ARC Music vs Bionic Tape

Music, remembered. ARC is an iPhone/iPad app for Apple Music that gives your albums room to breathe and your listening a place to stay. Explore your collection, settle into an atmosphere drawn from album artwork, and keep the moments that matter. ONE LIBRARY, THREE PERSPECTIVES Browse your Apple Music albums in Library, move through a cinematic perspective in Film, or explore an immersive wall of complete album covers in Wall. Search Apple Music for songs, albums, artists, and playlists beyond your personal collection. FROM AMBIENT TO FOCUS Shape your listening space with one continuous control. Let artwork and color take the lead in Ambient, or bring track information and controls forward in Focus. Choose Dynamic for gently moving album-inspired color, or Still for a quiet composition. SAVE A MOMENT Keep the exact point in a song that means something to you. Add a note, tags, or an optional voice recording. Return to a saved Moment and replay the song with a short lead-in to that point. EXPLORE YOUR MEMORY Discover four ways to revisit listening recorded in ARC: • Moments — the points you chose to keep. • Listening Days — the music that accompanied a recorded day. • Albums Revisited — the records you returned to across different days. • Listening Rhythms — patterns supported by your recorded listening. LET YOUR MUSIC BECOME A CHAPTER Choose a completed week, month, or year and watch your recorded listening unfold through moving artwork, dates, saved Moments, and musical highlights. Each Chapter reflects the records available, with music on or off. Leaving the film returns you to your previous playback. PRIVATE, LOCAL, YOURS No ARC account is required. Your Memory, notes, and voice recordings stay on your iPhone/iPad. Back up or move your Memory through manual export and import. Voice recordings are excluded from exports unless you explicitly choose to include them. ARC does not provide cloud synchronization. EIGHT LANGUAGES Use ARC in English, Simplified Chinese, Traditional Chinese, Japanese, Korean, French, German, or Spanish. Original song, album, and artist names remain unchanged, as do your notes. BEFORE YOU LISTEN Apple Music authorization is required for music access. Subscription-catalog playback requires an Apple Music subscription, which is not included with ARC. Content availability depends on your Apple Music account and region. Search, library refresh, streaming, and replay may require an internet connection. Memory reflects playback observed by ARC on this device, not your complete Apple Music listening history. Chapters appear for completed periods with enough recorded listening or saved Moments and play inside ARC; video export is not available.

Unfold, pick a tape, fold, listen. Bionic Tape turns your iPhone into a cassette deck. Unfolded, your playlists and albums sit on the shelf as cassettes, each in its case with cover art. Tap, and the tape slides into the deck. Fold the phone, and the tape rolls on the cover screen: reels spin, the tape hisses, the keys click. WHAT'S INSIDE • Fold instead of tap: the hinge decides whether you pick tapes or listen. Folding starts playback. • Keys you can press: real 3D keys with travel, click and haptics. PLAY latches while the tape is running. • Volume you can feel: a knob with an LED ring, a thumb wheel or a touch pad, depending on device and skin. 16 detents, each one clicks. • SHUFFLE: a slide switch plays your tapes in random order. • OUT: send the music to smart speakers, Bluetooth speakers or headphones. • Window: look through the window at the cassette with its handwritten label and the current song. The tape pack shows how much of the tape is left. • Tent mode: stand your iPhone up as a tent and the cassette becomes the show, with your playlist's cover art as the label. Tap to play/pause, swipe for the next track. • Full screen: tap the cassette and only the tape remains. • Seven skins: Translucent in see-through turquoise, 1983 in the style of 80s office computers, Sport in bold 80s yellow, Classic retro blue, Bionic OS, Cyberpunk and HMZ.swiss. • TAPE FX: hiss and clicks can be switched off. MUSIC • Apple Music: your playlists and albums as cassettes. Requires an Apple Music subscription. • Your own music: MP3, FLAC, AAC, ALAC, WAV and AIFF from the Files app, every album a cassette. Plays offline and in the background, with lock screen controls. • Demo tapes: work right away, no account needed. • Spotify and more services follow as free updates. BUILT FOR THE IPHONE DUO Made for unfolding and folding. On iPhones without a hinge, a button switches between shelf and player. NO TRACKING No ads, no analytics, no account with us. Buy once, no subscription. A project from the HMZ workshop, Zurich. Feedback welcome: hmz.swiss/en/walkman