Coming soon · Android + iOS
A four-track tape recorder. One tap records, one more layers.
Real screens from TapeDeck
Every recording in TapeDeck is a tape with four tracks. Start with a voice note, add a harmony on the next free track, punch in a fix, then send stems that line up in any DAW. Offline, with no account and no subscription.
And nothing that gets between you and the take. A voice note uses one track, layering fills the rest, and there is no studio mode to switch to.
Each take goes on its own track, placed by a timing measurement from your phone.
Deep dive 01 →Replace one line from the playhead with a 2‑second pre-roll, or retake the last take.
Deep dive 02 →Four tracks full? Bounce some into one to free them. Nothing is overwritten without asking.
Deep dive 03 →Fader, pan, mute, solo and a meter for each of the four tracks, saved with the tape.
Deep dive 04 →Metronome, count-in and tap tempo. The click is never recorded or exported.
Deep dive 05 →Every track exported separately and lined up, plus the mix — ready for REAPER or any DAW.
Deep dive 06 →Raw sound for instruments, clean sound for speech, Boost, and USB audio input.
Deep dive 07 →Recording carries on with the screen off. Takes are saved every 2 seconds and recovered if the app is interrupted, and a call ends a take cleanly.
There is nothing to import. Try the deck: it is a silent copy of TapeDeck's, and it layers, retakes, undoes and bounces the way the app does.
Tap the big button on the home screen, the Record shortcut on your launcher, or the Quick Settings tile. The tape starts rolling.
Open a tape and record again. The take goes on the next free track while the others play, and TapeDeck lines it up.
Punch in from the playhead with a 2‑second pre-roll, retake the last take, or undo the last edit.
Every track separately and already lined up, plus the mix — ready for REAPER or any DAW. Or share just the mix, or a small voice note.
Tape 004
1 of 4 tracks
Try it · silent
Stop · 0:06
Layer · track 2
Illustration · a silent copy of the deck
Every picture in this section is a real screen from the app, cropped.
Record, then press record again: the new take goes on the next free track while you hear the others. TapeDeck measures the delay between what you hear and what it records, and places the take to match without rewriting the audio. If a part still feels early or late, nudge that track, or set a correction for every new take in Settings.
Pause where the mistake starts, select the track and record. You hear two seconds before the punch point, and only the part you play is replaced. Retake throws the last take away and records it again from the same spot with one tap, and Undo steps back one edit, whether that was a take, a punch-in, a bounce or a crop.
Bounce mixes the tracks you pick into the lowest one, with their faders and pan, and frees the others, like ping-ponging on a tape four-track. When all four tracks are full, TapeDeck asks before it records: bounce, or record over a track you choose. Crop keeps the part of the tape you want and drops the rest.
Each of the four tracks has a pan knob, a fader with its own meter, and mute and solo. Changes are heard straight away, saved with the tape, and carried over when you send the tape to your studio.
Set the tempo with the buttons or tap it in, then turn on the metronome while you play and record, or a one-bar count-in before recording starts. The click only plays in your speaker or headphones: it is never recorded or exported.
Each track exports separately, already lined up, so they line up at bar 1 in any DAW. You also get the mix as you heard it, with your faders, pan, mute and solo carried over, ready to import into REAPER, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, GarageBand or similar software. Share it from the app or save it to a folder.
Music keeps the mic's raw sound where your phone supports it, for instruments and singing. Voice adds noise suppression and automatic gain for notes and meetings, and Boost lifts quiet sources. Plug in a USB audio interface, a synth or an OP-1 and TapeDeck switches to it automatically, in stereo when the device offers it. Unplug it and the phone mic takes over again.
TapeDeck starts in Graphite, because waveforms and meters read best on a dark deck. Switch to Paper, or let it follow your phone's theme.
TapeDeck asks for the microphone, and for notifications so you can control a recording from the notification shade. It has no internet permission at all, so there is no account, no analytics, no ads and no uploads. When you share a file, you choose where it goes. Read the privacy policy.
Everything TapeDeck needs to run.
No subscription, no ads and no account. Updates included.
Nothing to buy inside the app
Coming soon to the App Store and Google Play
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No. There is no account, and the app has no internet permission at all. Your tapes stay on your phone until you share them.
TapeDeck asks whether to bounce tracks together to free some up, or to record over a track you pick. It never overwrites a track without asking.
TapeDeck measures the timing automatically and places each take to match. You can also nudge any track slightly if it still feels early or late. Wear headphones to keep the backing out of the new take.
A set of files with each track separate and already lined up, plus the mix as you heard it — ready to import into REAPER, Ableton Live, Logic Pro, FL Studio, GarageBand or similar software.
Yes. Plug one in and TapeDeck switches to it automatically, then back to the phone mic when you unplug.
No. There are no ads, no in-app purchases and no subscription.