Point your phone's camera at a barcode. Get the title, the cover art, and an estimated value back — automatically. Built for people with a real physical media collection, not a spreadsheet fantasy of one.
This started as a way to answer one question at a thrift store: do I already have this? It grew into something that also answers a second one — what is this whole shelf actually worth? — for the day an insurance adjuster asks.
No app store, no account wall, no subscription. It's a page you open in a browser, on your phone or your computer, and it works.
Live camera scanning with zoom and manual focus control, for the barcodes that never seem to sit at a convenient distance.
Looked up from Discogs and UPCitemdb the moment you scan. Nothing found? Paste your own image link, or take and crop a photo right there.
Current market pricing pulled from Discogs, per item and as a running collection total — built with insurance records in mind, not speculation.
Standing in a record store wondering if you already own it? Search your own synced Discogs collection right from your phone.
Bring in an existing collection from CLZ, iCollect, or any spreadsheet — map the columns yourself, nothing gets added until you say so.
Send a friend a link so they can search your shelf before a thrift-store trip. They can look and search — never edit, never delete.
By category, by title or artist, by what's missing a cover, by what's a 3D edition — whatever the shelf actually needs right now.
By default, everything stays on your own device. Open the app and start scanning — nothing is sent anywhere, no account, no signup, nothing to configure.
Want the same shelf on your phone and your computer? Set your own private key, and only then does your catalog sync to the server — under a key only you know, that only you can use to read or change it.
MW Media Vault is written and actively maintained with Claude, Anthropic's AI. Every feature — the scanner, the lookups, the sharing system, this page — was built through direct collaboration between a human developer and an AI coding assistant, not generated once and left alone.
That's disclosed here plainly because it's true, and because it should be your choice whether that matters to you.