Wave vs Spindle

Wave is a place to track the albums you love and see what your friends are listening to. Rate any album out of 10, add it to your collection, and build up a record of your taste over time. Your profile becomes a real picture of your musical identity — not a playlist, not a queue, but the albums that actually stuck with you. The social side is simple: follow your friends, see their ratings and reviews in your feed, and find your next favorite record through someone who actually listened to it. No algorithms deciding what you should hear next. Just people with taste, sharing what they're into. Wave is for people who listen to albums the whole way through. Who care about the track order, the production, the moment an album clicks. If you've ever wanted to remember exactly when you first heard something — or find out what your friend has been obsessed with lately — this is where that lives. Wave also lets you log concerts and music videos, adding another layer to your listening profile. Free to download. Sign in with Apple, Google, or email.

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