$5.99 a month. Cancel anytime.
Or $49 a year, which works out to about $4 a month and saves 32% on paying monthly. Start small, cancel whenever, and every track you download stays on your machine as an ordinary file. A price should survive being explained, so the full math is below.
Every update included, so you are always on the latest Cratefox. Cancel whenever you like, and everything you have already downloaded stays on your machine as ordinary files.
- Paste a playlist link or screenshot, get the tracklist read for you
- Missing tracks hunted down and pulled over your own connection
- Key, BPM and energy read from the audio itself, on your machine
- Uncertain keys flagged for a pre-listen, with a second candidate
- Crate sorted so neighbouring tracks mix in key
- A Rekordbox-ready playlist; Serato and Traktor read the same tags
Request an invite or say you want to start; either way the DJ who builds Cratefox emails you personally, sorts out the plan you want (monthly or yearly), and your access code lands once you are set up. Setup is handled by a real person right now, not an automated checkout, and requesting an invite just puts you in line, which costs nothing.
How the downloads work, up front: missing tracks come over Soulseek, a peer-to-peer network, on your own machine. Your downloads are shared back by default, one switch turns that off, and you are responsible for what you pull and share. Terms and Help lay this out in full.
The honest math
Prep night is five jobs: finding the tracks, downloading them, tagging, sorting, exporting. Cratefox covers all five and keeps them current, for $5.99 a month or $49 a year (about $4 a month, which saves 32% on paying monthly).
- Rekordbox$10-30/mo
- Beatport$10.99-34.99/mo
- Serato$11.99/mo
- Cratefox$5.99/mo
The accuracy behind the price is published
A prep tool is only worth money if the tags it writes can be trusted, so we measure ours in public, against GiantSteps, an independent dataset of 1225 real Beatport tracks. On the 596 tracks that carry independent expert key labels, keys read 75.7% Camelot-exact and 86.4% safe to mix (the Apple Silicon Mac figure; Intel Macs run the essentia engine at 69.5% exact), weak spots are listed by genre, and any install can re-run the whole benchmark with the commands on the page. The uncertain keys get flagged in the app so you pre-listen those instead of trusting every tag. The full numbers, misses included →
Two ways in
Request an invite
Cratefox is invite-only while it grows, so codes go out in small batches. Leave your email and you go on the list; a real person (the DJ who builds Cratefox) replies, usually within a day, with the plan details and gets you set up. No card to join the list, and nothing else happens to your inbox.
Prefer email? Write hey@cratefox.app and ask for an invite.
Start a plan
Starting is personal for now, a real person instead of a checkout page. Leave your email and the maker replies, usually within a day, to set you up on the plan you want: $5.99 a month, or $49 a year. Once you are set up, your access code comes straight back. Cancel anytime, and if you change your mind in the first 7 days you get a full refund. Nothing charges your card on its own.
Prefer email? Write hey@cratefox.app and say you want in.
Fair questions
Do the tracks stay mine?
Yes, and this does not change on a plan. Every track you download is an ordinary file in your music folder and stays on your machine: playable in Rekordbox, Serato, or anything else, forever. Your plan pays for Cratefox the app, never the music, so if you ever cancel, everything you have already pulled stays exactly where it is and keeps working.
I already tag with something else. Will Cratefox fight my tags?
No. Cratefox reads your existing library in place and never overwrites a key or BPM you already have; it fills in what is missing and tags the tracks it downloads for you. Any key it writes can be auditioned and overridden before export.
Where do the downloads actually come from?
Over Soulseek, a peer-to-peer network, on your own connection and under your own name. In keeping with how Soulseek works, your downloads folder is shared back to the network by default, and the app has a switch to turn that off. You're responsible for what you pull and share. The plain-words explanation →
Why a subscription instead of paying once?
Because Cratefox is a living tool, not a frozen download. The finding and pulling runs against a peer-to-peer network that changes every day, and the key engine keeps getting retrained, so the version you get in six months is better than the one today. A plan keeps that work paid for and keeps your Cratefox current, while dropping the price to start from a big one-time number to $5.99 a month. And if it ever stops being worth it, you cancel, and every track you have downloaded stays on your machine.
Do updates cost extra?
No. Every update is included for as long as your plan is active, so you are always on the latest Cratefox, and updating is just re-running your one-line install command. That is part of what the plan is for: the tool keeps improving and you keep getting it.
Why isn't it free?
Because free tools are paid for somehow: ads, your data, or the maker burning out. Cratefox has no ads, no account, and your library never touches our servers, so the only honest way to keep it alive and improving is to charge for it. A small monthly or yearly plan is what keeps one DJ building it instead of shelving it.
I installed through an invite already. What changes for me?
If you already bought Cratefox with the earlier one-time payment, that stays yours, there is nothing to re-buy and nothing switches to a plan behind your back. From here, new DJs come in on a plan: $5.99 a month or $49 a year, arranged in the same personal email that sends your code. An invite or code is only how you get in, never a free plan by itself.
What happens if I cancel?
You keep every track you have already downloaded, as ordinary files that play in Rekordbox, Serato, or anything else, forever. What stops is the app itself: pasting new playlists, pulling new tracks, tagging and sorting new crates. Come back whenever and your plan picks up again. Nothing you made is held hostage.
Will the price go up?
If the plan price ever changes, it changes for new sign-ups only. The price you start at is the price you keep for as long as you stay on your plan, and any change is announced on this page first. No quiet increases.
Monthly or yearly, and can I switch?
Both are the same Cratefox. Monthly is $5.99 and the lowest way to start; yearly is $49, works out to about $4 a month, and saves 32% on paying monthly. You can move from monthly to yearly whenever it makes sense, just say so in a reply.