Comparison

VinylCrate vs PedalEditor

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

Head to head
About

VinylCrate

Catalog, organize, and showcase your vinyl record collection. Features a virtual record player, CarPlay integration, and AI-powered insights to discover new music and understand your taste. Scan barcodes or text to instantly add album details.

Highlights
  • Virtual record player with pitch control
  • CarPlay integration for on-the-go browsing
  • AI-powered music taste analysis
  • Barcode and text scanning for instant lookup
  • Customizable collection organization
  • Discogs sync and import
  • Collection value and rarity estimation
Features
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Vinyl Crate is the ultimate companion for vinyl collectors. Whether you're a seasoned crate digger or just starting your collection, Vinyl Crate makes it easy to catalog, organize, and showcase the records you love. IMMERSIVE RECORD PLAYER Spin your digital collection on our Technics SL-1200-inspired turntable. Drag the tonearm to seek, adjust the pitch slider for DJ-style speed control. Connect to Apple Music to hear your records come alive — with shuffle, repeat, and AirPlay support. DRIVE WITH CARPLAY Take your collection on the road. Browse by artist, genre, or crate from the dashboard, tap any album, and play it straight through Apple Music — hands-free and eyes on the road. APPLE INTELLIGENCE INSIGHTS Let Apple Intelligence analyze your collection and reveal your musical identity. Get personalized summaries, smart crate descriptions, and discover patterns in your taste you never knew existed — all processed privately on your device. DISCOVER NEW RECORDS Let on-device Apple Intelligence study your collection and suggest albums to add to your wantlist. Recommendations skip records you already own, tune themselves to a single genre when you want focus, and pull live pricing and artwork from Discogs so you can decide on the spot. INSTANT SCANNING Point your camera at any barcode to instantly look up album details. No barcode? Scan album text instead — just tap the title or artist name to search. Get complete information including tracklist, pressing details, release year, and artwork — all powered by Discogs. ORGANIZE YOUR COLLECTION Keep your vinyl organized your way. Create custom crates to sort by genre, mood, decade, or however you like. Mark favorites for quick access, track your wantlist, and see recently added records front and center. Turn an Apple Music playlist into a crate: Vinyl Crate finds each song on a record you own, and you review the matches before they're added. SYNC WITH DISCOGS Already have a Discogs collection? Import your entire library with one tap — even large collections sync in the background so you can keep browsing. Add new finds to your Discogs account directly from Vinyl Crate. COLLECTION VALUE & INSIGHTS Discover what your collection is really worth: • Estimated collection value (minimum, median, maximum) • Rarity scores based on Discogs community data • Your most valuable records • Breakdown by artist, year, and genre • Your collector level and stats POWERFUL SEARCH Search the entire Discogs database with advanced filters. Find records by artist, album title, genre, year, country, or format. Search your local collection instantly, even offline. BEAUTIFUL ON EVERY SCREEN Warm cream surfaces, rich typography, and album art that glows softly past its edges make browsing feel like a gallery, in a grid or a detailed list. Unfold iPhone Duo and the tab bar becomes a sidebar beside your collection, just like on iPad. PRIVACY FIRST Your collection data stays on your device. Apple Intelligence features run entirely on-device. We don't track your listening habits or sell your data. Discogs sync uses secure OAuth authentication. Vinyl Crate is free to use. A Discogs account is required for syncing and accessing the full database. Apple Music subscription required for playback features. CarPlay requires a CarPlay-compatible vehicle or head unit. HAPPY SPINNING!!

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PedalEditor

Features
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A Brain for Brainless Pedals. PedalEditor is a curated MIDI editor and preset library for the guitar pedals and synths you already own. It runs on iPhone and iPad, connects over Bluetooth, Wi-Fi, or USB, and puts the full parameter map of every supported pedal on the screen — no laptop in the signal path, no proprietary editor for each brand. The pedal is the render target. Presets live in the app. —— SPEAKS FLUENT STRYMON BigSky, BigSky MX, blueSky V2, Brig, Cloudburst, Compadre, Deco V2, DIG V2, EC-1, El Capistan V2, Flint V2, Iridium, Lex V2, Mobius, NightSky, Riverside, Sunset, TimeLine, UltraViolet, Volante, Zelzah. 21 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT WALRUS AUDIO ACS1, ACS1 MkII, D1, D1 MkII, M1, M1 MkII, R1, R1 MkII, Meraki, Qi. 10 profiles. SPEAKS FLUENT UAFX ANTI 1992, Dream '65, Enigmatic '82, Knuckles '92 Rev F, Lion '68, Ruby '63, Woodrow '55. 7 amp modelers. SPEAKS FLUENT CHASE BLISS Generation Loss MkII, Habit, Mood MkII. 3 profiles. ALSO: Hologram Microcosm. Meris LVX. Line 6 DL4 MkII. About 200 more profiles are built and releasing — 10 to 15 a week, brand by brand. —— THE EDITOR Every parameter on the pedal's faceplate is a control in the app — named the way the pedal prints it, laid out in the order the manual describes it. Knobs, toggle switches, algorithm selectors, multi-position physical switches, and dip banks all render as their hardware equivalents. Switching effect categories (BigSky's 12 reverb machines, TimeLine's 12 delay machines) updates the parameter layout to match. Three save actions, deliberately distinct: • Save — writes to the app library. Nothing goes to the pedal. • Send — pushes the current state to the pedal without writing hardware memory. • Save on Pedal — arms the pedal via Program Change, then writes the slot. On supported Strymon hardware, Read from Pedal pulls the current parameter state back into the app. Capture All Presets sweeps the hardware preset bank and imports it as a named Collection — useful for backing up a pedal before a firmware update. The MIDI Monitor shows every message in and out for the connected destination, with raw hex and human-readable descriptions. —— HOW YOU ORGANIZE Rig → Project → Pedal → Collection → Preset. A Rig is a physical board: specific pedals, specific MIDI channels. Multiple Rigs coexist — a studio rig, a fly rig, a rehearsal rig. A Project is a purpose within a Rig ("Worship Band," "Studio Sessions"). A Collection is a named, colored bank of presets for one pedal in one Project — multiple Collections per pedal, each with up to three independent A/B/C state slots. Presets have freeform names, notes, tags, and lineage tracking; they are not bound by hardware display character limits. Songs hold ordered sections, each with the presets that section needs. Setlists hold ordered songs. Build the setlist before the gig. —— LIVE Open the Live tab, tap a setlist, and step through it. Each advance sends the Program Change and CC values for that section to every pedal on the board. The screen stays awake. No tap-dancing through hardware menus in the dark. —— Custom MIDI (128 Knobs) is always free. It sends CCs 0–127 on any MIDI channel, so it drives any MIDI device you own, no profile required. No account. No cloud. No tracking. Restore Purchases lives in Settings, and it works. Presets, rigs, songs, and setlists sync automatically across your iPhone and iPad via iCloud — no setup, no logins, same Apple ID. —— PedalEditor runs on iPhone and iPad. Bluetooth LE MIDI, USB MIDI, and Network MIDI (RTP-MIDI) over Wi-Fi — same app, same presets, whichever cable you prefer. The pedal still doesn't know your name. The app remembers everything.

Screenshots

VinylCrate4 screens
PedalEditor4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is price: PedalEditor at Free against VinylCrate's $4.99. PedalEditor also leads on ads (none vs shown) and iOS requirement (17.0 vs 26.0). On update cadence, in-app purchases and device support 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

PedalEditor is free to download; VinylCrate costs $4.99 up front. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

VinylCrate ships an update every 3 weeks, PedalEditor every 2 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard3 real differences · 7 level
VinylCrate versus PedalEditor: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterVinylCratePedalEditor
Price$4.99Free — better
Rating4.0 (1 ratings) — better—
Positive reviews100.0% of reviews—
Number of ratings1 — better—
Update frequencyEvery 3 weeksEvery 2 weeks — better
AdsYesNo — better
In-app purchasesNoNo
MonetizationAd-supported—
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad
Requires iOS26.017.0 — better
Further details — not scored
Size26 MB32 MB
Age rating12+4+
DeveloperWesley MatlockCorey Cowan

In-app purchases

None

VinylCrate

No in-app purchases

None

PedalEditor

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is VinylCrate free?
VinylCrate costs $4.99, with no in-app purchases.
Is PedalEditor free?
PedalEditor is free to download, with no in-app purchases.
Do VinylCrate or PedalEditor have ads?
VinylCrate shows ads; PedalEditor does not.
Which is updated more often, VinylCrate or PedalEditor?
VinylCrate ships an update every 3 weeks, and PedalEditor every 2 weeks. Most recently, VinylCrate was updated on October 25, 2026 and PedalEditor on October 12, 2026.

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