About
Why Teca.
You're in a shop on a Saturday, holding a record you might already own. Your collection is at home. Your wantlist is buried in a note you never open.
Teca is for that moment. Point your camera at the sleeve, front and back, and it tells you the exact pressing: label, catalog number, year, format. Not just the album. The pressing.
Your Discogs collection and wantlist come with you. Your crates stay the way you built them. It's fast, dark, and quiet, whether you're digging on a Saturday afternoon or building a setlist on Friday night.
No marketplace. Just your records.
Questions worth asking
Is this legit? Who's behind it?
One independent developer, building in the open. Not a funded company, and the site won't pretend otherwise. What you can check: the privacy policy names what's collected and why, deleting your account is self-service and documented, and the waitlist asks for an email — a phone number only if you offer one.
Discogs and Spotify are both optional, both OAuth. Teca never sees those passwords: you approve on their site, and you can revoke it there whenever you like. Teca isn't affiliated with or endorsed by Discogs, Spotify, Apple or Deezer.
Why a waitlist? Why can't I just download it?
Not manufactured scarcity — two ceilings neither of us can move. Apple caps how many external testers a TestFlight beta can have. And Spotify cut third-party apps in its Development Mode to five authorised users in March 2026, with the tier above it now requiring a registered business and 250,000 monthly active users.
So invitations get sequenced against those limits. The parts of Teca that don't depend on Spotify aren't restricted by it.
Do you sell records, or take a cut?
No. No listings, no checkout, no commission, no ads. Free during the beta. Teca is for using a collection, not transacting on it — that's the whole point of it not being a marketplace.
What happens to my collection data?
It stays yours. Importing from Discogs copies your collection and wantlist into your Teca account so they work offline and in a shop; it doesn't change anything on Discogs. Delete your account and the imported data goes with it. The privacy policy has the specifics.