STYLUS HOURS
Know how many hours are on your stylus
Add your cartridge and the life it has left, then log a side (22 min) or an album (44 min) as you listen. CrateCore keeps the running total and warns you when the life is nearly gone. You log the hours yourself — nothing is measured automatically.
Reading is open to everyone. The collection and the tools need a free account.
Android — free on Google Play. iOS is next.
CRATECORE · STYLUS
MY STYLUS HAS PLAYED
Demo data
100 HOURS
Hours are logged by hand in the app; the rated life is the one I entered.
Do you count yours?
TRACK YOUR STYLUS →
An example of the card people share from the app — the data is invented, not a real person's. Brands and records are named as examples only; they are not partners of CrateCore.
What you get
A side or an album
One tap adds 22 minutes for a side or 44 for an album. Listened to half of it? Type the minutes in by hand.
Hours left, not hours spent
The rated life you entered minus what has been played, as hours and as a percentage — so you see what's still there.
More than one cartridge
Keep every cartridge you own with its install date, and switch the active one when you change heads.
How it works
Add the cartridge
Enter the life it has LEFT in hours. Bought it used? Enter what's left, not the factory figure.
Log as you listen
+ SIDE, + ALBUM, or minutes by hand.
Watch the remainder
The running total stays on screen, and CrateCore warns you when the life is nearly gone.
Honestly
Nothing here is measured. You log the hours yourself, and the rated life is the number you typed in — CrateCore has no way to see how worn a stylus actually is.
More in the app
The app is out. The stories stay free.
CrateCore is free on Google Play: the collection with a barcode scanner, the wishlist, and the tools for your turntable. The feed stays open in your browser either way — a new story about records and the people who made them, every day, free and without an account.
Android — free on Google Play. iOS is next.
No ads, nothing to buy, and your data is never sold.