Cassette 1.0

New app from Devin Davies, developer of the ADA-winning Crouton:

Cassette is an app for iPhone and iPad that helps you enjoy your home videos like the good old days. With a retro interface Cassette auto plays through videos from your devices’ Photo Library. Mirror your device to a nearby Apple TV for a true kick back experience.

The VHS retro pastiche is fun, but don’t get the wrong impression from it. Cassette is not an app that makes your modern videos look like they were shot on an old camcorder. (Rarevision VHS is a fun app for that, if that’s what you’re looking for.)

Cassette’s tape-playing pastiche is more about putting you in the right mindset. Instead of watching one video from your Photos library, or two or three, it mimics popping in a tape labelled, say, “2014” and sitting back and watching an entire hour of videos from a decade ago. It just launched today but I’ve been using the beta via TestFlight for a few weeks, and you really have to try it to see how effective it is. Davies made a nice video teaser to pitch the app. It’s good, you should watch it.

The way I’d pitch it is that Cassette is to the videos in your Photos library what the Kodak Carousel was to your 35mm film slides back in the 1960s. Nostalgia. It’s delicate, but potent.

★ Tuesday, 12 August 2025