Comparison

Full Jacket vs Spindle

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Full Jacket

Experience album art in augmented reality. View high-resolution 3D renderings of vinyl records and upload your own creations to share or embed online.

Highlights
  • View 3D vinyl album art in AR
  • Upload custom album art
  • Share 3D renderings
  • Embed on websites
  • High-resolution 3D models
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View high resolution 3D renderings of Vinyl in AR. Upload your own and share with others or embed on your website.

About

Spindle

This app helps you journal your vinyl listening experience by tracking spin times, sides played, and your listening habits. It allows importing your collection, noting thoughts during playback, and participating in community challenges. It also integrates with Last.fm for automatic scrobbling.

Highlights
  • Log every spin from Lock Screen
  • Import collection from Discogs
  • Track multiple turntables
  • Real-time listening statistics
  • Private listening journal
  • Community listening challenges
  • Last.fm scrobbling integration
Features
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The vinyl listening journal. You drop the needle. Spindle does the rest — counting hours, tracking sides, remembering what you played, and quietly building a picture of your year in records. It's built around the act of spinning a record. Not around cataloging what you own. — Log every spin — Tap once when the needle drops. Spindle keeps tracking from the Lock Screen and Dynamic Island so you can flip the record without unlocking your phone. — Bring your collection — Import from Discogs in seconds, or add records by hand. Track multiple turntables, each with its own cartridge wear and needle hours. — Real stats — Hours spun. Top artists, labels, decades. Listening streaks. Records you've quietly forgotten you owned. No formulas. No spreadsheets. — A private journal — Write down what came up while the record played — thoughts, moods, memories. Stays private unless you choose to share. — Challenges — Short series of daily prompts hosted by other record heads. Each day, pick one record from your collection that answers the prompt. See what everyone else picked. React. The good ones make you walk to a record you haven't played in years. — Last.fm scrobble — Every spin scrobbles automatically. Spindle complements Last.fm — it doesn't try to replace it. Questions: support@joinspindle.com Community: joinspindle.com

Screenshots

Full Jacket4 screens
Spindle4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is in-app purchases: Full Jacket at none against Spindle's 3. Full Jacket also leads on device support (4 vs 2). Spindle's advantage is update cadence (every 4 days vs every 2 months) and ratings volume (24 vs 2). On price, rating, ads and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Both are free to download. Spindle sells 3 one-off in-app purchases. Full Jacket asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

On the App Store both sit at effectively the same score — 5.0 for Full Jacket against 5.0 for Spindle. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Spindle has 24 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Full Jacket ships an update every 2 months, Spindle every 4 days. The most recent releases landed on October 4, 2026 and October 10, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard5 real differences · 5 level
Full Jacket versus Spindle: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterFull JacketSpindle
PriceFreeFree
Rating5.0 (2 ratings)5.0 (24 ratings)
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings224 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 monthsEvery 4 days — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesNo — betterYes
MonetizationFree — betterFree with in-app purchases
DevicesiPhone, iPad, Mac, Vision Pro — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS18.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size5 MB18 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperLaRocDigital LLCMichael Warner

Customer experience

Full Jacket

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

Spindle

All ratings24 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews7 reviews
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%

In-app purchases

None

Full Jacket

No in-app purchases

3 purchases

Spindle

One-time3
  • Small Tip$1.99
  • Medium Tip$4.99
  • Large Tip$9.99

Questions

Is Full Jacket free?
Full Jacket is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Is Spindle free?
Spindle is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Which has better reviews, Full Jacket or Spindle?
Full Jacket and Spindle are both rated 5.0 out of 5 on the App Store, from 2 and 24 ratings respectively.
Do Full Jacket or Spindle have ads?
Neither Full Jacket nor Spindle shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Full Jacket or Spindle?
Full Jacket ships an update every 2 months, and Spindle every 4 days. Most recently, Full Jacket was updated on October 4, 2026 and Spindle on October 10, 2026.

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