01 / Spin of the Day
The Clerk picks one record. Every morning.
Weather, anniversaries, last Tuesday's spins, the LP you've dodged for 114 days. Not random, and not an algorithm fed on the whole internet. Trained on your shelf, holidays included.
Now spinning on iOS · Android · WebFree forever799,000+ albums synced · vinyl, CD, tape, digital
STOPStaringatyourrecords.
One shelf for your whole collection: vinyl, CDs and tapes, with streaming on top. Behind the counter is the Clerk, an AI trained by a real music nerd with six copies of Tom Petty's Wildflowers (all justified). Opinionated about pressings, snarky about your dupes, tomorrow's spin already pulled. Your shelf, your order.
↳ replaces: the spreadsheetthe barcode appthe scrobblerthe ratings sitethe ticket alertsthe concert logthe cover wallthe player skin
You own 1,247 records and three nights a week you stand in front of them, paralyzed, queueing up the same Beatles record like an animal. We made an app for that.
The Clerk picks one. One. Based on the weather, what you played last Tuesday, the fact that it's a Dan the Automator anniversary nobody else remembers, and the small, undeniable fact that you have not touched Demon Days in 114 days. He's not surfacing content he's handing you a record.
He also reads liner notes, knows the pressing plant, remembers the deadwax, and will roast your three Ween LPs without Chocolate and Cheese if you give him half a chance.
★ THE CLERK · ON THE RECORD
You've got three Ween albums but no Chocolate and Cheese? That's a house with no roof. "Voodoo Lady" alone is worth the money. Get on that.
01 / SHIPPED, NOT PROMISED
Built by a nerd.
Updated like one.
02 / Recommendations
Recs from connections, not payola.
Every pick hangs on a real link: a shared producer, a session player, a label-mate, a sample. Never 'similar vibes,' and never what a label paid to push.
03 / One Shelf
Play streaming over the vinyl you own.
Vinyl, CDs, tapes and digital on one shelf. Pipe Apple Music or Tidal over the records you own, with no feed nudging you somewhere weird.
◉ Physical shelfApple MusicTidal
04 / Record-Store Mode
Scan it in the shop. Own it already?
Scan the barcode, Shazam the track, or snap the cover. You get the Clerk's verdict, the pressing, the price, and a straight answer on whether it's already on your shelf. We degens forget. Gatefold ships the scanner free.
BarcodeShazamCover photo
05 / The Hunt
Drops and shows from bands you own.
Concert and new-release alerts for every artist in your collection, sorted by your shelf and not by a label's ad budget. Mosh Pit adds the presale heads-up, before the general sale.
06 / Marquee mode
Any spare screen becomes a now-playing display.
Prop a tablet by the hi-fi and it runs the whole show: a now-playing visual, social sharing, the album details, facts and lore, and your cartridge wear hours. Free on every plan, with no album cap.
- Now-playing visual — what’s streaming, live
- Social sharing — post tonight’s spin
- Metadata + facts & lore
- Cartridge wear hours
- Scrobbles — and knows what you own
Free on every plan · no album cap
07 / CarPlay and Android Auto
Hands on the wheel. Clerk on the aux.
Ask for a record, a deep cut, or 'something good for this drive.' Snark, recommendations and collection curation, all by voice. Free to ride, with more for Mosh Pit.
Free to ride · MOSH · the deep end of CarPlay & Driving
08 / Driving Mode
Cool-as-hell tech for any car.
Not CarPlay, not Android Auto. Driving Mode reads your phone's sensors (g-force, average speed, cornering, distance), tells spirited from raging, and shifts the music to keep you alert, calm, or sane in a jam. Then it grades the drive: your session, scored as an album.
★ THE CLERK — “This aggression will not stand, man. Cueing up some Bill Withers.”
A free visual mode · Apple or Tidal sub required
09 / Nerd Out
Nerd out. Learn shit.
Lore on the artist, the producer, the engineer. An estimated BPM on most tracks. The deadwax, the pressing plant, the session cats. See all the Bob Ludwig cuts on your shelf, the artists you've completed (yeah, we see you), and a career arc from debut to sellout.
→ Stats for nerds
47
Cut by Bob Ludwig — on your shelf
12
Artists completed · 100%
BPM · every trackSteely Dan — Aja
Career arc · Bowie
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10 / Bonus · The Matchmaker
Move in together.
Merge the shelves.
Two Discogs accounts become one shelf — your polka next to their exotica. The Clerk merges them and roasts how compatible you really are. Couples, roommates, whole households: signing a lease together is easy. Agreeing to mix two record collections in one app? That’s commitment.
MOSH · matchmaker, two Discogs one shelf
PLAYED
Records that got played.
Real shelves, live from the app. Every cover here is a record somebody stopped staring at.
02 / RECEIPTS
This is a real conversation. With the Clerk.
Most "AI assistants" just give you the polite consensus answer. The Clerk gives you an opinion, exactly like the guy behind the counter at the record store would.
He reads your collection, your liner notes, your pressing data, and then tells you what he actually thinks. He's a bit of a smart-ass about it, eh. That's a feature, not a bug.
YOU· 02:14:03
› tell me about this pressing of demon days
★ CLERK· 02:14:04
That's the 2005 Parlophone double LP, the first UK vinyl. Danger Mouse produced it the year after The Grey Album got him a cease-and-desist and a career. Yours is graded VG+. Originals trade well above the reissues, so check the matrix before you let it go.
YOU· 02:14:33
› what else should I know
★ CLERK· 02:14:34
Check the guest list. De La Soul on "Feel Good Inc.", which won a Grammy. Dennis Hopper narrating "Fire Coming Out of the Monkey's Head". Ike Turner on piano. MF DOOM on "November Has Come". Shaun Ryder on "DARE", their first UK number one. A cartoon band booked a better lineup than most festivals. You're welcome.
YOU· 02:15:02
› build me a sunday playlist from my shelf. nothing after 1975
★ CLERK· 02:15:04
"Sunday, Slow", seven tracks, all yours: Nick Drake Northern Sky · Bill Withers Grandma's Hands · Terry Callier Dancing Girl · Labi Siffre I Got The… · Gil Scott-Heron Lady Day and John Coltrane · Shuggie Otis Strawberry Letter 23 · Minnie Riperton Les Fleurs. All pulled from your shelf. Want a Saturday-night version?
Bonus roast
You've built what I'm calling the Mike Patton Cinematic Universe: Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantômas, Tomahawk, all accounted for. But your Soundgarden situation is criminal. Two albums when Cornell put out six with that band alone. Fix that shit.
Unpaid. Unprompted. Verbatim.
From the App Store and Google Play. All five stars.
“I never engage with AI chat unless I have to. Yet I've found myself unknowingly debating the merits of a few different bands with the 'Clerk' as well as some pointed (but not untrue) critiques of my record collection.”
“The kind of app that as a record collector you didn't know you needed. I mean discogs can only get you so far right? excellent companion app”
“awesome app. love it”
“Like having a coach for what you should be into based on what you have! Love This!!!”
“Great! love the daily recommendation it has me listening to records I almost forgot I have. also love the writeups about all the albums and the additional selections. really nice interface.”
“It gives you a record you should play for the day and why … and can even add records to your want list or collection just by hearing it. … An amazing idea that I wish I had lol.”
03 / THE MANIFESTOOpen the subreddit →
No ads.No data mining.No strategic partnerships.
I'm not a Silicon Valley suit trying to monetize your listening habits. I'm a music nerd who got tired of soulless, clinical apps that quietly sell your data to brokers and call it a feature.
I built Gatefold for us. The lights stay on two ways: Mosh Pit subscribers, or albums you discover and buy through the app. That's the whole business model. Print it on the back of a flyer.
No tracking pixels. No "strategic partnerships" with data companies. No 47-tab onboarding. You fund the code, I keep building the ultimate crate-digger's companion. Deal?
0 Ads served, ever
1 Founder, soldering
∞ Records you can throw at it
0 Brokers paid
★ THE ROADMAP
Want a feature built? Don't email us. Don't fill out a Notion form. Don't tag us on Threads. Come to /r/gatefoldfm and ask for it. If it's a good idea, I'll build it. If it's not, someone in the comments will explain why. That's the whole product roadmap.
— THE GATEFOLD TEAM (it's just the one of us, mostly)SIGNED IN SHARPIE · MAY 2026
04 / THE COVER CHARGE
Pick your pass.
No minimum collection size. Ten records is enough. The Clerk needs about that much before he can start finding patterns and saying mean things about your gaps.
Free is the whole record store. Mosh Pit is the back room. Same Clerk, off the clock.
GA SeatingWelcome to the machine
$0forever
Section · GADoors · always open
Everything you actually need to enjoy a collection: import, sync, search, scan, the daily spin pick, and a Clerk on a monthly Quarters allowance who will still chirp you for free.
- Discogs + file import, any size
- Scan, Shazam or photo to add
- 1 Spin of the Day · The Hunt
- Apple Music + Tidal libraries
- Wantlist → Apple Music previews
- Five custom shelves
- Marquee · CarPlay · Driving Mode
FREE
The Mosh PitFree play mode
C$7/mo on the web · or C$70/yr (2 months free) · a little more in the app stores
Section · FRONT★ FOUNDING MEMBER
FREE PLAY. Smarter Clerk, unlimited Clerk chats and Flex art, and the deep tools: a pressings card (OG, reissue and audiophile, side by side), your own notes on every album, more than one Discogs account, and one-click two-way sync to Apple Music or Tidal. The flag drops and the machine never asks for another quarter. First 7 days are on the house.
- Everything in GA
- Upgraded AI: smarter Clerk, better recs
- Pressing pages with selling trends
- 1-click upload your shelf to Apple / Tidal
- Up to 100 custom shelves (vs. 5 free)
- The deep end of CarPlay & Driving
- Multiple Discogs accounts (the matchmaker)
- Extra Driving Mode flair
C$7 · C$70
05 / Q&A
Questions you'd actually ask.
01.Do I need Discogs?
No. Discogs is one of five ways in. Spreadsheet collection? Import .csv or .xls. You can also scan barcodes, search and add manually, or hook up Apple Music or Tidal. Pick whatever fits how you collect. Or use all five. The Clerk doesn't give a shit.
02.Wait, it's actually free?
Yes. GA Seating is free forever: full collection sync, a daily Spin of the Day, The Hunt recommendations, concert history, discography data, Flex art on your monthly Quarters allowance, and five custom shelves. Free is the whole record store. Mosh Pit is the back room. Same Clerk, off the clock. Mosh starts with 7 days free. Cancel anytime.
03.Why does it know about my pressing?
Because he actually reads liner notes, deadwax data, and pressing-plant info, not just track lists. He pulls from Discogs and MusicBrainz pressing and credit data and has opinions on what's worth your money. If he ever gets a pressing detail wrong, chirp us on /r/gatefoldfm and we'll fix it right up.
04.Will it touch my Discogs?
Two-way sync, your way. You decide. Gatefold pulls what you own from Discogs whenever you open the app. Add a record in Gatefold and it goes to Discogs too, unless you switch that off. Delete one and we ask before touching Discogs. Nothing gets written behind your back.
05.CDs? Tapes? Box sets? SACDs?
All of it. If you collect it, Gatefold tracks it: vinyl, CDs, cassettes, SACDs, box sets, the weird flexi disc you found in a magazine in 1994.
06.What are "Quarters"?
Quarters pay for chatting with the Clerk and making Flex art. Your collection data never costs a Quarter. GA gets a monthly allowance, enough to keep you spinning. Mosh Pit sets the machine to FREE PLAY. It's how we keep the lights on without ads. Like a real arcade. With an opinionated cabinet.
07.How do I request a feature?
Come to /r/gatefoldfm and ask for it. Seriously. That's the roadmap. If it's a good idea, I'll build it. If it's a shit idea, someone in the comments will tell you why. No support tickets, no "we've shared this with the team," no five-star feedback widgets. Just a subreddit.
08.Is this just a SaaS app pretending to be cool?
No. It's a love letter to record stores, written in TypeScript by someone who's been collecting since 1996. No growth team. No "engagement loop." A guy in Kansas City and a Clerk who reads liner notes. The goal isn't a billion users. It's the best companion app for people who read the back-cover credits.
09.Where do I start?
Right here: app.gatefold.fm/signup. Free forever tier, no credit card. Import your collection or start from scratch. Either way you'll be looking at your own shelf in about a minute.
Drop the
needle.
Import your collection in a minute or two. The Clerk's already got your first pick lined up. Free forever. Works with 10 records or 10,000.
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