Liner Notez vs Cratewise
Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side ā with what reviewers say about each.
Liner Notez
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Liner Notez helps you explore albums the way liner notes used to: credits, musicians, producers, release editions, tracklists, and source links. Search by artist, browse album releases, open an album, and dig into documented public music data from sources such as MusicBrainz, Wikidata, and Wikipedia. Save albums to My Library, write your own album notes, and search saved albums, artists, and notes on your device. Liner Notez does not stream, play, download, sell, or redistribute music. With Liner Notez you can: ⢠Browse album releases by artist ⢠Narrow searches by album title and release type ⢠View release dates, editions, labels, formats, and source links ⢠Open tracklists and inspect documented song-level credits ⢠Review songwriting, performer, instrument, production, and technical credits ⢠Save albums to My Library ⢠Write and edit your own album notes ⢠Search your saved albums, artists, and notes on your device ⢠Search for albums with documented producer credits Liner Notez is for album information, music-credit research, and personal album notes. It does not play, stream, download, sell, or provide music audio. Public music data can be incomplete, inconsistent, or vary by release edition. Liner Notez shows documented source data and does not invent missing credits.
Cratewise
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Cratewise is the fast, focused collection app for vinyl collectors and DJs. Keep your entire record collection and wantlist in your pocket fully offline, always available, no account required. Search millions of releases. Find any pressing, edition, or repress and add it to your collection or wantlist in two taps. Your data, your device. Everything is stored locally. No ads, no tracking, no analytics. Connect your own Discogs account with a personal access token to sync your collection and wantlist - or don't, and use Cratewise fully standalone. Built for crate diggers. Check your wantlist in the record store, confirm whether you already own a pressing before buying it twice, and export your collection to CSV whenever you want - your data is never locked in. Cratewise uses the Discogs API but is not affiliated with Discogs.
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Verdict
The clearest difference is iOS requirement: Cratewise at 13.0 against Liner Notez's 15.1. On price, ads, in-app purchases and device support there is nothing between them.
Scored on Price Ā· Rating Ā· Positive reviews Ā· Number of ratings Ā· Update frequency Ā· Ads Ā· In-app purchases Ā· Monetization Ā· Best chart rank Ā· Devices Ā· Requires iOS
Both are free to download. Neither carries in-app purchases, so what you see is what you pay.
| Parameter | Liner Notez | Cratewise |
|---|---|---|
| Price | Free | Free |
| Ads | No | No |
| In-app purchases | No | No |
| Devices | iPhone, iPod | iPhone, iPad, iPod ā better |
| Requires iOS | 15.1 | 13.0 ā better |
| Further details ā not scored | ||
| Size | 13 MB | 25 MB |
| Age rating | 4+ | 4+ |
| Developer | Edward Tremblay | Fred Duzink |
In-app purchases
Liner Notez
No in-app purchases
Cratewise
No in-app purchases
Questions
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