Comparison

Tape vs SilentBonusTrack

Price, ratings, monetisation and update history for both apps, side by side — with what reviewers say about each.

Head to head
About

Tape

Relive the 80s with a virtual cassette player that emulates the feel of old-school music playback. Enjoy your iPhone music library with animated cassettes and intuitive touch controls. Choose from a variety of cassette designs for a nostalgic experience.

Highlights
  • Cassette player emulator
  • Plays music from Apple Music App
  • Animated cassette display
  • Large selection of cassette designs
  • Intuitive touch controls (play, pause, swipe)
  • Pinch to zoom for original cassette size
Features
Currently charting
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Do you still remember the cassettes from the 80s? Now you can have it again. You have all your songs from your iPhone or iPod Touch ready in the library. Tape is a cassette player emulator. It plays your music from Apple Music App and shows an animated cassette. There is a large selection of cassettes which you can choose from. This app bring's you back to the 80's. Very easy to use. - Touch for play or pause. - Swipe right for next song. - Swipe left for previous song. - Swipe down for next cassette. - Swipe up for cassette change. - Touch in the upper left corner to select songs. - you can zoom in to original cassette size (pinch to zoom). and because the control is very simple, This app is perfect for the car or on your iPod, iPhone docking Station, have fun with the app! THIS APP ONLY WORKS, IF YOU HAVE MUSIC IN THE APPLE MUSIC APP !!!

About

SilentBonusTrack

Relive the nostalgic experience of listening to music on cassette tapes. This app simulates the physical characteristics of tape players, including reel movement, tape wrapping, and operational sounds. Organize your music library with cassette-style index cards and enjoy a unique way to play your albums.

Highlights
  • Cassette tape reel animation
  • Tape wrapping and end animation
  • Player with counter and auto-reverse
  • Cassette index card song list
  • Album title lettering
  • Random album selection
Features
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This is a cassette player for albums. I have reproduced experiences of listening music with a cassette tape. For example, changing rotation speed of reels based on tape amount, animation of wrapping end of the tape to reels, the player with counter and auto reversing, a sound of operation, song list like cassette index cards, lettering album title. Would you listen to albums like you did in old days? What you can do You can strain to hear before the first song starts. On skip operation, The tape may run over the position you want to set at. You can skip efficiently with referring the counter. If difference occur in counter, you have to back to top of side A and push the reset button.(*) While you see the song list, you can realize which order the current song is on its side, and connections to a previous or next song. You can switch a song experimentally by pressing the button to play the other side. If you cannot get a current song name, you can infer which song is playing from the amount of tape on each reel. You can look at the tape that seems to be about to end but doesn’t readily end. The sound of changing side makes you feel renewing and expectations of a new side. You have to push the start button again if auto reverse doesn’t work as the setting. With albums released in CD, you can bother which boundary separates it into A and B. You can verify changing speed of rotation while fwd or rev processes. You can be deep in lingering of the album with reels rounding after the last song played. The mechanical sound at end of tape makes you feel a sense of achievement and a little missing. (*)The ways that avoid time and trouble are included. How to use Select an album and play it. Features An album is divided into two sides automatically. If a result of auto dividing is not desirable, songs can be transferred by an operation. Auto reverse(none, A to B only, both ways). Index cards represent song information as cassette tapes do. You can now use handwritten fonts for the characters of index cards. Selecting an album at random If you do with “random” button. Index card colors are sourced from album artworks. Album title lettering which is like a printing sheet. Caution This app imports music included in the device as an album. Cloud sources don’t be selected. The button drawn right direction on the player is assigned playing side A. Left direction is side B. Auto dividing executes as even as possible. A result of dividing may differ from actual dividing of an album. You can’t change song order. This app plays songs with using the iPod function on iOS. Another app using it as same may courses problems. Playing time is one minute longer than displayed time.(In case of 46minutes tape, each side has 23+1=24minutes) Lengths of tapes are about 10 kinds as actual. Albums having over 120 minutes songs are added a few blank minutes. After you change song division, the length of tape change to fit time. This app uses year data set in a song. If a set year is newer and an actual year is older, it is treated as a new one. When an album you played once is selected, it is set the previous position. But you can’t know which side played last time. Sound effects like tapes(hiss noise, warm high frequency) don't be installed. About playing in background You can listen to music behind another app by two ways. 1: Close this app by pushing the home button(as you usually do) - it plays songs in the current side only. 2: Before you close this app, change to BGM mode - it plays blank time after the last song, plays machine sound at end of side, obeys setting of auto-reverse. To change to BGM mode, you tap the button(drawn browser and musical notes) in the bottom while playing a song. In case setting of auto-reverse is endless, it plays whole songs a few times. While you listen to an album with a tape, blank time is part of it. This is the concept. This app divides the album into side A and B and adds blank time on each end.

Screenshots

Tape4 screens
SilentBonusTrack4 screens

Verdict

The call

The clearest difference is review sentiment: Tape at 82% against SilentBonusTrack's 0%. Tape also leads on ratings volume (259 vs 2) and chart position (#193 vs unranked). SilentBonusTrack's advantage is rating (5.0 vs 4.5) and in-app purchases (none vs 2). On ads, device support and iOS requirement there is nothing between them.

Scored on Price · Rating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings · Update frequency · Ads · In-app purchases · Monetization · Best chart rank · Devices · Requires iOS

CostPrice · In-app purchases · Ads · Monetization

Tape costs $1.99 and SilentBonusTrack $2.99 up front. Tape sells 2 one-off in-app purchases. SilentBonusTrack asks for nothing beyond the download.

ReceptionRating · Positive reviews · Number of ratings

SilentBonusTrack holds the better App Store score, 5.0 against 4.5. That said, the two scores are not equally well evidenced: Tape has 259 ratings behind it against 2, so its average is the more settled of the two. Written reviews complicate that: 82% of Tape's written reviews are positive against 0% of SilentBonusTrack's, so the app with the better star average is not the one people write more warmly about.

UpkeepUpdate frequency

Tape ships an update every 7 months, SilentBonusTrack every 6 weeks. The most recent releases landed on October 23, 2026 and October 21, 2026 respectively.

Scorecard8 real differences · 3 level
Tape versus SilentBonusTrack: the parameters behind the verdict, then further details
ParameterTapeSilentBonusTrack
Price$1.99 — better$2.99
Rating4.5 (259 ratings)5.0 (2 ratings) — better
Positive reviews81.8% of reviews — better0.0% of reviews
Number of ratings259 — better2
Update frequencyEvery 7 monthsEvery 6 weeks — better
AdsNoNo
In-app purchasesYesNo — better
MonetizationFree with in-app purchases — betterPaid
Best chart rank#193 — better—
DevicesiPhone, iPodiPhone, iPad, iPod — better
Requires iOS15.515.5
Further details — not scored
Size25 MB17 MB
Age rating4+4+
DeveloperAlexander RutkowskijMotonari Hibi

Customer experience

Tape

All ratings259 ratings
Positive91.5%
Neutral5.8%
Negative2.7%
Written reviews154 reviews
Positive81.8%
Neutral7.8%
Negative10.4%

SilentBonusTrack

All ratings2 ratings
Positive100.0%
Neutral0.0%
Negative0.0%
Written reviews1 reviews
Positive0.0%
Neutral100.0%
Negative0.0%

Bugs and requests

Tape

Reported bugs

8 issues
  • App crashes when using menus
  • Freezes on iPhone iOS 14.4.2 and later
  • Swipe-to-close doesn't stop playback
  • Playhead and capstan roller animation reversed
  • App closes unexpectedly for no reason
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  • Doesn't recognize hand gestures or song selections
  • Won't play selected songs
  • Incompatibility with newer iOS updates

Requested features

13 requests
  • Save and switch between custom mixed tapes
  • Playlist duration limits based on cassette type
  • Clicking sounds for play/stop button presses
  • Support for local MP3 and M4A files
  • Screen sleep toggle while music plays
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  • Additional cassette designs (especially Memorex and movie-themed)
  • Spotify integration
  • iPad version with larger interface
  • Tape malfunction/degradation simulation
  • Record function for music production
  • Remove 'tap to load' text overlay
  • More realistic button control styling
  • Classic 80s Memorex shell design

SilentBonusTrack

Not enough reviews yet to summarise bugs or requests.

In-app purchases

2 purchases

Tape

One-time2
  • New Cassette Pack$0.99
  • Cassette collection 2$1.99
None

SilentBonusTrack

No in-app purchases

Questions

Is Tape free?
Tape costs $1.99, and also offers in-app purchases.
Is SilentBonusTrack free?
SilentBonusTrack costs $2.99, with no in-app purchases.
Which has better reviews, Tape or SilentBonusTrack?
SilentBonusTrack is rated higher. Tape averages 4.5 out of 5 from 259 ratings, while SilentBonusTrack averages 5.0 from 2 ratings.
Do Tape or SilentBonusTrack have ads?
Neither Tape nor SilentBonusTrack shows ads.
Which is updated more often, Tape or SilentBonusTrack?
Tape ships an update every 7 months, and SilentBonusTrack every 6 weeks. Most recently, Tape was updated on October 23, 2026 and SilentBonusTrack on October 21, 2026.

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