Type Four: Cassette Mixtapes

Open beta: things may still break. Tell us what went wrong, and on which phone: https://tally.so/r/Gx2gDO or hello@tinharbour.com

Type Four is a cassette mixtape maker and tape deck for your phone. Pick songs from the music files on your phone, fill side A and side B of a tape, then press play and listen the way tapes were made to be heard: in order, all the way through, then flip.

Make a mixtape

Choose tracks from your own music library and arrange them on side A and side B. Pick a C46, C60, C90 or C120, and watch the space run down as you fill it. Or put a whole album on tape. A mix for the car, for the evening, or for someone you have in mind.

Make it yours

In the Workshop, choose the shell, the label and the pen for your handwriting. Every tape has a J-card with the track list for both sides, and your mixtapes line up together on a shelf.

Press play

Load a tape into the cassette deck. The reels turn and the counter runs; wind forwards or backwards to find your place, and flip to side B at the end of side A, or let auto-flip do it. There's no skip button: a tape plays in order, the way it always did. Control it from the notification, the lock screen or your headphones.

It sounds like tape

Tape character adds hiss, wow and flutter and the odd dropout, and the deck clunks and whirrs when you press its buttons. Turn either off in Settings, or turn on tape wear and let your tapes age as you play them.

Your music, on your phone

Type Four is a cassette player for the music files already on your phone. It doesn't stream or include a music catalogue. No account, no ads, no subscription.

Needs Android 10 or later. Made by Tin Harbour in the UK.