Kasetofon

A solid-state cassette deck for your pocket. Real WAV recording, spinning reels, a VU needle that swings, and takes that survive a phone call.

Kasetofon is a cassette recorder, not a list of voice memos.

Load a blank tape, press REC, and watch the reels turn and the needle swing. Takes are written straight to 16-bit WAV — mono or stereo, at 44.1, 22 or 8 kHz — and they stay on your device, visible in the Files app.

RECORDING • Keep recording with the screen locked. A Live Activity holds the spinning reels, the running time and a STOP key on the Lock Screen. • Tapes stretch as you talk. Run past the end of a side and the tape extends, up to four hours. • A take interrupted by a call or an alarm pauses and picks up again where it left off. • If the app is ever killed mid-recording, the take is recovered the next time you open it. • VOL and TONE act on playback. TONE is a low-pass filter, like the tone knob on a real deck.

THE DECK • Six cabinet finishes, from graphite through walnut to 70s beige. • A compact cassette, or an open-reel mechanism with tape threaded across the guides. • A mechanical rev counter, or a real-time counter. • An analogue VU meter with a needle you can colour.

THE SHELF • Every take on a shelf you can search by name and filter by category or date. • Name your tapes in your choice of handwriting. • Share any take as a WAV. • Optional iCloud Drive storage.

Recording and playback are free, forever, with no time limit, no watermark and no account. The Studio Pack is a single purchase that unlocks the cabinet finishes, the open-reel mechanism, needle colours and label fonts, tape categories, the real-time counter and iCloud storage.