulled in
14:32 ✓ 12 of your edits pushed back
14:32 ! 2 conflicts queued for your review
14:32 Idle. Next sync in 30m.
Feature 04

BPM and key, in the background.

Turn on PhaseCrate Cloud and every record gets a BPM and a harmonic key. We find previews online for each release and work the numbers out for you — no audio uploads, no setup, no "drag your needledrops here" workflow.

BPM, key, and per-track waveforms land alongside the record itself. Glance at them before you drop the needle, or filter your library by them.

With Cloud Camelot + Open Key Per-track waveform Manual override
The Warning
Logic · Strictly Rhythm · 1992
123.0
BPM · 8A
Can You Feel It
Mr. Fingers · Trax · 1986
120.0
BPM · 5A
Acid Tracks
Phuture · Trax · 1987
125.2
BPM · 2A
Feature 05

Local-first. Sync is optional.

PhaseCrate keeps your whole collection in a single file on your computer. The app reads and writes to it directly, so browsing the library is instant whether you're online or not.

Turn on Cloud and your collection syncs to a private per-user database so it follows you across your devices. Don't turn it on and PhaseCrate still works — there's no degraded mode.

One file Works offline Optional cloud sync Opt-out analytics
1
file on your machine
backups you can make
Yours
synced or not
0
records in our analytics
How it differs

PhaseCrate vs. the things you used to use.

Honest comparisons. We've used all of them.

PhaseCrate Discogs (web) Notion / Airtable Spreadsheet
Works offlineYesNoLimitedYes
Owns your dataA file you ownTheir serverTheir serverYour file
Vinyl-aware (catalog, press, sleeve)NativeNativeIf you build itIf you build it
BPM & key, automaticYes — via CloudNoNoNo
Crates with BPM curveYesNoNoNo
Two-way Discogs syncYesNativeNoNo
TelemetryAnonymous · opt-outAnalyticsAnalyticsNone
CostFree · €4/mo for syncFreeFrom €10/moFree

Bring your records home.

Free for as long as you want. Cloud sync when (and only when) you need it.