Ferric
Realistic Cassette Player
Free · In‑App Purchases · Designed for iPad. Not verified for macOS.
Ferric brings back the cassette tape as a real music player for your iPhone. Not a gimmick, not just a skin over your library. A full cassette experience where you build the tapes, curate the tracks, and watch the reels spin while your music plays.
MAKE YOUR TAPES
Start by picking a shell. Chrome, midnight black, amber, clear, oxide brown, electric blue, or retro. Each one has its own look and feel. Give your cassette a name, then fill both sides with songs from your music library or Apple Music.
Side A and Side B are real. Flip the tape during playback just like you would with a physical cassette. The progress carries over correctly, the reels spin the right direction, and the tape fills up as you listen.
DECORATE THEM
Every cassette has a drawing surface you can paint on. Use the pen tool to write labels, draw art, or scribble whatever feels right. Swap between colors, adjust the brush size, drop in stickers, or grab the eraser. You can decorate the front, the back, and the top spine. It is your tape.
PLAY YOUR MUSIC
The player shows your cassette up close with both reels animating in real time. The supply reel shrinks and the takeup reel grows as the tape runs, using the same physics as a physical cassette. The reels spin faster near the end of the tape and slower near the start.
Tap forward or back to skip tracks. Hold to seek. The speed ramps up the longer you hold, so scrubbing through a long tape stays quick. Lock screen controls and background playback work the same as any music app.
BUILT-IN WEAR
Every cassette accumulates wear as you listen. Scratches and surface marks appear gradually, placed deterministically based on each cassette's own wear pattern. No two tapes age the same way. Heavy-use tapes start to show it.
YOUR LIBRARY
All your cassettes live in a grid view. Tap any one to see its track listing in a style that mirrors the J-cards that used to come inside cassette cases. From there you can flip to the other side, launch the player, or open the drawing editor.
WHAT FERRIC IS NOT
It is not a streaming service. It does not generate playlists or make recommendations. It is a deliberate, analog-feeling way to organize and play music you already own or have access to through Apple Music.
Building a cassette takes a minute. That is the point.
Ratings & Reviews
- This app hasn’t received enough ratings or reviews to display an overview.
- Fixed Carplay connection and made use better
- Made it more obvious that we are loading music from external sources
- Removed Spotify as an option due to their restrictions (check extended release requirements)
- added more haptics and made buttons better all around
- Made boxes extra dimensional
The developer, Faith Branch Software LLC, indicated that the app’s privacy practices may include handling of data as described below. For more information, see the developer’s privacy policy .
Data Not Collected
The developer does not collect any data from this app.
Accessibility
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Information
- Seller
- Faith Branch Software LLC
- Size
- 28.8 MB
- Category
- Music
- Compatibility
Requires iOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
Requires iOS 26.0 or later. - iPad
Requires iPadOS 26.0 or later. - Mac
Requires macOS 26.0 or later and a Mac with Apple M1 chip or later. - Apple Vision
Requires visionOS 26.0 or later.
- iPhone
- Age Rating
4+
- 4+
- Contains
Advertising
- In-App Purchases
Yes
- Ferric Premium $4.99
- Copyright
- © 2026 Faith Branch Software LLC