For collectors who care about the details
Point your camera at a barcode, an OBI strip or a catalog number. OBI Scanner finds the exact release on Discogs, shows what it sells for and ranks it against every other known edition, from Japanese SHM-CDs to audiophile SACD reissues.
A generic scanner tells you the album. OBI Scanner tells you which of its twenty pressings is sitting on your shelf.
Take a photo of the disc and on-device Vision reads the barcode and every catalog number it can find, including the tiny print on Japanese OBI strips. Scan a whole shelf in batch mode, open an image from Files, or search by hand when the disc isn't in front of you.
Label, catalog number, country, year and format, straight from Discogs. Swipe through the Discogs photos next to your own to confirm it's the same pressing, then see the lowest price, copies for sale and how many collectors want it.
Every disc you save lands in your collection with its format, catalog number and year. Sort, search and filter, refresh prices in one tap and watch the estimated value of the whole collection.
Totals, formats, countries, labels and decades at a glance, plus your most valuable discs. Find out how Japanese your SACD shelf really is.
An OBI strip is full of text that isn't a catalog number: format logos, prices, disc counts. OBI Scanner reads all of it, works out which code is the real one and only accepts Discogs matches whose catalog number actually agrees.
A real scan. The obi's format text reads like a catalog number, and a naive search would return a Mike Oldfield compilation.
Built for collectors who know the difference between a 1985 Denon pressing and the 2011 remaster, and want their phone to know it too.
Japanese label codes like POCS, UICY, SICP and WPCR are recognised and searched first. SHM-CD, Blu-spec, SACD, mini-LP sleeves, K2 remasters: all fair game.
See all known pressings of an album side by side, scored out of 100, with yours highlighted. Find out whether you own the one to keep or the one to replace.
DR values from the Loudness War database for each version, so the brickwalled remaster stops hiding behind nice packaging. Measured it yourself? Enter your own.
Lowest Discogs Marketplace price, copies for sale and how many collectors want it, for the exact edition, plus the estimated value of your whole collection.
Optionally pulls in what the Steve Hoffman Forums say about each mastering and which engineers they recommend.
Working through a shelf? Batch mode scans disc after disc and saves unique matches automatically, only stopping when it needs you to pick.
Text recognition runs on your device. No account, no analytics, no ads. Your collection lives on your device and in your own iCloud.
One purchase, every device. Your collection syncs through iCloud, and the Mac version works with your webcam or with images from Finder.
Run a Music Player Daemon at home? OBI Scanner can show a play button on releases that are already in your library.
One purchase for iPhone, iPad and Mac. No subscription, no account, no tracking.
OBI Scanner uses the Discogs API. You'll need a free Discogs developer key, and the support page shows how to get one.