Luis Godoy Alvarez
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Sleipnir Grade

The iPhone app used at Niflheim Records to grade every second-hand record. A step-by-step wizard for cover, vinyl, inners and extras, ending in a shop-ready description.

LiveVisit the site
Screenshot of niflheimrecords.de/sleipnir-grade
The product page in the shop, with the iPhone download link.niflheimrecords.de
01

From record to description

  1. 01

    Walk through it

    A guided pass over cover, vinyl, inners and extras: OBI, posters, booklets, box wear.

  2. 02

    Record what you see

    Ring wear, corner wear, seam splits, warps, writing on the label: toggles and short notes instead of prose.

  3. 03

    Generate the description

    One tap for a shop-ready description in Goldmine and Discogs convention, in English and optionally German or Spanish.

02

Why

My wife wanted to help me grade the records, a long and slow job. But she did not know what to look at, where, or what each grade means. Explaining was not enough, there are too many details in my head and my experience. So I built an app she uses, and so do I: go through record after record and get the best description for the shop at the end.

03

Insight

iPhone only, written in Swift. Toggles and short notes turn into text that reads as if a person wrote it, in Goldmine and Discogs convention and in three languages if you want. No account, no mandatory cloud: everything stays on the device and exports as text, CSV, JSON or Markdown, for your own shop or for Discogs and eBay.

04

The app

Screenshot of The app as it opens.
The app as it opens.
Screenshot of The pass: packaging, cover, ring wear, edges and corners, each as none, light or heavy wear.
The pass: packaging, cover, ring wear, edges and corners, each as none, light or heavy wear.
Screenshot of Your own list: drafts and finished records with their media and sleeve grade.
Your own list: drafts and finished records with their media and sleeve grade.
Screenshot of The generated description, here in English, German and Spanish.
The generated description, here in English, German and Spanish.
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What else is in there

Where the app stops

The app does not replace your own judgement. A record's condition is partly subjective and depends on your ears, your setup and your tolerance. The generated texts are no guarantee of condition, market value or satisfaction; responsibility for grade, price and listing stays with the seller. The app says so itself.

Export
Everything graded sits in a local list and exports as text, CSV, JSON or Markdown, for your own shop, Discogs, eBay or an inventory system.
No account
No login, no mandatory sync. Grades and notes stay locally on the device, not on a Niflheim server.
No ads, no tracking
The app carries neither ad SDKs nor tracking. The details are in the shop's privacy section.
Trademarks
Discogs and Goldmine are named descriptively only. Sleipnir Grade is affiliated with neither, as the product page states explicitly.
niflheimrecords.de/sleipnir-grade

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