TapeDesk Downloads & RevenueTapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio · App Store
TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio is #67 in Music Paid in France and charting in 1 of 30 countries we track.
Updated 11 Nov 2026 · rankings refresh through the day
DeveloperPablo Sanchez Bermejo
CategoryMusic
Price4.99 USD
Released
Rating★ 4.9 (13)
Version2.3
Age rating4+
First seen by us
25 Sep 2026
25 Sep 2026Installs (est.)1k+ worldwide
TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio update history & changes
Last change · 29 events since 6 Jun 2026Full timeline ↓📈Entered the top 10💰Price rise📦Updated to version 2.3📈Charting in a new country💰Price rise📦Updated to version 2.2✏️Description updated✏️New screenshots🆕First spotted by AppInsider🆕Released on the App Store
Full timeline · 29 events
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio entered the top 10Top Paid · Music · FR
- 💰TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: price rise6.99 CAD → 9.99 CAD · CA
- 📦TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio updated to version 2.3feat: with clock in, when the master starts again during a take, the take ends there and a new one records from the master's start
feat: a lamp next to a plugin shows what is wrong: no response, cpu overload or crashed, and overloading as a warning while it plays on
feat: a tap on the lamp retries the plugin in place, or reloads it after a crash, in synth and on fx 1 and fx 2
feat: synth and mix show the lamp's led while you are somewhere else
feat: an au instrument, or a plugin on fx 1 or fx 2, comes in with a 10 ms fade
feat: copy diagnostics, in settings under about, puts the app version, the device, the audio setup and each plugin's state on the clipboard, with nothing from your tapes
feat: support opens a mail with the same text under yours, to read or delete before sending
fix: with clock in, the tape started about 20 ms behind the master
fix: with clock in, a take from a mic or an interface sounded early and lost its first hit
fix: undo disappeared after one undo, even with 16 steps saved, and did not come back after a redo
fix: on ios 17 the app took more memory the longer it stayed open, and stopping the tape or changing the scale could then freeze the screen while the audio played on
fix: on ios 17 a tap on a preset loaded nothing, and the [] key on a sample's waveform did nothing
fix: the keys that appear when you hold one of your presets or sounds only answered a slow press
fix: after more than 11 seconds without recording, the next take landed one audio buffer or more ahead of where you played it, in the app and in the tape plugin
fix: a call, or plugging in headphones, during a take kept the transport waiting for 1.5 s
fix: on stop, a take flashed as a solid block before its waveform appeared
fix: while you dragged the tape, the loop markers and the outline of the selected take now and then jumped off their place on the ruler
fix: after one failed audio buffer, or three slow ones within a second, an au in synth went into bypass and stayed there
fix: picking the same au in synth again after it crashed loaded nothing
fix: with the built-in engines, an au reverb in the fx tab cut its tail when the last note ended, and the old tail came back with the next note
fix: changing the au instrument left held notes hanging in the old one, which played them when it came back, and notes you played while the new one loaded went to the old one
fix: changing the plugin on fx 1 or fx 2 silenced its return for a moment
fix: voiceover read each maker heading in the plugin list as a button with no name, and a folded maker's plugins were out of reach… more - 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryPoland
- 💰TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: price rise4.99 GBP → 6.99 GBP · GB
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio new best rank in the overall chart: #137Top Paid · All Apps · MX
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryMexico
- 📦TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio updated to version 2.2feat: auto in mix records what your hands do on the mixer while the tape plays: faders, pan, sends, mute, effect knobs, return and drive
feat: moves sit on the audio and travel with it on lift, drop and rev
feat: with auto off, a fader with moves shifts its whole line, and a double tap puts it back
feat: hold auto to erase the moves of one track, one effect or the whole mix
feat: midi notes record into eucalyptus and start its waits, like a touch on the screen
feat: while you write steps, a midi key writes the step
feat: what you play goes out through midi out
feat: one velocity scale for midi keyboards, with a velocity level from 0 to 5
fix: bluetooth and network midi now say so when ios denies them permission
fix: midi devices on the network never showed up
fix: the playhead jumped back to the start of the loop
fix: playback could cut out for a moment when the phone was busy
fix: a duplicated tape lost its metronome, rec mode and speed lock
fix: releasing rec in overdub cut the sound for a moment, linear and in the loop
fix: the waveform flickered when rec was released
fix: with clock in and nothing connected, rec kept waiting and the bpm was locked
fix: with clock in the bpm jumped between 119, 120 and 121
fix: releasing a chord cut notes another finger was still holding
fix: on iphone mini the preset browser, the seq and the faders were cut off
fix: the metronome's first beat at 0:00 was missing on the first pass
fix: re-hitting a kit pad could leave midi out notes hanging
fix: the midi device list showed unplugged devices
fix: chords played quieter than keys… more - 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · JP
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryJapan
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryUnited Kingdom
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · AU
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new country in 2 chartsAustralia · Thailand
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryFrance
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio entered the top 100Top Paid · Music · FR
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: description updated· DE
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · DE, CA
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: description updated· CA
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: description updated· US
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: new screenshots8 screenshots (was 8) · US
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio added 8 languages+ ID + KO + NL + PL + PT + RU + TR + ZH
- ✏️TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio: app got bigger58 MB → 140 MB (+141%)
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio entered the top 100 in 2 chartsTop Paid · Music · BR · Top Paid · Music · US
- 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryBrazil
- 📦TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio updated to version 2.0.1fix: the bluetooth button closed the app on ios 27
fix: midi keyboards skipped the arp and the sequencer
fix: some plugins opened blank or cropped
fix: the synth went silent after some plugin preset changes - 📈TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio charting in a new countryUnited States
- 🆕TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio first spotted by AppInsider#84 in Top Paid · Music · Canada
- 📦TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio version 1.5.1feat: new eq screen
plugin: speed lock survives rec
plugin: speed moves during rec print into the take
plugin: duplicate, rename, delete tapes from the picker
fix: duplicate copied the active tape instead of the row's - 🆕TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio released on the App Store
Collected from the stores by AppInsider since we first spotted the app. Dates are when we saw each change.
Rating
4.9 ★
13 ratings
Measured
Best rank now
#67
Music PaidMeasured
New ratings a week
1
App Store, 4-week average
Measured
TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio on the App Store
App details
App ID
6775952225
Publisher
Pablo Sanchez Bermejo
On the store since
Jun 2026
Under a year
Minimum OS
iOS 17.0+
iPhone XS and later
Devices
iPhone · iPad
Universal purchase
Content rating
4+
Languages
15
NL EN FR DE ID IT JA KO PL PT RU ZH …
Size
142 MB
TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio downloads
Worldwide, per day, and installs to date. The band is open; the exact number is free with an account.
How this is calculated
Apple publishes no download counts. App Store downloads come from chart positions and daily rating growth per country, calibrated on Google Play install counts; lifetime installs from ratings worldwide × installs per rating. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Active users
All platforms, worldwide. Free with an account.
Stickiness (DAU / MAU)
how many monthly users open it on a given day
How this is calculated
Monthly users come from lifetime installs across every store, fitted on monthly active user figures companies publish; daily users = monthly × the typical daily/monthly ratio for the category. Confidence is the chance the real number is within half to double ours.
Where it ranks now
Every top chart it appears in across 30 countries.
| Country | Charts | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| France | MusicPaid | #67 |
Apps near TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio on the chart
Music Paid, around #67.
Ratings
App Store, worldwide.
Rating
4.9 ★
13 ratings
Measured
Ratings
13
Measured
Review momentum
ⓘ How we measure thisNew ratings a week
1
4-week average
Written reviews a week
under 1
US App Store
Lifetime rating
4.8★
recent stars not readable yet: new ratings are a tiny share of the total
Review momentum
58/100
faster than 64% of Music apps
Review momentum (0-100) blends how fast the app collects ratings compared with other apps in its category (60%), whether that pace is speeding up (25%) and what recent raters give it (15%; recent stars well below lifetime pull it down). Ratings counts are read daily. A jump usually means a launch, a feature, ads or a new review prompt.
What users say about TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio
From recent reviews.
About TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio
TapeDesk is a four-track tape with a synth beside it, for iPhone and iPad.
A song can start on the phone's mic and leave the app as a mixed file.
tape
A take goes onto the armed track when you press rec. The speed fader runs from 0.25x to 2x and the pitch moves with it, so at half speed the whole song sits an octave lower. With loop on, each pass adds a layer over the last one. For recording alone there is a threshold on rec, and the take waits for the first sound. A tape holds ten minutes on four or six tracks, and each take becomes a region you can cut or reverse from the edit bar. A reversed region wears a small ◁. Dragging the tape, you feel a light tap at each ruler mark and a firmer one at bar numbers and region edges. A cut can be found almost without looking.
With sources, one pass records several tracks at once. The synth can go to one track and your voice to another, or each channel of an audio interface to a track of its own.
synth
The synth has eleven engines, from drift, a slow swarm of detuned voices, to dx, a six-operator FM engine that loads .syx cartridges. Two more engines play samples. sample spreads one sound across the keyboard, and kit is a drum machine with 24 pads that take a file, the mic, a track from the tape or the sound of a video. The factory kits include an orchestral one with timpani and a junk one made of anvils, brake drums, a flexatone and a wine glass. On kit, chop slices one sound across the empty pads. The tape remembers which sound each track was recorded with, for the day you forget.
seq
keys only plays the notes of the scale, and chords puts a whole chord under each finger. How loud a note sounds comes from how the finger lands, read from the touch and the accelerometer, or from the pressure of an Apple Pencil. The sequencer has an arpeggiator and a 16-step mode, and the die re-rolls the pattern inside the scale, with one swipe to take the roll back. In ping, balls bounce between bells on a pool table, and every bounce plays a note. Fair warning, it is hard to stop watching. eucalyptus is a piano roll that loops until you print one pass of it to tape.
mix
The mixer has two effect buses with seven effects and room for any AUv3 effect you have installed. On tapesat, the age knob takes the tape from new to an old cassette, hiss and wow included. The master eq has four bands, drawn with a finger.
plugin
Inside a host such as AUM, the tape and the synth open as AUv3 plugins, TapeDesk: Tape and TapeDesk: Play. The tape plugin records when the host plays and takes up to six of its inputs. Whatever it records is waiting in the app afterwards.
It runs on iPhone in portrait and on iPad in any orientation, in fifteen languages. There is no account, and no data is collected.
Tracks · 4 or 6, 10 minutes, 128 regions per track
Speed · 0.25x to 2x, pitch follows
Recording · wav, 48 kHz, 24 or 16 bit
Synth · 11 engines with 4 macros, 2 LFOs and an effect each, sample, kit with 24 pads
Mix · 2 buses, 7 effects plus
A song can start on the phone's mic and leave the app as a mixed file.
tape
A take goes onto the armed track when you press rec. The speed fader runs from 0.25x to 2x and the pitch moves with it, so at half speed the whole song sits an octave lower. With loop on, each pass adds a layer over the last one. For recording alone there is a threshold on rec, and the take waits for the first sound. A tape holds ten minutes on four or six tracks, and each take becomes a region you can cut or reverse from the edit bar. A reversed region wears a small ◁. Dragging the tape, you feel a light tap at each ruler mark and a firmer one at bar numbers and region edges. A cut can be found almost without looking.
With sources, one pass records several tracks at once. The synth can go to one track and your voice to another, or each channel of an audio interface to a track of its own.
synth
The synth has eleven engines, from drift, a slow swarm of detuned voices, to dx, a six-operator FM engine that loads .syx cartridges. Two more engines play samples. sample spreads one sound across the keyboard, and kit is a drum machine with 24 pads that take a file, the mic, a track from the tape or the sound of a video. The factory kits include an orchestral one with timpani and a junk one made of anvils, brake drums, a flexatone and a wine glass. On kit, chop slices one sound across the empty pads. The tape remembers which sound each track was recorded with, for the day you forget.
seq
keys only plays the notes of the scale, and chords puts a whole chord under each finger. How loud a note sounds comes from how the finger lands, read from the touch and the accelerometer, or from the pressure of an Apple Pencil. The sequencer has an arpeggiator and a 16-step mode, and the die re-rolls the pattern inside the scale, with one swipe to take the roll back. In ping, balls bounce between bells on a pool table, and every bounce plays a note. Fair warning, it is hard to stop watching. eucalyptus is a piano roll that loops until you print one pass of it to tape.
mix
The mixer has two effect buses with seven effects and room for any AUv3 effect you have installed. On tapesat, the age knob takes the tape from new to an old cassette, hiss and wow included. The master eq has four bands, drawn with a finger.
plugin
Inside a host such as AUM, the tape and the synth open as AUv3 plugins, TapeDesk: Tape and TapeDesk: Play. The tape plugin records when the host plays and takes up to six of its inputs. Whatever it records is waiting in the app afterwards.
It runs on iPhone in portrait and on iPad in any orientation, in fifteen languages. There is no account, and no data is collected.
Tracks · 4 or 6, 10 minutes, 128 regions per track
Speed · 0.25x to 2x, pitch follows
Recording · wav, 48 kHz, 24 or 16 bit
Synth · 11 engines with 4 macros, 2 LFOs and an effect each, sample, kit with 24 pads
Mix · 2 buses, 7 effects plus
Latest updates
2.3
feat: with clock in, when the master starts again during a take, the take ends there and a new one records from the master's start
feat: a lamp next to a plugin shows what is wrong: no response, cpu overload or crashed, and overloading as a warning while it plays on
feat: a tap on the lamp retries the plugin in place, or reloads it after a crash, in synth and on fx 1 and fx 2
feat: synth and mix show the lamp's led while you are somewhere else
feat: an au instrument, or a plugin on fx 1 or fx 2, comes in with a 10 ms fade
feat: copy diagnostics, in settings under about, puts the app version, the device, the audio setup and each plugin's state on the clipboard, with nothing from your tapes
feat: support opens a mail with the same text under yours, to read or delete before sending
fix: with clock in, the tape started about 20 ms behind the master
fix: with clock in, a take from a mic or an interface sounded early and lost its first hit
fix: undo disappeared after one undo, even with 16 steps saved, and did not come back after a redo
fix: on ios 17 the app took more memory the longer it stayed open, and stopping the tape or changing the scale could then freeze the screen while the audio played on
fix: on ios 17 a tap on a preset loaded nothing, and the [] key on a sample's waveform did nothing
fix: the keys that appear when you hold one of your presets or sounds only answered a slow press
fix: after more than 11 seconds without recording, the next take landed one audio buffer or more ahead of where you played it, in the app and in the tape plugin
fix: a call, or plugging in headphones, during a take kept the transport waiting for 1.5 s
fix: on stop, a take flashed as a solid block before its waveform appeared
fix: while you dragged the tape, the loop markers and the outline of the selected take now and then jumped off their place on the ruler
fix: after one failed audio buffer, or three slow ones within a second, an au in synth went into bypass and stayed there
fix: picking the same au in synth again after it crashed loaded nothing
fix: with the built-in engines, an au reverb in the fx tab cut its tail when the last note ended, and the old tail came back with the next note
fix: changing the au instrument left held notes hanging in the old one, which played them when it came back, and notes you played while the new one loaded went to the old one
fix: changing the plugin on fx 1 or fx 2 silenced its return for a moment
fix: voiceover read each maker heading in the plugin list as a button with no name, and a folded maker's plugins were out of reach
2.2
feat: auto in mix records what your hands do on the mixer while the tape plays: faders, pan, sends, mute, effect knobs, return and drive
feat: moves sit on the audio and travel with it on lift, drop and rev
feat: with auto off, a fader with moves shifts its whole line, and a double tap puts it back
feat: hold auto to erase the moves of one track, one effect or the whole mix
feat: midi notes record into eucalyptus and start its waits, like a touch on the screen
feat: while you write steps, a midi key writes the step
feat: what you play goes out through midi out
feat: one velocity scale for midi keyboards, with a velocity level from 0 to 5
fix: bluetooth and network midi now say so when ios denies them permission
fix: midi devices on the network never showed up
fix: the playhead jumped back to the start of the loop
fix: playback could cut out for a moment when the phone was busy
fix: a duplicated tape lost its metronome, rec mode and speed lock
fix: releasing rec in overdub cut the sound for a moment, linear and in the loop
fix: the waveform flickered when rec was released
fix: with clock in and nothing connected, rec kept waiting and the bpm was locked
fix: with clock in the bpm jumped between 119, 120 and 121
fix: releasing a chord cut notes another finger was still holding
fix: on iphone mini the preset browser, the seq and the faders were cut off
fix: the metronome's first beat at 0:00 was missing on the first pass
fix: re-hitting a kit pad could leave midi out notes hanging
fix: the midi device list showed unplugged devices
fix: chords played quieter than keys
2.0.1
fix: the bluetooth button closed the app on ios 27
fix: midi keyboards skipped the arp and the sequencer
fix: some plugins opened blank or cropped
fix: the synth went silent after some plugin preset changes
Store changes
What TapeDesk: 4-Track Tape Studio changed on its store page: name, icon, screenshots, price, size, languages, requirements.
Price rise
6.99 CAD → 9.99 CAD
Price rise 
4.99 GBP → 6.99 GBP
Description updated 