Every machine
keeps a history.
Yours should be
written down.
A maintenance journal, ownership ledger, and shop-manual library for collectors who actually open the coin door. Built by people who own machines, for people who maintain them.
What lives inside a record.
One page per machine — annotated below, like a watch movement diagram.
Medieval
Madness
Four tools you'll actually open the laptop for.
A timestamped journal for every machine you own.
Rubber rebuilds, board mods, ROM swaps, the time you found a screw rolling around in the cabinet. Tagged, dated, with photos attached.
A verified chain of custody, like a watch's papers.
When you sell, pass the logbook with the machine. Every owner, every service, every mod — signed off.
Service manuals, filed with the machine.
The manuals for your machine, linked from its record where we have them. A chatbot that answers from those manuals is in private beta.
A printed tag inside the coin door. One scan opens the logbook.
For your shop tech, your buddy borrowing the cab, or you at 11pm with a flashlight. No login, no app — just the record.
Scan to open the logbook
You bought it. Inherit the history.
Sales happen on Pinside, Facebook, in driveways. The seller hands you a one-page PinFax PDF with a claim code. You enter the code — the entire history is yours, and so is the rest of Pinlog.
Claim a machine
Paste the code from the PinFax PDF the seller emailed you.
A pinball machine without a logbook is just a story you have to take on trust.
When you sell a watch, the box and papers move the price. When you sell a car, so does the service book. Pinball is one of the last serious hobbies where five-figure machines change hands on a forum DM and a “trust me, bro.”
Pinlog is the receipt drawer. Free. Permanent. Yours.
- Each entry shows when it was logged, not just when the work was done. Work written up after the fact is flagged as backfilled.
- Entries lock 24 hours after they're written, so the history can't be tidied up the week before a sale.
- The ownership chain and every installed mod stay with the machine when it changes hands.
Open the coin door.
Start the book.
Free, forever. About four minutes to set up your first machine.