Version 1.4 · June 1, 2026

What's new in
Spinstack 1.4

The shelf gets a voice. AI Liner Notes. Groove Vision. Heavy Rotation. Gift Mode. Siri shortcuts that answer with cards. Fifteen features that treat your collection like a self-portrait, not a spreadsheet.

iPhone iPad Mac Apple TV
Fifteen Features

Everything in 1.4

01 / 15 Apple Intelligence

AI Liner Notes

Apple's on-device language model writes short personalized text about your collection in six places across the app. Opt-in. Off by default. Nothing leaves the phone.

  • Vinyl DNA. A 3-4 sentence narrative about your collector archetype, drawn from your top genres, decades, labels, and record count.
  • Crate Dig. Each card gets a one-sentence pitch about why this record fits your shelf.
  • Sonic Connections. Each hop in your strongest chain gets a one-sentence note about the musical link between the two records.
  • Spin Log. Write freeform notes about how you listened. The model suggests up to three matching moods from what you typed.
  • Release Detail. Long Discogs descriptions become a 1-2 sentence pull-quote summary above the full notes.
  • Spin Log Analytics. One true sentence about your recent listening, above the Big Numbers row.
On-Device · Opt-In · Private spinstackios.app
02 / 15 LiDAR + Camera

Groove
Vision

Hold the phone four to six inches above the record. The camera reads the surface. The LiDAR feels the depth of the grooves. A ring turns green when four signals pass at once.

  • Four-axis gate. Distance, surface flatness, tilt angle, and steadiness all have to pass before the ring goes green.
  • Auto-capture. Hold green for 0.8 seconds and the scan fires automatically. A countdown ring fills around the guide.
  • Tilt arrow. When tilt is the blocker, a yellow arrow points to the edge of the phone that needs lifting.
  • No suggested grade. The heuristic is hidden on purpose. The user's eye is the only grade until the CoreML model has real data.
  • Help train it. Opt in, scan, correct, contribute. Anonymous payloads go to a developer-owned corpus. Withdraw all contributions in one tap.
Scan · Grade · Contribute spinstackios.app
03 / 15 Siri

Seven Siri
Shortcuts With Cards

Every Spinstack Siri shortcut now returns a visual card alongside the spoken response. Cover art, action buttons, and a gradient pulled from the record itself.

  • Pick a random record. Cover + title + artist + year, gradient tinted by the dominant color. Buttons: Log Spin, Pick Another.
  • What was my last spin? Cover + title + artist + relative time + rating stars + mood chips. Button: Log Again.
  • What is next in my queue? Cover + title + "N more in queue" footer. Buttons: Played, Skip.
  • What is my spin streak? Big number tile with a 7-dot day strip. Warm orange when active, cool slate when broken.
  • Collection value. Big median value + min/max range. Green-teal gradient. Plus: record count and log-a-spin confirmation cards.
Ask · See · Act spinstackios.app
04 / 15 Last.fm

Last.fm
Hub

Your entire listening history meets your vinyl shelves. A full hub with scrobbling, lifetime stats, and four bridge sections that connect what you stream to what you own.

  • Lifetime overview. Total scrobbles, unique artists, unique albums, account age, and country. Period picker from 7 days to all time. Top 5 inline with cover art, "See All" for the full list.
  • In Your Collection. The artists you listen to most, cross-referenced with the records you own on vinyl. Tap any artist to see exactly which records match.
  • Wantlist Candidates. Artists you stream heavily but do not own on wax. The bridge between digital listening and your next record store visit.
  • Forgotten Favorites. Records you own that you have not streamed in months. Your shelf is reminding you what you forgot about.
  • Last Spin Home card. A persistent card on the Home tab showing your most recent Last.fm scrobble alongside your most recent Spinstack spin. Two timelines in one glance.
  • Auto-recovery. Users who connected Last.fm before 1.4 self-heal on first open. No re-login, no reinstall.
Scrobbles · Vinyl · Overlap spinstackios.app
05 / 15 Apple Music

Heavy
Rotation

Your streaming habits meet your physical shelves. Heavy Rotation matches your recently played Apple Music albums against your Discogs collection and tells you what to spin.

  • Apple Music match. The app reads your recently played albums, normalizes artist and title, and intersects with every record you own on vinyl.
  • Spin from the match. Each matched record has a Log Spin button. Tap it and the Spin Log sheet opens with the release pre-selected.
  • No match, no noise. If nothing in your digital listening overlaps with your physical collection, the surface stays empty. No filler.
  • Privacy first. Apple Music data stays on your device. No listening history is uploaded, written to CloudKit, or sent over any network.
Stream · Match · Spin spinstackios.app
06 / 15 Spin Log

Listening
Sessions

A name for the night. Friday Listening Party. Sunday Slow. The night you finally heard the deluxe pressing. Sessions give shape to the spins.

  • Create a session. Give it a name, a date, and the records you played. A spin can belong to many sessions.
  • Add at log time. One tap from the Log Spin sheet. Or assign retroactively with multi-select in the Spin Log.
  • Diary layout. The Spin Log reads day by day. Sessions sit inline next to the spins they belong to.
  • Cover collage. Session cover is a 2x2 collage of the records inside, unless you set your own.
  • Six new mood tags. Sunday Morning, Date Night, Rainy Day, Nostalgic, First Listen, Comfort.
Name · Assign · Remember spinstackios.app
07 / 15 Social

The B-Side:
Rebuilt

Ten reactions. Block and Report on three surfaces. Trending in Your Circle. Albums in Common with cross-pressing match. The social layer grew up.

  • Ten reactions. Heart, Fire, Vinyl, Headphones, Sparkles, Guitar, Dancing, Gem, Hundred, GOAT. One reaction per user per spin. Stacks of pills show who reacted.
  • Block and Report. Swipe a row, long-press a card, or open the profile menu. Block is immediate. Report sends a structured payload with category, quoted content, and 24-hour review SLA.
  • Trending in Your Circle. Records your friends are spinning right now, ranked by activity in the last 7 days.
  • Albums in Common + Friend Compare. Cross-pressing match counts different pressings of the same album as shared. "Says 356 in common" now shows all 356.
  • Notification frequency. Instant, every 30 minutes, hourly, every 4 hours, or off. Your choice.
React · Block · Report spinstackios.app
08 / 15 Friends

Gift
Mode

Search across the collections and wishlists of friends you opt in. Wishlist matches lead with a green chip. Collection matches show "Already Owns." Buy for friends without buying duplicates.

  • Per-friend opt-in. Visit a friend's profile. Toggle "Include in Gift Mode." Local to your device only. Your friend never knows.
  • Search tab scope. A new "Gift Mode" chip appears next to "My Library" and "Discogs Catalog." Type a record. Each opted-in friend gets a section.
  • Wishlist first. Green "On Wishlist" chips lead. Grey "Already Owns" badges follow. You see exactly what to buy and what to avoid.
  • Private wishlists respected. If a friend set their Discogs wantlist to private, the section falls back to collection matches only. No privacy leaks.
Search · Gift · Surprise spinstackios.app
09 / 15 Experience

Ambient
Mode

A full-screen listening companion. Cover art rotating at thirty-three and a third. Dominant color pulled from the album. A session that follows you everywhere on the device.

  • Lock Screen + Dynamic Island. A Live Activity carries the session with cover, track, and a live elapsed timer. System-rendered, accurate even while the screen is off.
  • Mini-player. Minimize and a small rotating cover appears in the tab bar. The session keeps going while you browse your collection.
  • Silent mode. No Apple Music subscription? Spinning actual vinyl? Silent mode keeps the cover, the timer, the Live Activity. No audio. Just the ritual.
  • Session summary. End a session and a card shows how long you listened. Saved to your Spin Log automatically.
  • Headphone-aware. Headphones disconnect? Playback pauses automatically. No accidental speakerphone.
Spin · Listen · Ritual spinstackios.app
10 / 15 Collection

Custom
Records

Records that are not on Discogs. Bootlegs, self-released singles, flea-market finds, picture discs. They all belong on your shelf now.

  • Snap the cover. On-device OCR reads the sleeve and pre-fills title and artist. Edit anything that looks off.
  • Full tracklist. Side, position, title, optional duration. Per-track spin logging and Last.fm scrobbling work the same as a Discogs release.
  • Everything works. Sort, search, spins, folders, NFC tags, Groove Vision, widgets, Apple TV Top Shelf. A pencil badge marks the handwritten ones.
  • Share them. Spinstack renders a clean cover-plus-title card. Your friends see the sleeve photo in their B-Side feed.
  • Five free, always. Spinstack Pro lifts the cap to unlimited. Photos, tracklists, ratings, and notes sync through iCloud.
Snap · Add · Own spinstackios.app
11 / 15 Design

Vinyl Shelves &
Today's Pick

The shelves graduate from Labs. Soft reflections, a hairline shelf line, no card chrome. Covers lean or stand. And the Discover tab opens with a magazine-layout hero.

  • Default home. Vinyl Shelves are now the starting layout for every user. Small covers, denser, more covers visible at once.
  • Lean covers back. Flip the toggle and the records lean into the shelf for that 3D look. Or keep them upright for the cleaner read.
  • Today's Pick. A full-bleed hero on the Discover tab, sized large on iPad. Deterministic per calendar day so tab-switching does not reshuffle the cover.
  • Stacks greeting. The Home tab opens with your name and the time of day. "Good morning, Vaha." Then dissolves into the shelf.
  • Discover redesign. Quick Picks carousel: What to Spin, Crate Dig, Rediscover, Listening Crate. Art-forward at the top, denser navigation below.
Shelves · Hero · Home spinstackios.app
12 / 15 Detail

Your Pressing &
Matrix Codes

Pin down which physical pressing you own. See matrix and runout codes on barcode results. The details that matter when a single album has thirty versions on Discogs.

  • Your Pressing section. A picker on Release Detail lists every Discogs pressing: year, country, label, catalog number. Confirm which one is yours.
  • Editable notes. Matrix codes, sleeve variant, color vinyl, whatever you want to remember about your specific copy.
  • Barcode matrix codes. Each row in barcode results now shows the matrix and runout codes etched into the run-out groove.
  • Search by matrix. A search bar at the top of barcode results filters rows by matrix substring. Type the unique part of your etching.
  • Hides when irrelevant. Single-pressing albums suppress the section entirely. No clutter on records that do not need it.
Identify · Confirm · Note spinstackios.app
13 / 15 Welcome

Tailored to
How You Collect

Four quick questions after the welcome tour. How long you have been collecting. What you love most. How big your shelf is. What to call you. Skippable at every step.

  • Personalized suggestions. Just-getting-started collectors see Crate Dig and Vinyl Vision. Long-time spinners see the Spin Log and Apple TV pairing.
  • Welcome card. Two or three next-step suggestions tuned to your answers, with direct links into each feature.
  • Auto-retires. After about two weeks or 25 logged spins, the welcome card fades with a "you are getting the hang of it" note.
  • Adjustable anytime. Settings has a "Personalize tips again" button. Change your answers, dismiss the card, or bring it back.
  • Thirty seconds. The whole flow takes half a minute. Skip any step and the defaults do something sensible.
Ask · Tune · Adapt spinstackios.app
14 / 15 Platform

iPad Polish &
Seven Languages

Twenty surfaces redesigned for iPad. 2,667 translation strings across seven languages including Korean. The details that hold the rest together.

  • iPad layout pass. Discover hero, Insights grid, Crate Dig cards, sheets, charts, and forms all get dedicated iPad layouts. Sensible heights, breathing room, balanced columns.
  • Seven languages. English, German, Spanish, French, Croatian, Japanese, and Korean. 2,667 strings total. Every new 1.4 surface ships localized on day one.
  • Ignore leading "The." A global toggle teaches alphabetical sorts to file The Beatles under B. Works in Collection, Wishlist, and Batch Tag NFC.
  • Non-blocking errors. Any surface that fails to load now shows a small translucent pill at the top with Retry. Whatever you already loaded stays visible underneath.
  • ViewThatFits everywhere. Long translations in German, Spanish, and French degrade gracefully to icon-only buttons on narrow screens. VoiceOver still announces the full action.
iPad · Global · Accessible spinstackios.app
15 / 15 Sell

Discogs
Marketplace

Sell records from your collection without leaving the app. Price it, list it, track orders, message buyers. Discogs handles the money. Spinstack handles the workflow.

  • List from any record. Open Release Detail. Tap "Sell on Discogs." Set price, condition, sleeve condition, and comments. One tap to publish.
  • Sell hub. Stacks menu opens a dedicated Marketplace view. Active listings, sold items, and pending orders in one surface.
  • Order tracking. Buyers purchase on Discogs. The order appears in Spinstack within minutes. Status, shipping, and buyer messages all visible in-app.
  • Buyer messages. Read and reply to buyer questions through the Discogs messaging API. No tab-switching to the Discogs website.
  • No payment in-app. Discogs handles all financial flows between buyer and seller. Spinstack takes no commission, no fee, no cut. Physical goods, Apple guideline 3.1.5(a).
List · Sell · Ship spinstackios.app
Under the Hood

107 builds. Six months. Every surface.

Built for the biggest collections

Sectioned sorts (Artist A-Z, Title A-Z, Original Year) no longer freeze on large libraries. The fix replaced nested grids with a single outer grid, throttled per-record notifications during bulk enrichment, and dropped the pinned section headers that triggered an iOS 26.5 layout engine bug. Libraries of any size now scroll smoothly with a floating section capsule in place of pinned headers.

Price Watchdog, Search, About, and six other surfaces wrapped their ForEach blocks in lazy containers so SwiftUI only instantiates the rows on screen. A tester with 8,000+ records can now open every surface without the app being terminated by iOS jetsam. New records added on Discogs persist to disk after the first page of a refresh instead of waiting for a full pagination walk to complete.

Available now.

Spinstack 1.4 is available now on the App Store. Free update for every existing user. $9.99 once for new users. No subscription. No ads. Ever.

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