Comparison

Rare Vinyl vs Kasetofon

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

Head to head
About

Rare Vinyl

Features
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Check what your vinyl records may be worth before you buy, sell, or add them to your collection. Vinyl Scanner: Record Value helps you scan albums, identify releases, explore estimated record values, and organize every find in one simple digital collection. Scan a barcode or record cover to view album details, track listings, release information, and available market context in seconds. Whether you are crate digging for used vinyl, checking a vintage LP at a record store, building a growing record collection, or searching for a rare pressing, Vinyl Scanner: Record Value makes it easier to understand what you have. SCAN, IDENTIFY & EXPLORE Quickly scan vinyl records and album barcodes to identify albums, artists, releases, formats, and tracklists. Review available release details and use them as a starting point for understanding an item before you buy, save, trade, or flip it. COLLECTION VALUE AT A GLANCE Keep track of individual record values and see an estimated view of your entire vinyl collection. Explore price ranges and market context to better understand what used records, old albums, vintage releases, LPs, EPs, and collectible records may be worth. Values can vary significantly by pressing, edition, format, rarity, record condition, sleeve condition, demand, and recent market activity. Vinyl Scanner: Record Value helps you get useful context without relying on a single asking price. BUILD YOUR DIGITAL RECORD COLLECTION Create your own vinyl catalog and keep every album in one convenient place. Add records to your collection, search your library, sort albums, revisit saved finds, and keep track of the music you own. Your collection is more than a list. It is a personal archive of your favorite artists, albums, releases, and discoveries. EXPLORE PRESSINGS, EDITIONS & RARE FINDS Discover details that can make a record more interesting to collectors, including release editions, formats, pressings, special releases, vintage records, and hard-to-find albums. For serious collectors, exact record identification can matter. A record's value may depend on details such as its catalog information, release variation, pressing, condition, and sometimes markings found in the deadwax or runout area. Always compare the specific edition you own when reviewing estimated values. FIND RECORD STORES NEAR YOU Discover vinyl record stores, record shops, and nearby places to browse for records directly on the map. Use the map to explore record stores around you, check where they are located, and find new places for crate digging when you are at home or traveling. DISCOVER MUSIC YOU’LL LOVE Explore related artists, albums, genres, classic records, rare releases, and potential hidden gems. Whether you collect rock, jazz, hip-hop, blues, electronic, indie, classical, punk, soul, metal, or pop, Vinyl Scanner: Record Value helps you discover more music connected to the records you enjoy. SUBSCRIPTION: We offer auto-renewing subscription: - Length: Weekly and Yearly - Payment will be charged to iTunes Account at confirmation of purchase - You will be able to access the Premium features of the app for the duration of the subscription - Subscription automatically renews for the same price and duration period as the original period unless auto-renew is turned off at least 24-hours before the end of the current period - The account will be charged for renewal within 24-hours prior to the end of the current period at the cost of the chosen package. - Subscriptions may be managed by the user and auto-renewal may be turned off by going to the user's iTunes Account Settings after purchase - You may turn off the auto-renewal of your subscription via your Apple Account Settings. However, you are not able to cancel the current subscription during its active period. Policy: https://gosimplex.net/privacy-policy Term of Service: https://gosimplex.net/terms-of-service

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Kasetofon

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Kasetofon is a cassette recorder, not a list of voice memos. Load a blank tape, press REC, and watch the reels turn and the needle swing. Takes are written straight to 16-bit WAV — mono or stereo, at 44.1, 22 or 8 kHz — and they stay on your device, visible in the Files app. RECORDING • Keep recording with the screen locked. A Live Activity holds the spinning reels, the running time and a STOP key on the Lock Screen. • Tapes stretch as you talk. Run past the end of a side and the tape extends, up to four hours. • A take interrupted by a call or an alarm pauses and picks up again where it left off. • If the app is ever killed mid-recording, the take is recovered the next time you open it. • A five-band graphic EQ on playback — FLAT, VOICE, MUSIC and TAPE presets, or draw your own curve. Monitor-only, with an IN/OUT bypass key: the take on the tape stays clean. • Deck sounds — motor and tape hiss under playback, and if you want, printed into the WAV itself. THE DECK • Six cabinet finishes, from graphite through walnut to 70s beige. • A compact cassette, or an open-reel mechanism with tape threaded across the guides. • A mechanical rev counter, or a real-time counter. • An analogue VU meter with a needle you can colour. TAPE TO TAPE • A dubbing deck — load a take on deck A, a blank on deck B, and print through FERRIC, CHROME or METAL stock, with drive, bump, flutter, hiss and motor on knobs. Prints count their generations, like real copies do. • A splice editor — razor a take into pieces, keep the ones you want, and they render as a new tape. • VID OUT — film the deck playing your take, cassette or open reels, and share it as an MP4 sized for stories or feeds. • KASETOFON DECK — the whole tape circuit as an AUv3 plugin: run any track in GarageBand, AUM or any Audio Unit host through the deck. THE SHELF • Every take on a shelf you can search by name and filter by category or date. • Name your tapes in your choice of handwriting. • Share any take as a WAV, or film it as an MP4 — and import your own WAV files straight onto the shelf. • Optional iCloud Drive storage. Recording and playback are free, forever, with no time limit, no watermark and no account. The Studio Pack is a single purchase that unlocks the dubbing deck, splice editing, VID OUT, the Kasetofon Deck AUv3, the cabinet finishes, the open-reel mechanism, needle colours and label fonts, tape categories, the real-time counter and iCloud storage. The graphic EQ, deck sounds and WAV import are free for everyone.

Screenshots

Rare Vinyl4 screens
Kasetofon4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Rare Vinyl at 15.6 against Kasetofon's 17.0. On price, update cadence, ads and in-app purchases 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. Rare Vinyl sells 3 in-app purchases, starting at $4.99 per 7 days and Kasetofon sells 1 one-off in-app purchase. Whichever you choose, the download price is not the number that matters.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Rare Vinyl ships an update every 2 weeks, Kasetofon every 3 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 25, 2026 and October 24, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard1 real difference · 7 level
Rare Vinyl versus Kasetofon: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterRare VinylKasetofon
PriceFreeFree
Rating—5.0 (1 ratings) — better
Number of ratings—1 — better
Update frequencyEvery 2 weeks — betterEvery 3 weeks
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesYes
DevicesiPhone, iPad, iPod — betteriPhone, iPad
Requires iOS15.6 — better17.0
Further details — not scored
Size128 MB4 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAppCraft StudioIdeja 3000 doo Uzice

In-app purchases

3 purchases

Rare Vinyl

Subscriptions2
  • Weekly$4.997 Days
  • Yearly$29.991 Year
One-time1
  • Lifetime$59.99
1 purchases

Kasetofon

One-time1
  • Studio Pack$3.99

Questions

Is Rare Vinyl free?
Rare Vinyl is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Is Kasetofon free?
Kasetofon is free to download, with in-app purchases available.
Do Rare Vinyl or Kasetofon have ads?
Neither Rare Vinyl nor Kasetofon shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Rare Vinyl or Kasetofon?
Rare Vinyl ships an update every 2 weeks, and Kasetofon every 3 weeks. Most recently, Rare Vinyl was updated on October 25, 2026 and Kasetofon on October 24, 2026.

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