# Gear Tracker

Inventory your instruments, mics, plugins, and hardware. Track receipts, warranties, and values.

Catalog every piece of music gear you own — guitars, basses, mics, interfaces, monitors, software plugins, hardware, you name it. Track serial numbers, purchase dates, condition, receipts and photos, warranty expiration, insurance value, and an optional estimate from your Gear Tech of what each item would sell for used.

In Add Gear Item (or Edit Gear Item), drop a receipt (a picture or a PDF) on the Receipt Image box, or click the box to choose it in your Mac's Open window, which reaches any drive your Mac can see, including iCloud Drive, or Google Drive if its Mac app is installed. Equipment Images takes several photos at once: drop them on the box or click "Choose photos". Both have "Take a Photo" for any camera your Mac offers, and Equipment Images also has "Pick from Media Hub" to reuse a picture already in MusicLaunch.

## Why bother?

- Insurance claims — if your studio is robbed or damaged, the inventory gives you serial numbers, receipts and photos to support a claim
- Taxes — gear used for your music business may be deductible; the inventory gives you or your tax preparer the details in one place
- Selling — when it's time to sell or trade something, all the details are at your fingertips
- Insurance — set an insurance value per item; the app nudges you when values look stale, and Export CSV gives you a list for your insurer

## Gear Tech valuation (optional)

With your team (the included 30 days or a team plan), "Estimate Values" asks your Gear Tech for a typical used price for each item from its brand, model, category, condition and age. It covers items with no estimate yet, or one more than a year old. Your Gear Tech works from its general knowledge, not live listings or market data, so treat these as educated guesses that can lag the market. Each estimate shows with its date, and Export CSV labels them "Estimated Value". "Analyze Gear" reviews your whole inventory: up to five items missing details worth recording (a value, insurance, a warranty date, a serial number or a receipt), up to five overlaps and up to five items to consider selling, plus a short summary. These are estimates to help with insurance and selling decisions, not formal appraisals. Each click uses one of that day's Gear Valuation or Gear Analysis uses (see Team Plan Limits). If the answer can't be read, you'll see an error, and that try doesn't count.

## Related articles

- [Producer's Pad](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/producers-pad.md): Track each song's production status, track by track, from writing to final master.
- [Budget Tracker](https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/budget.md): Plan a budget per category, log expenses and income, and keep a log of your ad campaigns' results.

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- From the MusicLaunch Help Center (Production & Recording). The same guide is built into the app under Help.
- Web page: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/help/gear/
- All guides: https://www.musiclaunchapp.com/llms.txt
- Support: hello@musiclaunchapp.com