Stop deleting old sessions to make room

Every producer has done it: a drive fills up, and last year's sessions get dragged to the trash. Then a client comes back for a stem, a remix, an alt mix — and it's gone. Crate is the other option: keep everything, store a fraction.

Shrink it, don't bin it

Crate packs a finished session into a single verified .crate at a fraction of its original size — losslessly, so a restore is a bit-perfect twin of what you had. Archive a project, reclaim the space, and the day a client asks for that one stem, you still have it.

100%

files restored bit-perfect

~81%

median reduction off the original

25–76%

smaller than the same files zipped

An archive you can trust

Every file is checked with SHA-256 on the way in and again on restore — “lossless” is proven, not promised.
Recovery data can be baked in, so an archive survives a bit-rotted drive or a flaky copy.
Nothing is uploaded. Your unreleased masters never touch a server — the archive lives wherever you put it.
No account, no subscription, no cloud to keep paying. A .crate is just a file.
And it's a file you're never locked into: standard 7-Zip, standard FLAC/WavPack, a readable JSON manifest. How a .crate outlives Crate →

In developing markets especially, the back catalogue is the business — the beat a client returns to months later. Crate lets you keep it without buying another drive.

The recurring case for a one-time tool

Sending sessions is the obvious use; archiving is the one you'll reach for every week. Bounce, pack, file it away. When you need it back, the receiver is free and the restore is exact. See why a zip archive doesn't shrink audio →

Download Crate free Zip vs RAR vs Crate

Free to download and to receive. $25 once to pack — no account, ever.