Retro Chip Vault

Scan a chip, get its pinout and history in seconds. 198 retro chips documented, 76 classic machines mapped — the pocket workshop for collectors and repairers.

Point your camera at any chip pulled from an Amiga, a C64 or an arcade board — Retro Chip Vault reads the markings and tells you what you're holding, what it does, and how it usually fails.

THE CHIP ENCYCLOPEDIA • 198 retro chips documented with interactive pinouts and technical references: CPUs, video, sound, memory, logic, custom chips. • Interactive pinouts with numbered, tappable pins and electrical roles. • History notes: where each chip comes from, what made it matter. • Repair notes: the failure modes techs actually see on the bench. • 76 classic machines mapped chip by chip — Amiga, Commodore, Amstrad, Nintendo, arcade boards and more. • A symptom checker: pick "no display" or "won't boot", get the ranked suspect chips — matched against your own stock.

AI CHIP SCAN Photograph a chip's markings: the text is read on your device, offline, with no account and no AI key needed. For worn or ambiguous packages, plug in the AI of your choice — Apple Intelligence on-device, or your own API key with the provider you prefer. Your keys stay in your Keychain; nothing is ever hardcoded or shared.

YOUR WORKSHOP • Track up to 20 chips: quantities, condition, storage location, favorites and low-stock alerts. • Keep a repair log per machine, linked to the parts you swap. • Print or export any chip as an A4 PDF sheet: pinout diagram, pin table, history and repair notes (Pro). • Manufacturer datasheets for 120 of the 198 chips (TI, Motorola, Intel, Zilog, NEC, Yamaha…), cached on device for offline reading.

RETRO CHIP VAULT PRO — ONE-TIME PURCHASE No subscription. One purchase unlocks: unlimited inventory, iCloud sync across iPhone and iPad, CSV & JSON import/export, PDF export, unlimited repair projects, and photos on your chips.

Designed for iPhone and iPad, in English, French, German and Spanish, with full dark mode. Your data stays on your device — iCloud sync is opt-in and private.