Comparison

SnapSleeve vs Vinyl Monkey

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

Head to head
About

SnapSleeve

Features
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Welcome to SnapSleeve, the ultimate digital companion for your physical music collection. Whether you have ten records or ten thousand, SnapSleeve makes cataloguing your vinyl, CD, and cassette library incredibly fast, beautifully visual, and deeply organised. We believe that basic cataloguing should not be locked behind a subscription. SnapSleeve is proudly and permanently free for manual collection management. You can add an unlimited number of albums, use your camera to snap custom cover art, and build your own bespoke folders completely free of charge. Want to speed up your workflow? For power collectors, our intelligent scanning tools act as your personal music archivist. Using state-of-the-art AI vision, SnapSleeve can scan your cover art, automatically square up the image, fix your capitalisation, find the release year, and determine the genre in seconds. Core Features: * Always-Free Manual Cataloguing: Add unlimited records, CDs, and tapes. Take custom cover photos and build your digital library without ever hitting a paywall. * Smart AI Camera (Premium): Take a picture of an album, and our AI perfectly crops the sleeve, correcting the perspective automatically. It then formats the artist, title, genre, and release year to save you typing! * Apple Watch Companion: Take your entire music collection crate-digging. Browse your folders, check if you already own an album, and view your artwork right from your wrist. * Precise Tracklists (Premium): Connect directly to the industry's deepest music database to instantly pull the exact A-side and B-side tracks for your specific pressing. * Smart Duplicate Alerts: Never double-buy again. SnapSleeve instantly warns you if you are about to add a CD when you already own that masterpiece on vinyl. * Collection Insights: View gorgeous visual stats breaking down your collection size, top genres, release decades, and unique variants. * Track Your Loans: Keep a meticulous history of exactly who borrowed your albums and when they took them. * Custom Catalogues: Create bespoke folders (like "Wishlist", "Jazz", or "To Sell") and instantly move albums between them with a simple swipe. * The Randomiser: Cannot decide what to listen to? Tap the dice to let SnapSleeve pick a random album from your shelf. * Privacy First: Lock your entire collection behind Face ID or Touch ID, ensuring your personal library stays strictly private. * Export & Backup Anywhere: Instantly export your collection to a CSV file for spreadsheets, or run a full database backup—including high-resolution photos—to keep your archive completely secure. Built from the ground up for modern iOS, SnapSleeve uses lightning-fast local storage, meaning your collection loads instantly whether you are in a record shop basement or browsing offline. Download SnapSleeve today and put your entire music collection right in your pocket! ***Please note: Album Art in screenshots is blurred to protect copyright, your album art will display correctly.*** Terms of Use (EULA): By downloading or using SnapSleeve, you agree to the standard Apple Terms of Use available at https://www.apple.com/legal/internet-services/itunes/dev/stdeula/

About

Vinyl Monkey

Catalog and value your vinyl collection with smart tools. Identify records by scanning covers or barcodes, track ownership, and get real-time market values. Organize with custom tags and share your collection.

Highlights
  • Scan album covers and barcodes
  • Track ownership and purchase price
  • Get current market values
  • Organize with smart collections and tags
  • Export collection to PDF
  • Cloud sync across devices
Features
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Vinyl Monkey turns your record collection into a properly catalogued, properly valued archive. Scan, organise, value, and rediscover your vinyl with smart tools, market data, and a clean interface. WHAT IT DOES • Scan album covers and barcodes for instant record identification • Track ownership, purchase price, sleeve condition, and listening history • Get current market values powered by live marketplace data • Organise with smart collections, playlists, and custom tags • Get artist insights, rarity scores, lyrics, and gig dates (Premium) • Export your collection or share beautiful PDF cards • Sync across devices with secure cloud backup DESIGNED FOR REAL COLLECTORS Whether you're cataloguing 20 records or 2,000, Vinyl Monkey treats your collection as the personal archive it deserves to be — fast to add, beautiful to browse, easy to share. — Multi-currency normalisation: market prices show in your chosen currency — Smart collections: filter by genre, era, label, or any field that matters to you — Cloud sync: pick up where you left off across iPhone and iPad — Privacy-first: your data is yours, exported anytime in CSV or JSON PREMIUM SUBSCRIPTION Vinyl Monkey Premium unlocks the full experience: • Unlimited records (free tier is capped at 10) • Cloud sync across all your devices • Automatic backup of every record • AI insights: rarity scores, artist deep-dives, market trend analysis • Lyric search, gig discovery for artists you collect • Priority access to new features PLANS - Vinyl Monkey Premium Monthly — billed monthly - Vinyl Monkey Premium Annual — billed annually (save vs monthly) 7-day free trial on either plan. PRIVACY & TERMS - Privacy Policy: https://pblabsltd.com/vinylmonkey/privacy/ - Terms of Use: https://pblabsltd.com/vinylmonkey/terms/ Got feedback? We listen — support@pblabsltd.com

Screenshots

SnapSleeve4 screens
Vinyl Monkey4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is update cadence: SnapSleeve at every 3 days against Vinyl Monkey's every 9 days. Vinyl Monkey's advantage is iOS requirement (15.1 vs 17.0). On price, ads, 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

Both are free to download. SnapSleeve sells 1 in-app purchase, starting at $14.99 per year and Vinyl Monkey sells 2 in-app purchases, starting at $2.99 per month. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

SnapSleeve ships an update every 3 days, Vinyl Monkey every 9 days. The most recent releases landed on October 6, 2026 and October 12, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard2 real differences · 8 level
SnapSleeve versus Vinyl Monkey: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterSnapSleeveVinyl Monkey
PriceFreeFree
Rating—1.0 (1 ratings) — better
Positive reviews—100.0% of reviews
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 3 days — betterEvery 9 days
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
Monetization—Freemium
DevicesiPhone, iPadiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS17.015.1 — better
Further details — not scored
Size14 MB46 MB
Age rating4+12+
DeveloperMARK WILLIAM DUFFPB Labs Ltd

In-app purchases

1 purchases

SnapSleeve

Subscriptions1
  • Premium Yearly$14.991 Year
2 purchases

Vinyl Monkey

Subscriptions2
  • Vinyl Monkey Monthly$2.991 Month
  • Vinyl Monkey Annual$29.991 Year

Questions

Is SnapSleeve free?
SnapSleeve is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Vinyl Monkey free?
Vinyl Monkey is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do SnapSleeve or Vinyl Monkey have ads?
Neither SnapSleeve nor Vinyl Monkey shows ads.
Which is updated more often, SnapSleeve or Vinyl Monkey?
SnapSleeve ships an update every 3 days, and Vinyl Monkey every 9 days. Most recently, SnapSleeve was updated on October 6, 2026 and Vinyl Monkey on October 12, 2026.

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